Author: John Schultz

Mark Sullivan gave this blog an honorable mention related to OCP having sound bites available on their site. Of course their music is mostly smarm, but I have to applaud the smart marketing, and I wish some of the publishers of sacred-style music would do the same.
A project I’m working on for my choir is to get the difficult music in the computer so that I can make CD’s of the parts. Nothing is more frustrating than a rehearsal where you pound notes for 2 hours, so I’m trying to make it easy for my choir members to learn on the road, at home, etc. It should be a great year because they work really hard.

Here’s an incomplete sound bite from a motet by renound cellist Pablo Casals: O Vos Omnes. The text is suitable for Palm Sunday or Good Friday. There’s a Cambridge Singers recording that is in print and has other wonderful stuff if you get hooked.
It’s wonderful to hear a mixture of emotion with a character of the sacred, a setting of the words of Jesus that is both moving emotionally and pointing one’s heart to greater things.

I know almost everyone in blogland knows this, but I’m glad to mention it.
Pope accepts resignation of South African bishop implicated in gay Web site scandal.
And I’m penance this is a time of penance and redemption for someone with such ignominy.

Brief but edifying article on the Catholic League Web site by Rabbi David Dalin, Ph.D.

From Jonah Goldberg:
For all I know, saying gesundheit — or anything else in German — is still the best way to get a table at a French restaurant.