cantors

American audiences saw rabbis, cantors, street peddlers, and Yiddish-speaking heroes.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Moving onward to the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time, she offers some very good advice for cantors.

The Reform is Being Reformed 2009

A new rubric specifies that, if the blessing of the water is done in the baptistery, “the cantors and the people remain in their place, and continue the chant of the Litanies, repeating the invocations from ‘Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis’, if need be”; meanwhile, the clergy go to bless the font without them.

Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 6.2 - Holy Saturday and the Blessing of the Font, Litany of the Saints, Mass and Vespers 2009

When the Hymn is done, the subdeacon knocks on the doors of the church with the staff of the processional Cross; the two cantors open the doors at once, and everyone enters the church, while the Responsory Ingrediente Domino is sung.

Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 1 - The Palm Sunday Blessing and Procession of Palms 2009

Having reached the doors of the church, the clergy and faithful stand before the doors, while two cantors enter the church and close the doors over.

Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 1 - The Palm Sunday Blessing and Procession of Palms 2009

Then she raises the great taboo subject that has been crying out to be raised for decades: the hard fact that the cantors often serve no purpose and instead actually do damage.

The Reform is Being Reformed 2009

Someone recently showed me the certification guidelines for cantors as presented by a national music organization with a Catholic focus.

How to Hire a Parish Musician 2009

The video below shows the Litany-like prayers sung at the foot of the High Altar by the cantors on Maundy Thursday.

Tenebrae at Blackfriars Oxford 2009

The same is true of the cantors, who are given new responsibilities and are held to higher standards.

Music at St. Peter's: The Transformation 2009

I would remind him of his musical ancestry, beginning with hisgreat-great-grandfather Viet Bach, trumpeter, lute player, violinist, who in the time of the Great Reformation fled Hungary to avoid religious persecution, and continuing with all the Bach cantors and organists and Town Musicians that Sebastian, after he'd married Magdalena and started a family of his own, would write about in his family history, The Origin of Musical Bachs.

The Boy from Thuringia David Booth 2010