Dr. Hamilton • “Totally Random (But Hopefully Not Useless) Thoughts About Choirs”
We must gauge rehearsal time so as not to totally bore the skilled members, while still making sure to do what’s needed to help lesser-skilled members.
“A much greater source of anxiety to Us is the style of action of those who maintain that liturgical worship should shed its sacred character, who foolishly say we should substitute for sacred items & furnishings ordinary common things in daily use.” —Pope Saint Paul VI (14 Oct 1968)
Dr. Gregory Hamilton is a widely published composer and accomplished performer. His compositions include works for organ, piano, choir, flute, cello, and orchestra. An active conductor, Dr. Hamilton also performs extensively as a soloist and accompanist on the organ, piano, harpsichord. He has also performed regularly on the keyboard, theorbo and lute with the Orchestra of New Spain. He is currently on the faculty of Holy Trinity Seminary in Dallas TX.—Read full biography (with photographs).
We must gauge rehearsal time so as not to totally bore the skilled members, while still making sure to do what’s needed to help lesser-skilled members.
It seems to me that our responsibility of teaching the Faith through music is much more serious than is commonly perceived.
There is much here to contemplate, written by a man with a deep reverence for the Sacred Liturgy and Music of the church…
The word “hymn” is one of the earliest music words in all languages…
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Dr. Gregory Hamilton is a widely published composer and accomplished performer currently on the faculty of Holy Trinity Seminary in Dallas TX.
Psalm 51 occurs a dozen times in the lectionary during the year, for such diverse days such as St. Thomas Aquinas, weekdays during ordinary Time, many days in Lent, and the Easter Vigil.
Some of you may not know, but in seminaries and houses of religious, the 150 psalms are still recited or sung every month.
“Our souls are moved to the ardor of piety by the sacred words more piously and powerfully when these words are sung…” —St. Augustine
I have sometimes been told that I was “performing” in the Liturgy, and this has made me think about the meaning of this term and why people say it…
A lot of what we do in serving our communities is rather unglamorous…
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“Recently, playing a prelude before a Mass, I thought of the preeminence of beauty in our faith.” —Dr. Hamilton
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