Tomorrow is "new music Sunday" at Church again. Ugh. And it's combined with a "Service of Remembrance" for 9/11. I hope, if I am ever killed tragically, people don't "honor" it with schmaltz
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We used to discuss this in http://www.gtng.org/ discussion groups once in a while. Sounds like "new music" means Dated Boomer 60s Hippie Music. Which, of course, means that this has less to do with attracting new folks than making the ageing boomers feel valued and young again.
To be honest there is very little "new music" that expresses Catholic truth. But "new music" is on this year's WOW Worship albums, not on the Easy Listening, "Adult Contemporary" radio station.
Yes - you're right! And even the new rector as (privately, of course) admitted to me that he's not expecting the new music to bring in any young folks. Young folks are looking for tradition and mystery and....
Stupid thing is ... I LOVE this music. But if Christ is who we say he is, and the Church is his Body and the Eucharist is his Flesh and Blood....can't we take it a little more seriously?
(Or, as I suspect, the majority of people who make these claims either (a) don't really believe them or (b) haven't thought out their logical conclusions or (c) are post-modernists to two contradictory positions are "no problem")
Edward Elgar's "Ave Verum Corpus." It's beautiful.
And John Tavener's "Funeral Ikos" (which I guess Grace, Utica did once after I left, thankyouverymuch....) But it is not musically too difficult (like other Tavener) peices, and quite appropriate for All Souls.
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To be honest there is very little "new music" that expresses Catholic truth. But "new music" is on this year's WOW Worship albums, not on the Easy Listening, "Adult Contemporary" radio station.
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Stupid thing is ... I LOVE this music. But if Christ is who we say he is, and the Church is his Body and the Eucharist is his Flesh and Blood....can't we take it a little more seriously?
(Or, as I suspect, the majority of people who make these claims either (a) don't really believe them or (b) haven't thought out their logical conclusions or (c) are post-modernists to two contradictory positions are "no problem")
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And John Tavener's "Funeral Ikos" (which I guess Grace, Utica did once after I left, thankyouverymuch....) But it is not musically too difficult (like other Tavener) peices, and quite appropriate for All Souls.
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