Gee. This is familiar.
But the music in Catholic Churches — recognizable worldwide, by the way, from its earnest, inoffensively tonal strains, its simple (and incessantly repeating) sub-Broadway-melodies accompanied by mediocre piano music. It is inoffensive, but also unflattering, uninspiring, and completely interchangeable piece-to-piece.
...It’s like having the Bible translated by Hallmark Card writers, just to achieve mass appeal
Yah. More at the link here.
HT: Scelata
You're a Catholic? Who would have guessed.
ReplyDeleteAs usual, nothing substantive to say, huh, KR?
ReplyDeleteI hope, with the reforms of the liturgy, music becomes more worthy of worship, rather than the saccharine that passes today.