The Recovering Choir Director

The Washington Post covers the Catholic liturgical music battle again, this time from a generational standpoint:

Imagine a bizarro world where all the 25-year-olds want Mozart and all the 60-year-olds want adult-contemporary. The kids think the adults are too wild. The backlash against “Kumbaya Catholicism” has anyone under 40 allegedly clamoring for the Tridentine Mass in Latin, while the old folks are most sentimental about Casual Sunday (even more rockin’, the Saturday vigil Mass), and still cling to what’s evolved from the lite-rock guitar liturgies of the 1970s. The result, for most parishes, has been decades of Masses in which no one is entirely satisfied, and very few enjoy the music enough to sing along.

Jeffrey Tucker (of CMAA and NLM) and Thomas Day (of Why Catholics Can’t Sing fame) are quoted at considerable length. Interestingly, the piece doesn’t attempt any sort of “balance” from a contrasting viewpoint. Let’s see if the editorial board makes amends for it in the near future.