Sacred Music Workshop promotion
Jeffrey Tucker and Shawn Tribe of The New Liturgical Movement have been in the vanguard in promoting Chant of all types and the NLM blog is a must visit for those interested in sacred music. This weekend Jeff is stunned by the reception his post received on the Sacred Music Workshop in Auburn, Alabama : We are rather startled and very happy to see that our announcement of our February 1-2, 2008 workshop, in Auburn, Alabama, is all over the Catholic papers this weekend, and on the front page of the paper of our own archdiocese. It is striking because this was not the experience 5 years ago. We would send our releases out and the editors would look at them with suspicion. "Hmmmm, what is this 'chant' thing?" "These people might be Lefevbrites or something." That whole atmosphere is changed completely, as editors now recognize that chant and polyphony is at least part of the contemporary Catholic music experience -- they might not understand that it is the V2