Diapason84

Pew missal/missalette
The pastor and I are on good terms. I know the folks on here are much more knowledgeable than I and maybe someone has an idea. :-) Well, I hope that being on good terms encompasses including you in decision-making about the music program. From the …

Comment by Diapason84 May 4 permalink
Pew missal/missalette
Unfortunately, if the new pastor is saying these things out loud, it's unlikely he will be persuaded otherwise. I don't know your role in the music program (if any) and you do not need to specify here, but if you are in some position withi…

Comment by Diapason84 May 4 permalink
Why no hymns at Pope Francis' funeral?
or "On Eagle's Wings." What kind of Catholic funeral was this supposed to be? A Catholic funeral is incomplete without a "hymn" that begins with a tritone.

Comment by Diapason84 April 27 permalink
Rest in peace PP Francis
For all his extensive and relentless talk about marginalization and accompaniment, he had no qualm with casting aside faithful clergy and other sons and daughters of the faith who practiced it by the 1962 Missal. He employed disgraceful canards in d…

Comment by Diapason84 April 27 permalink
Homily Length?
After 5-7 minutes, the cleric is usually repeating himself, but sometimes enjoys the sound of his voice too much to stop.

Comment by Diapason84 April 24 permalink
Triduum (Holy Week) 2025 Music lists
I attended Mary Immaculate of Lourdes Church, Newton, MA for a moving Holy Thursday Mass (1962 Missal). Unfortunately, I misplaced the program, which had the propers sung along with two works by Palestrina and one by Heinrich Isaac. (Edit: the schol…

Comment by Diapason84 April 19 permalink
Jesus Christ is Risen Today - NOS GALAN
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Comment by Diapason84 April 14 permalink
We Songs
"Anthem" indeed is the object lesson of impoverishment of lyrics and music, and anyone who programs it willingly but objects to the "archaisms" of classical hymn texts ... has issues to self-manage. Let's not forget "A…

Comment by Diapason84 April 9 permalink
The Hymnal Industrial Complex
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Comment by Diapason84 March 25 permalink
The Hymnal Industrial Complex
I was never fond of "Gift of Finest Wheat," but there is so, so much worse out there. Omer Westendorf (aka J. Clifford Evers/Paul Francis/Mark Evans) wasn't much of a poet.

Comment by Diapason84 March 22 permalink
The Hymnal Industrial Complex
Unfortunately a lot of prelates in the US don't care about liturgy and this trickles down to their presbyterates. They are not going to mandate anything about music in the near future. People should spread the word about the folly of GIA and OC…

Comment by Diapason84 March 21 permalink
Congregational singing
Article is behind a paywall. No thanks, especially for America Magazine. Not a criticism to the OP. Anyway, good to see John Baldovin, SJ, taking a more favorable view toward a sung ordinary. That surprises me given what I've seen elsewhere.

Comment by Diapason84 March 18 permalink
Recording of Mass Ordinaries 1964-1968
Probably not what you're looking for, but this is from 1968: Ah yes, the (former Rev.) Peter Scholtes. Who could forget, as well, Missa Bossa Nova?

Comment by Diapason84 March 2 permalink
Have you played/sung for funeral of close family member??
As an organist and occasional cantor, I would not attempt it. When my father died at age 88, I selected all music for the funeral Mass and entrusted the playing/singing to close colleagues. My family and I knew the end was coming before he passed bu…

Comment by Diapason84 February 15 permalink
Mandating vernacular only in a diocese
But, but, didn't Bugnini of blessed memory say that the people "wanted" the new Mass?

Comment by Diapason84 February 15 permalink
Camil Van Hulse
Are you referring only to his settings in Latin?

Comment by Diapason84 February 1 permalink
Camil Van Hulse
One of his publishers in the USA, World Library Publications, has since merged with another publisher, GIA. My guess is all his music is permanently out of print. You might try contacting their customer service and asking if they have any suggestion…

Comment by Diapason84 January 29 permalink
Weddings that start late: how do you handle this?
I like listopad3's and CharlesW's latest responses at the same time. Somehow they both cohere in my musical vision!

Comment by Diapason84 January 14 permalink
John Mason Neale--Hymn Festival
Neale's texts have gotten the heavy "alt." treatment over the years in many hymnals. My guess is that an Episcopalian community will not be using his unaltered texts, viz., from the Hymnal 1940 and elsewhere.

Comment by Diapason84 January 12 permalink
Traditional Choral Praise
Not a fan of some of DeBruyn's harmonizations that I've come across in other OCP books over the years. "St. Elizabeth," "Nettleton," "Gabriel's Message." His arrangement of "Picardy" isn't …

Comment by Diapason84 January 1 permalink
Communion hymn selection during the Christmas season
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Comment by Diapason84 December 2024 permalink
Question about organist interview process
Delay the process... I can't. I agreed to play and that was presented as part of the interview process before I was told I might not meet the MD afterward. If I ask to delay and play only if a meeting face-to-face happens beforehand, I think I…

Comment by Diapason84 December 2024 permalink
New Coverdale Psalter
Of ccourse. https://www.firstthings.com/article/2011/06/a-bumping-boxcar-language

Comment by Diapason84 July 2024 permalink
New Coverdale Psalter
I’m reminded of Anthony Esolen’s observations on “Nabbish” and the poverty of modern English translations of liturgical and scriptural texts. One cannot translate them into the idiom of a bus schedule or a daytime talk show without alienating the fa…

Comment by Diapason84 July 2024 permalink
One-manual organ works
Charles Callahan “Music for Manuals” booklets have several good, easy pieces. (A few are a little too sugary or overly simple.) There are also the numerous Oxford volumes, edited by CH Trevor, of music for manuals by early English composers.

Comment by Diapason84 July 2024 permalink
Which LM hymn tune is this?
I recall seeing a similar melody in the Hymnal 1982 recently, possibly by M. Lee Suitor. I don’t have my copy handy so I suggest checking the index and looking up that name.

Comment by Diapason84 July 2024 permalink
Is it necessary to announce the hymn if everything is in the worship aid?
I thought that the worshipping assembly could only fully participate by having a cantor wave his or her hands in front of them and announce every number and detail. The hymns and Mass parts would ideally have many short, simple refrains because that…

Comment by Diapason84 May 2024 permalink
Jesus Christ is Risen Today
Ugh.

Comment by Diapason84 April 2024 permalink
Jesus Christ is Risen Today - NOS GALAN
I’m trying to unsee this.

Comment by Diapason84 March 2024 permalink
Triduum Music Lists
I will not be using “We remember” by Haugen during Holy Week. I’ll post my real choices later.

Comment by Diapason84 March 2024 permalink

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