CCW • Appeal at Year’s End
As 2024 comes to a close, we could really use your financial support…
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Richard J. Clark Featured in ‘Boston Pilot’ Newspaper: “Our Children & Sacred Music”
“My most important vocation is not that of a musician but as a husband and a father to my four children.” —Richard J. Clark
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Re: Sacred Music Symposium 2025
Since a new month has arrived, it’s my pleasure to remind you that…
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“Entrance Chant” • 3rd Sunday of Advent
This Introit is in the first mode.
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For The Record …
It strikes me as quite “Adventy”—for lack of a better term.
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PDF • “Advent Kyrie Accompaniment”
Kyrie XVII: “In dominicis Adventus et Quadragesimae.”
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Music List • (Immaculate Conception)
Readers have expressed interest in perusing the “music list” I’ve prepared for this feast.
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PDF Download • “Musical Outline” for the Feast of Our Lady’s Immaculate Conception
Rachmaninoff said: “Nine hours? That’s nothing. For a period of my life, I used to practice 17 hours a day.”
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“A Peculiar Discrepancy” • Immac. Concep. (8 Dec.)
Who can explain this?
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PDF Download • Pristine Scan: Father Mathias’ 1905 Kyriale Organ Accompaniment (186 pages)
Father Mathias served as organist for Strasburg Cathedral, where he founded the “Saint Leo Institute for Church Music” in 1913.
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Organ Accompaniment • “Kyrie IV”
This was inspired by Florentinus Peeters (d. 1986).
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“Promptly, Firmly, & Persistently Repressed.”
The book is called: “Cantica Sacra: Hymns for the children of the Catholic Church.”
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Which Gospel Acclamations?
Some have asked which version…
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“Entrance Chant” • Immaculate Conception
This Introit is in mode iii, which some consider the most beautiful.
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PDF Download • “Entrance Chant” for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception (8 December)
What is he talking about? Where can I go to hear these “aesthetically superior” interpretations? Where can they be found?
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