tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-203221072012-01-21T11:23:59.352-08:00Optima Musica Dei DonumA hopefully reasonable, literate and charitable place for Catholic musicians and others involved in the Church's liturgical practices to exchange and share personal perspectives of liturgical philosophy, law, and performance. And the occasional left turn might pop up in the headlights.Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.comBlogger1441100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-2789531255608593802012-01-07T12:33:00.000-08:002012-01-08T05:15:35.721-08:00Pray, tell….
I haven’t the foggiest recollection when I first heard that lovely invocation. Was it in high school somewhere in the three years of drama classes? Earlier in a required novel in Jr.High? Doesn’t matter, really. It struck me as so quaint, so colloquial (words I understood as a young boy), this “pray, tell…” It encapsulated a feeling that could also blossom into other words like “Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-5374709428253947212011-12-25T20:21:00.000-08:002011-12-26T07:35:32.114-08:00Beyond a "Good Cause"
There are benefits to living now.
Well, wasn't that cryptic as all get out? Thems that know me as the arduous skeptic optimist existentialist wastrel that I be are going "O dooty, he's on a rant again."
Not this time. By "now" I mean in this era of immediacy, particularly the bane of some and the very manna of many, that which is called "The social network." I mean, I've Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-36632908263817134992011-12-22T10:10:00.000-08:002011-12-22T10:10:45.665-08:00The Eleventh Hour?
In my four decades of directing music within the Church I've found that most thriving and viable music "ministries" offer some sort of pre-Midnight Mass performance. The most common is the devotional format of the service of Nine Lessons and Carols, modeled after the classic English order fashioned circa 1880. However, any number of variations on that service, or a simple Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-3356619054384274972011-12-20T10:31:00.000-08:002011-12-20T14:45:06.645-08:00LA MORTE TI FA BELLA FINALE
As someone who inexplicably indulges and traffics in the acquisition of all things trivial, I had some sort of synapse short circuit that prompted me to somehow typify how I now regard an extremely popular denizen of liturgical pedants via the medium of film scenes that are memorable to me. Eureka! I think I found it. This scene is from the Robert Zemekis movie "Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-67216232671056417762011-11-08T07:37:00.000-08:002011-11-08T07:37:43.356-08:00You Want Fear and Loathing?
I'll give ya Fear and Loathing!*
I'm not big on the "Where's the Anti-Christ" hoopla that occasionally pops up within the 24 hour news cycle. America's attention span, compromised as it is, often fails to notice some patterns that indicate lots of stuff seems to have gone awry. Anyone notice lately how much airtime Bill Clinton's getting lately? Frankly I'm surprised Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-83029391824205915622011-06-30T11:39:00.000-07:002011-06-30T11:39:39.491-07:00Order of Music-July 3, 2011Saint Mary’s Parish, Visalia, California
14th Sunday, OrdinaryTime
Introit: S “Within Your Temple…”Simple Choral Gradual/R.Rice
Entrance: SE #480 I HEARD THE VOICE OF JESUS 239 (Kingsfold) cp
Opening Rites: S Kyrie-plainsong/Oecumenica-Culbreth
E Kyrie(Sleeth)/Dancing Day Gloria-Ford
Responsorial: SE Respond & Acclaim
Gospel Accl.: S plainsong “Alleluia”Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-57099200640362772702011-06-29T08:40:00.000-07:002011-06-29T08:40:22.699-07:00
I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING...
"I Know Where I'm Going" is the title of a Scots love ballad that has a lass pining for the company of her true love Johnny. A lovely little film was spun from it in 1945, where the lass becomes an English woman who becomes stranded upon an island among the Hebrides, and is challenged in her resolve to marry her betrothed by an attraction to another heroic character. Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-90864592002247234752011-06-27T06:48:00.000-07:002011-06-27T06:48:49.914-07:00Order of Music-June 26, 2011
Saint Mary’s Parish, Visalia, California
Corpus Christi Sunday, OrdinaryTime
Introit: S “The Lord fed His people with finest wheat…”Simple Choral Gradual/R.Rice
Entrance: S #311 GATHER US TOGETHER 166 (Alstott) cp
E #312 HERE AT THIS TABLE 210
Opening Rites: S Kyrie-plainsong/Oecumenica-Culbreth
E Kyrie(Sleeth)/Dancing Day Gloria-Paul Ford/arr. Culbreth
Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-71275023581260640832011-06-25T13:36:00.000-07:002011-06-26T12:51:54.778-07:00"Why Can't We All Just Get Along....but to My WAY?!?"
Consider the lilies, the swallows…not even Solomon in all his glory was so adorned. (No quotes, just paraphrasing as I recall His words.) The flip side, my words: Look at the images of the birds on this blog’s masthead. How many are still flying I wonder? Most of the images of the saints and sinners that adorn blogs have arrived to their Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-60451165801674341992011-05-31T18:44:00.000-07:002011-05-31T19:01:22.044-07:00What is Liturgical Music For?
This is the whole text of a response in the comments box at Pray Tell prompted by an axiom posited by a fellow commentator, Tom Poelker:
“That is to say that it is God nourishing God’s people more than it is the people doing anything for God. Mass is much more about us being receptive to God nourishing us than us bringing our best to God.”
I’m thinking that Tom Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-23808062878676700702011-05-21T08:52:00.000-07:002011-05-21T08:52:36.172-07:00
Pastor I. Harold Dispensationalism, M.Div., U.L.C. Modesto, CA
Contemplating the
The Raptor!
(What? May 21, ought eleven isn't about a dinosaur apocalypse? Nevermind.)
Celebrating "Reverend" Camping's Eschaton Day, I humbly offer this wonderful video I stumbled upon as my testament and His holy Will:
Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-73727291982860322062011-05-19T12:58:00.000-07:002011-05-19T12:58:35.776-07:00Amadeus Visits Visalia, soli Deo gloria!
The link below will take you to the Chant Cafe Blog where I contribute. And the "Amadeus" article will link you to all the movements of our May 5th performance of Mozart's REQUIEM.
My deepest thanks to Diane Townsend and Limuel Forgey for documenting this once in a lifetime experience for us.
http://www.chantcafe.com/2011/05/amadeus-visits-visalia-sdg.htmlCharles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-89510214108464222412011-05-10T12:33:00.000-07:002011-05-10T12:34:44.666-07:00REQUIEM
I know as much about "blogging" about having just conducted the Mozart setting of the REQUIEM as I do about resting after having just conducting the Mozart setting of the REQUIEM. Next to nothing. I sort of wish it was absolutely "nothing."
The first thing I realized: no questions concerning the experience naturally rose up within me last Thursday, and still to this moment. Was "it" a Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-59723563710763562012011-04-12T13:12:00.000-07:002011-04-12T14:34:27.775-07:00This is My Body
Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-28154609273634342342011-04-09T12:00:00.000-07:002011-04-09T12:00:42.752-07:00Lent...By the Streams of Babylon
Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-66268634565284332982011-04-01T22:23:00.000-07:002011-04-01T22:23:59.105-07:00In paradisum....and beyond
About a week ago I received a call from a woman in San Jose. She said she and her siblings were graduates of our parochial school and their mother was active in support roles back in the day. The daughter said her mother was failing in hospice care and she had expressed on prior occasions that, if at all possible, could students from the school contribute musically to Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-659564112888529992011-03-28T08:48:00.000-07:002011-03-28T08:48:57.653-07:00Of Quakes, Tsunamis and Translations...
We'll see
There are aspects of this video reflection of Fr. Barron (wordonfire.com) about the disasters in Japan that are at once, well-grounded and problematic. But isn't that to be expected when all we're provided is our intellect, imagination and the history/revelation we value as scripture?
Concerning a liturgical correlation of this video narrative, Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-30751714503232179472011-03-21T10:55:00.000-07:002011-03-21T10:55:06.330-07:00WHO'S BEEN WORKIN' ON THE RAILROAD?
The Liturgical Marketplace
The summer before my first colloquium Wendy and I decided to visit relatives in North Carolina. We thought it would be quaint to take Amtrak cross-country via the southern route out of Los Angeles. We pony’d up first class. But we didn’t do our research and prep; Southern Pacific owns the single track from LA through NOLA to Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-37579421721085217832011-03-16T12:34:00.000-07:002011-03-16T12:34:30.979-07:00AVE VERUM CORPUS by Charles Culbrethperformed byCross Seventh StationSt. Mary's, Visalia CACharles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-9836394030031357642011-03-16T07:55:00.000-07:002011-03-16T07:58:30.321-07:00Curmudgeonry: We have met them, And we are them!One has to admire curmudgeons. Whether they're the truly crusty ones as exemplified by Walter Brennan as "The Real McCoy," or the blustery windbags like Archie Bunker. You can easily fall in love with them. Who didn't love Art Carney as Harry making his elephant walk journey with cat Tonto in tow? Then comes....Horace Rumpole, or for that matter, Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-30539890401300316632011-03-14T15:40:00.000-07:002011-03-14T15:40:29.404-07:00In honor of our patroness, Mother of the World, Mother of God Mediatrix,
Theotokos.
AVE MARIA by Tomas Luis de Victoria
as performed by the College of Sequoias Concert Choir
Jeffrey Seaward, Director
March 1, 2011
St. Mary's Church, Visalia, California
Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-29591757531295037052011-03-11T18:44:00.000-08:002011-03-11T18:44:43.896-08:00ANIMA CHRISTI Premiere Performance
I composed this setting of the 14th century devotional prayer during
the summer of 2007. My dear friend, Professor Jeffrey Seaward of the
College of Sequoias here in Visalia, offered to take my manuscript and
realize it on March 1st of this year in our parish of St. Mary's. This is a
version inwhich only 8 of the 12 prayer petitions are set. I've had some
Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-67019655564639944742011-03-07T12:25:00.001-08:002011-03-07T12:25:32.581-08:00Best Cat Video, Ever!
Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-20136981636202770252011-02-25T23:07:00.000-08:002011-02-25T23:07:58.386-08:00Only Christ Could Truly Have Loved Us on Wall Street.
This is a post that comes from Left Field. But this isn't the Left Field of Dreams, which for me was an honor if you were chosen to occupy that sacred space beyond the diamond of the infield. This is the left field as in "Elvis has LEFT the building." But in this case, it ain't Elvis; his demise was handled, far away from the terror of the Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-29146422572116771892011-02-03T19:06:00.000-08:002011-02-03T19:08:29.115-08:00Two New Terms in My Liturgical Lexicon
The very mention of “my” and “lexicon” generally strikes fear and loathing among my friends and fellowes here in St. Blogs. Why, within a couple of days, one of two dearest of my singing sisters in chant implied that my posts are rife with “hyperbole," (she’s correct, of course!) whilst the other worried that one of my posts at Musica Sacra was so “pithy” Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-73256824346668567012011-01-19T18:58:00.000-08:002011-01-19T18:58:18.157-08:00A Hauntingly Beautiful, Singable GLORY TO GOD
by Jeffrey Mark Ostrowski of Corpus Christi Watershed
and Chabanel Psalm Renown.
Gloria in honor of Blessed Ralph Sherwin (†1581) from Corpus Christi Watershed on Vimeo.
Mr. Ostrowski seems to possess an innate sense of how graceful motion and forward movement of a chanted melody can be beautifully mirrored in his sparing harmonic assignments, Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-1391190989970087302011-01-12T12:44:00.000-08:002011-01-12T14:14:00.945-08:00
May choirs of angels lead you into paradise….
“Auntie Em, it’s a twister, it’s a twister!”
Yes, Dorothy, and there will come more, and more, and more after that.
At my friend Todd’s site, Catholic Sensibility, he’s engaged a couple of articles echoing a great deal of rhetoric concerning causality for the “Tragedy in Tucson.” I’m not going there, here.
“Chorus angelorum te suscipiat, et cum Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-10726349543252660272011-01-12T11:39:00.000-08:002011-01-12T11:39:45.362-08:00The following is an article written by my wife, Wendy.Today marks the celebration of our 37th wedding anniversary, I would like to take a moment to encourage all of us who assist the Faithful with their musical worship to also celebrate and honor our spouses and partners in life who generally do the "both/and" tasks of supporting us with our domestic and family concerns as well as often directlyCharles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-67668296377592860702010-12-05T14:57:00.000-08:002010-12-05T15:47:20.670-08:00BISHOP JOHN T. STEINBOCK, RIP
Local Television Report and Obituary
click link above
Bishop John Steinbock, leader of the Diocese of Fresno, died this morning at 3:15 a.m. at St. Agnes Medical Center in Fresno surrounded by family and friends, said Msg. Ray Dreiling at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Visalia. Steinbock was diagnosed in August with Stage 3 lung cancer.
"He went very fast," Dreilng Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-51094224361767214262010-11-23T17:18:00.000-08:002010-11-24T07:54:24.338-08:00 Interesting week thus far in St. Blogs-
While being corrected and rebuffed (or “re-Ruffed©,” which I will copyright!) for the umpteenth time at PrayTell, the good (I mean that) monk referred me to a rejoinder earlier in the combox in which he ‘splained his admonition towards those who can’t keep their respective liturgical and gospel values in proportion:
“And for those traditionalists who are Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-81744545021281761822010-11-18T23:34:00.000-08:002010-11-18T23:34:02.690-08:00What you need to master...
if you want to chant or sing
PROPERLY.
Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-43105804407213802722010-11-17T23:31:00.000-08:002010-11-17T23:32:53.572-08:00O Quam Gloriosum-
Tomas Luis de Victoria
Dear Schola Members,
Now and then we can thank God for "modernity" when it serves beauty from of antiquity!
Enjoy and learn....
Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-55865926342027270082010-11-16T22:52:00.000-08:002010-11-16T22:52:57.074-08:00Happy News
Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-82338831066782243392010-11-16T13:40:00.000-08:002010-11-16T13:40:27.977-08:00Over at the Musica Sacra Forum, I alluded to the LA Guitar Quartet's virtuosity. I've also shared there the encounter I had one summer workshop with Paul Salamunovich, where I gave him a CD containing the following version of his protege, Morton Lauridsen's famous "Dirait on" from Rilke's Flower Poems. Here is a YouTube performance that has the LAGQ version with some shadow imaging.
I would like Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-83052414421347635322010-11-14T19:46:00.000-08:002010-11-21T17:01:19.406-08:00UPDATE ON BSP. STEINBOCKNovember 21, 2010From our pastor, as well as some published news sources:Bishop John's blood clotting issues have both presented in his legs, but more urgently in his lungs. By what was said, I infer he is not intibated, but is receiving oxygen constantly in the ICU via mask delivery. He cannot receive any visitations, apparently even from our Vicar General. I realize thatCharles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-8990944391467545652010-11-12T16:06:00.000-08:002010-11-12T16:06:46.100-08:00How Do You Solve a Problem Named "Marty?"
This is in response to a new poster over at the Musica Sacra Forum who's taken a DM position and is definitely a Reform of the Reform kind of director, as is his pastor that recently hired him. He has a a program that includes a small, but proficient traditional choir, cantors and.....
However, there is a small group in the choir that forms an "Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-67223002207678471122010-10-18T16:02:00.000-07:002010-10-18T16:07:15.756-07:00
A FATHER DADE CHRISTMAS CONCERT
With full disclosure, our Advent/Christmas Annual Concert title is a misnomer, though it’s meant as a quaint and humble homage to our founder. Though it’s hard to imagine, Christmas music, carols especially, have proven not to be the centerpiece of sacred seasonal concerts of a hundred-years yore.
We have endeavored to reconstruct a facsimile of “American” Roman Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-55338746151218436242010-09-04T13:01:00.000-07:002010-11-22T09:37:18.293-08:00Stephen Hawking, Dies Irae and
Lux Aeterna
A Disordered Universe
What do you, me, Stephen Hawking and Christopher Hitchens have in common with every other sentient biological being on this or other planets? We all know not for whom the bell tolls at any given moment, and that at one singular moment that bell will toll for our mortal lives.
What of the differences between Professor Hawking and Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-27644461408417994692010-08-05T10:12:00.000-07:002010-08-05T10:15:44.989-07:00In the solemn recreation of the ancient traditions and rites of the Hebrew Passover, the Christian Church integrates the chronicle of God’s creation of the universe, time, our earth and, of course, His people and the Covenants He established with us, and the progress of salvation history in much the same manner as the ancient Jews marked time during Passover while in exile, namely the re-telling Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-74302083024025154962010-07-09T08:50:00.000-07:002010-07-09T08:51:13.093-07:00What I’ve found ironic and interesting is that both here and on the MS Forum we’ve engaged in a fair amount of chatter about……what? Chant? Polyphony? Orchestral Masses? Nope, the ironic part is that due to the “FIRST THINGS” Casey Kasem Top Ten article, we’ve bandied about a large amount of discussion about so-called “Contemporary Worship Music.” As regards that specific article, I’ve said my Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-20544691231367750982010-06-18T18:55:00.000-07:002010-06-18T18:58:49.565-07:00Do You Want a Moonroof and Satellite FM With That Hymnal?More pragmatist than philosopher, I let an itinerant thought take root in m’ noodle and according to one’s POV, this thought is ovulating or metastasizing. It’s likely that a vast majority of parishes either make the one time investment in a hardbound hymnal, or they subscribe to seasonal and yearly newsprint hymnal/missal products. The Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-40683468219109086402010-06-18T11:39:00.000-07:002010-06-18T11:45:11.200-07:00Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-6704612250945552872010-06-15T12:36:00.000-07:002010-06-15T12:51:57.548-07:00THAT'S IMPROPER BEHAVIOR, 'CAUSE WE CAN'T SING THAT!As Wendy and I are preparing to adjourn from our jobs and attend this year's CMAA Colloquium on Sacred Music in Pittsburgh next week, I've been meeting with some of my musical associates who will assume "leadership" roles for the next two Sundays. In casual conversation with one of our cantors/accompanists, it was mentioned that my associate hadCharles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-81211930816439857362010-06-13T21:22:00.000-07:002010-06-13T22:05:39.183-07:00 H/T 2 Fr.ZAs if nothing else matters...Jesus was just riffing when he upbraided Simon the Pharisee and his guests for failing to properly receive and recognize Him, and then contrasted their non-chalance with the antics of a "working girl" who crashed the shindig, maybe in a last ditch effort, to invest the last shred of any personal dignity, her desperate tears and whatever treasure she Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-48513644748663524722010-06-12T22:42:00.000-07:002010-06-13T19:35:51.625-07:00 Order of Music Saint Mary's Parish June 13, 2010 11th Sunday, Ordinary TimeIntroit Antiphon: S "Consider, O Lord, and hear me…." Anglican Use GradualEntrance: SE #551 STAND BY ME 500 (Kendzia) Opening Rites: S Misa Oecumenica Kyrie /Gloria(Proulx) E Kyrie (Sleeth Mass)/Dancing Day Gloria (P.Ford) Responsorial: SE Respond & Acclaim Gospel Accl.: S Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-42168529910349333372010-06-10T09:22:00.000-07:002010-06-10T10:20:12.719-07:00What can I do? What should I do? What will I do?This last week Jeffrey Tucker posted a thread a the Musica Sacra Forum concerning an organization founded by a Jesuit priest some decades ago that offers parishes their evaluation and revitalization services. This post is not about that.In the discussions that followed one of our colleagues typified what, only out of convenience and not literally, Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-20967238831213561112010-06-05T09:25:00.000-07:002010-06-05T10:14:29.655-07:00Spoiler Alert!I've borrowed this image from THE CRESCAT, Lord knows where Kat found it.If you're at all familiar with that blog, Kat's gestalt stands alone in the universe. She'll populate her DennisMiller-esque rants with the gamut of artistic expressions-from the sublime to the....well.One can easily imagine what commentary now crowds the combox of her post unveiling this image: LDS this, LSD Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-88589938710314000892010-06-05T08:49:00.000-07:002010-06-05T09:06:26.607-07:00Saint Mary’s ParishOrder of Music-June 6, 2010The Most Holy Body and Blood/Corpus ChristiThe first number references the Breaking Bread hymnal; the next number is the accompaniment page; the last number references the Choral Praise hymnal.Introit Antiphon:S “The Lord fed His people…” Simple Choral Gradual/Richard RiceEntrance: S #315 WE GATHER HERE TO WORSHIP 923 (Joncas) new E #307 Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-72047434299897874462010-06-03T18:38:00.000-07:002010-06-03T18:44:01.646-07:00I normally don't do this sort of thing, but the Roc had this photograph posted at Whispers today:Says It All!Simply one of the most beautiful and reverent representation of our Cathoic faith I've ever encountered. That's all. Don't need a backstory. Don't need to know much 'bout biology, What I do know is that I love you....and if you love me too? Christianity!Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-16625237210825896982010-06-01T14:45:00.000-07:002010-06-01T18:58:53.791-07:00WERE IT SO.....A CMAA friend and colleague posted this question at the Musica Sacra Forum:Let's just imagine a bishop is looking for ideas as to how to get the people of his diocese interested in Gregorian chant. He has one, maybe two very busy musicians working for him directly. Though amenable to such a broad project, it is unlikely that they'd be able to add any more to their workload.This Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-81751121270624270912010-05-11T18:24:00.000-07:002010-05-11T18:30:38.965-07:00Hey, She's at least not Solicitor General Kagan!Short of ordaining HELEN MIRREN or FRANCESCA ANNIS as a prelate, the C of E could have done a lot worse on the PR front. Of course, I'm a sucker for women with nice smiles and glasses.Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-2405920524096296252010-05-11T14:56:00.000-07:002010-05-15T18:13:10.549-07:00Well done, good and faithful servant. He reminded me of Fr. Solanus Casey. It seemed everytime I saw George Cooke he was entering the church side door as I was leaving from the prior Mass; memory says he, therefore, was always surrounded in light when we encountered each other. His smile would put those of the Cheshire Cat, Sarah Palin and Louie Armstrong in hiding.George, I've heard, left the Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-5470654791638109962010-05-02T14:48:00.000-07:002010-05-02T15:46:48.495-07:00What Does This Image Mean to You?First Impression.....Sweetly benign, set apart? Its wearer called beyond the banalities of the world? Its wearer sacramentally mandated to be both and at once the human presence of Christ's authority and His (and God's) "mandatum" to be a servant to God's disciples and faithful, putting at odds every man's longing for humility and his need to dominate? Is there a Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-56264713873029699952010-03-01T22:33:00.000-08:002010-03-01T23:16:15.609-08:00av·a·tar /ˈævəˌtɑr, ˌævəˈtɑr/ –noun1.Hindu Mythology. the descent of a deity to the earth in an incarnate form or some manifest shape; the incarnation of a god. 2.an embodiment or personification, as of a principle, attitude, or view of life. 3.Computers. a graphical image that represents a person, as on the Internet. (courtesy "Dictionary.comAs a soul, I suppose the film pantocrator wouldn't Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-9083575419141359542010-02-15T21:06:00.000-08:002010-02-16T08:26:59.929-08:00They’ ll know we are Christians by ourDEMILITARIZED ZONES?I’ve glanced, just glanced, over a recent article posted by the eminent chant scholar and director Edward Schaefer, DMus., at PRAY TELL. I really must take it in thoroughly, with due attention, as his testament is as valuable to a liturgical practitioner as Fr. Ruff’s tome is to a historian and philosopher.What of it that seized my Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-38746003477596561802010-02-13T18:34:00.000-08:002010-02-15T22:46:17.519-08:00Whatsoever You Do:Don't "bookend" viewings of A SERIOUS MAN and THE HURT LOCKER back to back in any proximity. In an increasingly shorter span of time I have gone from having to deliberate the existential implications of sociopaths Anton Shigur and Daniel Plainview to the all-too-imminent chaos theory portrayed by the random, achingly meaningless, inconsequential and unfathomable "stories" of Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-15718925701398386112009-12-02T15:01:00.000-08:002009-12-02T15:28:22.004-08:00Transgressions.It is beyond my comprehension why so many of us, while traversing the highway of our lives on this earth in these, our eternal souls, cannot resist the billboards lining the way enticing us to exit to see the reptile farm, the cadillac ranch, the house-sized ball of yarn, the Winchester Mystery House, any garish freak show coming up on the next exit.So, we cannot look at the Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-90965476761180245412009-11-16T18:26:00.000-08:002009-11-16T18:39:59.946-08:00From Fr. Anthony de Mello, SJ-"The Heart of the Enlightened""A former inmate of a Nazi concentration camp was visiting a friend who had shared an ordeal with him.'Have you forgiven the Nazis' he asked his friend.'Yes.''Well, I haven't. I'm still consumed with hatred for them.''In that case,' said his friend gently, 'they still have you in prison.'"...(our enemies are not those who hate us but Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-6026293475393035982009-11-14T19:55:00.000-08:002009-11-14T20:34:11.589-08:00"We will not negotiate with terrorists"This quote is so ubiquitous that to ascribe an original source is not worth the time to research, in my opinion. But it has been so oft misappropriated and uttered by blustery pols and demigogues that it is cliche in Hollywood scripts.Try thinking about the quote if it were uttered by St. Francis of Assissi. What if by living the prayer we realized the truthCharles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-39854841882984238112009-11-09T08:41:00.000-08:002009-11-09T09:00:02.729-08:00I did not come to bury OCP...After the last post, it occured to me that I might be counted among those that are fully encamped in the "OCP is THE LITURGICAL/INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX" wing of musical directors. That's not the case.So, in a possibly insufficient, but earnest effort at "restorative justice" I'd like to mention that in the same issue of TODAY'S LITURGY, Angela Westhoff-Johnson, OCP's Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-33477146376759763682009-11-07T10:50:00.000-08:002009-11-26T15:35:56.861-08:00Saturday meandering. That means I'm wandering aimlessly. Which means I'm kind of going sideways to sideways.This post is likely to take some time to process, both for myself as I lay it out, and for anyone who takes up the task of reading and following a possible tenuous thread. In the latest volume of the OCP periodical, TODAY'S LITURGY (Advent-Epiphany 09-10) Dr. Elaine Renler-McQueeny offers Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-69383573984875349242009-11-02T18:25:00.000-08:002009-11-16T09:38:58.090-08:00Home at All SoulsAs I mentioned in the last entry, my schedule has been erratic, my attention span more than erratic. So much so that this morning I'd not only forgotten that the school's second grade "All Saints Pageant" was TODAY, but I looked at watches that I'd not set back an hour on Saturday, called the school in a panic only to realize the time frame was still good! The kids were Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-9381885972118002292009-10-28T10:47:00.000-07:002009-11-26T15:37:08.061-08:00 Rembrandt von Rijn, THE RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON.The Muse among the mongering...I haven't been inattentive to posting purposely; there's been a significant amount of distraction and duties that have impacted my schedule over the last month. But, moreso than those, I've had reservations about "putting myself out there" amidst so much "noise" from all corners of "my" world.I've been truly Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-56302934674539982612009-09-06T21:01:00.000-07:002009-09-06T21:07:04.377-07:00Saint Mary’s Parish, CaliforniaOrder of Music-Sept. 6, 200923rd Sunday in Ordinary TimeIntroit Antiphon:S Lord, You are just… (Simple Choral Gradual/R.Rice)Entrance: S O GOD, BEYOND ALL PRAISING 366 (Thaxted)E READY THE WAY 435 (B.Hurd) cp Opening Rites: S Misa Oecumenica (Proulx)E Kyrie/Glory to God (New Danish Amen Mass-Culbreth) Responsorial:SE Respond & Acclaim Gospel Accl.:S Misa Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-69728197124237105572009-08-29T11:13:00.000-07:002009-08-29T11:29:23.475-07:00Twenty-second Sunday, OrdinaryOrder of MusicSaint Mary’s Parish, CaliforniaOrder of Music-Aug.30, 200922nd Sunday in Ordinary TimeS=8:30/E=10amIntroit Antiphon: S “I call to You…” (Simple Choral Gradual/R.Rice)Entrance:S NOW THAT THE MORNING HAS BROKEN (Brown)E SPEAK, LORD (Uszler)Opening Rites: S Misa Oecumenica (Proulx)E Kyrie/Glory to God (New Danish Amen Mass-Culbreth) Responsorial:SE Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-14247518561435717132009-08-20T14:22:00.000-07:002009-08-20T16:19:01.218-07:00 Sacre Bleu! Le Cantique de Stephan Janco. I have more than a passing acquaintance with Steven Janco's much heralded "Mass of Angels and Saints." It's almost unbelievable how long it has been around, this heavyweight "contenda" destined to succeed MoC, according to their own publisher's initial publicity campaign of yore.I have no doubt that the object d'art that hooked me when I first read the Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-53895848836205211682009-08-06T07:47:00.000-07:002009-11-26T15:30:21.870-08:00Pretty much sums it up for me.Coming SOON: LEAD, FOLLOW, OR GET OUTTA THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFELiturgy and Music: Marines-Strong!HT to Creative Minority ReportFor those who are confused as to what this is about.CREATIVE MINORITY REPORT is an orthodox blog that approaches the practice of Catholic living from the perspective of humor. They self-attribute their collective blog name from the Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-34193393758295609442009-07-30T11:56:00.000-07:002009-07-30T16:56:21.933-07:00Elegies All AroundIt has been an otherworldly, weird week in the valley violent death category. I'm not leading with that to prepare for a reading in cynicism; we just have our more than fair share of daily drive-by's, horrific crashes, whatnot. But one day after another found: a murder-suicide (girlfriend by boyfriend,) a teen unsuccessfully playing the "game" Russian Roulette (the newspaper Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-16183448945220696962009-07-25T11:07:00.000-07:002009-07-25T11:21:32.021-07:00 St. John the Baptist Church,El Cerrito, CaliforniaPosition for Music Directoris apparently now open here.These are photosnaps I took last summer while visiting my previous and last parish whilst working in Oakland Diocese. At the time we visited, a wedding was about two hours hence from commencing, thus the bows on pews. This is a baptismal font that was part of their renovation (not there Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-84397854859110273822009-07-22T20:05:00.000-07:002009-07-22T22:08:25.462-07:00The Cathedral of Saint Cecilia "Progressive Dinner" TodayI have tried to find the exact Order of Worship for Archbishop George Lucas’ Installation Mass today with no success. So, my reflections on the service will be “on the fly” or “off the cuff,” so to speak.One of the most difficult things I wrestle with when watching these ceremonies is that it’s obviously an easier path to criticize from a Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-11711149261098420342009-07-22T12:21:00.000-07:002009-07-22T22:12:57.816-07:00A Critical Review of the ADOREMUS HYMNALThis review was composed in 1998 and I post it here in response to a thread over at MSF regarding usage permission to reprint by FNJ. I reprint it in full, though I know that I cannot avow total agreement for my remarks now, in light of the eleven year passage of time and my own continued understanding of the various aspects discussed.There has been much Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-76919107352020997262009-07-14T10:03:00.000-07:002009-07-14T10:27:43.709-07:00Now let us join...an unending hymn of praise....This is another posting borrowed from MSF that dovetails from concerns expressed in the blogosphere about the seemingly incongruent use of a particular set of Eucharistic Acclamations during the recent installation Mass at the DC Shrine.From the "Installation" thread I'm happy to receive Kathy's very insightful remarks, prompted by the concerns of Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-18138772309872325992009-07-10T09:10:00.000-07:002009-07-10T10:02:09.642-07:00"Charles, you ignorant _____ !"The following dovetails from the previous post. Over at MSF, Ian W, posed the following: "There are many of us working very hard to help restore beauty and solemn worship and music to the Church." (quoting an excerpt of mine)Is it a matter of restoration, or of working towards the ideal in our generation? That is, was there ever a time when it was normal to hear theCharles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-66951851049082583232009-07-09T10:15:00.000-07:002009-07-09T12:39:44.324-07:00A Particular Response to "The Proper Place of Mass Propers"This is a reprint to a thread started in the Musica Sacra forum, and which co-relates to an article I've yet to read by Jeffrey Tucker in the current Summer 09 issue of "Sacred Music."Those of us "here at CMAA" and many others obviously have crossed a perceptual threshold regarding the myriad issues of how liturgy is best conducted, Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-69644937155345968242009-07-02T13:17:00.000-07:002009-07-02T13:26:51.737-07:00Always at a precipice.We finally flew back to San Francisco (and drove home Tuesday) after a pleasant sojourn to the Art Institute. That visit, our second, found us in the American artists’ galleries, making the rounds from roughly the colonial era to Georgia O’Keefe sections. During lunch at the museum café I remarked to Wendy that there always seems to be a point where the mind and its Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-24445780420691301312009-07-02T08:22:00.000-07:002009-07-02T15:23:45.335-07:00Mr. Doug CowlingEXTRAORDINARY!I received the following email posting from a non-CMAA colleague who thought it required notice and reply. What I have to say is below the communique from Mr. Doug Cowling. Hi Charles,I think you would be very interested to have a look at this email from the Anglican Music listserv.I think you should reply to this message, but via your blog.I hope all is well with Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-52500983536412716982009-06-29T08:45:00.000-07:002009-06-29T09:02:09.807-07:00 WHEN WORLDS....COLLIDEuh, no that's not precise....howabout coalesce?After dropping off the colloquium's resident countertenor, Norman, at the train station,Wendy and checked into the Westin and we dilly-dallied for an hour or so, then did the obligatory trek to Navy Pier and took our requisite Ferris Wheel ride. Gorgeous is Chicago on such perfect days!When we came back to the hotel we thought Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-47749275870705614142009-06-27T19:32:00.000-07:002009-06-28T21:05:54.033-07:00Tongues of fire, tongues on FIRE!Somebody explain to me why Jeffrey Tucker posits that we colloquium bloggers have been slackers! He's not getting my Bloomingdale's $45 bow tie, which is still fresh as an unpacked Paschal candle for griping over at NLM! So there! Kidding.We did, after the magnificent Vespers,feté the King of Pomp and Circumstance. But he was, of course, late for the feté, so it Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-19162949389729247972009-06-25T13:20:00.000-07:002009-06-25T16:27:56.463-07:00DEATH DOES NOT BECOME HER (as in "Mother Church")After this morning's Usus Antiquor Mass (which was Wendy's first!) I typically had this weird notion that somehow the liturgy, of which we are both part and participants thereof, had taken a huge fall down the stairs at various points of implementation of the NO across the nation, and we've had our heads on backwards ever since.Consequently anotherCharles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-59419203388942821532009-06-24T18:48:00.000-07:002009-06-25T16:31:27.415-07:00 I shudder to thinkWell, intrepid followers, Professor Mahrt did hearken unto the call of the cabernet last evening and bless our little chat room confreres with good company and good wine courtesy of the late, great Mondavi. We held forth for a good two hours at a subdued yet lively level of conversations that opined about, oh just about ever'thing. It was truly an honor to share in his wisdom, Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-53795252401490682792009-06-24T10:25:00.000-07:002009-06-24T10:35:44.348-07:00Heaven.....I'm in heaven....Mass in the Ordinary Form, Latin, presided over by His Eminence, Francis Cardinal George, the exquisite chapel at Loyola, Chicago, my beloved at my side, her magnificat voice and heart singing square notes as though she'd done so her entire life, seemingly innumerable ensembles and scholas approaching the spirit of the Liturgy with great beauty, awe and aspirations Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-38339332657446536422009-06-23T15:47:00.000-07:002009-06-23T16:14:26.345-07:00The View From the Other Side of the Dorm RoomThis is Wendy's first reflection on the trek to CMAA through the forced march of 35 years of post-concilior liturgy shared within our marriage and life experiences.In sharing with a friend in California earlier today while sitting in front of the Maris Stella Chapel, looking out at Lake Michigan, this is a life changing experience which cannot be Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-91782548358208046712009-06-22T20:10:00.000-07:002009-06-22T22:33:17.963-07:00Prima nochteSo many friends, old and new. What a pleasure to meet Jeff Ostrowski and his Corpus Christi crew of youngin's. I don't care what he tells you, he's going to get carded every time until he's 65, if he ever imbibes a fermented beverage! His portrait must be adjacent to "energy" in the dictionary; and such a nice sibling he brought his little sis with the crew just because she loves to Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-51179086018472716382009-06-22T14:00:00.000-07:002009-06-22T14:17:50.753-07:00Now Everyone Knows Why "She is 'your' BETTER HALF."After nearly forty years in this "biz," it is truly remarkable how one feels when you walk into yet another convention, so to speak, and then feel the joy, soak in the radiant smiles and revel in the company of colleagues who definitely are not at "yet another convention." What has been so fabulous are the greetings to Wendy. "We feel like we've Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-13224200429190681172009-06-21T15:21:00.000-07:002009-06-21T16:03:44.898-07:00 AS THE PILGRIMAGE TURNSThe trip up from the parched valley was pleasant and smooth, even along the stretch of US 101 going north from San Jose to SFO International. The chair above seemed like a good omen, a breeze wafted audibly around the tall pines out of the tiny window view. My middle daughter JoJo showed up an hour after check-in with her Swedish friend, plus a few Dad's Day gifts and a Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-84613117108141491192009-06-11T11:46:00.000-07:002009-06-11T11:55:54.931-07:00THE APOSTLE OF THE VALLEYFATHER DANIEL FRANCIS XAVIER DADEReconstructing Sacred and Liturgical Music PracticesDuring the Pioneer Days of the First California ParishOn page 60 of “Apostle of the Valley” author Sister Mary Thomas,OP tells of a concert or “entertainment” that was to benefit the building of “the Catholic Church” (St. Mary’s) on February 13, 1872. (The parish was formally founded in Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-19815170322662424562009-06-09T17:09:00.001-07:002009-06-09T17:43:53.801-07:00CHANT LIBERTE?Have you ever heard the "de Angelis" thusly sung? Get Your Own Free Hypster.com Playlist.Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-35538655880400347262009-05-31T22:10:00.000-07:002009-05-31T22:45:10.163-07:00What next?Here in PST Pentecost retires in just under two hours. I folded in "our souls' welcome Guest" into the General Intercessions that were offered today at our parishes. But for quite a while, as those who visit here or commiserate with me know, there seems to bear upon us an unwelcomed guest, something we cannot fathom but is visible and palpable to us daily. I'm reminded of the recent Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-58068206207791061702009-05-26T08:27:00.000-07:002009-05-26T08:33:06.157-07:00A Good Day.We had a wonderful musical Sunday in our parishes. Our schola sang the Simple Choral Propers Introit by Richard Rice which was conveniently keyed in F Major as the pastor entered, at which time we seemlessly moved into three verses of "Hail the day that sees Him rise" (also in F.) Which then brought us to our revival of Proulx's Misa Oecumenica (in F maj/min,) so much Russian homophonyCharles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-21333441654519983312009-05-25T17:07:00.000-07:002009-05-25T17:49:48.622-07:00Click on the mural photo to see a larger image, my father is circled in white.Memorial DayMy dad served in WWII and Korea with the USN. He enlisted at 17 in Cumberland County, North Carolina, I suspect because his oldest brother was an officer well onto his own way as a skipper on a diesel submarine. Dad was sent to the Pacific Theater on the U.S.S. Vincennes, which was torpedo'd and sunk by a Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-1578762578805331282009-05-24T14:00:00.000-07:002009-05-24T14:00:20.883-07:00Scelata: Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me, a sinner...Scelata: Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me, a sinner...Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-89099126596255711462009-05-22T14:03:00.000-07:002009-05-22T14:03:49.087-07:00Creative Minority Report: Flashing on American Idol?Creative Minority Report: Flashing on American Idol?Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-16769529473381841622009-05-21T16:12:00.000-07:002009-05-21T19:16:44.718-07:00Idolatrous Upfront apologies extended to you, I obviously can’t resist deconstructing my version of this season’s American Idol “competition.” But it is so rife with all of the juicy, cultural and societal bits that I’m almost bi-polar with both disappointment and glee. And I’m going to let what’s left of the Colorado River neurons course aimlessly through the grand, sediment-al (not sentiMENTALCharles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-55582876299970219562009-05-08T16:13:00.000-07:002009-05-08T16:46:08.935-07:00
A Man's Man
Wendy and I were returning from our first visit to D.C. after a cross-country Amtrak trek through pre-Katrina N.O. (by one month) and ATL, and a year before my second visit to D.C. for CMAA Colloquiam 07. Because I'm, ahem, hefty, we flew (and always try to fly) First Class. So, leaving ATL, somehow I found myself directly opposite Herbie Hancock and a seat ahead of Jack Kemp.
Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-28602052914793892009-05-08T12:33:00.000-07:002009-05-11T21:54:34.100-07:00My Long and Winding RoadAlways Runs Through OaktownLooking at the last forty years through the sound spectrum of the Order of Music for the Installation Mass of Bishop Cordelione, recently appointed shepherd of my adopted hometown of Oakland, California.I came to practicing Catholicism through the “employee’s entrance.” In early 1970 a trumpet player-friend at college approached with a job Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-91789181618502740352009-05-03T22:15:00.000-07:002009-05-03T23:11:06.532-07:00Ignore this post, at your peril; and mine as well most likely.I'm tired.I'm at a loss to know whether nearly 40 years of efforting to help others praise the Lord God through the miraculous gift of music has simply left me bewildered among a swamp of an exponentially burgeoning atmosphere of indifference, repugnant stasis, and, worst of all, a sort of Piaget curve self-regard that whispers, ala Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-74032891484167746232009-04-16T11:46:00.000-07:002009-04-19T16:54:44.201-07:00A Brief Reflection on the Concluding chapter ofSACRED MUSIC AND LITURGICAL REFORM byFr. Anthony Ruff, OSBI recently finished reading the most comprehensive and beneficial book concerning liturgical music I’ve ever encountered: “Sacred Music and Liturgical Reform; Treasures and Transformations,” by Fr. Anthony Ruff, OSB. Though it is over six-hundred pages and costs roughly $100.00, I believe thatCharles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-27264632273415021552009-02-17T19:06:00.000-08:002009-02-17T19:24:57.688-08:00Okay, Ladies and Gentlemen, Madames et Messeurs, Damen und Herren, y Señoras y Señors-The One, the Only, the Official OCP“Not Silly Love Songs” Official White List ofApproved Modern Songs Advent: CHRIST, CIRCLE ‘ROUND US (Schutte/Salve Regina)Lent:OUT INTO THE WILDERNESS (B. Hurd)O SACRED HEAD (B.Hurd)Easter:TWO WERE BOUND FOR EMMAUS (B.Hurd)THREE DAYS (text: M.D.Ridge/Thaxted)General/Ordered/Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-4347723197450854102009-02-17T16:53:00.000-08:002009-02-17T16:55:41.715-08:00 Jonathon,Joseph,ProkovievWhat more?Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20322107.post-9160895486253256772009-02-16T10:22:00.000-08:002009-02-16T11:13:05.951-08:00 Random, Likely Ill-conceived Thoughts about.... FCAP!It's been kind of a brutally long "weekend," in terms of performance demands at the parish.We received the request to "cover" the Vigil and Mass (of Resurrection) for a local, beloved deputy sheriff who passed from injuries as a result of an accident on duty. Those were to happen on Thursday/Friday. Same day of that request, one of my Charles Culbrethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com0