It's been a while. Let's not talk about it. Wasted energy, dontcha know? Anyway, I'm back... in some form and frequency that has yet to be determined.
I am doing some new work writing and composing Mass settings in a variety of American idioms like blues and jazz. Not like the typical Jazz Mass that so many of our churches do -- the kind that just plunks the jazz into the midst of a 1970s Rite 2 liturgy with no relation to anything else (they also do this with far too many U2charists, but that's another post entirely). My work is altering the entire ethos of the liturgy so that everything relates, most especially the vocalized portions of a sung Mass, to work well within these genres.
Imagine the Eucharistic Prayer fully sung in a blues progression. Amazing stuff! My hope is to provide the resources that make it possible for even our smallest churches to achieve while also expanding the resources to utilize professional choirs and instrumentalists and more into a full communal celebration.
Anybody want to help me publish?
