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
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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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Loved it! Listened more than once and chuckled all the way through! Very clever, indeed!
Very clever indeed, although I expect certain German cardinals may not be enthusiastic fans of the new librettist.
Certain German princes may also not be enthusiastic fans of immutable orthodoxy.
I have no idea who wrote it or made the recording –it's from a blog I'd never heard of.
One of its many admirable qualities is its call for repentance.
One of its faults is painting with too broad a brush. A German cardinal needn't be like this–and some are surely not.