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Thread #94349   Message #1825768
Posted By: Haruo
03-Sep-06 - 04:14 AM
Thread Name: Hymn-tune popularity contest
Subject: RE: Hymn-tune popularity contest
Well, you can always go to the guy's blog and tell him what tunes he should have included. I agree Cwm Rhondda is a great one. But maybe that's a Protestant sectarian preference (he's very Catholic, Tridentine rite organist etc.), or one that a Catholic sectarian (ought to be an oxymoron, no, Joe?) viewpoint would preclude. (For example, he seems to think Sine Nomine is something one would only perform on "those few Saints' days that have music" or words to that effect, whereas I can readily see it on a Sunday in Ordinary Time, or at a memorial service for an uncanonized departee...

Haruo