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Views from the Choir Loft

Will I Be Meeting You in Late June?

Dr. Lucas Tappan · May 9, 2024

N LATE JUNE, I will be joining my fellow Corpus Christi Watershed contributor, Dr. Charles Weaver, as a faculty member for the CMAA COLLOQUIUM being held at the University of Illinois. Dr. Weaver is a full professor at the Juilliard school of music (considered by some as North America’s preëminent conservatory). I’m pleased to be teaching a class called Fundamentals for Men and Women, a Gregorian chant course intended for real chant beginners—both those who can read modern notation and those with no musical training. In the past, both Dr. Weaver and I have served as faculty for the CCW Symposium, but I’ve not yet had the pleasure of meeting him in person. (Needless to say, I’ve noted assiduously his articles on Views from the Choir Loft.)

CMAA Summer • The CMAA (Church Music Association of America) has released their upcoming “in-person” events for 2024. The Saint John Newman Center in Champaign, Illinois, will host the Colloquium this summer. Their newly-renovated chapel is lovely, as evidenced by the photos of some of the aspects of the renovation. I encourage you to check out the events I’ve assembled below.

CMAA Summer Courses
June 18-22, 2024 (Champaign, IL)

Their Summer Courses will have three options this year.

  • Chant Intensive, to be taught by Jeffrey Morse, of St. Joan of Arc Parish in Phoenix, AZ.
  • Vocal Intensive, to be taught by Dr. MeeAe Cecilia Nam, of Eastern Michigan University
  • Organ Improvisation, to be taught by Dr. Horst Buchholz, Director of Music, Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament, Diocese of Detroit

For the Vocal Intensive course, we will be limiting attendance to no more than 15 registrants. For the Organ Improvisation, we can accept no more than 5 registrants. The three courses will share breaks and meals, as well as working toward the culmination of the courses with a closing Mass in the lovely chapel. Chant Intensive students will prepare the Mass Ordinary and Proper Chants; Vocal Intensive will prepare polyphonic pieces; Organ Improvisation will prepare the prelude, postlude and any other Mass improvisation needed for the liturgy. Get all the details of the courses at this URL, as well as access to registration

CMAA Colloquium
June 24-29, 2024 (Champaign, IL)

Our 34th Annual Sacred Music Colloquium will feature the following plenary speakers for 2024:

  • Bishop Earl K. Fernandes, Bishop of Columbus, OH
  • Gregory DiPippo, Managing Editor, New Liturgical Movement
  • Dr. William P. Mahrt, Editor, Sacred Music, President of CMAA

Join the CMAA for a wonderful six days of learning, singing, praying and laughing together as we work on chant and polyphony with an outstanding faculty. Dormitory housing and meals will be on-site at the Newman Center facilities, as well as all sessions. This may be the most convenient of all our Colloquium locations to date! The repertory will include chanted Mass Ordinaries, Propers, and office hymns, as well as a variety of polyphonic works, including the Duruflé Requiem when we pray for all deceased CMAA Members. With liturgies in the Novus Ordo (in English, Spanish, and Latin), as well as the Usus antiquior, experience the full range of the Roman Rite with reverence and the best we can offer in worship of God. For all the details about the schedule, faculty, registration and housing, visit the website for the CMAA Colloquium.

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About Dr. Lucas Tappan

Dr. Lucas Tappan is a conductor and organist whose specialty is working with children. He lives in Kansas with his wife and four children.—(Read full biography).

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President’s Corner

    New Bulletin Article • “12 October 2025”
    My pastor requested that I write short articles each week for our parish bulletin. Those responsible for preparing similar write-ups may find a bit of inspiration in these brief columns. The latest article (dated 12 October 2025) talks about an ‘irony’ or ‘paradox’ regarding the 1960s switch to a wider use (amplior locus) of vernacular in the liturgy.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Reminder” — Month of October (2025)
    Those who don’t sign up for our free EMAIL NEWSLETTER miss important notifications. Last week, for example, I sent a message about this job opening for a music director paying $65,000 per year plus benefits (plus weddings & funerals). Notice the job description says: “our vision for sacred music is to move from singing at Mass to truly singing the Mass wherein … especially the propers, ordinaries, and dialogues are given their proper place.” Signing up couldn’t be easier: simply scroll to the bottom of any blog article and enter your email address.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Music List” • 27th in Ordinary Time (Year C)
    Readers have expressed interest in perusing the ORDER OF MUSIC I’ve prepared for 5 October 2025, which is the 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C). If such a thing interests you, feel free to download it as a PDF file. As always, the Responsorial Psalm, Gospel Acclamation, and Mass Propers for this Sunday are conveniently stored at the spectacular feasts website alongside the official texts in Latin. Readers will want to check out the ENTRANCE CHANT posted there, which has a haunting melody (in the DEUTERUS MODE) and extremely powerful text.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    “American Catholic Hymnal” (1991)
    The American Catholic Hymnal, with IMPRIMATUR granted (25 April 1991) by the Archdiocese of Chicago, is like a compendium of every horrible idea from the 1980s. Imagine being forced to stand all through Communion (even afterwards) when those self-same ‘enlightened’ liturgists moved the SEQUENCE before the Alleluia to make sure congregations wouldn’t have to stand during it. (Even worse, everything about the SEQUENCE—including its name—means it should follow the Alleluia.) And imagine endlessly repeating “Alleluia” during Holy Communion at every single Mass. It was all part of an effort to convince people that Holy Communion was historically a procession (which it wasn’t).
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Canonic” • Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Fifty years ago, Dr. Theodore Marier made available this clever arrangement (PDF) of “Come down, O love divine” by P. R. Dietterich. The melody was composed in 1906 by Ralph Vaughan Williams (d. 1958) and named in honor of of his birthplace: DOWN AMPNEY. The arrangement isn’t a strict canon, but it does remind one of a canon since the pipe organ employs “points of imitation.” The melody and text are #709 in the Brébeuf Catholic Hymnal.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Did they simplify these hymn harmonies?
    Choirs love to sing the famous & splendid tune called “INNSBRUCK.” Looking through a (Roman Catholic) German hymnal printed in 1952, I discovered what appears to be a simplified version of that hymn. In other words, their harmonization is much less complex than the version found in the Saint Jean de Brébeuf Hymnal (which is suitable for singing by SATB choir). Please download their 1952 harmonization (PDF) and let me know your thoughts. I really like the groovy Germanic INTRODUCTION they added.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Random Quote

But the revisers did not leave them altogether untouched. Saint Ambrose had to be “corrected.” The ‘Iste Confessor’ was greatly altered and the hymn for the Dedication of a Church (which no one ought to have touched) was completely recast in a new meter.

— Father Joseph Connelly

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