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I’ve felt quite guilty about my inexperience as regarding Sacred Music:
I love to hear supportive comments, and am challenged to accept criticism, but the hardest thing can sometimes be getting no feedback at all. If my priest, schola members, or director of music don’t say much, what does that mean? Why do organizations of volunteers even exist? Think about it: Your time is tremendously valuable; you want to make sure that you get fairly paid for ALL the work you do; you’re worried when it looks like work is unfairly taking over your personal life. Yet, here you are, just giving away all this valuable time, with no hope of ever being paid for it. I was listening to a wonderful podcast this afternoon, where Katherine Barron and Jennifer Willits were talking about the book, “Choosing Beauty.” But I don’t want to talk about the book. Instead, they brought up an important concept: When you bad-mouth or gossip about someone, what you’re doing is stealing. Stealing their reputation. As a result of the wonderful discussions at the CMAA Colloquium and encouragement of my colleagues, I am offering a new service today: Sacred Music Group Coaching. The details are here. I subscribe to a lot of online newsletters, because it helps me to maintain a broader perspective and generates new ideas. I ran across one yesteday that held a real challenge for me. In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words. Do not [...] The progress this week on Sacred Music Coach has been pretty amazing. First, the website now exists. Here we are! More important, I had a chance to talk with some new friends – Pepper, Eric, Barbara – and reconnect with an old friend, Jon, about my ideas for group coaching in this area. Everything isn’t clear yet, but the pieces are falling together. The Colloquium is drawing to a close – tomorrow we have the final Mass and a concluding brunch. We’re getting to the bottom of our inch-thick music packet, and people are giving their heartfelt thanks for such a wonderful and spiritually filling experience. I just got done hiking back from the north end of the campus where we had today’s Gregorian Chant rehearsal. Last year I was in Wilko Brouwer’s polyphony choir group and was incredibly impressed with his teaching style. |
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