Scott_W

I don't argue the point any more, content to let the "seminaries and cemeteries" solution do most of the work.

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Mercifully there's enough orchestra intro that you have time to click out before the singing starts.

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The same issue of GIA Quarterly had an article that asserted -- I'm not kidding -- Communion is an excellent time to sing music that reflects the community's ethnicity.

And:<…

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Don't try rhetorical tricks with parishioners. It may be tempting, but never comes off successfully, because seals an interaction as bilaterally adversarial.

Agreed. If you have p…

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I'm sure Inwood did extensive interviews and polling of "diverse" people to discern their preferences, right? Right?

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The music was stuff from the big copyrighted database of “modern Christian liturgical music” which as we all know consists of praising Jesus in three chords with tubs of bathos thrown in.

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Groan. But I shouldn't talk because I made one up about how the Mafia put a contract on J.S., but called it off because the don decided it wasn't right to be Offenbach.

And l…

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No turning of tables, just voting with my feet. But this vid is useful because it reminds me to be grateful. Charleston, SC has several reverent liturgies (EF and OF) with solid music. That was a lot…

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I've been re-evaluating most of my consumer habits recently. Here's a short book from Catholic sci-fi author Brian Niemeier I've found helpful: Don't Give Money to People Who Hat…

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Out with the old, in with the neum.

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My solution to OCP is don't buy their stuff. I have 20-year-old GIA hymnals, use only the traditional hymns, and use as much public domain music as possible - thank you, IMSLP. A plague on most …

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Gonna be contrary about the moving slow thing, which just sounds like being sneaky. Rather, let me offer a different model: how the new (and improved imo) English translation was implemented. One day…

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Meh. Angling for more power in a diminishing market is like investing in zeppelins after Hindenberg.

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Cavalry/Calvary....horses or the hill?

Hopefully they come armed with missals and canon.

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Spam in alium

Heh. Reminds me of Zmirak commenting on contemporary liturgical music:

"Here I am, Lord.” This hymn depicts a human soul responding to the call of Ch…

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But I do despair of so many threads where it seems fine musicians are simply wasting their time and talent to no tangible end.

Let me gripe in your thread if you don't mind. I wou…

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