Er det virkelig slik at de unge ønsker tradisjonell musikk i messen?
En artikkel i NLM viser til et stykke i The Washington Post, som er ganske kritisk til den gamle, katolske 70-talls-musikken. Det er de gamle som vil ha den slags moderne musikk i vår tid, sies det, mens de unge vil ha gregoriansk sang. Forfatteren setter det en del på spissen, og overdriver nok i hvor stor grad de unges konservative smak nå bestemmer sang- og musikkvalget i menighetene, men det han skriver er svært interessant. Les selv og se:
Imagine a bizarro world where all the 25-year-olds want Mozart and all the 60-year-olds want adult-contemporary. The kids think the adults are too wild. The backlash against «Kumbaya Catholicism» has anyone under 40 allegedly clamoring for the Tridentine Mass in Latin, while the old folks are most sentimental about Casual Sunday (even more rockin’, the Saturday vigil Mass), and still cling to what’s evolved from the lite-rock guitar liturgies of the 1970s. The result, for most parishes, has been decades of Masses in which no one is entirely satisfied, and very few enjoy the music enough to sing along.
«The great majority [of Catholics] are totally inert at Mass,» says Thomas Day, 65, a humanities and music professor at Salve Regina University in Newport, R.I. Day wrote a book called «Why Catholics Can’t Sing: The Culture of Catholicism and the Triumph of Bad Taste,» which is often cited by those who’d like to see a return to Mass music that is to them more sacred. «Most Catholics have either forgotten or never knew traditional music,» Day says.
[….] Tucker characterized most Catholic church parishes as ruled by a «hard-core» group that «is fanatically attached to music of the 1970s and fears even the slightest hint of solemnity, warning darkly that the new priest is going to take the parish into a new Dark Age.» …
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