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Alfred Calabrese • Article Archive

Dr. Alfred Calabrese is a conductor, educator, composer, scholar, and church musician. Having worked in academia for two decades, he felt called to enter full-time work in the Catholic Church, and since 2007 has directed the music at Saint Rita Catholic Church. He and his wife live in Dallas, TX. They have two grown children. —Read full biography (with photographs).

Dr. Alfred Calabrese · January 19, 2020

Is It Time To Stop Singing The Propers?

I know how difficult it can be to introduce chant to a Novus Ordo parish.

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Dr. Alfred Calabrese · August 29, 2018

Saving the Church, One Choir at a Time

On the ground in our parishes and in our choirs is where the truth lies. Let us not retreat.

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Dr. Alfred Calabrese · July 4, 2018

Of Estate Sales, Prayers, and Mass Attendance

I started to realize how little time we spend thinking about these things…

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Dr. Alfred Calabrese · January 30, 2018

Repetition at the School Mass: “Do it again!”

Grown up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony.

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Dr. Alfred Calabrese · November 8, 2017

The Real Reason We Sing

Let’s not make this about ourselves.

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Dr. Alfred Calabrese · September 18, 2017

Five Ways To Make Dogma “Live Loudly Within You”

Thank you, Senator Feinstein!

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Dr. Alfred Calabrese · May 25, 2017

Josquin Desprez • A Marian Masterpiece

Josquin surely belongs in the pantheon of history’s most important composers.

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Dr. Alfred Calabrese · May 3, 2017

Kids Are Colorblind But Adults Are Not

Adults with an agenda teach children their own biases.

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Dr. Alfred Calabrese · April 27, 2017

Is This Any Way to Pray at Mass?

My daughter freaked out when I told her this.

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Dr. Alfred Calabrese · February 23, 2017

7 Points • “The Joy of Lent”

Does Lent really put people in a bad mood?

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Dr. Alfred Calabrese · February 16, 2017

The Pedagogy of the School Mass Liturgy

The weekly school Mass may be the only Mass some students ever attend.

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Dr. Alfred Calabrese · December 1, 2016

Nostalgia Is Not Rigid

I don’t think young people (or most people, frankly) are drawn to the pre-conciliar Mass because of nostalgia.

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Dr. Alfred Calabrese · August 31, 2016

Has Our Catholic Culture Been Completely Dismantled?

Art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

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Dr. Alfred Calabrese · June 30, 2016

The Positive Impact Of Parish Events

These things must begin at the parish level.

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Dr. Alfred Calabrese · March 10, 2016

Has The Church Rejected Her Inheritance?

The richness of liturgy and music should never be abandoned.

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    Music List • “Ascension of the Lord”

    Readers have expressed interest in examining my “music list” for this coming Sunday.

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    PDF Download • “For Pentecost Sunday”

    There’s a triple ‘allelúja’ and I just love the chord at the end of the 2nd iteration.

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    The following declaration will probably smack of “blowing my own horn.”

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“To speak the language of God’s beauty, we must first begin to listen. And to listen, we must have silence in our lives. I pray that God will open our eyes and ears to beauty, and help us use it in the service of the Truth.”

— Bishop James D. Conley (10/4/2013)

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