Dr. Mahrt Reviews the Mass of Americas

At the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

NLM

Early Music Singers with Julianne Baird, soprano

tonight

Holy Week with the St. Ann Choir

Post by The St. Ann Choir.

This will be the first year when I will not go to any of the services, I believe. I'll miss hearing Prof. KM sing.

50th Anniversary of St. Ann Choir

California Catholic Daily: St. Ann Choir of Palo Alto celebrates 50th Anniversary
Gregorian chant and polyphony since 1963

October 6...

To Be Released Next Month

Four Courts Press: Benedict XVI and the Roman Missal
Janet E. Rutherford & James O'Brien, editors

Items of Interest, 2 October 2012

Mystagogy: Japanese Fighter Baptized Orthodox Christian

Catholic Music: It’s Time to Stop Making Stuff Up by Jeffrey Tucker

Tea With Honey But Not in Jerusalem: The Archbishop of Canterbury Makes His Peace With Post-Christian England by Tracey Rowland

Veteran Soldiers Go Organic

Thaddeus Kozinski, Jacques Maritain, the HHS Mandate, and the Failure of American Pluralism

Eugene Genovese:
Redeeming the Time by Eugene D. Genovese
The New Republic: From the Archives: Eugene Genovese on Eric Hobsbawm
The Squandered Century
by Eugene Genovese
Paul Gottfried, Eric Hobsbawm and the Totalitarian Double Standard

AmCon:
More from Rod Dreher on the SSJ
Jack Hunter, Whatever Happened to Civil Liberties?
Kevin Gutzman, Misjudging Rehnquist
PJB, Obama’s Foreign Policy Unravels

Counterpunch:
Ralph Nader, Rigging the Presidential Debates
Paul Craig Roberts, Cynthia McKinney on Leadership

[Intellectual] Property:
An interview with Silke Helfrich: “We have to reformulate the role of the state as enabler of the commons”
Is Property Theft?

Automobiles and Driving:
Dmitry Orlov, In Praise of Anarchy, Part 1
Occupy the Motor Industry

Music:
Psy Talks ‘Gangnam Style’ and Newfound Fame
Waylon Jennings: The 'Last Recordings' Of A Dreamer

Square Dance History Project Launches New Website - here

Items of Interest, 5 March 2012

A brief legal (and mildly political) analysis of the NDAA



First Heretical Notions, now Paul Gottfried: A Modest Secessionist Proposal

Thomas Fleming, Putin and Democracy, American-Style
Kevin Carson, To Vote, or Not to Vote?
Ted Galen Carpenter, Enlisting America
Peter Hitchens, Pay Cops – a Grim Prophecy May be Coming True
James Howard Kunstler, Reality Check
Christopher Shannon on L. Brent Bozell: "Freedom or Virtue?" Revisited

Counterpunch:
PAM MARTENS AND RUSS MARTENS, Koch Brothers, Worth $50 Billion, Sue Widow Over $16.00 of Nonprofit’s Stock
KARL GROSSMAN, Nuclear Power and the Big Lie
MIKE WHITNEY, Mom and Pop Investors Call It Quits
PATRICK COCKBURN, Israel’s Huff and Puff Game

Economics:
Uneconomic growth deepens depression by Herman Daly (EB)
Debt and the Transition economy by Joanne Poyourow (EB)

Relocalization and Agrarianism:
It’s Not a Fairytale: Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food Forest
Making local food our future: A community response to the global food system by Katharine Darling (EB)
Our co-owned future by Gar Alperovitz (EB)
I got the power! by Charlotte Du Cann (EB)
Kick Wall Street to the curb, get $15 trillion by Erik Curren
Reclaiming domesticity from a consumer culture

Catholic:
Robert L. Wilken, Tutoring the Affections: Liturgy and Christian Formation in the Early Church

Dr. Mahrt's book, The Musical Shape of the Liturgy, is now available! We've waited a century for this work.

Penitence and Repentance: A Lenten Primer
Women and the Priesthood by Renee Pomarico

Education:
Why We Study Plato By Dr. Brian T. Kelly

History:
The Village Ale-Wife: Women and Brewing in Fourteenth-Century England
The Medieval Horse Harness: Revolution or Evolution? A Case Study in Technological Change
Why did the Anglo-Saxons not become more British?
North-European Trading Centres and the Early Medieval Craftsman; Craftsmen at Åhus, north-eastern Scania, Sweden ca. AD 750-850+
The myth of the medieval chastity belt

Food:
Barbecue Styles Across the United States: An Introduction

Music:
Belfry Fellows (FB)- Gotta Little Somethin'


The Renaissance of Polyphony by Damian Fowler

Harmonia Early Music: I Am Woman, Hear Me Sing

Book Event: Sisterhood of Dune by Brian Herbert

Book Event: Sisterhood of Dune by Brian Herbert from Suvudu on Vimeo.

Items of Interest, 14 January 2012

Ethika Politika: What We’re Reading (1.12.12)

The Christian Humanist: Neither Stickit Minister nor Sp'iled Praist

More from Peter Hitchens on Scottish independence: A free Scotland? No, it's being fed into the Euro-blender.

Counterpunch:
ALEXANDER COCKBURN, War on Iran: It’s Not A Matter of “If”
DAVID ROSEN, Mitt Romney: Banker and Pornographer
JOSEPH GERSON, The Grim Implications of Obama’s New Defense Plan

Woody Guthrie at 100 by BILL MOYERS and MICHAEL WINSHIP

Economics:
Will New Zealand be the first developed country to evolve a steady-state economy? by Jack Santa Barbara (EB)

Relocalization:
MANIFESTO: THE MAD FARMER LIBERATION FRONT by Wendell Berry

Outside In with Michael Shuman and Stephanie Mills

Outside In with Michael Shuman and Stephanie Mills from Robert Russell on Vimeo.

The Fundamental Issue is Land

What it looks like when food grows everywhere

Back in the day, urban gardens everywhere

Sepp Holzer's Permaculture: A Practical Guide to Small-Scale, Integrative Farming and Gardening - Preface

Feminism:
LAMIA OUALALOU, Defying the Macho

Catholic:
William Mahrt, The Musical Shape of the Liturgy - The Great Work is Here

Sandro Magister, "Placet" or "Non placet"? The wager of Carmen and Kiko, Music New and Old, from the Jungles of Paraguay, Vatican Diary / Sant'Egidio in supervised freedom

After the talks: "Would you kindly explain where the continuity is?"

New light on Roman Britain

Stanford Early Music Singers performing tomorrow night

Wednesday, December 7 - Memorial Church, 8 P.M.

Early Music Singers
William Mahrt directs the Early Music Singers’ program, 1611 - Psalms, Songs, and Sonnets: William Byrd and His Contemporaries, commemorating the 400th anniversary of Byrd’s last publication.

Fundraiser for a book by William Mahrt

A collection of essays on chant - The Musical Shape of the Liturgy, William Mahrt

William Mahrt

Jeffrey Tucker offers this Faculty Profile.

Sacred, Beautiful & Universal: Colloquium XIX

Dr. Mahrt's article from the 2010 Spring issue of Sacred Music

Posted at NLM: William Mahrt, Words, Words