Recruiting and Auditioning Choristers
The audition itself is very straight forward and usually takes about 10 minutes, although I know within the first minute if I plan to accept the child into the choir.
Articles
Podcast on Sacred Music
An interview with the blog, “Seminarian Casual”
Ten “Ave Maria” Settings from Different Lands
Live recordings—music in honor of Our Lady of Fatima.
May Is Dedicated To Mary
“Prior to the singing of each hymn, a brief background of its history and significance in Catholic devotional life will be presented by Peter Meggison.”
Church Musicians are called to be Good Shepherds
Not only priests, church musicians are also called to be good shepherds after the example of Christ.
Musical Resources • 4th Sunday after Easter (1962)
“…He shall not speak of Himself; but what things soever He shall hear, He shall speak…”
Guerrero’s Gloria from “Missa Iste Sanctus”
Why Do We Produce Rehearsal Videos? And what made more than 600 people show up for Santa Barbara’s first Latin Mass in fifty years?
Fota X Conference (and other Summer Opportunities)
Summer 2017 looks to be a blockbuster period for sacred music activity.
Why the Pipe Organ?
Why is the pipe organ to be held in high esteem?
Fulton J. Sheen • World’s Most Progressive Bishop?
Sheen replied: “Mr. President, I’m not the least bit impressed with your source.”
Kids Are Colorblind But Adults Are Not
Adults with an agenda teach children their own biases.
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
If the Holy Mass really is the unbloody sacrifice of the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ, then the music we use will be radically affected.
Justice Antonin Scalia on Church Music
“I would go there Sunday morning and sing Palestrina, William Byrd, Mozart…this magnificent choral music.”
Masterful “Salve Regina” by 17th-Century Portuguese Composer
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.
Sing everyday! Regina Caeli!
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.