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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Holy cognitive dissonance, Batman!
It's a hoot! I just sent a faux email to priests/deacons/select music leadership as a motu proprio mandating that if they still use GUI, this is the version to be used per Sacrosanctum Concilium's locus principium! But I made sure to let them know the email was a parody like the video. I get the "strangely compelling" thing, but then you shiver and remember the theology underneath the Latin dressage, and I hear Ben Yanke going "Ewwwwwww." 😉