One Sure Way To Destroy Your Child’s Musical Potential
If you couldn’t sing, you wouldn’t be able to talk.
Pope Saint Paul VI (3 April 1969): “Although the text of the Roman Gradual—at least that which concerns the singing—has not been changed, the Entrance antiphons and Communions antiphons have been revised for Masses without singing.”
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 (with photographs).
If you couldn’t sing, you wouldn’t be able to talk.
A choir school can be an immense help toward our goal of establishing a liturgical choir worthy of its name.
Perhaps if we invested in better music in our parishes the Good New would be spread more effectively.
If I were to use English settings of the Propers of the Mass, this would be my go-to book!
Are you a priest, are you a music director? Perhaps God is calling YOU!
I would still love to see a choir of this quality in every major Catholic church in America.
The Schola Cantorum will join the Sistine Chapel Choir, along with a number of other children choirs, to sing for Pope Francis’ Mass on January 6.
I have personally reached the point where I am not willing to compromise on this issue with my choristers.
This fall, Most Pure Heart of Mary Catholic School in Kansas will become the third Catholic Choir School in the United States.
Oh, what would it be like to give my choristers a new motet and then lift my hands and go? Oh wait, we already do that.
This year one, a seminarian from our parish is being ordained. He requested that we sing the Propers for his first Mass.
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President’s Message (dated 30 May 2025)
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