The Summer issue of
Sacred Music, Volume 132, Number 2, is now arriving in members' mailboxes.
Features:
+ "Music at St Mary's Mission," by Joseph Mansfield. The author, an amateur musician, recounts his experience beginning a music program according to the mind of the Church at a small English- and Spanish-speaking parish in the Southwest.
+ "A Sampling of Pope Benedict XVI's Views on Liturgy and Music." As published while he was yet Cardinal Ratzinger.
Scores: Three original choral settings of the Offertory text (Ps. 91,13):
Justus ut palma florebit:
sicut cedrus, quae in Libano est, multiplicabitur.
Votes from members by
electronic mail will determine which motet will be performed at
Colloquium XV.
Reviews:
+ By Susan Treacy of 3 original choral titles ("Sicut cervus," "When at Creation's Dawn There Was No Sound," and "The Bread of God") from Shawnee Press.
+ By Calvert Schenk of the compact disc recordings of
Ecce Sacerdos Magnus: Music from
Saint Joseph Cathedral in Honor of Bishop James A. Griffen's Twentieth Anniversary, and of
Vir Dei * Sponsa Christi: Music for the Feasts of St. Benedict and St. Scholastica, by the Monks of Saint Benedict, Norcia.
News, including two job openings.
Have you mailed in your annual dues? Send $30 (students: $15) payable to the Church Music Association of America in care of treasurer Mr. William Stoops at 12421 New Point Drive, Harbour Cove, Richmond, Virginia 23233.
Individual copies of Sacred Music are available for $7.50 (payable to the Church Music Association of America) each from Sacred Music, P.O. Box 960, Front Royal, Virginia 22630.
