I’ve loved this Mass by Palestrina so much and for so long, but it’s been years since I last heard it. Check out this fantastic performance by Schola Cantorum Franciscana, Paul Weber, director. Live performance, Sunday, April 29th, 2012, St. Elizabeth …
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A fantastic performance by the choristers of St. Stephen the First Martyr Parish of Sacramento, California, USA, under the direction of Jeffrey Morse. The Mass ordinary is Victoria’s MISSA AVE MARIS STELLA and the offertory is Parson’s AVE MARIA (5 par…
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I’m thrill to wake today to three absolutely wonderful promotions of the Sacred Music Colloquium, June 25-July 1, Salt Lake City.
Fr. Z offers an excellent write up, and, truth is that Fr. Z. was trained to chant under the best of the best. Whenever …
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Athleta Patriae – A Tribute to Professor Laszlo Dobszay (1935-2011)
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How far do you have to go to hear beautiful, stunning polyphonic music of Catholic tradition? Certainly you can find it in New York. Or Chicago. Or San Francisco and Washington, D.C. It turns out, however, that If you live anywhere near South Euclid…
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The Simple English Propers for Holy Thursday, Easter Vigil, and Easter Sunday.
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Readers will love this fascinating interview in Crisis Magazine with Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev, and also this moving clip from his own St. Matthew Passion:
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There are some wonderful gems in Richard Rice’s Simple Choral Gradual. His Holy Week material is so creative, so liturgical, and sticks exactly to the proper texts. I’ve long believed that this work is unjustly neglected. There is still time to get a s…
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It is a bit intimidating to hear the masters sing the chant you know so well and have sung many times.
Yikes, this is amazing.
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I never imagined that I would find a Catholic parish where the pastor actually discourages the people from singing. But here we have it happening at a parish that offer the extraordinary form exclusive. It strikes as almost as a caricature of tradition…
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I find it extremely encouraging that the Office of Divine Worship is answering questions about music and the propers of the Mass. The questioner in this case is not correct in assuming that the practice of singing both a hymn and the proper chant is wr…
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This year we will experience a new Exultet Easter Proclamation. The words are much better, much clearer, less abbreviated, closer to the Latin. As part of this, I want to draw your attention to a new book published by the Liturgical Press. It is ca…
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Pre-Lent – Ash Wednesday: Introit from Corpus Christi Watershed on Vimeo.
11th Sunday after Pentecost: Offertory from Corpus Christi Watershed on Vimeo.
Pre-Lent – Ash Wednesday: Communio from Corpus Christi Watershed on Vimeo.
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Simple English Propers, which are being used in so many seminaries now that I can no longer keep up.
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Congratulations to everyone involved, and specially Jennifer Donnelson who organized the conference. The Mass actually begins only after 70 minutes. The Mass ordinary is by Zachary Wadsworth (bio), and it seems to be a very challenging work of contempo…
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Two out of three of the emails I receive about sacred music I refer to the MusicaSacra forum. This forum works in real time to answer questions about urgent issues that arise week to week, but also operates as a massive archive of many hundreds of issu…
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