A former student approached me yesterday and lamented the music he had to suffer through each Sunday in the San Diego diocese. Is there a refuge somewhere out that way? I don't know CA at all . . .
I was on holiday from U.K. 3 years ago. We went to Sunday Mass at the Cathedral. I am active in parish music at home and have a naive view that music at a main mass on Sunday in a cathedral will be the best that a city can produce. What a disappointment! Atruly terrible cantatrice largely singing solo a four hymn sandwich accompanied by a piano. Old cathedral in San Francisco tow Sundays previously was no better. Again a cantatrice, this time with backing group and again piano . The middle Sunday, in Santa Barbara mission was great, Feast of the Exaltation of th Cross
-- lovely choir singing the Mass parts mostlly in Latin. Things are not good here in England but I found California
very disappointing liturgy-wise.
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