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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION of PASTORAL MUSICIANS PASTORAL January 2010 Music Musicians Serving Military Communities Want to ENGAGE your assembly with new contemporary music? Delivered Annually CONNECT with your youth The latest music from top youth and young adult composers—all in one resource INCREASE participation Easy-to-use assembly books you can share with your entire community ENHANCE your music selection Liturgically appropriate contemporary songs you can add to your current worship program Choose Christ helps you bring new life to your prayer services, youth and young adult ministries, devotions, retreats and that evening Mass with a more contemporary repertoire. Start your subscription today! 1-800-LITURGY (548-8749) | ocp.org Peter’s Way Tours Inc. Specializing in Custom Performance Tours and Pilgrimages Rev. Robert Tyrala, Président de la Fédération Internationale Pueri Cantores FIPC, invites you and your Youth Choir to Rome & Vatican City to join us for this special event! International Federation of Pueri Cantores 36th Congress featuring World Day of Peace Papal Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, January 1, 2011 Imagine the photos from this trip of a lifetime! Pueri Cantores is open to all church, school and community choirs for boys and girls, ages 8-18. Congress Repertoire is available upon request. Peter's Way Exclusive Events for our Pueri Cantores groups: Solo concert or participation in a concert with 10-12 minute presentation by your choir, during a multi-choir concert with our other American and European Pueri Cantores groups. Participation in a Mass at the Altar of the Chair of St. Peter's as the principal choir, or in a massed choir setting. Special singing for the Holy Father after New Year's Te Deum at the Nativity scene in St. Peter's Square as accompanied by the Swiss Guard Band. Check our website for additional special programs and subsidized familiarization tours for Music Directors. Parade into St. Peter's Square. Special dinner with our American and European Pueri Cantores groups allowing for cultural exchange. Contact us for a customized itinerary and detailed proposal. Rates start at $2,150 per person (plus tax/fuel surcharge) from New York, for an 8-day package. Initial deposit due no earlier than March 2010. 500 SpecialNorth Broadwaydinner with • Suiteour American 221 • Jericho, and NY 11753 MidwestEuropean Office: Pueri1-800-443-6018 Cantores groups• NY allowing Office: 1-800-225-7662for Peter’s Way Tours Inc. Email:cultural annette@ exchange. peterswaysales.com or peter @ petersway.com Visit us at: www.petersway.com February, Pastoral Music Notebook will become a twice- monthly e-mail newsletter. Each issue will be briefer than the current version but will continue to bring you news, reviews, and other resources for your ministry. We will also be starting a Pastoral Music blog that will allow the voice of NPM to be heard by members and non-members as well. NPM and the Economy Many (if not most) not-for-profit organizations have seen a significant reduction in their financial resources during these difficult economic times. NPM has not been immune to the economic forces affecting so many people and organizations. From the President The Board is aware that many of our members are experiencing difficulties. A number of musicians have written to us about losing their jobs, having their Dear Members, positions cut back, or experiencing budget reductions in their parishes. When we pray together at our staff We are making changes at the NPM office. At the meetings, we remember these members and their beginning of a new year I would like to devote this communities in our prayer. space to sharing with you the plans that your Board After two successive years of deficit budgets, has been working on. the NPM Board of Directors decided that decisive action was needed to reduce our expenses and, if possible, to generate some additional revenue. Board Publications and Communications members were faced with some very difficult choices. In approaching their decisions, however, the Board When the National Association of Pastoral affirmed that the mission of the association and service Musicians was founded in 1976, communication with to its members must be the top priority. The association members took place almost exclusively through the will continue to sponsor events and publications mail. All members received twelve publications each that foster the art of musical liturgy and that provide year—six issues of the journal Pastoral Music and musicians, clergy, and other leaders with the resources six issues of the members’ newsletterPastoral Music they need. Notebook. Today, however, because of revolutionary Some of the cuts that the Board has approved will changes in communications—and especially the be painful, especially for the NPM staff. Several staff internet—we have found new and more immediate positions have been eliminated, and the remaining staff ways of keeping in touch. Now our members receive will see their salaries frozen for a second successive news and resources by e-mail and through our website year and a reduction in their benefits. I can honestly on a regular basis, including the weekly reflections in say that these men and women are devoted to the Sunday Word for Pastoral Musicians. association and its mission, and they have signaled We have gradually been moving away from printed their willingness to ride out this economic situation and and mailed information toward more frequent use of to do their very best to serve you. electronic media. Beginning this year we are making Thank you for your amazing support of NPM and a more deliberate move that reflects the existing its mission. In the center of this issue you will find the communications landscape. Pastoral Music magazine brochure for this summer’s NPM National Convention will remain our flagship publication and the official in Detroit, July 12–16. I hope to see you there! journal of NPM. It will now appear five times each year with issues in January, March, May, September, and November. We will also continue to print four issues each year of the very popular newsletter The Liturgical Singer, which is intended not only for directors but also for distribution to cantors, psalmists, and choir members. We are moving all of our other periodical J. Michael McMahon publications to an electronic format. Beginning in President 2 January 2010 • Pastoral Music NATIONAL ASSOCIATION of PASTORAL PASTORAL MUSICIANS January 2010 Volume 34:2 Music Pastoral Music (ISSN 0363- 6569) is published five times Contents per year by the National Association of Pastoral Readers’ Response 5 Association News 7 About the Photos 19 Musicians (NPM), 962 Wayne Avenue, Suite 210, Silver Spring, MD 20910. The Rensselaer Spirit: Still Strong at Fifty 15 NPM is an organization of musicians and By Steven R. Janco clergy dedicated to fostering the art of musical liturgy. Member services include the quarterly newsletter Pastoral Music Notebook, Musicians Serving Military Communities discounts on NPM conventions and insti- tutes, and other benefits. “Special Challenges” in Military Communities: 21 Editorial, Executive, and Advertising Offices: 962 Wayne Avenue, Suite 210, Silver Spring, Pretty Common, Really MD 20910-4461. Phone: (240) 247-3000. Fax: By Col. Tom Luna, USAF (240) 247-3001. E-mail: [email protected]. Advertising: Phone: (503) 289-3615. E-mail: Music under Fire: Worship in War Zones 24 [email protected]. By Lt. Col. Timothy A. Butler, USAF Publisher: Dr. J. Michael McMahon; Editor: Dr. Gordon E. Truitt; Our Ecumenical Ministry 26 Assistant Editors: Ms. Andrea Schellman, By J. C. Cantrell Sr. Linda Marie Sariego, osf; Advertising Director: Ms. Karen Heinsch; Music Review Editor: Dr. Marie Kremer; Music and Musicians Can Never Be Separated 28 Book Review Editor: Rev. James Challancin; from the Liturgy Printing: Mercury By Maj. Edward Kelley Membership Information: Regular Parish Member- ship in NPM (clergy and musician, both included The Movable Feast: Life as a Director 34 as members): $113 per year. $60 of this amount is for subscriptions to Pastoral Music for one year. of Music Ministries Serving Military Parishes Single Parish Membership (one member): $81 per By Kathleen O’Brien year. $30 of this amount is for a subscription to Pas- toral Music. Individual Membership (one member, no parish benefits): $67. $30 of this amount is for Commentary a subscription to Pastoral Music. Youth Member- “We Are Catholics, and We Are Americans” 38 ship: $34. Retired/Senior Membership: $34. Benefits By Gordon E. Truitt equivalent to individual membership. Group membership rates are available. Membership rates in effect as of January 1, 2010. Professional Concerns 41 Reviews 43 Subscription Information: One-year subscription, five Chapter News 53 Calendar 58 issues a year, $46. Library rate: $46. Single copy: $7. Inserto para el boletín 59 Bulletin Insert 60 For second class postage to Canada, add $11 per year for each membership. For postage to all other countries, add $15 per year for each membership. Copyright © 2009 by the National Associa- tion of Pastoral Musicians. Periodicals postage paid at Silver Spring, Maryland, and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send address change to Pastoral Cover: Singing hymns at a Christmas Service in Iraq. DVIDS/Spc. Jodi Krause. See page nineteen Music, 962 Wayne Avenue, Suite 210, Silver for an explanation of several of the photo sources for this issue and for detailed captions. Ad- Spring, MD 20910-4461. ditional photos courtesy of the Rensselaer Program of Church Music and Liturgy, St. Joseph’s College, Rensselaer, Indiana; the United States Department of Defense; and the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland. 3 Mission Statement The National Association of Pastoral Musicians fosters the art of musical liturgy. The members of NPM serve the Catholic Church in the United States as musicians, clergy, liturgists, and other leaders of prayer.