(I got hit on the other end -- got put on the music director search committee almost as soon as I darkened the door of our new church. . . the assistant organist was hiding his light under a bushel . . . he was filling in as an interim after the old jump-for-Jesus Oregon-Catholic-Press guy (yuk!) left . . . and we started noticing how good he was . . . turned out he had a doctorate in organ performance from Juilliard and did a Fulbright in France . . . once we heard that, it was a full-court press to get him the job. We love him and wouldn't trade him for John Rutter himself and a player to be named later . . . :-) First thing he did was get us 40 copies of the St. Gregory Hymnal so we could start singing the OLD stuff . . . )
I can't tell you how WONDERFUL it is to be working like mad at music and liturgy and making our service as beautiful as possible -- instead of political rumors and whispers and plotting and worrying about delegates to GC . . . I feel like I'm in church again instead of a political convention . . . WHAT a relief!
WOW! I'm glad his light's shining brightly now. No wonder you're in choir heaven. BTW, do you know where I can get copies of the St. Gregory Hymnal?
I got asked to be on the newly-resurrected liturgical committee at my parish which is reconsidering the V-II documents...we're reading them in light of "reform of the reform." So though the changes will be slow in coming, there are glimmers of hope.