Catholic liturgical music is serious, solemn, transcendent, but Catholic musicians are never more fun and inspiring than when they are talking about what they love most. This is what happens at sacred music events around the world: the social and intellectual are critically important elements. The musicians (and music enthusiasts) at the Chant Café, a project of the
Church Music Association of America, bring that sense of life and love to the digital world. As St. Augustine said, "Cantare amantis est."
Among the contributors:
Also past contributors:
Jeffrey Tucker, writer, editor, entrepreneur, musician |
archiveNick Gale (1975-2015), organist, choral director, for 13 years Master of the Music at the Cathedral of St. George in Southwark |
archiveBen, schola director and organ student |
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The music was so much better than we hear at most Papal Masses. Even the relatively simple Missa de Angelis had a remarkable energy and charm. To hear the organ come in for the congregational parts at the same pitch where the choir's a capella part left off–why can't it always be like this?
This looks pretty good…
I loved a lot of this! Thanks for posting! And my very dear mentor received the pallium, so that was wonderful to watch, as I couldn't make it.
On a critical note, I didn't hear the resp. psalm, but I read (and sung) it in the program and found it truly lame-o. Why treat the psalms this way when we have actual Gregorian propers??? Sigh.