Upcoming Chapter Events:
Monday, December 14 | An Ecumenical Prayer
[click here for more information about attending, or helping as a musician or in other roles!]
Supporting the Song of the Assembly
February or March, 2010 | Location TBA
Skill sessions addressing the roles of the psalmist, keyboard/organist, and other instrumentalists.
Annual Chapter Banquet
April 2010 | Location TBA
Gather together once again to share camaraderie, good food, and food for thought1
More plans rolling for Chapter Events!
The chapter board is hard at work putting together the events and topics! If you have any suggestions, just drop a line to Gordon Proulx (gjproulx@gmail.com), our chapter director.
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Other Events
Tuesday, Nov. 17 - 7pm | featuring music for Harpsichord, Piano, & Organ | Peter Kurdziel, Organ | special guest Dr. Solee Clark
Come and enjoy a one hour concert including music by Handel, Bach, and Chopin. All concerts in this series are free of charge. A free will offering will be taken up. Families are encouraged to attend these one-hour programs! St. Robert of Newminster parish is at 6477 Ada Dr. SE, Ada, MI 49301 | www.strobertchurch.org
Timothy Jansen Organ Recital - Mendelssohn Sonatas IV, V, VI
7 PM Tuesday, November 17 | Cathedral of St. Andrew
Feast of Saint Andrew Concert
7 PM Monday, Nov. 30, 2009 | Choirs of the Diocese of Grand Rapids | Cathedral of St. Andrew
Choral Scholars Concert: Magnificat
3 PM Sunday, December 13, 2009 | Cathedral of St. Andrew
January 28-30, 2010
Worshipers and worship leaders from around the world gather each January for a time of fellowship, worship, and learning, seeking to deepen and integrate all aspects of worship, develop their gifts, encourage each other, and renew their commitment to the full ministry of the church. Online registration is now open. Visit www.calvin.edu/worship/sympos/2010/ for detailed information.
2010 NPM National Convention: “Hope and Harmony”
July 12 – 16, 2010 | Detroit, Michigan
Visit www.npm.org for details. Plan ahead!
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News, Notes & Key Changes
Welcome
- St. Charles, Greenville Jenna Fowle has accepted the position of Music Director
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Are You Certifiable?
NPM offers certification programs for organists, cantors, and professional directors of music ministries. NPM certification programs are designed to assist pastoral musicians in their continuing formation for music ministry. Visit the NPM website and click on “certification” to see if you are certifiable and ready to take the challenge to grow in your knowledge and skill.
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Singing the Name of God
In August, the Vatican issued directives that the Hebrew name of God, usually rendered as "Yahweh", is not to be pronounced in the prayers, readings, or songs of the liturgy. The new norms are based on long-standing Jewish and Christian traditions of not pronouncing the divine name and of substituting "the Lord" wherever it occurs in the biblical text. Publishers will be removing or changing song texts making use of the name, but pastoral musicians should immediately refrain from using these texts until appropriate changes have been made.
Dan Schutte, composer of the popular songs You Are Near and Sing a New Song, gives guidelines for how to adjust the texts from his songs gracefully at http://danschutte.com/revisions.html
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Sing to the Lord: Music in Divine Worship
USCCB Publishing has made Sing to the Lord: Music in Divine Worship available in book form. Don't have one? Every pastoral musician, priest, deacon, liturgist, and worship leader should have a copy of these official U.S. guidelines for music in the liturgy. You may order this very important document from the NPM website or by phoning the NPM office at tel. 240.247.3000. You can also view the document online (PDF).
Sing to the Lord echoes the call to full, active, and conscious participation in the Liturgy through its sung elements. It addresses the practical concerns of pastoral leaders-appropriate ministers, cultural diversity, instrumentation, formation, acoustics, and copyrights. It also outlines considerations for preparing and judging music for worship with an in-depth review of the musical structure of Liturgy.
Sing to the Lord is longer (more than 250 paragraphs) and more comprehensive than its predecessors. It addresses some topics not covered in earlier documents, treats other areas more expansively, incorporates the norms of recent official liturgical documents, and draws on the experience of celebrating the current “ordinary” form of the Mass for the past thirty-seven years.
Use Sing to the Lord to
• evaluate your parish's current musical repertoire
• better understand your role in sung worship
• prepare particular sacramental liturgies
• train parish music ministers
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Chapter Newsletter
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