One of my predecessors would hold a chord, then turn the organ off. The sound was hideous as the wind died away.
Was it?
You decide ...
That is the most bizarre thing I have ever heard.
2) organ is too dissonant, too esoteric. In fairness to organists this can simply mean that the priest doesn't listen to music written in the last 80 or so years, and doesn't think the people do, either.
"That piece is awesome! Is that for a concert? I mean, it's obviously not for Mass, but it's really cool."
most of the organists in my area that I know are little old ladies with buns.
Breaking the spine of yet another hymnal, instead of looking for one of the dozens already damaged.
It isn't the organist that drives me crazy sometimes as much as the cantor in the neighbouring parish I also sing at. The poor woman doesn't seem to realise she's supposed to be both leading the singing AND following the pitches being played on the organ, and just ends up singing to her own melody and tempo altogether.
As long as the choir is suppressed or underdeveloped or music is deemed necessary at every mass,
When anyone hears something I play before, during, or after mass they only get the one chance to comment. Of course, they have to beat it to the loft, climb the steep and plentiful stairs, catch their breath, then tell me their comment. I may have left the loft and gotten to the basement or out the front door to talk to friends by then.
You either move very fast or you are at the lone church in the United States that has members of the congregation that actually stay a couple minutes after Mass.
You must not be not doing it right!I've always had to wait after the postlude...
in fact, by the time flick the stops off (a few seconds), flip the power switch, turn off the organ lamp, the balcony light, and replace all music in its appropriate spot, most people have already vamoosed.
Of course, you had to turn a thread about organists' annoying habits back around to the crummy cantor!
:)
Granted, I'm kind of in a special situation, since I'm in a parish where cantor=only one singing, because no one else wants to.
O good heavens! If I held auditions I would have to throw out half the people I currently have.
....I hope that's not some kind of cause and effect...
yeah, I'm looking at all you keyboardists who tend to assign baritones to tenor without sufficient thought....
I assume CharlesW plays more than he cantors, and perhaps his own excellence skews his data ;-)
Cantors have more annoying and mass-destructive habits than organists.
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