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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Truly fantastic. Chant Café continues to be the only serious blog dedicated to Catholic music.
I think I saw an earlier post that said the 1955 volume is missing or not available for scanning or whatever. I just found it at the website of a wonderful used book store (hoffmansbookshop.com), and have ordered it…along with the volumes for 1956 and 1958, which is all he had. He gave me a very nice deal for all three (bound) volumes.
Jeffrey, I will be happy to make my copy available in order to make the whole set available from CMAA or this blog. I'm not sure when it will arrive – probably a week or so.