Live Recording • “Entrance Chant” (14th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B)
In the 1970s, some musicians felt that annihilating the Mass propers would lead to “freedom”—but the opposite was true.
“Is it not true that prohibiting or suspecting the extraordinary form can only be inspired by the demon who desires our suffocation and spiritual death?” —The Vatican’s chief liturgist from 2014-2021; interview with Edw. Pentin (23-Sep-2019)
In the 1970s, some musicians felt that annihilating the Mass propers would lead to “freedom”—but the opposite was true.
I’d love to hear you sing this!
What we do undeniably involves a type of “performance.”
At the end of the American Civil War, nearly 33% of all currency in circulation was counterfeit.
A simplified keyboard accompaniment for pianists struggling to be organists.
How close are Anglicans to Catholics, in terms of their religious practices?
This SATB setting by Father Francisco Guerrero is brief but magnificent.
Including a splendid harmonization of “Holy God, We Praise Thy Name.”
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I wouldn’t argue if somebody made the claim that Sebastian Bach was “the most musical person who ever lived.”
According to Monsignor Franz Stemmer, the famous hymn “Praise to the Lord” originally came from the 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘎𝘦𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘣𝘶𝘤𝘩 (1665).
Rachmaninoff never forgave Prokofiev for this, as anyone with a melancholic temperament will understand.
Being hired as organist or choirmaster for Catholic weddings can be stressful.
We must never let criticism by ‘haters’ bother us. We must strive to block them from our minds.
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