Take 2 Voice Lessons and Call Me in the Morning
I watched in fascination as one of the tenors strained to reach notes obviously out of his range. I had never heard the chest voice *forced* so high in the male register.
“If we do not love those whom we see, how can we love God, Whom we do not see?” Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
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).
I watched in fascination as one of the tenors strained to reach notes obviously out of his range. I had never heard the chest voice *forced* so high in the male register.
Here we see the result of so much hard work, one of the great Cathedral Choirs of the world!
I can’t imagine my family playing such an intimate role in the ceremonies of Holy Week, but it surely made an awesome impression on the von Trapps.
if St. Augustine was right and “singing belongs to the one who loves,” then it behooves us to once again learn to love and thereby take up the Church’s eternal hymn of praise.
The Psalter, as Esolen notes, is the prayer book of the Church and the Psalms constitute the “foundational poems of Christian praise.”
Along the “via pulchritudinis” (the way of beauty) they will come to know Him Who is Beauty itself.
I told Cardinal Burke that is was a blessing for us to sing for the Mass and assured him of our prayers.
Beauty will return to the Sacred Liturgy when we once again turn our hearts to the Lord.
A misguided belief states that the quality of our liturgical music should be sacrificed on the altar of good intentions.
Children can and should be taught Gregorian chant by hearing and repeating—but this binds them to singing only what they have memorized.
I think we can slay the current and popular belief that by making the liturgy, and by extension liturgical music, “relevant” to people we will somehow bring them back to God.
Keep the flame of the true Christmas spirit burning brightly and carol to your heart’s content.
It’s hard to implement a program of truly sacred music, focused on the Lord, when so many of our Masses and other services are celebrated as if God were a side note…
Unfortunately we live in a society in which parents can no longer allow the culture to help form their children, and in most instances are forced to fight such an un-cultural leviathan.
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