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by nazard
Mon Oct 29, 2012 10:24 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: High esteem for the pipe organ?
Replies: 220
Views: 86235

Re: High esteem for the pipe organ?

...Later, at any poorly financed suburban parish, there’s the possibility of wincing through “They’ll Know We Are Christians by Our Love” on the organ, even though the iconic tune was written in the late ’60s for acoustic guitar... Is there any other possible response to that piece of banality no m...
by nazard
Wed Oct 24, 2012 10:37 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Comparison of Catholic Hymnals / one-page
Replies: 35
Views: 15536

Re: Comparison of Catholic Hymnals / one-page

...I myself would still like to see an approved core repertoire in all our hymnals. This could rapidly turn tragic. It would mean agreeing a set of words for each hymn, which would lead us down the thee/you, male or female/gender neutral, full english vocabulary/ english for Sun readers arguments. ...
by nazard
Mon Oct 15, 2012 4:51 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Greener grass?
Replies: 32
Views: 23935

Re: Greener grass?

Now is the time of year when many of us have a break from our parish music and/or liturgy duties and take the opportunity to discover how other folk do it (assuming they're not taking a break too). Have any of us made any interesting discoveries elsewhere? Post your Mystery Worshipper stories here....
by nazard
Thu Aug 16, 2012 12:41 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: What is the point of the Roman Catholic Church (2)
Replies: 13
Views: 4784

Re: What is the point of the Roman Catholic Church (2)

Do you have any evidence that people actually worship the altar rails, or any other fixtures and fittings?
by nazard
Tue Aug 14, 2012 12:47 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: The wickedness of face cream
Replies: 150
Views: 373716

Re: The wickedness of face cream

It sounds like they have been taken to the cleaners'.
by nazard
Mon Jul 23, 2012 6:46 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: High esteem for the pipe organ?
Replies: 220
Views: 86235

Re: More from Mgr Wadsworth

...my secular church choir... A fascinating idea. Is it the choir which is secular or the church? ...the sound that I often perceive as pompous, exclusionary and difficult to sing to. If this impairment were unique to me, then it would behove me to shut up and put up. But the evidence suggests I'm ...
by nazard
Sun Jul 15, 2012 2:44 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Call for reexamination of ICEL translation
Replies: 3
Views: 1919

Re: Call for reexamination of ICEL translation

Are you sure they don't want it changed to:

"Glory to God in highs, and in earth peace to humans good will's..."
by nazard
Thu Jul 12, 2012 12:10 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Year of Faith Hymn
Replies: 21
Views: 11342

Re: Year of Faith Hymn

It reminds me of this:

Tom Lehrer

And now I'm just off for the Afternoon of Grocery Shopping.
by nazard
Tue Jul 10, 2012 11:28 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: More from Mgr Wadsworth
Replies: 61
Views: 56586

Re: More from Mgr Wadsworth

...I suggest we all go back to first principles and read paragraphs one to four of Sacrosanctum Concilium. Those very paragraphs may well be the very heart of the problem. Although they look very fine and dandy, they are deficient in any precision which you would expect in an outline contract speci...
by nazard
Tue Jul 10, 2012 1:20 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: More from Mgr Wadsworth
Replies: 61
Views: 56586

Re: More from Mgr Wadsworth

Of course, it might just set them thinking, and thought, unpopular though it is, is an activity.
by nazard
Tue Jul 10, 2012 7:19 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: More from Mgr Wadsworth
Replies: 61
Views: 56586

Re: More from Mgr Wadsworth

... 120. In the Latin Church the pipe organ is to be held in high esteem, for it is the traditional musical instrument which adds a wonderful splendor to the Church's ceremonies and powerfully lifts up man's mind to God and to higher things. ... Be careful with that quote. Although it is in every c...
by nazard
Tue Jul 10, 2012 7:13 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: More from Mgr Wadsworth
Replies: 61
Views: 56586

Re: More from Mgr Wadsworth

Interesting that the accounts have an item for "organ refurbishment" even though there is nothing against it for either year. Even more interesting is that there is no entry for organ tuning and maintenance. They do spend more on the choir than our parish's income. I shall have to try to h...
by nazard
Sat Jul 07, 2012 9:01 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Psalm Response 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)
Replies: 6
Views: 6546

Re: Psalm Response 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)

...Let's hope the translators combine accuracy and poetry in a way that seems to have been beyond the inclination or ability of their recent predecessors. Still - it ill becomes Catholic musicians to criticise their technical ability, artistic sensibility or liturgical fidelity. I beg to differ. Su...
by nazard
Fri Jun 29, 2012 9:11 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Tunes congregations always get wrong
Replies: 27
Views: 16376

Re: Tunes congregations always get wrong

A few weeks back I heard the organist of Zagreb cathedral solve that one. He played the Celtic Alleluia in organo plano far slower than I have ever heard it before on their gert big Walcker. If anyone got it wrong, I for one, did not hear them. The effect was not musical, but it did get onto the Ric...
by nazard
Thu Jun 21, 2012 3:31 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Multi culturalism
Replies: 30
Views: 13124

Re: Multi culturalism

To go back to my point, I thought that chant and polyphony were now being put forward as the model and exemplar of music for the liturgy. If that isn't a mono-culture, I don't know what is. I believe that chant and polyphony have been put forward as the model and exemplar for some hundreds of years...