Gorgeous setting of the Tantum Ergo. Clearly a modern composition as well. And my goodness that choir did an excellent job.
I get fired up about good modern Catholic music, so thank you for this. I sing at a TLM, so I get to do a lot of 16th/17th century polyphony that is really, really beautiful but doesn't really fit into the Novus Ordo…
Gorgeous setting of the Tantum Ergo. Clearly a modern composition as well. And my goodness that choir did an excellent job.
I get fired up about good modern Catholic music, so thank you for this. I sing at a TLM, so I get to do a lot of 16th/17th century polyphony that is really, really beautiful but doesn't really fit into the Novus Ordo (unless you want to make people stand silently and hold up Mass for 3-4 minutes). Most music at a Novus Ordo, particularly the Ordinary of the Mass, is either 1) crap or 2) very simple. There has to be a choice for the Novus Ordo that is beautiful, in continuity with the Church's musical tradition, but that also incorporates modern sounds and chords. So stuff like this gives me hope.
Agree with everything you said here. It makes me happy when talented people develop intentionally sacred music as opposed to transferring non-sacred music into the Mass. It's such a beautiful thing that Archbishop Cordileone and his team is doing
My preference (and it's actual preference as opposed to how people usually use that term) is still Gregorian chant though. Nothing brings me to deeper prayer than chant - especially Gregorian. Polyphony in my opinion is like desert. Best served in small doses
Gorgeous setting of the Tantum Ergo. Clearly a modern composition as well. And my goodness that choir did an excellent job.
I get fired up about good modern Catholic music, so thank you for this. I sing at a TLM, so I get to do a lot of 16th/17th century polyphony that is really, really beautiful but doesn't really fit into the Novus Ordo (unless you want to make people stand silently and hold up Mass for 3-4 minutes). Most music at a Novus Ordo, particularly the Ordinary of the Mass, is either 1) crap or 2) very simple. There has to be a choice for the Novus Ordo that is beautiful, in continuity with the Church's musical tradition, but that also incorporates modern sounds and chords. So stuff like this gives me hope.
Agree with everything you said here. It makes me happy when talented people develop intentionally sacred music as opposed to transferring non-sacred music into the Mass. It's such a beautiful thing that Archbishop Cordileone and his team is doing
My preference (and it's actual preference as opposed to how people usually use that term) is still Gregorian chant though. Nothing brings me to deeper prayer than chant - especially Gregorian. Polyphony in my opinion is like desert. Best served in small doses