Steve Q

Portable recording device
I am a radio producer by day and do a lot of audio recording and editing. The best free audio editing software I have encountered is Audacity. It is quite easy to use for basic editing such as breaking a recording into "manageable chunks".…

Comment by Steve Q January 2018 permalink
Weddings (GRRR)
They also wanted "You raise me up" (J.G.) and "There is Love (The Wedding Song)" (P.P. & M.) When I get those kinds of requests, I tell them to talk to the D.J. at their reception.

Comment by Steve Q August 2016 permalink
Weddings (GRRR)
Not to say that we haven't had some very good guest musicians - it's just that you never know. I can't take the family's word for it. We have had very good amateurs and some embarrassingly bad professionals.

Comment by Steve Q August 2016 permalink
Weddings (GRRR)
My pastor and I have worked pretty well together for weddings. I provide a planning sheet with acceptable music selections that are to be checked off - no space for "write-in" requests. Anything requested that is not on the sheet must be a…

Comment by Steve Q August 2016 permalink
EWTN to Present Documentary on the History of Gregorian Chant
Unfortunately I do not see it available anywhere online, nor do I see a rebroadcast scheduled yet on EWTN. I did watch most of it. It was not quite what I expected from the title. It was somewhat less about the history of chant and more about a grou…

Comment by Steve Q May 2016 permalink
Long-Term Voice Loss
We all need to rest our voices just like an athlete needs to rest his/her body. That being said, there are many potential voice problems that only a medical doctor can diagnose. I went through a period in which I thought I was losing my voice, and I…

Comment by Steve Q March 2016 permalink
Anger within the music ministry
NALR was acquired by OCP some time ago I believe. http://www.ocp.org/products/30131331

Comment by Steve Q March 2016 permalink
What funny things have you heard at Mass? (Updated Title)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqYQIxDmKz8

Comment by Steve Q February 2016 permalink
The Lively Homilies of Our Lives
Our pastor always hated to see people reading the church bulletin while he delivers his homily. Bulletins are supposed to be distributed after mass. One day, he finally had enough. Some old guy in the front row was reading the bulletin during the ho…

Comment by Steve Q February 2016 permalink
Liturgical horrors
I was just chatting with a Canon lawyer who said that it is well known that liturgical abuses are taking place all over our diocese, but that there is not a good mechanism for enforcement even if the bishop is inclined to do so. Most bishops who mig…

Comment by Steve Q February 2016 permalink
Praise report....!
I had to have two sons and wait for them to grow up to have two tenors in my choir. Good thing I married an alto and our daughter grew up to be a good alto also.

Comment by Steve Q January 2016 permalink
Your favorite Christmas CD's?
As long as we are doing some non-liturgical....My wife and I have been cuddling by the fireplace to this for 25 Christmases now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5KKuIWbPps And they do a pretty mean "12 Days of Christmas": https://www.…

Comment by Steve Q November 2015 permalink
Random, nasty comments you've heard from parishioners
Why can't you play more traditional Catholic music like "Gather Us In" and "City of God"?

Comment by Steve Q October 2015 permalink
Who hired you, really.
I will pay you! Oh, wow. Yeah, he must REALLY be desperate!

Comment by Steve Q October 2015 permalink
What do you think is the single most hopeful sign for the future of the Church?
The people on this forum. ;-)

Comment by Steve Q October 2015 permalink
Dismissing a choir member
I think now is better also. Perhaps when you talk to your pastor, you can come up with another ministry that those members may be more suited to such as lector, greeter, EMHC, catechist or whatever. The pastor may have an urgent need in one of those…

Comment by Steve Q June 2015 permalink
"Try these tips to help liven up your Sunday liturgies"
She starts by calling herself a "Vatican II Catholic". I don't know what that means. I don't think I am any less a "Vatican II Catholic" than she is, yet I imagine that my interpretation of Vatican II's teaching is…

Comment by Steve Q March 2015 permalink
Locating Potential Choir Members in the Congregation
My choir does not sing every Sunday, so I ask my choir members to recruit from the congregation also. Once in a while they will come to me and say that they heard a great voice in the pews and told that person that he/she should join choir. So I rep…

Comment by Steve Q February 2015 permalink
Choral scholarship
Some ideas here: http://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/8331/an-idea-to-share-parish-music-scholarship

Comment by Steve Q January 2015 permalink
Thinking About Advent
How on earth do you not know "O Come Emmanuel"?!? Have they never listened to the radio? Happened in my predominantly Polish parish as well. I was astounded when I arrived. They swore they had never heard it before. The old-timers told me…

Comment by Steve Q November 2014 permalink
Help for Diocesan music teachers afraid of chant
...some teachers say that their pastors are trying to get them to teach the kids chant, hymns, Latin, etc., but that it's too hard and the children don't like it. They should listen to these kids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lrwBQn…

Comment by Steve Q November 2014 permalink
What is the online presence of your schola/music program?
Charles, funny my 2001 Honda didn't come with a cassette player so I had to have one custom installed (for my vast collection of jazz cassettes). I also offered my choir member a cassette tape (I was half joking), but he looked at me like I w…

Comment by Steve Q September 2014 permalink
What is the online presence of your schola/music program?
I too create audio files for practice and place them on our choir web site. I also link to YouTube performances and practice videos like the ones on the Choir Parts channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/Choirparts. I email the choir every week …

Comment by Steve Q September 2014 permalink
Postludes
I wonder if part of it is that people find it natural to process out of the church to music, rather than stand and wait until the music is over and then walk out in silence. Our pastor tells us to go ahead and keep playing, even if most of the peop…

Comment by Steve Q July 2014 permalink
Postludes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpK_t0TMvk8

Comment by Steve Q July 2014 permalink
The Preface from the New Spirit and Song
Those holding advanced degrees in Catholic theology served on the selection committee and after the selections were made, an outside group of theologians reviewed the selections to ensure their authentic adherence to the ancient Catholic faith. I t…

Comment by Steve Q June 2014 permalink
Posting/storing sound files, mp3s / recording
I also use SoundCloud.com. Pretty easy, free, private, downloadable, easily linkable from emails and/or a web site. (Free space is limited but has been more than adequate for me.)

Comment by Steve Q April 2014 permalink
Seeking Advice for Touchy Subject
She sounds like A.I. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d29VsG35DQM

Comment by Steve Q March 2014 permalink
Seeking recordings of sacred music by current composers
cmbearer, If you would kindly provide a link to your radio station web site, I would be very interested in listening to the show. Thanks.

Comment by Steve Q March 2014 permalink
What funny things have you heard at Mass? (Updated Title)
On the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord: "...that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest before God to expedite the sins of the people."

Comment by Steve Q February 2014 permalink

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