Things Not Being Learned by Colloquium Attendees
  • Maureen
    Posts: 678
    Celtic easy listening arrangements of "Dies Irae". (Well, actually, you could do this. It would just be wrong.)

    Supporting Your Parish Music Program with Royalties from Videogame Soundtracks (Actually, this would probably work.)

    Heavy metal electric guitars and polyphony: The Mass of the Rock of Ages for your Tridentine community.

    Sea Chanty: Learning the Repertoires and Techniques of Medieval Naval Scholas.

    Organ Transplanters vs. Organ Donatists
  • JDE
    Posts: 588
    Oh Happy Day! : Fratres Silvanae Nerae et Cantus Evangelicus Australensis

    "Ridi, Padre Pagliaccio!" : Canio as the Presbyterial Archetype (presumably followed by Nedda as the Great W**** of Babylon)

    Imagine there's no hell : Then attend our Folk Mass and believe!
  • eft94530eft94530
    Posts: 1,577
    Supporting Your Parish Music Program with ...

    Hymn Board Lotto
    Quick-pick tickets are sold at church entrances.
    Organist posts the numbers during the pre-Mass welcome speech.
    Winners paid during Prelude.

    Hymn Number Bingo
    Quarter-sheet game papers are sold at church entrances.
    No hymn boards are used.
    Organist announces appropriate number immediately preceding use.
    Winners paid during Postlude.

    Scripture Bingo
    Full-sheet game papers are sold at church entrances.
    Scripture citations are announced ... each digit (0-9) and punctuation (colon, dash, comma, ampersand)
    in order ... before each reading (First, Psalm, Second, Gospel).
    Texts (without citations) are printed on back, negating need for missalettes.
    Winners paid during Homily.

    (I am not at the Colloquium.
    I am inventing fundraisers until the attendees post something about their experiences.)
  • Pes
    Posts: 623
    Cowing Your Pastor: A Twelve-Step Program

    LifeTeen Seminar: 'Grunge Rock' Liturgics

    American Idol: A New Model for Cantor Formation?

    Demonstration of New OCP Hymn-O-Meter
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,217
    Hey, American Idol is running auditions in Chicago this week!
  • francis
    Posts: 10,834
    ooooo! ooooo! we all want to be idols! (hey, isn't idolotry against one of the commandments!?)