Jonathan_Culbreath

Choral Christmas Mass Ordinary
@SteveOttomanyi One that I’d like to do someday, by a living composer whom I believe you know (he goes to your parish frequently) is Missa In Dulci Jubilo, by Professor Byron Adams. https://youtu.be/hF1vEEmpCBg?si=QrZpM18rkvfYQPGY

Comment by Jonathan_Culbreath August 27 permalink
How to fit Faure Requiem into All Souls Day Mass NO
I am considering doing this for our All Souls Day mass of remembrance, along similar lines to what @CGM lays out above, though probably minus the Pie Jesu “sequence.” I’d prefer some other use for the Pie Jesu, perhaps as a post-communion meditation…

Comment by Jonathan_Culbreath June 27 permalink
Rest in peace PP Francis
This is all rather confusing to me. I direct music for a basilica, so we have a special connection to the pope, so I need a place to find simple and clear rules about what I can sing if it’s during the octave.

Comment by Jonathan_Culbreath April 21 permalink
New Pipe Organ at St. Michael's Abbey
MarkB is correct, there are two organs in the church, the smaller of which is up in the choir area (front of the church) and is used regularly for the office. The new Schoenstein “Tribune Organ” is the big one in the back, and is only used for solem…

Comment by Jonathan_Culbreath October 2024 permalink
Psalm Tones in Spanish?
Yes please!

Comment by Jonathan_Culbreath August 2024 permalink
Phoenix vs. Rodgers Organs
No worries, I am far from dissuaded. :) I am constantly experimenting with different ways of making the best of my current instrument, and after installing a digital component (it looks like plans are moving forward!), I hope to still make more impr…

Comment by Jonathan_Culbreath June 2024 permalink
Phoenix vs. Rodgers Organs
Oh—and if you do unify, avoid faking mutation stops. They aren’t tuned pure since they are derived, and it’s painful. Digital mutations would sound a lot better. (I lived with a 5 tank schantz that was unified to kingdom come and I did not come awa…

Comment by Jonathan_Culbreath June 2024 permalink
Phoenix vs. Rodgers Organs
I believe the organ has been serviced pretty recently, since around Christmas time anyway. The wind stuff is in pretty good condition as far as I know. The instrument has no two foots, but it does have some octave couplers, which is the only way I c…

Comment by Jonathan_Culbreath May 2024 permalink
Phoenix vs. Rodgers Organs
The current Austin can support congregational singing well enough, but it simply has a very limited variety of sound. Only 7 ranks of pipes, only six of which are really used - because there is a very loud Open Diapason that I hardly ever touch - no…

Comment by Jonathan_Culbreath May 2024 permalink
The Graduale Simplex in Spanish
Very glad to see this! I’ve been looking forward to its publication and may very well have a use for it up at the Mission San Buenaventura.

Comment by Jonathan_Culbreath April 2024 permalink
Spanish Easter Sequence
Wow. I use the Cantoral and somehow missed this. Thanks!

Comment by Jonathan_Culbreath April 2024 permalink
Spanish Chant -
Popping in to say that @janetgorbitz’s project has been a huge blessing for me and my cantors at a bilingual parish, one of the historic California missions founded by St. Junipers Serra, and I have started using the introit and communion antiphons …

Comment by Jonathan_Culbreath April 2024 permalink
New Composition: 'Arise, My Love, My Fair One'
Beautiful. I would also be very interested in obtaining a score for this if possible.

Comment by Jonathan_Culbreath March 2024 permalink
Palm Sunday
Very similar lineup to the OP’s, with a couple differences: Mission Basilica San Buenaventura, in Ventura, CA Hosanna to the Son of David (Weber) Entrance: All Glory, Laud, and Honor Entrance antiphon: “As the Lord entered the holy city” (Weber) …

Comment by Jonathan_Culbreath March 2024 permalink
Fr. Weber Propers, Volumes 2-4?
Perfect, exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

Comment by Jonathan_Culbreath March 2024 permalink
Hymnal Conundrums and Suggestions
Thanks everyone for all the suggestions. I do not personally wish to scratch the contemporary itch, but my pastor has some sentimental attachment to music of that era/genre. I am especially intrigued by the St. Michael Hymnal and the options offere…

Comment by Jonathan_Culbreath July 2023 permalink

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