Tag: “Jeffrey Tucker” (55 posts)
“These choices and options are not liberating; they are oppressive.”
July 11, 2010 by — 3 comments.
JT on preparing the CMAA Colloquium’s Ordinary-Form Mass: We’ve found that in preparing the colloquium, the largest share of work goes to one Mass: [Ordinary Form] in English. The complications are endless. It takes forever. These choices and options are not liberating; they are oppressive. The politics are excruciating. It takes too many mornings, days, [...]
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Gregorian chant: the acting voice of Christ in song
June 18, 2010 by — 1 comment.
On Chant Café, a new group blog spearheaded by Jeffrey Tucker of the Sacred Music journal (among other things), Adam Bartlett (SacredMusicProject.com) writes about his journey towards Gregorian chant and why it is given pride of place in the liturgy: The more that I have reflected on the way in which Gregorian chant gives a [...]
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Profile of a “chant jock”
January 28, 2010 by — 0 comments.
The term “chant jock” was coined by Jeffrey Tucker recently.[1] Here’s a profile of one written by by Elizabeth Steele and published in the January 15, 2010 edition of Canada’s Catholic Register newspaper: HALIFAX – Luke Togni is old school — very old school. Or old schola, if you prefer. Togni, 22, is passionate about [...]
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The CMAA Colloquium XIX Documentary
January 24, 2010 by — 1 comment.
SACRED, BEAUTIFUL, & UNIVERSAL: Colloquium XIX from Corpus Christi Watershed on Vimeo. See also the Sacred Music Colloquium FAQ.
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Fr. Pierre Paul — a “humble visionary… of great courage with an eye to the future of sacred music”
August 10, 2009 by — 0 comments.
Jeffrey Tucker spoke to Fr. Pierre Paul, maestro di cappella at St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City, about the steps Fr. Paul has taken to realize the vision for liturgical music as outlined in the Church’s liturgical legislation and traditions. A summary of the conversation may be found on NLM. Some excerpts are below (emphases, comments, [...]
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Two comment-box contributions
July 30, 2009 by — 2 comments.
US Catholic’s website has an article by J. Peter Nixon on the upcoming ICEL Mass translation titled “Incoming Missal.” Many of the familiar names on the liturgy front are mentioned, such as Fr. Jeffrey Keyes, CPPS, Jeffrey Tucker, Helen Hull Hitchcock, and John Baldovin, SJ. Read the whole piece; if you wish, read the comments [...]
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“Hymns at Church”: David Beresford’s solution to copyrighted hymn texts
July 1, 2009 by — 2 comments.
As highlighted by Jeffrey Tucker on NLM, and available in PDF, below is an HTML version of “Hymns at Church,” an essay by David Beresford that appears in the June 2009 issue of Catholic Insight. (Reprinted below without alteration, save added hyperlinks.) Hymns at Church by David Beresford The revolutionary elements in our epoch do [...]
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Liveblogging Professor William Mahrt’s and Jeffrey Tucker’s lectures
June 23, 2009 by — 0 comments.
I am now liveblogging Professor William Mahrt’s and Jeffrey Tucker’s lectures at the CMAA Sacred Music Colloquium. Follow my Twitter feed for live updates.
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Style wars, the competent musician, and truly market-driven worship
April 29, 2009 by — 4 comments.
Jeffrey Herbert at The Authentic Update has been following the discussion at the Gotta Sing Gotta Pray blog post highlighted yesterday on this site, and has commented on it at length (reproduced below with links, footnotes, comments, and emphases): A commenter asked the following question after listening to several clips from the latest settings of [...]
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Singing the Mass versus singing at Mass – the last word?
April 23, 2009 by — 4 comments.
An article from Susan Benofy, published in the November 2007 edition of the Adoremus Bulletin with the title “Singing the Mass: we cannot say that one song is as good as another”, is making the rounds at the MusicaSacra Forum and the New Liturgical Movement. Read the article here. The focus of the discussion centers [...]
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