The Recovering Choir Director

Get in touch with the transcendent.
Weep like St. Augustine if the Spirit moves you.
Compare it with contemporary American Catholic music for Holy Week, such as “Song of the Lord’s Command” (David Haas), “Behold the Wood of the Cross” (STL Jesuits), and “Jesus, the Lord” (STL Jesuits).
Rate it superior to the above.
Wonder why simpler works of this musical style seem to be effectively banned from churches in Catholic America.

Background information:
- Be Still, and Know that I Am God: Concert Halls Rediscover the Sacred
- Down Corridors of Music
- Google search for “sir john tavener” “lamentations and praises”

“It is totally, totally impossible for man to write anything that is new. The only person who can make things new is Christ.”—Sir John Tavener

Amen.