It's time for our annual membership drive!
- Check out our upcoming programs, events, and opportunities
- Connect with your colleagues
- Support like-minded people who serve the Church as musicians and lovers of music
Membership deadline: August 1, 2008. (After that date we no longer guarantee a listing in the chapter yearbook/directory.)
Shir Shalom Chorus to Perform at St. Isidore's in a Special Evening of Song
Sunday, May 18, 2008
This special Evening will begin with Taizé-style Vespers with Benediction and Divine Praises at 7:00 PM, followed by a short concert of sacred and liturgical Jewish music by the Shir Shalom Chorus of Grand Rapids around 7:30 PM. There will be a free reception to follow in the church hospitality room. If you've been interested in hearing sung Hebrew or are looking for different, yet sacred, repertoire for your church or school program, St. Isidore Church is the place to be next Sunday.
Questions? Bill Marfink can be reached at bllmar@yahoo.com or tel. 616.308.8142.
St. Isidore Church is located at 628 Diamond Ave NE, Grand Rapids, 49503. [MAP]
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Summer Music Ministry Institute for Young Adults and Adult Leaders
For the past 10 years Music Ministry Alive! has touched the lives of over 1000 young people and more than 400 adult leaders. This annual summer institute is a powerful affirmation of young people, their love for liturgical music, their passion and faith in God, and their dedication to ministry and service to the Church.
The 10th annual institute: I Will Not Sing Alone, will take place this summer, July 22-27, 2008 on the beautiful campus of The College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota. The deadline for registration was May 10, but they will still take registrations until May 17 if you email ahead and let them know you are planning on coming. There's no time to waste!
Visit the web site at www.musicministryalive.com for more information!
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Keyboard for Sale
A chapter member's friend's mom decided about a year ago she wanted to learn to play the piano. So she bought a Technics Digital piano, model PR-170. She paid over $4000 for it. Well... (you guessed it), after a few lessons, she's changed her mind. Now she's getting ready to move into a retirement home and would just like to sell it to someone who would put it to good use. She's asking $2500 or best offer. They use one very similar to it at St. James. We're passing the word along, in case someone's looking for a good deal on a digital piano.
Interested? Contact Sheri at proulxsheri@yahoo.com
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Banners Used at Convention for Sale
The Banners used at the NPM regional convention in Grand Rapids are for sale. Interested? Know someone who is? Contact Aline at alinek@peoplepc.com.
Some photos of the banners:
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Photo 1 | Photo 2 | Photo 3 | Photo 4 | Photo 5
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August 1-3, 2008
Take a look at this upcoming opportunity to be a part of a retreat experience that is focusing on Multicultural Liturgies.
To give you some background: a group, which included Brother Rufino Zaragosa, Fr. Ricky Manolo, Tony Gomez, as well as about 20 others, gathered at the NPM Regional Meeting in Sacramento a few years ago to discuss the state of multicultural liturgies and to share their experiences. Out of this discussion came the idea of an in depth discussion with liturgists and musicians who have three to five years experience with multicultural liturgies. Brother Rufino and a planning team have been organizing this effort and are calling this the "Multicultural Forum" to be held August 1-3, 2008 at Mission San Luis Rey Retreat Center in California. Rev. Mark Francis will be at this gathering and, according to Brother Rufino, Rev. Mark "hopes to join us, listen to our experiences/joys/concerns/frustrations/insights in ministering with a multicultural community. Part of the weekend together will be reviewing the publication Guidelines for Multicultural Liturgies (written by Rev. Mark Francis) and giving a 'lived commentary' on the material."
This gathering will focus specifically on the Anglo-dominant, Hispanic, and Vietnamese cultural groups so that the discussion can be more focused and in depth. They hope to have diocesan as well as parish representatives.
Rev. Mark Francis is a wonderful teacher, and his experience with the international Church will enliven the conversation.
The event is timed to lead up to the regional NPM convention in Los Angeles that begins on August 5!
Click here for the registration form (pdf).
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NPM Regional Conventions 2008
Check out the exciting plans for next summer’s NPM regional conventions:
June 30 - July 3, East Brunswick, New Jersey
July 8 - 11, Cleveland, Ohio
August 5 - 8, Los Angeles, California
You’ll find the convention themes, major speakers, institutes, musical performances, and workshop presenters. Brochures for the conventions will be mailed in early January. Complete program information will also be posted on the NPM national website.
2008 NPM Institutes
NPM (National)
NPM will sponsor eight in-depth educational institutes this summer in California, Texas, Louisiana, Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, New York, and Connecticut. This year’s institutes include the popular Cantor Express in four cities, along with institutes for Choir Directors, Music with Children, Guitar and Ensemble, and Pastoral Liturgy. Each of the three regional conventions will also include an institute (vocal, handbells, multicultural) in addition to the regular program.
View the brochure for 2008 NPM Institutes
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Upcoming Chapter Events:
An Ecumenical Prayer for Peace
Please join together at St. Mary's Church to pray for a renewal of peace in our world.
- Each month on the 2nd Monday (...May 12, June 9, July 14, Aug. 11, Sep. 9, Oct. 13, Nov. 10, Dec. 8)
- 7:30 PM
- Ecumenical Taizé Prayer: a mixture of song, silence and scripture
[download a flyer for this event]
[click here for more information about helping as a musician or in other roles!]
Plans rolling for the 2008-2009 Chapter Events!
The chapter board is hard at work putting together the events and topics for the upcoming year! If you have any suggestions, just drop a line to Aline Snoeyink (alinek@peoplepc.com), our chapter director.
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New U.S. Music Document Now Available
You may now view and download Sing to the Lord: Music in Divine Worship (PDF), a new set of guidelines for music in the liturgy approved overwhelmingly (88%) by the U.S. bishops in November. The document had originally been proposed as a legislative document, but the bishops opted instead to issue it as an official statement of the USCCB, which still required a two-thirds vote of Latin rite bishops.
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.
The USCCB is planning to publish the document together with the Directory for Music and the Liturgy. These official norms for approval of texts for singing at the liturgy were adopted by the U.S. bishops in November 2006 and are still awaiting confirmation from the Vatican.
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News, Notes & Key Changes
Keep in Mind
High-school students from around our diocese will be participating in DYMO Camp June 15 - June 21. [DYMO = Diocesan Youth Ministry Organization] This is a key opportunity for mentoring our young people, including musicians, forming them in faith, leadership skills, liturgy and more. Please include these students in your prayers as they prepare for and experience this intense, week-long part of their faith journey. If any youth from your community participate in DYMO Camp, ask them about their experience and involve them in the parish ministries!
DYMO Camp registration has been extended! Visit www.dymo.org for more information!
Musicians Looking for Work
If you need a sub or a regular helper, please consider contacting these folks:
- Katherine Olmos: email katdannz@yahoo.com; is now here in Michigan (Lowell) from Chapman University in Orange, California. She is here for a music therapy internship at the Franciscan Life Process Center. The internship is unpaid, which is why she is looking for work! Katherine plays & teaches piano and is looking for opportunities as an accompanist and cantor.
- Amy Searls: Tel. 616.890.4797; email searlsa@trinity-health.org is looking for work as a sub accompanist!
- Carolyn Burns: Tel. 616.735.4836; Master's in music, plays organ and piano, available to accompany weddings or Sat. Mass.
- Mary Poje Halbeisen: email pianomary88@aol.com; Master's in sacred music, music director, organ, piano, voice, also adult and children choir director. Seeking music director position in the area and willing to accompany until then.
A good way to get your name "out there" as a potential sub is to join the chapter and be listed in the chapter yearbook!
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