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Article: Insiders debate how to praise.(church music standards)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- August 24, 2001
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Two practitioners on fine art of getting the church to sing
Music directors on the job since 1990 may recall a grand brouhaha in their field. It started when Thomas Day, music department chairman at Salve Regina College, Newport, R.I., propped on the Catholic music stand his book Why Catholics Can't Sing: the Culture of Catholicism and the Triumph of Bad Taste (Crossroad).
What, he asked, could possibly cause the odd behavior he was witnessing among American Catholics?
"To stand in the middle of a Catholic congregation, surrounded by row after row of people ignoring music they are supposed to sing, can be an unsettling experience," he wrote.
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