The Devil Gets in the Details
Just remember to laugh, thank the Good Lord and keep your coffee off of the piano!
Jesus said to them: “I have come into this world so that a sentence may fall upon it, that those who are blind should see, and those who see should become blind. If you were blind, you would not be guilty. It is because you protest, ‘We can see clearly,’ that you cannot be rid of your guilt.”
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).
Just remember to laugh, thank the Good Lord and keep your coffee off of the piano!
Your are invited to the MPHM Schola Cantorum’s Spring Concert!
I thought I would share some visioning ideas regarding music in the Ordinary Form parish.
I would like to share with you an incredible place where such a musician had a great vision, informed by the mind and heart of the Church.
No matter what anyone else thinks, strive for greatness and never look back!
We will never inspire a new generation of great Catholic musicians, so sorely needed at this time, if we don’t open their eyes to the “Lost Tools of Learning Music” and point them to the One to Whose praises we hope to sing for ever in the Heavenly Jerusalem.
I hope this might serve as a foundation for your future work with young singers in your parish.
Watch the debut of Colin Mawby’s “Ave Maria” in Rome.
The greatest gift was to be in Rome during the Holy Year of Mercy!
Mr. Mawby emailed me two weeks after sending the music, saying he’d already purchased his plane ticket and would see us in Rome!
“God has no grandchildren. Every generation must be a first generation follower of Christ.”
Here is the entire set of lesson plans I use for training our Probationers.
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