Pope Saint Paul VI (3 April 1969): “Although the text of the Roman Gradual—at least that which concerns the singing—has not been changed, the Entrance antiphons and Communions antiphons have been revised for Masses without singing.”
I also feel this is the reason that many church musicians in England don’t matriculate into doctoral programs—their choir schools imparted more than a doctoral program could ever give.
Telling the true story of Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, a Catholic priest who saved thousands of lives during WW2.
If you fail to carefully plan your rehearsal, you’ll be eaten alive. And rightfully so!
If you missed it, you can hear my iPhone recording on YouTube. But will it be quite the same?
Does plainsong work in English? It actually can!
This is a large file (172 MB), but trust me! You will love it.
If you enjoy juicy dissonances and hearing the sun dart in and out of the clouds, you’ll love this modern setting of an ancient text.
The Fulton J. Sheen Missal (1961) does something rather puzzling…
This liturgical controversy lasted for fifty years!
Don’t ask me how this booklet works … but it does.
“Once there were lost islands, but most of them have been found…”
Ronald Reagan stopped being governor of California in 1975; then Jerry Brown was elected. Bizarrely, Brown ended his final term in 2019.
A perfect canon is the hardest thing to compose—and this is one!
We seldom post YouTube videos, and hope our readers will pardon this exception…
What exactly is “the presence” ??
