Tag: “Jeffrey Tucker” (53 posts)

Profile of a “chant jock”

January 28, 2010 by Aristotle A. Esguerra0 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 Gregorian chant and [...]

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The CMAA Colloquium XIX Documentary

January 24, 2010 by Aristotle A. Esguerra1 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 Aristotle A. Esguerra0 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 Aristotle A. Esguerra2 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 Aristotle A. Esguerra3 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 not mark the [...]

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Liveblogging Professor William Mahrt’s and Jeffrey Tucker’s lectures

June 23, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra0 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 Aristotle A. Esguerra4 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 the [...]

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Singing the Mass versus singing at Mass – the last word?

April 23, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra4 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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Gray-area physical reproduction of copyrighted ritual texts and attendant royalty issues

April 20, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra1 comment.

Jeffrey Tucker has received some updates on the ICEL text copyright issue, yet he cannot disclose any details or sources.  Read the entire piece on NLM; it deserves attention.
Here, however, I wish to highlight this following passage (links, footnotes, and emphasis added):
Now, in what seems to be a new policy, ICEL has been kind enough [...]

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On needless repetition in the Ordinary Form Mass

April 16, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra2 comments.

Earlier this year on the MusicaSacra Forum, “Pes” makes a few observations about needless repetitions in the Roman Rite.
Some background: while repetitive elements such as the second Confiteor had already been omitted from the missal in the 1962 revision, other elements were subject to the pruning shears of the Consilium headed by Archbishop Bugnini, such [...]

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