Shantigarh

I am here to tell you:  I love it. 

I love the overhead projection at Our Lady of Peace of all the lyrics to the songs as well as the words to the revised prayers which are still a stumbling…

Sometimes, the congregation is your boss.  In fact, most of the time. 

Perhaps that is tepid theology, but I can't see past their musical and spiritual need to a higher priority.  For example, I provide the Liturgical Music for a…

For the first time in years, I belong to a club.  Actually, I may have started this one and I am sure I started the last one when I was twelve. At that time, my friends and I were devoted…

There are several secrets to our success. 

Success is a relative term but we can state our interpretation simply:  The Church is full every Sunday except during Super Bowl and the Oscar Night.  Other than that, it's full.  If you…

Until we have particle transfer beams intead of receiving packages through the post office, snail mail remains more exciting than its electronic spawnlings.  Why?  Because that's how big packages still arrive.  One package arrived at my home, sent by Eliza…

Why did I say "five?"  I could have said "three" or "twelve" or two hundred.  What I'm getting at is the idea of certain books which will get you through each Sunday.  Gee, I wish I would hear from you…

Eliza has sung with Shantigarh for some time.  She lives in New York and now is the director of her own ensemble (or is it the Parish? Let me know, e.p.)  Her recent e-mail has some good information for the…

Why am I doing this?  Because there is too much music out there for you to listen to.  No one has this kind of time.  Listening is now part of my self-designed job description.  For my second road trip, I…

Shantigarh gets away with a lot.  Basically, our defense is that "we are teenagers.  Don't blame us."  It's a good defense except that I am not a teenager.  I am the director.  I am 57.  They say you are as…

I have rented a Ford Focus with a single-chamber CD player and in the passenger seat I have recordings of every song in World Library's Voices as One, Volumes 1 and 2, and OCP's Spirit and song, Volumes 1 and…

Palm Sunday 2010

Gathering Outside (before blessing of palms):  Time of Fulfillment - James Chepponis, 1994 GIA.  We sing all verses adding alto, tenor, bass, ad seriatum.

Processional:  Prepare Ye the Way - Michael W. Smith, Word Music

 We have…

What a smart move.  Every year Palm Sunday catches us by surprise and we are reminded how badly some people process and sing at the same time.  People from Mexico seem to have this skill.  The secret, apparently, is that…