The Recovering Choir Director

on my earlier rant:

As Catholics, and musicians, and Catholic musicians, we must be more educated about our art, yes. We certainly must be both good musicians and good Catholic musicians (that is, we must have musical skills and talent and also knowledge of the liturgy and Catholic music). But fundamentally and primarily, we must be good Catholics. We must be educated, informed, dedicated, devout, reverent, committed Catholics. That is the foundation we need for all the other things, and once we are well-started on that (for of course we will never perfect it) we can begin to apply that and our other knowledge and skills (musical and liturgical etc.) to the task of renewing and restoring Catholic liturgical music. If we don’t have the foundation we won’t be in touch, in tune with what we are about. [Read on...]