Job Opening: Music Teacher and Pastoral Associate for Children’s Music

Job Opening: Music Teacher and Pastoral Associate for Children’s Music

Prince of Peace Catholic Church and School in Taylors, South Carolina (jeffb94.sg-host.com) is conducting a national search for a Music Teacher and Pastoral Associate for Children’s Music. Duties of the position are two-pronged. The primary focus is classroom music instruction in our award-wining parochial school (following Diocesan/National standards), grades K4- 8th, and directing the school choir. The position also includes assisting the parish Director of Music in directing choirs for the parish, and associated collegial responsibilities. Prince of Peace has a significant history of musical theatre performances for both school and parish for which this position is chiefly responsible. The position is a salaried one, and is eligible for Diocesan benefits. Compensation is commensurate with qualifications and experience.  A Bachelor’s degree or higher in music and artistic keyboard skills are pre-requisite.  Coursework/degree in music education, certification or experience in the Ward Method or Kodály sight singing methods, Orff methodology, and knowledge of Gregorian chant and the patrimony of Catholic sacred music is preferred.  The position begins 1 July 2021.

Please send a cover letter, resume, and three letters of recommendation to Father Christopher Smith at frsmith@princeofpeacetaylors.org,with cc’s to alan.reed@princeofpeacetaylors.org and
principal@princeofpeacetaylors.org.
Latin Mass Workshop, a 5-week speaker series

Latin Mass Workshop, a 5-week speaker series

Spark an understanding and love of the Extraordinary Form of Mass by attending all OR part of a 5-week workshop on Sundays at 10a starting 24 September in the Parish Activity Center (PAC) on the campus of Prince of Peace Catholic Church & School (1209 Brushy Creek Road, Taylors). Questions? Call Paul Pizzuti at 843.616.1766.

· 24 September – Why Latin? with Fr. Jason Barone of the Diocese of Charlotte

· 1 October – The Mass & the Missal with Fr. Richard Tomlinson

· 8 October – Sacred Music with Fr. Christopher Smith

· 15 October – The Beauty of the EF Mass with Joseph Pearce

· 22 October – Sacred Art & Architecture, What Changed with Vatican II with Jacob Wolfe

Prince of Peace Catholic Church invites you to attend the Extraordinary Form Mass on Sundays at 12n.
A Choral Mass for Lent – Sundays at Noon

A Choral Mass for Lent – Sundays at Noon

Two choral Masses will be featured during the season on Lent at noon – one ancient and one modern. Sundays one, two, three and five will utilize a setting known as the Missa Tornacensis – Tournai Mass.  Sunday four (Lætare) will feature the Berliner Mass by the Estonian composer, Arvo Pärt.

Dating from the first half of the fourteenth century, the Tournai Mass is often considered by musicologists to be the first unified setting of the mass ordinary. It was common practice in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries to compose polyphonic settings of single movements of the mass ordinary—such as a lone Gloria—or else larger segments thereof—such as the Sanctus  and Agnus Dei  together. This Tournai Mass is instead among the earliest extant examples of a complete setting of all five parts of the mass (plus the Ite, missa est), copied together into a signle manuscript found in Tournai, Belgium.

While the mass was clearly conceived by scribes as a single cycle, however, differences in notation across the various movements indicate that the Tournai Mass was not composed by a single person or even at one time. Rather, the mass was likely the work of several thirteenth- and fourteenth-century composers, later compiled by scribes into a complete cycle with sufficient stylistic consistency. Even so, the Tournai Mass stands as a milestone in the history of liturgical music; Guillaume de Machaut seems to have closely modelled his fourteenth-century mass (the first by a single composer) on the Tournai model, and by the mid-fifteenth century, mass composition would surpass the motet as the primary vessel for composers’ musical innovation and achievement.

Ordinary Splendor

Ordinary Splendor

As Catholic Christians, we have been called through our Baptism to evangelize the world.  One of the best ways to encounter God, who is the True, the Good, and the Beautiful, is to experience the true, the good, and the beautiful found within our culture.  God can be found in art, literature, music, film, science, drama, dance, and nature.

In fact, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI once wrote, “The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely the saints the Church has produced and the art which has grown in her womb.  Better witness is borne to the Lord by the splendor of holiness and art which have arisen in the community of believers than by…apologetics…”[1]

Last June, Barbara Nicolosi, a screenwriter from Los Angeles, gave a talk on the importance of the arts in the Church.  This event was a trial balloon to see if this type of event would be of interest to our parishioners.  Overwhelmingly, the feedback we received is yes, our parishioners would like more!

To this end, we will be launching a series of cultural events here at Prince of Peace, known as Ordinary Splendor, in the hopes of evangelizing ourselves and our neighbors through culture.  Our hope is to have between 6-8 events during 2017.  Ordinary Splendor will help us draw closer to the Lord through encountering his radiance and benevolence in various artistic mediums.

We are very excited to announce that our first event will be on Friday, 3 February, at 7.30p, when Ordinary Splendor presents The treble choristers of the Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys of Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York City, as they tour the Southeast.  The Saint Thomas Choir School house, nurtures, and educates the boy choristers of the world-renowned choir of Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue.  Through rigorous musical training and highly individualized classroom instruction in a familial, Christian environment, the school instills in its students the intellectual skills and ethical values that will enable them to embrace life with confidence, responsibility, and joy.  A reception will be held after the concert.  You do not want to miss this exciting event!

Tickets are $20 and are on sale now.  For tickets, please contact Alan Reed at alan.reed@princeofpeacetaylors.org or 864-331-3904.

If you would like to volunteer to help with this event or any of the Ordinary Splendor events in the future, please contact me at angela.calabro@princeofpeacetaylors.org or 864-331-3903.

 

Angela Calabro

Director of Catechesis and Evangelization

[1] Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), The Ratzinger Report, p. 129.

Prince of Peace to host The treble choristers of the Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys of Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York City

Prince of Peace to host The treble choristers of the Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys of Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York City

Prince of Peace is excited to announce that we will be host to The treble choristers of the Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys of Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York City, as they tour the Southeast.  The Saint Thomas Choir School house, nurtures, and educates the boy choristers of the world-renowned choir of Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue.  Through rigorous musical training and highly individualized classroom instruction in a familial, Christian environment, the school instills in its students the intellectual skills and ethical values that will enable them to embrace life with confidence, responsibility, and joy.  A reception will be held after the concert.  You do not want to miss this exciting event!

3 February, 7.30p

Tickets are $20 and are on sale now.  For tickets, please contact Alan Reed at alan.reed@princeofpeacetaylors.org or 864-331-3904.

If you would like to volunteer to help with this event, please contact Angela Calabro at angela.calabro@princeofpeacetaylors.org or 864-331-3903.

photo credit: Ira Lippke, 2016