@irishtenor Thank you for the advice. @kenstb The priest started on June 30th so I did not have much time to get to know him. I traveled to Oxford UK for a continuing education workshop for church music and choral conducting this past July. Coming back to this is really upsetting.
I had the meeting with him today and it went better than I thought. We came to a compromise and he changed a few hymns on the list that I made. @Ralph Bednarz We currently do not have a choir but we have a great mezzo-soprano who cantors for us and we do sacred solos from time to time. The church had no music what so ever before I arrived so I am trying to choose hymns and chants that are accessible to them. I also use different psalm settings, such as the chabanel psalms from ccwatershed which have worked well.
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