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If I may add another thing: during interviews, read the room as best you can. Discretely observe the behavior of the person or people interviewing you. I'll share a bit from my experience at the…

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@ServiamScores I took a class my final semester of graduate school on "Music Career Development," and they beat the drum on social media repeatedly. They even taught us how to use audio and…

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I suffered this exact same issue last spring when I was finishing my MM. It was depressing. I applied to around 30 parishes or so, and only 4 of them cared enough to invite me in for a final round in…

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While preparing Solemn Mass for Saint Patrick's, I found out about the Liber Supplement 801 containing the Propers for the Dioceses of Ireland. Does anybody know the whereabouts of this, if it s…

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BM, MM, and DM in Organ and Sacred Music at Indiana University: https://blogs.iu.edu/jsomorgan/

Also offers a Performer Diploma in Organ Improvisation.

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At my first parish job, the 10:00 crowd (N.O. Latin/English) had been singing the Our Father in Latin for years. When they sang, each word and phrase was labored and segmented: for example, each time…

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At my first parish job years ago, a wedding was supposed to be Saturday 11:00am. The night before at the rehearsal, the couple casually changed it to 12:00. Nobody informed me, so I'm in a cold …

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I practice Messiaen's modes and the Acoustic scale regularly in my practice, and strongly believe that style has its place in the Catholic liturgy. Personally, I enjoy the more wild improvisatio…

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Lux aeterna luceat eis, Domine, cum sanctis tuis in aeternum, quia pius est.

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