Tone Quality and Your Singers
Ultimately it doesn’t matter if your choir resonates well and sings beautiful vowels but can’t communicate via the music…
Building Your Choir Vocally
If more choirmasters were honest with themselves, they would probably acknowledge that no more than 25 to 40 percent of their singers are actually leaders within their choirs.
Review • Fr. White’s Tools for Rebuilding
I’m edified by Fr. White’s work, but hope his regard for “church growth” doesn’t negate the Sacramental and supernatural nature of the Church.
Music in Catholic Schools
The Church possesses a tool of immense value.
Forward, Ever Forward!
One day, God willing, when He calls you into the New and Eternal Jerusalem, you will discover the eternal consequences of the offering of your widow’s mite.
What If…
Whether a Gothic cathedral in France, a rural Norman church in England or a Californian mission church, each one in its own way has the power to lift our eyes in contemplation of the New and Eternal Jerusalem.
Sound Does Matter!
In a sense, I understood every word. As a matter of fact, I was beaten over the head by every one of them.
Of the Father’s Love Begotten…
Some day I wouldn’t mind cooking up a good ol’ fashioned Christmas Ball, but ’til then have to content myself with adding a few pounds (or more than a few) in honor of our Lord’s birth.
7 Rules • “Your Family and Adventide”
Children need to see that everything takes second place to your relationship with Christ.
“Meet Me In St. Louis”
Jeff recently asked if directors take choir pictures and I can’t say I do—but thankfully others did.
Music and Evangelization
It’s an incredibly refreshing and dare I say beautiful movement within the Church today…
The Problem of Acedia
We rarely speak of greatness in the Church anymore for fear of driving people away, yet look at all of the men who responded to the call of the priesthood because of the example of Pope St. John Paul II.
A Silver Jubilee
Many things have changed over the last quarter of a century in the field of church music and thankfully most of them have been for the better.
Liturgical Education
Perhaps I am just a Benedictine at heart but I feel the *Opus Dei* (Work of God) must truly be given pride of place in our personal lives…
Forming the Next Generation of Church Musicians
Until we start forming our youth in the Church’s treasury of sacred music we will continue contracepting our musical future to death.