![]() ![]() “Years ago I was singing the Ave Maria for a wedding (the first of so many weddings). I stand by my decision.” -Nathaniel Wynans #5 “As a kid, I once stole the maracas away from the choir while they went up for Communion. Michael Scanlan, TOR, presider, said ‘AFTER the final prayer.’ Suddenly I realized that it was very quiet and everyone was standing, so I rose and said ‘let us sing our closing song… I was filling in and hadn’t practiced, so after Communion I was thinking through the last song and how to play it. “I was leading music for a weekday Mass at Franciscan University when I was a student. This time Mom managed to shut the phone off completely, but I still wanted to crawl in a hole and never be seen again.” -Guinevere Christian #3 Ten minutes later as the congregation fell silent after the Agnus Dei, it went off AGAIN. My mom fumbled to grab it and started frantically tapping and pushing, but all she managed to do was hit the snooze. So in the middle of the consecration (of course), my phone started blasting a big band Frank Sinatra song I set the alarm to … in the pew, with me up at the piano unable to stop it. “One Sunday, I had been terribly late getting to Mass where I was supposed to lead music, and forgot to turn an alarm off on my phone. Needless to say, I never bring my phone with me to Mass anymore.” -Johnny D. Unfortunately I had a microphone within two feet of me, so everyone heard it. So in front of eight hundred college students in complete silence, they heard ‘I’m sorry Big Papa, I can’t help you with that right now…’ You know how you can tell Siri to call you something besides your name? Well, she calls me ‘Big Papa.’ Well, right then, I must have sat on my home button, so I woke up Siri. Michael Sullivan is beautifully contemplative during the Mass, so he typically pauses longer than usual during the examination. Mike Sullivan, said “let us call to mind our sins and ask the Lord for his mercy…įr. Right before the Gloria, the priest, Fr. I rarely take my phone with me into Mass, but for some reason this day I had it with me in my back pocket. Mary’s before, the piano is the most “front-and-center” thing to the congregation (besides the altar)-so the pianist is easily seen by everyone. ![]() Mary’s in College Station a few years ago. ![]() Here are the top ten among over seventy-five responses: #1 We asked Catholic music ministers what their most embarrassing moment was while leading music at Mass. 7.In our efforts to worship God with the gifts he gave us, sometimes our own flawed humanity is put on display more prominently than the actual gifts. Nobody remembers how relentlessly batshit this performance was, and I want that to change. Then at the end, Dom DeLuise appeared for no reason, dressed as what I think was supposed to be the Phantom of the Opera, and sort of banished the ghosts by blasting electricity through his fingertips at them. Poor Ray Parker Jr was forced to perform the entire song from inside a levitating forklift truck that he had spent more than a minute quietly manoeuvring into place at the start of his performance. The ghosts clattered around to hokey xylophone runs. Three Ghostbusters appeared, but they were dressed in purple satin jumpsuits and appeared to be holding the same laser guns as Orange James Bond from two years previously. Ray Parker Jr’s theme was nominated for best song in 1985, but his performance bore zero resemblance to anything even remotely connected to Ghostbusters. The best thing about the Oscars in the 80s was how obviously the organisers didn’t care about the nominated films. Photograph: ABC Photo Archives/Walt Disney Television/Getty Images Dom DeLuise (centre) and Ray Parker Jr (on the forklift) performing Ghostbusters in 1985. ![]()
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