How Low Can You Sing?
I can’t even hear these pitches—can you?
Archives for March 2017
Fighting With Choir Members?
“On Holy Saturday in 1545—while the pope and several cardinals were present—two of the oldest choir members flew at each other during the blessing of the new oils, shouting in a loud voice…”
A CD from on High for Benedictines in Tasmania
A new CD you don’t have yet full of beautiful music raising funds for bringing more beautiful music to Tasmania.
Musical Resources • 2nd Sunday of Lent 1
“O God, Who seest how we are destitute of all strength…”
Pope Francis, Sacred Music, and the Biggest Stage
Such musical exhortations are not new, but the tone and visibility are.
GoFundMe Campaign • Needing Scholarships!
Sacred Music: “Curse the darkness…or light a candle?”
Revisiting Musicam Sacram
Fifty Years Later – Strengths, Weaknesses, and Progressive Solemnity
Let Everything That Hath Breath Praise the Lord!
Point us once again to God Who is Beauty Itself!
Vatican II • What You Were Too Embarrassed To Ask
Fr. Christopher Smith has created a 7-part series on Vatican II.
PDF Download • “Antiphonale Romanum” (1949)
Yesterday, I used the text on page 366 to create an SATB Hymn for Lent.
Is There Music in Heaven?
The Sights and Sounds of St. John’s Apocalypse
Did You Forget This Fabulous Lenten Hymn?
The psalm verses are optional—making this piece as long or short as you desire.
Pope Francis on musical quality: “mediocrity, superficiality, and banality”
“Sometimes a certain mediocrity, superficiality and banality have prevailed, to the detriment of the beauty and intensity of liturgical celebrations.”
O Crux Ave, partial recording
A stepping stone towards singing this motet with a small choir – a recording for the middle voice of Fr Friel’s 3 part motet.
Choirmasters, Your Job Is Hard Beyond A Doubt
What does sacred music have to do with the O. J. Simpson murder trial?