Wrt Bach, one of the parishioners said absolutely the weirdest thing to our music director. She asked him why he played so much Bach for preludes and postludes, because "it sounds like squirrels in a box."
He was glancing over his shoulder for lightning bolts . . . .
He still plays Bach but also a lot of Buxtehude and his favorite 20th c. French composers (he did a Fulbright at the Lyons Conservatory).
Well, when a church that seats 1500 uses one cross for veneration, it takes a while. With the number of seminarians, Dominican, and wonder of wonder, miracle of miracles YOUNG JESUITS (who came to us rather than their own church nine blocks down the street, where the 100+ rank organ pipes were thrown in a dumpster), we were halfway through it (about 10 minutes in) before the cross left the sanctuary. We sang every note in our binders - about 12 anthems - on Friday. And then there was communion.