Saturday, January 3, 2009

Failing to restore sacred music

Fascinating blog post and story here:

Dissecting a failed attempt to bring sacred music back to it's proper place.

Problem One: False advertising on the part of the church/erroneous inference on the part of the hire.

I was hired as a new music teacher at a K-8 school at a church that claimed to be traditional and orthodox.

When a church music position -- or in this case, a teaching position at a parochial school -- uses the words "traditional" and "orthodox," applicants ought to bear in mind that these two words don’t mean a thing when it comes to liturgy today. (Heck, they may not mean a thing doctrinally either!)

Read the whole post here.

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