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Song that defines the Easter season

Posted in Catholic Liturgy, Catholic Music Composer, Liturgical Music, Triduum - Easter, WLP on April 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Is there a certain song that defines your Easter season?  For about the last 12 years or so, my congregation has been singing In the Breaking of the Bread by Michael Ward (WLP) as our recessional song for the Easter vigil and Easter morning.  The words are based on Luke 24 and Acts 2.  [...]

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Triduum Memories 2008

Posted in Catholic Art, Catholic Liturgy, Catholic Music Composer, GIA, Liturgical Movement, Liturgical Music, Liturgical Season, Special Moments, Triduum - Easter on March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Holy Week has come and gone.  It’s been so long since I was part of the congregation (and not the choir director) that I almost feel like I want to take one Triduum off and just enjoy the Three Days without feeling the pressure of being there with the music—no, as I think more about [...]

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Schedule of Music for the 5th Sunday of Lent

Posted in Catholic Liturgy, Catholic Music Composer, GIA, Lenten Music, Liturgical Music, Liturgical Season, Service Music, Taize, WLP on March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’m always wondering what music other pastoral musicians are using for various seasons of the year. We are going into the fifth weekend of Lent and I am happy to say that I’ve had my choir practicing the music for Triduum for over a month. For me, that is a pretty big deal. [...]

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Journey for home

Posted in Catholic Liturgy, Catholic Music Composer, Instrumentation, Lenten Music, WLP on March 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I don’t believe I’ve written anything about World Library Publications (WLP) in my blog so here we go— 
WLP is certainly smaller than GIA or OCP but that doesn’t mean they don’t have excellent music and/or composers.  During the season of Lent, we are doing a song called Journey For Home by Ed Bolduc.  Ed [...]

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Starbucks music wisdom

Posted in Catholic Liturgy, Triduum - Easter on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Holy Thursday begins March 20th this year.  I read that this is the earliest date for the beginning of Triduum since 1885!  Being the forgetful person that I am, I’ve made it my goal this season to be way ahead of schedule so there is no last minute choir practice or any other choir director [...]

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Forcing a bilingual liturgy on a parish community

Posted in Bilingual Music, Catholic Liturgy, Catholic Music Composer, OCP, Triduum - Easter on February 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »

About a year ago, my parish started offering a mass in Spanish.  This was probably a good idea, as there are many Spanish speaking people in the surrounding area.  Our parish has been around since the mid sixties, so this is quite a change for our community.
As the choir director, I’ve been asked [...]

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Christ, Circle Round Us

Posted in Advent Music, OCP, Prayer, Special Moments on January 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

There is a song our choir does every year in the last two weeks of Advent called Christ, Circle Round Us, Come O Radiant Dawn. It is by Dan Schutte and is based on the Advent “O” Antiphons. I love how Mr. Schutte arranged the music—it is a beautiful but simple melody that [...]

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Quarterly Music Publisher Octavo Packets

Posted in GIA, OCP, Quarterly Octavo, Triduum - Easter, WLP on December 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »

A note about the lack of post in this blog: If you have visited this blog and have found that it looked abandoned since the first couple of entries, you are basically correct. I’ve been very busy caring for my son-in-law and keeping up with his blog, so please excuse my absence—things have calmed down [...]

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