[ninenot]

An old choir member friend of mine told me about their organist/choir director (both, not either/or) job near Atlanta. Evidently the Pastor was amenable to real music and the church had a nice piped instrument.

Only problem: on the salary offered, one could not afford to live in the town, which was a distant and pricey suburb of Atl.--unless one were single, or married/no children.

Catholic choral music is damn near dead. There's a group in NYC, there's Salamunovich's parish choir in LA (and they will be zapped as soon as Paul retires--FAR too Catholic for the Mahony crowd.) A couple in Chicago. There might be a few others--but the point is, there is no one for a young musician to look up to--to say, WOW!! I could do that someday--make a glorious choral sound happen.

Without role models....what do you expect?

[Desdemona]

Without role models....what do you expect?

Not much. It's a lot of times a rude awakening when Catholics find out just exactly how much this all costs on multiple levels.