“Homily — 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A” • Father Valentine Young, OFM
“Often, the person who did us harm won’t even know that we’re still stewing over what they did to us; and if they knew, they might even be glad.”
Jeff Ostrowski • “Three Rules For Good Music”
But we have not spoken very much about Baroque music…
Important Message To Fathers
“Kids don’t remember this…”
(Installment #6) “Catholic Hymnals” • Jeff Ostrowski
How to avoid that sickening feeling when you realize nobody—and I mean nobody—in the congregation knows the hymn you picked!
“Homily for the 14th Sunday after Pentecost” (EF) • Father Valentine Young, OFM
“If worry did any good, I would advise you to do it—but it is wasted time and energy.”
Sir Richard Terry: Hymns, Congregational Singing, and Avoiding “Violence” to the Elders
Terry was forced to resign from the Cathedral in 1924, partially due to his “inconsistent approach to congregational singing at the Cathedral.”
3 September 2020 • Tausig, Liszt’s student
When Polish virtuoso Carl Tausig died in 1871 at the age of thirty, Franz Liszt said to Anton Rubinstein: “Now there are only two of us left in the world.” Liszt had sent Tausig to Richard Wagner, who wrote as follows: You have given me great pleasure with little Tausig. […] He is a terrible […]
“That Image” from World War II • Further Questions
When I look more closely, I notice some very tiny (“itsy bitsy”) hand missals held by the soldiers…
WW2 post at 3:30am = 10k views?
The internet is a very strange thing. I have spent hundreds of hours on certain articles—usually about hymn voice leading—and they get virtually no attention. But last night at 3:30AM I posted an image from WW2 from 9 April 1944 (showing a priest saying Mass with soldiers) and it was viewed 10,000 times on the […]
Holy Mass During World War II • (9 April 1944)
German troops included in American Easter Sunday Mass via loud-speaker.
PDF Download • “Communion Antiphon” (with organ accompaniment)
An exciting new project gives me great hope for the “musical future” of the Catholic Church!
“Homily — 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A” • Father Valentine Young, OFM
“Examining the life of Jesus, we discover that He acted differently in different circumstances.”
“Resplendent Beyond Reckoning” • Sherborne Missal (1399AD)
As the Isaac Jogues Missal would do 650 years later, this Missal provides pictures of the priest during the Canon!
Video Excerpt • “Fastest Organ Pedals I’ve Ever Seen!”
I’m jealous of anyone who can play the organ pedals so fast!
Josef Hofmann • “Pianist Par Excellence”
Anton Rubinstein, who hated child prodigies, called Josef Hofmann “the greatest musical genius the world has ever known.”