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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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