The tension between tradition and relevance is not only a South African problem.
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Tag: Music
Advent Is Too Short a Time to Sing All the Songs I Want to Sing
Advent hymns can provide a countervailing inner melody, giving voice to the season’s hope and longing.
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Spiritual, Religious, Media, and Music
“The combination of passivity, consuming, quality, and place has combined to help the phenomenon of the “destination church” emerge.”
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Do It Rite: Cantors, Get off the Mic!
Fr. Anthony Ruff shares the proper role of the Cantor in this installment.
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Martin Luther: “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”
Now let the Word stand secure.
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Unnecessary Impoverishments: The Psalter/Part 2 (The Entrance Rite)
We always overlook scripture at our own peril. Perhaps it would be to our benefit to be informed by the texts of the entrance antiphons and their psalms as well as those of the Lectionary when doing our music planning, and realize we don’t always have to be driven only by the Lectionary texts.
Read moreWhat Are You Singing This Lent?
Lent must also lead us to experience, celebrate, and live out the grace of God’s mercy, to reveal and see in ourselves the goodness that God sees in us, as in all creation.
Read moreNPM President Search
In the spirit of the Second Vatican Council, NPM fosters the art of musical liturgy.
Read moreMusic for the Church’s Worship 2: Luke Mayernick “Ever Ancient, Ever New”
The collection “Ever Ancient, Ever New” contains twelve compositions by Luke Mayernik (including seasonal variants) and two “Thanksgiving Psalms” by Henry Seymour.
Read moreMusic for the Church’s Worship 1: David Haas “We Are Not Alone”
I would like to begin a series of occasional postings on recordings of collections of liturgical music. These postings are intended to be more than glorified publishers’ blurbs yet less than a full fledged critique. Instead I hope to signal to readers music intended for liturgical worship created by living or recently deceased composers.
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