CharlesW

Its really going to happen!
We needn't worry about how many they will be Yes, but...There is a degree of effectiveness or influence that comes from numbers and saturation in the society. That may, I suspect, be lost.

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Its really going to happen!
Never say never, Charles! If church history teaches us anything, things taken for granted can slowly but surely go topsy turvy. Often true, but this time around I wonder if enough of the church will be left to do much in the way of restoration. Of…

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What would more active participation in the EF be like?
The TLMs around here seem to be following the maxim from Psalms: "Be still - and know that, unless you're an altar server, your human utterance totally invalidates the priest's Mass." I have suspected for some time that many of…

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What would more active participation in the EF be like?
You often tell us that you don't need the money from your church job. At the risk of offending protocol all over the place, I'll ask: if you're interested in contributing to the organ-upkeep fund, PM me. I am blessed that I don'…

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Its really going to happen!
Finally, as I have maintained before in a number of other threads, if the EF had been revised and put into English and the OF had never happened (indeed, if Vatican II had never happened!), the EF would have been treated to much of the abuse that ha…

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What would more active participation in the EF be like?
Don't know their content, but if they can stand self-supported for 75+ years, they are built well. There is a well-known brand of recent neo-Baroque organ in town and the unenclosed pipes are visibly bending and crooked.

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What would more active participation in the EF be like?
Their pipe instruments were equal to the Skinners and Austins and their materials and quality of construction were top notch. I saw one with pipes made from such high-quality metal they didn't even require racks for support. They sound good, …

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What would more active participation in the EF be like?
Maundy Thursday was (effectively) the maiden voyage for my newly refurbished 112 year old Kimball. Nobody had heard it a nearly full organ until then. I'm grateful beyond words for the pastor's commitment to the work. I'm consumed w…

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Its really going to happen!
Or is it that there must be a hymn, and no time for anything else? Not always. Only one of my masses is a choir mass. The rest have cantors who largely seem incapable of anything outside the norm. I did have one who could easily do Propers, but…

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Its really going to happen!
What gets in the way of the offertory is the speedy pastor who wants things moved along too fast for anything extra. Under our old regime, things moved slowly and we had plenty of time. Not any more. I have even had to move longer anthems to after…

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Its really going to happen!
Yes. The pastor has a preference for hymns, so occasionally, I can do the Entrance Proper as a prelude, but never replace the hymn with it. Offertory is out of the question since too much is already happening and there really is no time for it.

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Its really going to happen!
We do Latin during Lent, but since we use the ICEL chant the rest of the year, it's the same tunes and the language doesn't make a noticeable difference. The congregation knows both. Propers? We do communion chants every week, but at oth…

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Do we deserve better Choral Music in the Vatican?
c) If what takes place within the Vatican precincts (musically speaking) is (rather than should be) the pinnacle of implementation of the reforms of the late Council,....... I find myself biting hard so as not to say something I might regret. Sure,…

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Director thinks she can dictate my choice of organ registration
I think most of us would prefer a pipe organ to an electronic on most days, unless the pipe instrument is particularly bad. When one takes a position at a parish, one plays what they have. If they can be persuaded to buy something better, great. …

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What would more active participation in the EF be like?
I'm sure that the babushkas would riot if one day the Patriarch came out from behind the iconostasis and told them that from now on they had to participate as he told them, and not pray at the shrines. Babushkas have canes. Don't ever me…

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What would more active participation in the EF be like?
Active participation in the mass. OF: Looking at your phone EF: Hurling anathemas at each other. May sound flippant, but almost too true to be funny.

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Harry and Meghan
I could understand the bi-racial part. Royalty has prided itself on its "pure" bloodlines not tainted by common blood. Even those less than royalty who marry into the family usually have some connection to previous monarchs or are member…

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PLease pray for Ireland today, and if you are Irish please vote.
As the leaders go, so go the people. The Irish church has had troubles for years. What other outcome could there be?

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Do we deserve better Choral Music in the Vatican?
Lately, I am sure we don't deserve the Vatican.

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chant-based organ scores
I would humbly add this collection of Gregorian,prudes by yours truly... I have those "prudes" and they are excellent.

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Questions from Rebuilt
How many of these cure-all programs have come along over the years. I remember Renew from years ago, with its withered tree symbol representing something I never quite grasped. Now Rebuilt? Who said it needed rebuilding, to begin with. How abo…

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choral wedding recessional
I actually did the Hallelujah Chorus as the recessional at the request of the bride. I never knew whether it was because she was rejoicing at being married, or if the parents were celebrating that someone actually married her.

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Training Children as Cantors?
I have had some early teenage cantors and they did a good job. But they grow up and drift off to college. I don't have any now.

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Harry and Meghan
We know which one Eastwood was. Who are the other two? Was he there? You must have watched. Good: I am hearing the young cellist was very good. Bad: Too much of that going around to point fingers. Ugly: Aside from some former Protestants wh…

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Who is still using the ICEL English Chant Mass?
The good thing about the ICEL setting is its simplicity and that it is so easily learned. I am not one of those musicians who wants novelty, but predictability. When the pastor enters he knows exactly what will happen next with no surprises. I ha…

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Harry and Meghan
I have always considered George III to be the true Father of Our Country - for reason...it was he after all who granted us our independence - and to think that we didn't even have the decency to thank him for it. He didn't grant us anyth…

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Harry and Meghan
Makes me glad I didn't watch it, and probably never will.

Comment by CharlesW May 2018 permalink
Who is still using the ICEL English Chant Mass?
I have no problem with the ICEL. Some musicians, who tend to look for something new, tell me it is boring. I tell them that if they want excitement, strip off their clothing and run down the street. Their lives will get a lot more interesting as …

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Harry and Meghan
they were abused, and hordes of them fled to Canada - which a generation or two later the young US tried to snatch as well. No one wants Canada, icicles and all. And, I don't think that any of us would care to partake of what passes for ente…

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Harry and Meghan
Family of ordinary people, sounds like the U.S. president, Obama seemed to behave like a king at times. Yes, he did, unfortunately. he could be quite insufferable, at times. I know the Queen pays tax, at least since the fire at the castle. Befo…

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