Justice Antonin Scalia on Church Music
“I would go there Sunday morning and sing Palestrina, William Byrd, Mozart…this magnificent choral music.”
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.”
“I would go there Sunday morning and sing Palestrina, William Byrd, Mozart…this magnificent choral music.”
This is the sort of setting that could only have derived from faith and grown out of the experience of praying these words repeatedly and fervently.
Singing isn’t just a Sunday thing – if you want to sing well, then it’s good to sing everyday! Bring this ancient antiphon into your life and see how it goes.
The older I get, the more I spend on these. If not, what good am I to the prayer of the people?
Register before August 20 to participate in the 2nd Macau International Choir Festival
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.
There’s something remarkable about instances where the people involved don’t realize a recording is being made.
“Receive ye the Holy Ghost; whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them, and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained.”
The Dedication of a Church is a rare event in anyone’s lifetime.
When I first attended the Traditional Mass, I hated it.
Here we see the result of so much hard work, one of the great Cathedral Choirs of the world!
Alec Harris (President of GIA Publications) “can’t overestimate the profound impact” that David Haas had on “everyone at GIA Publications.”
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