Choir Space Decoration
  • kyletoddp
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    I hope you all are having a blessed Easter season!

    Annoyed by the blank walls in our choir room, I sought out some meaningful/inspiring things to hang up online, with no success. So, my wife and I made these graphics in Canva and had them printed on 18"x24" foam core board for $30 each. All are welcome to use for free if you'd like!

    Feel free to share any other nice ways you've dressed up your musical space!
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  • CharlesW
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    Those are quite nice and would be great to have in any choir room.

    However, I have had my days when the heads of the screeching diva soprano, the inattentive alto, the tone deaf tenor, and the mumbling bass would have been more to my liking.

  • francis
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    So Charles… what would YOUR posters look like!?
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  • AbbysmumAbbysmum
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    I need one that "please be on time" LOL
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  • SponsaChristi
    Posts: 518
    We had a pastor who liked to hang passive-aggressive Pope Francis and Pro Vatican II propaganda to trigger the Latin Mass Community. I contemplated submitting the following to our MD to have blown up, printed, and hung throughout the church:
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  • CharlesW
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    Francis, the wall in a hunting club with animal head plaques. Maybe a brass nameplate underneath each like, "A Wild Soprano Caught Seeking a Solo."
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  • AbbysmumAbbysmum
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    Francis, the wall in a hunting club with animal head plaques. Maybe a brass nameplate underneath each like, "A Wild Soprano Caught Seeking a Solo."


    *laughs hysterically*

    (my best impression of David Attenborough)

    "The soprano stalks quietly across the loft, but the director hasn't noticed her yet. She's got her eye on the descant part, which is grazing happily on leftover goldfish crumbs. Suddenly, the tenor leaps from his hiding place, startling the soprano, who is hopelessly overwhelmed and suddenly resigned to second soprano, much to her dismay."
    Thanked by 5CharlesW CHGiffen OMagnumMysterium AgnusDei1989 Nazard
  • RC_Liturgy_Music
    Posts: 19
    BTW - I hung these in my loft back in May and everyone loved them. Thanks!
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  • tandrews
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  • Organista25
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    Super cool. I'm in the process of working on our choir room. We are in bad need of a paint job and I have a 2nd bulletin board that I want to hang. I currently have a bulletin board that has the Choir Calendar, Hymn schedules, Anthem schedules, etc... but when I get the room painted and the 2nd bulletin board hung, my plan is to have that one change monthly to include education about sacred music related to the standard monthly devotions that also corresponds to some changing decor.

    In November last year, I borrowed my pastor's skull (that he keeps on his desk) and put it on a ledge along with some standard Dia de los Muertos flowers/decor. I also had choir members and cantors bring in pictures of their deceased loved ones and all the choirs prayed the St. Bridget prayer for souls in Purgatory for them at the end of rehearsals. The kids' choir especially got into it and would often ask to say the prayer several times at the end of rehearsal with the goal of emptying purgatory.

    In October, I borrowed a large statue of Mary and large wall rosary from a choir member. We also had a smaller statue of Our Lady of Fatima along with some roses.
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  • monasteryliturgistmonasteryliturgist
    Posts: 417
    Back when I was a novice, our Choir Directress used to write frequently on the chalkboard for all to see in the beginning of class,

    "Cantate ei canticum novum; BENE psallite ei in vociferatione."
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  • Liam
    Posts: 5,309
    Sing vociferously! Park and bark!
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  • DavidOLGCDavidOLGC
    Posts: 115
    Over the last couple of years, I've added a medium sized crucifix to the choir loft wall, put up a "Prayer to St. Cecilia" picture, a copy of the St. Benedict "Crux Sancti Patris Benedicti" prayer, added a clock to the side wall, and a number of smaller "holy card" pictures.
  • Maureen
    Posts: 679
    The quote from Esther 13:17 doesn't get used much. Probably because it's not usually a problem for choirmembers.

    ("Ne claudas oras te canentium." "And do not shut the mouths of those who sing to You.")

    Oh, and "with a loud noise" in Ps. 32:3/33:3 is because greeting the Ark of the Lord was specifically to be done loudly.

    See 1 Sam. 4:6, where "gadol terua," a great shout, is translated in the LXX Greek as "krauge... megale," a great outcry, and 2 Sam. 6:15, where it's just "terua" and "krauge."

    This is then referenced at the Visitation by Elizabeth greeting Mary by crying out in a loud voice ("anephonesen phone megale") at Lk. 1:42, which goes right along with the unborn St. John the Baptist leaping like David.

    I always wondered about the loudness part, so I was very happy to learn this.
  • MatthewRoth
    Posts: 2,883
    She had a mega phone?!! Oh dear.
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