We began singing the new “Lord’s Prayer” setting during Lent. The choir did it for several weeks, just using the melody, so the congregation could learn it, and we introduced the harmony at the Easter vigil. It’s a lovely piece. We’ll start doing the other parts of the Mass when we reconvene in September.
Oh! I wish I could hear it.
Our Music Director thinks that The Lord’s Prayer needs to be sung at EVERY Mass. Not so.
It’s supposed to be said at most Masses.
Sadly, Marty Haugen and the gang at GIA have been busy “updating” their drivel with the new words, so in practice, the actual music isn’t going to change much.
It will still be the pop ballads and jingles, alas. There will probably be some good new stuff written, but the problem will be getting it past the “liturgical press” mafia and into the hymnals. Marty Haugen (a Lutheran, btw), the remaining St Louis Jesuits, and a couple of others have it all sewed up.
There was some suggestion that the copyright on the texts (held by the USCCB’s publishing house) be relaxed so that other composers could use them, but I’m not sure what the final decision was on that.