Category: “War Stories” (21 posts)
Clerical casualties of liturgical reform
March 21, 2009 by — 2 comments.
MusicaSacra Forum member “Kevin in Atlanta” shares this anecdote: Occasionally, one finds on this forum a musician who has been dismissed for going too far in the reform for his or her pastor. We remember that many of us serve at the pleasure of the priest who may or may not be in tune with [...]
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Liturgical Reform; War Stories.
Dissecting a failed attempt to bring sacred music back to its proper place
January 2, 2009 by — 10 comments.
Take a look at this thread on the MusicaSacra Forum, and see the victim who has done nothing but attempt to be as faithful as possible to the highest aims of the Church regarding liturgical music. Not knowing the details of the situation other than those specified by the writer — who I will refer [...]
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Liturgical Reform; War Stories.
Schola survey and results posted
October 8, 2008 by — 0 comments.
Noel Jones, a regular contributor to the MusicaSacra Forum, conducted what I believe is the first survey of Gregorian chant schola directors in a long time…perhaps ever. He limited his sample to 100 respondents, and asked the following questions (paraphrased below in some cases): How many singers do you have? When/how often does your schola [...]
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Announcements; Publications; Relevant Reading; War Stories.
“The fight against Futurechurch”
October 1, 2008 by — 0 comments.
Damian Thompson’s Holy Smoke blog recently has featured a series titled “The Fight Against Futurechurch” which sheds light on some of the activities of the modernist-leaning hierarchs of Great Britain and their allies. Some recent posts include: Music Blogging Breaking up the music mafia Posted here for your reading and discernment. Longtime readers of this [...]
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War Stories.
On organic development, social networking, and liturgy
September 17, 2008 by — 0 comments.
Like many people, I have a Facebook profile. (Yes, I do accept friend requests. Even random ones.) And thanks to Facebook, I believe I have a bit more of an idea how people may have reacted to the radical liturgical changes of a generation past. Recently, Facebook developed a number of presentational and functional changes [...]
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In other news; Liturgical Reform; Miscellany; War Stories.
Sacrosanctum Concilium 36 – a retrospective glimpse
June 23, 2008 by — 5 comments.
Dad29′s post “Actual History(!!) on the Eucharist” includes this snippet from Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J.: Vatican II is frequently praised or blamed for having authorized the translation of the Latin liturgy into the vernacular. But the matter is not so simple. In Sacrosanctum Concilium, its “Constitution on the Liturgy” (1963), the council declared: “The use [...]
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War Stories.
An invaluable tome of post-conciliar sacred music history, now freely available
May 21, 2008 by — 1 comment.
Jeffrey Tucker has announced on NLM that the 1966 Proceedings of the Fifth International Church Music Congress and the founding meeting of the then-newly-organized Church Music Association of America, are now available from the CMAA website in a hefty 37-megabyte, 316-page PDF download. He writes: You will see that there was a great deal of [...]
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Liturgical Reform; War Stories.
From pipe organ to Peterbilt
May 19, 2008 by — 0 comments.
‘frogmusicnj’ shares an anecdote on the MusicaSacra Forum: I have a friend….Fulbright Scholar in Organ…13 years in one parish in the St. Petersburg Diocese…and then 7 more years in another one in the same diocese. New transplanted British priest comes in, does not hit it off well, criticizes my friend’s job performance….inflames his insecurities…and then [...]
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War Stories.
Reflections on a letter from Marty Haugen to Jeff Miller
May 13, 2008 by — 1 comment.
[This post will be updated to highlight reaction to the letter from the Catholic blogosphere.] The prolific GIA composer sent the Curt Jester a letter that he posted on his blog. Marty Haugen’s published works became a lightning rod precisely because his publisher saw fit to heavily promote his ouevre and parishes, operating under a [...]
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Contemporary Religious Music; War Stories.
Well, I can’t say I wasn’t warned.
November 14, 2007 by — 1 comment.
After telling a colleague of mine from the CMAA two weeks ago that I was returning to blogging, I received this remark: Are you sure you want to do this? The blogosphere is a veritable zoo! to which I responded: True enough, but I don’t plan on venturing out too far from my domain…let’s see [...]
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Catholic Punditry; War Stories.
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