Gamba

Will "Pescador de Hombres" get the David Haas treatment now?
I think this is going to be harder than Haas. I do not speak Spanish, but friends from various Hispanic backgrounds have told me how Pescador…..is really beloved and well-known in their home communities. One friend said that when his grandmother was…

Comment by Gamba August 2021 permalink
It happened: Traditionis custodes (TLM crackdown) (Note: discussion is on hiatus.)
Perhaps you have seen this already. https://religionnews.com/2021/07/09/looking-for-radical-solutions-to-decline-church-of-england-debates-lay-led-house-churches/ Essentially, some Anglican prelates are pushing for further cutting the already-str…

Comment by Gamba July 2021 permalink
The choir loft: is it beautiful?
To MJO’s excellent point – I think there is a difference between “beautiful” and “orderly and functional.” I have always thought that the loft should only contain what is necessary and helpful for the musicians singing the liturgy. Nothing else. …

Comment by Gamba July 2021 permalink
Any OF Latin Masses that sing All the Chant Propers?
In a previous job I directed a schola in a small town of 27k. Every solemnity and on First Saturdays (when the BVM) they sang the Gregorian Introit, Gradual, Offertory, and Communion as printed in the Graduale/Gregorian Missal. The people sang Mass …

Comment by Gamba July 2021 permalink
Announcements before Mass: yea or nay
My experiences: Lutheran: very brief announcements between prelude and procession. 15 seconds or less, and only if something vital to the whole parish had occurred after the printing of the bulletin, which had every single announcement in it and pr…

Comment by Gamba July 2021 permalink
Sola Liturgia? Will we see TLM Protestants?
That’s why I said I saw Luther’s line of argument, not Luther’s liturgical ideas.

Comment by Gamba July 2021 permalink
Sola Liturgia? Will we see TLM Protestants?
If the pope were to abrogate the TLM tomorrow and it suddenly became illicit everywhere, I would not only fully support, but encourage people to continue attending TLM’s, consequences be damned. We are dealing with a papacy that breaks from traditi…

Comment by Gamba July 2021 permalink
You’ve done the piece a million times….but somehow still manage to mess it up
All the musical instruments that are attempting to produce sound simultaneously should be in the same place, whether that’s singers or organs or trumpets or kazoos. The cantor should be at the same end of the building as the accompanying instrument.…

Comment by Gamba July 2021 permalink
Musicians in Syracuse who can chant
Richard, I am messaging you on Facebook.

Comment by Gamba July 2021 permalink
OCP/GIA Financial Model
I am very interested to see how Source and Summit picks up. Right now, it’s a missalette plus 90-ish percent of the hymns a traditionally-minded parish would want from OneLicense plus a customizable leaflet-making and cantor-supplying software progr…

Comment by Gamba July 2021 permalink
Spiritual Feeding of Choir members?
In my choirs [before the pandemic, before I was laid off and took a new job where someone else directs and I play], I always began each rehearsal with the collect of the Sunday we were preparing to sing. Where there was some very clear connection to…

Comment by Gamba June 2021 permalink
No Difference In Church Attendence Based on Worship Style - LCMS Data
I worked in the LCMS from 2011-15. If you are curious about their praxis, take a look at the front section of their official hymnal and service book. Their order for the Eucharist starts on p. 27 here. http://lsb.cph.org/samples/LSB_Sampler.pdf The…

Comment by Gamba June 2021 permalink
Will we miss watching live-streamed Masses? (Anyone else feeling uneasy about the return to normal?)
I think I have watched 1 or 2 or 3 live-streamed Masses since the pandemic, one of which was the Easter Vigil at which a friend in a distant place was confirmed. I lost my job at the very beginning of the pandemic, and took a new one in August, so I…

Comment by Gamba May 2021 permalink
Athanasian Creed
If this is ever to be sung by a group, rather than a soloist, I think it would be convenient to have either each phrase (of the text) beginning on a new line, or else to add verse numbers before each phrase. It would help the eye not get lost in wha…

Comment by Gamba May 2021 permalink
Ascension Day postlude from Ely Cathedral
1. The cult of the solo performer, also the composer artist or enlightened one who can mystically see further into art than the rest of us Not sure which composers for organ this criticism would exclude. All of them, you can instantly tell it’s S…

Comment by Gamba May 2021 permalink
Ascension Day postlude from Ely Cathedral
I think there are several ways to understand this piece, which I am looking forward to playing on Sunday. 1) Messiaen went in all kinds of new directions with his use of modes of limited transposition, unusual rhythms, etc. I find this hard to exp…

Comment by Gamba May 2021 permalink
Accompaniment poll
Cantor :..., let this holy building shake with joy, filled with the mighty voices of the peoples. (Therefore, dearest friends ... The Lord be with you. .) Lift up your hearts. ℟ We lift them up to the Lord. Fortunately I saw this coming, and arrang…

Comment by Gamba May 2021 permalink
Translation of Wünderschön Prächtige
Agreed! Here is one of my favorite videos – Dr. Wolfgang Seifert accompanying in his magnificent way at Himmerod. https://youtu.be/0lRRa6V4YoA

Comment by Gamba May 2021 permalink
Ascension Hymn (and Easter Hymn) - THAXTED
Wonderful!! Only question is about verse 3: “The Lord THAT once was crucified”. Shouldn’t “that” be “who”?

Comment by Gamba April 2021 permalink
Tra Le Sollectiudini and Women in the Choir
At Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica in Chicago, one can see such an arrangement (organ went in in 1902): https://images.app.goo.gl/q872RS5Ez8S8Qf9V8 The console and the choir sit high up in the clerestory level, in a gallery on the north/Gospel side. T…

Comment by Gamba April 2021 permalink
Making Copies of PDF Files
Anything anyone can do that costs OCP money and could lead to its ruination is a moral good.

Comment by Gamba April 2021 permalink
How do you put out worship aids?
I think [good] ushers handing them out at all the entrances is ideal. If one is a visitor, the usher is right there to kindly answer questions (where’s the toilet; I want to join RCIA; are there low-gluten hosts here; can my kid stay with me; when a…

Comment by Gamba April 2021 permalink
Bishop in Arkansas .... can someone square this circle?
https://www.arkansas-catholic.org/news/article/6909/Choirs-holy-water-and-altar-servers-will-return-April-1 Here’s the Bishop’s letter. All seems sound and in accord with what is presently known about the virus and how it spreads.

Comment by Gamba April 2021 permalink
Live stream and careers
I have several thoughts about this. 1) It will be a net blessing, I think, allowing churches to quickly tell if an applicant has been honest about conducting the best choir in America and playing better than anyone since Schlick. 2) It shows who…

Comment by Gamba April 2021 permalink
What have you done without the use of worship aids/hymnals/missalettes?
We’ve had comprehensive, proper weekly bulletins. Everything is in there – readings, hymns, prayers, Eucharistic Prayer, everything. Congregational singing is forbidden by our diocese; all music is sung by the quartet, masked and distanced by 12’. H…

Comment by Gamba March 2021 permalink
Using a church in a recording
I’m trying to remember the last organ recital I went to that stuck entirely to 100% certified-sacred organ music written for liturgical use. Most programs seem to be a mixed bag: somebody’s Mass or Magnificat, some neutral preludes and fugues and an…

Comment by Gamba March 2021 permalink
Petty annoyances from the U.S. Lectionary for Mass
“Holocaust” always drives me up a wall. “Burnt offering” has worked just fine in English since 1611, and 1) does not need definition and 2) does not bring to mind the Shoah and 3) actually translates the Latin word.

Comment by Gamba March 2021 permalink
Improvisation in the Baroque Style
In this vein I must recommend the wonderful Christa Rakich’s brand-new variations on “Heinlein” (Forty days and forty nights). She wrote it in homage to Bach, just a month ago, and shared it for free on her website. https://christarakich.com/wp-cont…

Comment by Gamba February 2021 permalink
Job Description
–Include the salary. For the love of God....print the salary. Even if it’s a range. “Commensurate with experience” is worthless. I don’t know if they intend to overpay or underpay me; they could do either in a manner commensurate with my experienc…

Comment by Gamba February 2021 permalink
Chant-Based Mass Setting
Hurd’s 2011 [New] New Plainsong? https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/new-plainsong-iii-print-g9683

Comment by Gamba February 2021 permalink

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