tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7002745.post111430904378581008..comments2023-06-08T11:21:10.878-04:00Comments on EPISTLES FROM THE SCRIPTORIUM: MUSIC LIST - Mass of Thanksgiving for Pope Benedict XVIBrian Michael Pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09836644567939527991noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7002745.post-1114917009367395822005-04-30T23:10:00.000-04:002005-04-30T23:10:00.000-04:00This parish has been deprived of so much tradition...<I>This parish has been deprived of so much traditional music for so long.</I><BR/><BR/>We did start the Veni Creator at rehearsal last Tuesday. They would definitely need at least one more rehearsal on it.<BR/><BR/>My parish was the same way. My predecessor was there for 29 years. For the last 16 years, there was nothing but a Kurzweil keyboard there, with my predecessor's computer hooked up to it. The choir did all gospel and CCM styles, and got away with it until her final months. The current pastor, having only been there two years, had had enough, and asked her for more traditional, and more Latin. She soon gave her notice, left, and took 29 of her 30 voices with her. (Note: she left in August '04, I came on in October) The one remaining stayed on with me, and is doing very well. Otherwise, this choir, now about a dozen strong, is built entirely from scratch, as is the junior choir, about eight strong.<BR/>My pastor is only three years older than me (I'll be 41 in July). I find many of the younger priests actually getting the concept of liturgy in the TRUE spirit of Vatican II, the way Vatican II REALLY intended. Of course the ones in their 60's and 70's are still hooked on Glory and Puke.<BR/><BR/>Slow process at my parish, but I'm optimistic that it WILL get to the quality I really want in due time.<BR/><BR/>My former parish was the same way - deprived of quality traditional music for a long time. I was fired after a year of attempting to bring it back.<BR/><BR/>Pax<BR/>BMPBrian Michael Pagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09836644567939527991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7002745.post-1114915773935625282005-04-30T22:49:00.000-04:002005-04-30T22:49:00.000-04:00I'm proud to report that our choir, on no notice, ...I'm proud to report that our choir, on no notice, and not having sung it in five years so far as I know, (that's as long as I've lived here,) managed a very creditable chanted Veni Creator... on the Sunday BEFORE the election -- I'd read somewhere that it is the traditonal hymn invoking the Holy Spirit's efforts for a papal conclave.<BR/>This parish has been deprived of so much traditional music for so long. Now that I have become the director (was just a loud mouth "ringer" in the choir,) I am finding the most resisitance from the older (70ish) priest and the (musically illiterate) school liturgist.<BR/>Ah, well, plug on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com