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Uh oh
June 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Just read on Fr. Z’s blog:
Greetings Father,
I always enjoy your blog.
If you have not heard, our friend Tom Stehle, architect of the musical atrocities of the Papal Mass at National’s Stadium, was hired as Director of Music at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington D.C.
After the former music director got sick of the politics of Archbishop Wuerl and company and decided to take up teaching, the people at the Cathedral decided that a nation-wide search for the Cathedral Music Director in the See of the Capital City of the United States would be unnecessary when you have someone so preeminently qualified as this. So, the position was never posted, the parish council of the Cathedral was never consulted. The choir was never consulted. The former director was never consulted.
Let’s pray for the poor people of the Archdiocese of Washington, and, in particular, the poor people of St. Matthew’s Cathedral.
This sounds bad for the parishioners.
Wait a second, I’m a parishioner there.
I will wait and see what happens.
Update: I wanted to add a little bit more now that I’ve had time to reflect. I’ll repost here the bulk of what I wrote in the comments section over at Fr. Z’s blog. Though I am concerned, I also would not get overly excited just yet. As it is, the schola does not usually sing during the summer, so it will be some time before we know if the musical direction of the Parish in general and the 10:00 (Latin Novus Ordo) Mass more specifically will change. My hunch – and it may be me just trying to think positively – is that it will not.
I also don’t think that the people over at St. Matt’s are unaware of how a radical change in the musical direction of at least the 10:00 Mass would upset a lot of people. St. Matt’s is a very diverse parish, and I am somewhat optimistic in thinking that there will not be a radical change.