vansensei

Non-Christian Music Directors Now Approved for the Catholic Church
His undergraduate degree is from BYU. You should want a choral conductor and music director with BYU training; they are one of the best choral programs in the nation.

Comment by vansensei February 28 permalink
Assumpta est Maria
If tenors are singing in unison and not just tenor 1s, you can keep stems down. I would majorly condense the score, so there's even amounts of space between staves. Otherwise, it's very good work!

Comment by vansensei January 18 permalink
What's your dream Christmas lineup
1. The Stephen Paulus arrangement of Silent Night, I could probably fit somewhere in there. Look it up. It is ethereal. 2. As someone who also composes, I'd probably end up writing my own Mass each year.

Comment by vansensei December 2024 permalink
What's your dream Christmas lineup
1. Processional: Willcocks O Come All Ye Faithful Mass: Either The O Quam Gloriosum, O Magnum Mysterium from Victoria Gloria: Use the opening fanfare of the Gloria from the B Minor Mass and then probably Gloria VII Motets: O Magnum Mysterium eithe…

Comment by vansensei December 2024 permalink
Opening Mass of Notre Dame
The Agnus Dei is from Vierne's Messe Solennelle. They had a chance (and ability) to use the whole work because Vierne and his history with the cathedral, but alas.

Comment by vansensei December 2024 permalink
Latin mass setting from South Africa
See if you can get in touch with Michael Barrett of the Tuks Camerata in Pretoria or Franco Prinsloo. I don't live in SA, but I know of them

Comment by vansensei November 2024 permalink
Choral Wedding Repertoire suggestions
Caroline Shaw -- and the swallow Ivo Antognini -- Surge, Amica Mea The Shaw is very contemporary but it's incredible. One of my favorite choral pieces of all time.

Comment by vansensei November 2024 permalink
Wedding Music and Mass
@trentonjconn -- that's just called the 1950s. ;)

Comment by vansensei October 2024 permalink
Your favourite Masses
Victoria -- Missa O Quam Gloriosum Faure -- Requiem Schubert -- Mass in G Rheinberger -- Cantus Missae Frank Martin -- Mass For Double Choir if I had 11 people + myself on baritone Refice -- Missa Choralis (too many pre-V2 choir + organ Masses, a l…

Comment by vansensei October 2024 permalink
Tenors
And if they're actual tenors and not baritones who can sightread, even better ;-)

Comment by vansensei June 2024 permalink
Sub tuum praesidium a 4
I sung through it with real people (aka myself multitracked on my work break) and it sounds quite nice! Lovely.

Comment by vansensei September 2023 permalink
Coronation 2023 - Orders of Service
I don't like the new Vivat. The stress is weird. It feels like "vat" should be 2 and 3 and Rex on 4. The rest of the music was splendid, as was the chance to hear Zadok the Priest live. Truly one of the greatest works of music ever wr…

Comment by vansensei May 2023 permalink
Consecration of the Immaculata Church in St. Mary's, KS LIVE
Update: they have a choir singing some Stanford and Bruckner quite nicely. The Pontifical Mass is starting soon, so I'm excited to see what the Mass setting is.

Comment by vansensei May 2023 permalink
Whose fault is it that we use bad music and what can we do about it?
Persistence and a willingness to sing the music of the Church. We can do so much better than this guitar tripe. There are centuries of beautiful music to fall back on, and not megachurch music with the occasional Catholic verbiage. I know people who…

Comment by vansensei May 2023 permalink
Happy Easter
A blessed Easter to you all as well. I will be back in a musical role somehow next Easter, hopefully.

Comment by vansensei April 2023 permalink
Organ fanfare for Gloria at Easter Vigil
If I had time, lots and lots of money and even more time, the beginning of the Gloria from the B Minor Mass.

Comment by vansensei April 2023 permalink
A Catholic Congregation Sings!
Ooh yes. Yes yes yes, everything about this is gold.

Comment by vansensei March 2023 permalink
I’m Really Ticked!!
I'll put Bach over Beethoven simply because when Bach doesn't have the entire choir at the top of the staff for 30 minutes (hi Beethoven 9)

Comment by vansensei February 2023 permalink
Music List and Program for consecration of bishop of Diocese of St. Cloud
Just O God Beyond All Praising. That melody can do no wrong.

Comment by vansensei February 2023 permalink
What constitutes "part time" or "full time" duties?
And yes, "developing" a program can be full-time work, especially if you're reviving a choral program as the job description says.

Comment by vansensei February 2023 permalink
What constitutes "part time" or "full time" duties?
ope wrong thread. but do agree with the points above

Comment by vansensei February 2023 permalink
Music at the Funeral for Queen Elizabeth II
Music was exquisite. A beautiful sendoff.

Comment by vansensei September 2022 permalink
Music at the Funeral for Queen Elizabeth II
Elgar's Nimrod can do no wrong. What an immaculate piece of music.

Comment by vansensei September 2022 permalink
Prayer for Soprano
m. 27-29, I have one question: what soprano hurt you? That two-measure stretch is brutal! From B4 to F#5. That I would change.

Comment by vansensei September 2022 permalink
Domenico Bartolucci - O sacrum convivium
It works, just barely, if you transpose it down a seventh to A-flat major. You have to account for some low notes in the bass you can raise an octave unless you have some good oktavists.

Comment by vansensei August 2022 permalink
Domenico Bartolucci - O sacrum convivium
See I'm trying to do that now. I don't know how without messing up the counterpoint.

Comment by vansensei August 2022 permalink
"Ave Maria a 8" for mixed voices (revised) and a men's choir arrangement
You have a work performed by the choir at St. Thomas NYC. Conservatory-trained ensemble singers in the Anglican tradition means that they could sing anything. See if they'll sing this at Mass!

Comment by vansensei August 2022 permalink
Tablet for music use recommendations
I have a cheap $100 tablet from Amazon. It does its main job, which is choral music. Served me last two years of undergrad well and some subbing gigs.

Comment by vansensei July 2022 permalink
Picking an Anglican Ordinariate parish to visit
Very jealous. We had an Ordinariate parish in Minnesota, but it no longer exists. Very long story.

Comment by vansensei May 2022 permalink
Short Fanfare for Gloria VIII
If the intro from the Gloria of Bach's B Minor Mass (the intro in 3 with the trumpets) worked on a single organ, then yes. But it does not, unfortunately.

Comment by vansensei March 2022 permalink

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