When Hymn Names Don’t Match
I submit to you that calling the same tune by multiple names in the same hymnal is unacceptable.
Archives for January 2019
Formed in Beauty Lectures
Videos have been posted from the 2017 & 2018 conferences of the Catholic Art Guild
New! • Organ Scholarships at Christendom College
Christendom College will offer up to $5,000 for students starting in the Fall of 2019.
Just Released! • 2019 Pastoral Letter on Sacred Music (Archbishop Sample)
“Every pastor and music director has a serious responsibility to read and become familiar with the ‘Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy…” —Archbishop Sample
PDF Download • “Chant Service Book” (208 pages)
An extremely rare book from 1941, containing all your favorite Gregorian chants!
Music Leads Us to Heaven
Franz Schubert’s famous art song, “An die Musik”
2nd Sunday after Epiphany • Saint Vitus Parish (LA)
“New evidence of wondrous pow’r | Behold in Cana’s marriage-dow’r; | Swift its own nature to resign, | The water blushes into wine.” —Msgr. Knox
Trappist Monks in Hong Kong Chanting
Monks in Hong Kong chanting parts of the Missa “Cum Jubilo”…
Bishop Barron Vs. Hymn by Marty Haugen (2018)
“Heaven is not light-years away; that’s a silly way to think about it.” —Most Rev’d Robert Barron
“Church Music Manifesto” (2019)
Mass should be a peaceful experience for the congregation, not an opportunity to be harassed.
Two February Workshops
A Symposium in Chicago and the Winter Pastoral Chant Conference in Indiana
New England Catholic Choral Festival & Mass • 2019
It’s never just about the music. It’s about formation and transformation.
“How To Use The Brébeuf Hymnal” (Video)
Yay! Short tutorial videos eradicate confusion!
“Missa de Angelis” • But in Iroquoian! (1865)
Many people don’t realize that gorgeous plainsong books were printed in the 19th century…but they were not in Latin.
“Mister Eye” • Do You Mind Him?
What do you think of “eye rhymes” in hymnody?
Marcel Dupré • “Live” Recording (2 Feb 1964)
A recording of Bach’s A-minor Prelude & Fugue made by the master at age 78.