[SuziQ]

*snort* I do like Gregorian Chant, but then I also love Anglican High Church hymns (William Byrd, Ralph Vaughn Williams), as well as some of the popular music. What I DON’T particularly like, is what our daughter describes as “Jesus is my boyfriend” music. ;o)

[AnAmericanMother]

The Pope was a lot more restrained about the JIMBF music than I would have been . . . . he just pointed out why it is musically and emotionally unsuitable for the liturgy. I would have had the sheet music and a few CDs publicly burned and excommunicated the authors and composers and told them they were lucky not to be burned right alongside their wicked works . . . . (well, not really, but a girl can dream, can't she?)

Good thing he's the Pope and not I (aside from the obviously disqualifying factors)!

[AnAmericanMother]

We had a Purcell-and-Byrd extravaganza last Sunday.

I had loaned our choirmaster a DVD of the Clare College choir singing Purcell's Funeral Sentences and he was inspired to make it an all-17th-century Sunday!