Month: July 2012
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NPM 2012 – Pittsburgh
NPM is reeeally big, and it sure is exciting to be with over 2,000 musicians for a week of not just great music in every style under the sun, but seriously reflection on ministry, discipleship, living the Gospel.
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This Week’s Discussion Question: What does multicultural liturgy look like…and does it even matter?
Multicultural liturgy seems to be the least popular of liturgical issues.
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A Review of Worship–Fourth Edition
by James E. Frazier “GIA has successfully kept in touch with the evolution of liturgical music since Vatican II, monitored the changing temper of the musical times, and in its latest volume, despite its faults, the company’s Worship–Fourth Edition presents a mature proposal for a liturgical music that is worthy of the church and its…
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The 2012 Meeting of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada
There is great excitment about the future (and present!) of congregational song,
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National Black Catholic Survey and Congress
by Jack Rakosky African-American Catholics are more engaged in their parishes than are white Catholics.
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Does the Ordinary Form Have a Distinctive Voice?
Jeffrey A. Tucker, managing editor of Sacred Music and a friendly and thoughtful dialogue partner, has responded at the Chant Café to my report of the CMAA Colloquium XXII in Salt Lake City.
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A New Chant Collection
“This collection provides easier chants for a schola or choir to sing at Mass (for example, as a prelude, as an entrance chant, at the preparation of the offerings, or as a communion chant) and at other liturgical celebrations. It is intended for those many situations in which it is not yet possible to sing…