tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398283562752570856.post3309305821632580625..comments2023-09-19T05:03:19.109-07:00Comments on Scelata: Talk About Diversity...Scelatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08674226359189392827noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398283562752570856.post-76418014980991399712009-07-09T11:26:07.320-07:002009-07-09T11:26:07.320-07:00Heath, do you mean the one at St. Joe's?
Good ...Heath, do you mean the one at St. Joe's?<br />Good price, short, interesting.<br />Fr Kelly's approach is not systematic enough, IMO -- to teaching, not to the chant, that IS systematic.<br />Dining Hall was overpriced, not particularly good, (I hesitate to say that because the dining room staff was so nice.)<br />Rooms were enormous and okay, (I mention this because cramped rooms at Loyola was a complaint I heard.)<br />The atmosphere at St Joes was puzzling to me; everyone was extremely nice, but under Fr Larry the chant Institute had been an intensely spiritual experience and I really, really missed that.<br />Now that this is off the front page and I think it enormously unlikely that it will be read by anyone who would take it amiss, but I think the NPM-ish leadership may be responsible for that.<br />I'm fairly sure there was no trap set in the chapel last time I was there. (On the other hand, if I can trust my memory the tabernacle was not on the central axis of the chapel 4 years ago, as it is now.<br />As I said, I found the rejection of the so-called "Old Solemnes Method" not problematic at all, as I am firmly in neither camp (can a principle of ambivalence be held "firmly"?)<br />Fr Kelly's has both/and approach to the Latin/Vernacular <br />question, which can be a bit of a shibboleth.<br />I like that.<br />Fr Kelly is a bit of a fan of the <br />late Archbishop Annibale Bugnini.<br />I leave it to any readers of this site to guess whether I "like" that.<br />I would consider going again, if the money and the timing is right, but I think I would prefer to experience another teacher. (This is not a rejection of Fr Kelly,if time and money were unlimited, I would gladly attend a class of workshop of his again.)<br />(Save the Liturgy, Save the World)Scelatahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08674226359189392827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398283562752570856.post-31888577224279454422009-07-09T08:51:02.949-07:002009-07-09T08:51:02.949-07:00G,
I'd be interested to hear more about this ...G,<br /><br />I'd be interested to hear more about this event; I almost went, but the funds didn't come through. Maybe next year . . .Heath Morberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01245376685875085544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398283562752570856.post-42019909902145235902009-07-01T12:06:00.379-07:002009-07-01T12:06:00.379-07:00I've told this story before...stop me if you&#...I've told this story before...stop me if you've heard it.<br /><br />In the mid-'80's I was given responsibility for conducting an Old Rite choir and had just read the entire intro (Solesmes) to the Graduale Romanum--about 70 pages, very small type, of 'how to sing this Chant stuff', complete with semi-contradictory decipherings of the rhythm marks, yada yada yada.<br /><br />Roger Wagner, KCSG, came to town at that time to honor a mutual friend celebrating his 35th anniversary of Ordination. Roger and I got pleasantly high on a pint of Black and White (up) and I asked him how to understand all that stuff I just read.<br /><br />"Sing it as though it were MUSIC" was his advice.<br /><br />Works better than all the other stuff I've ever heard.Dad29https://www.blogger.com/profile/08554276286736923821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398283562752570856.post-53136327375228142512009-06-30T15:07:01.926-07:002009-06-30T15:07:01.926-07:00Beautiful reflection, G, just beautiful.Beautiful reflection, G, just beautiful.Mr. Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09649237173680633611noreply@blogger.com