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Wednesday 25 June 2008

Have YOU been guilty?

From Lyn at Organ-ic Chemist http://musical-chemist.blogspot.com/2008/06/yet-another-top-ten-list.html :
(And a disclaimer, I'm not certain number ten is even inherently a bad thing, much less fit to be numbered among the "worst," I think it can be a charitable means of avoiding displaying in front of God and everybody the bad taste and liturgical ineptitude of some other person who mistakenly felt qualified or obliged to select music...)
I doubt I could come up with ten, but I could add some dillies: a music director/organist quitting at the Easter Vigil, a wind player asked not to play on a vocal solo ostentatiously cleaning and swabbing out every tube in his possession during said solo in full view of the assembly instead, a director wearing glittery insect antennae to direct the postlude at Christmas Midnight Mass...

TOP TEN WORST THINGS MUSICIANS HAVE DONE
1. Arriving drunk on Christmas Eve, then leaving before the service, saying, "No one will care if it's a service without any music."
2. Disputing the priest's canonical oversight of the liturgy at a public meeting.
3. Stopping the eucharistic prayer and starting a choir piece which had been omitted accidentally earlier in the service
4. Refusing to engage in a performance review because "no one is qualified to judge me."
5. Improvising unexpectedly on an instrument while the priest is reading a prayer
6. Refusing to come to worship committee meetings
7. Raising an umbrella at the organ console during a baptismal renewal sprinkling
8. Tuning a guitar during the sermon
9. Always looking for ways to insert extra choir music into the liturgy
10. Pretending not to have the music at the organ for something the musicians didn't like.

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