Schedule - Thursday, July 12

Plenum Address 9:00 AM Dialogue in Search of Communion: Working Together in Pastoral Ministry Jerry Galipeau and Mary Kay Oosdyke, OP Can we really work together? Whether clergy or musician, practitioner or theologian, we need practical skills for collaboration in ministry and the understanding and commitment to make it happen. GALIPEAU OOSDYKE

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Breakout Sessions 10:30 - 11:45 am

D 01 Continue the Conversation: Dialogue in Search of Communion - Working Together in Pastoral Ministry
Jerry Galipeau, Mary Kay Oosdeyke, OP
Continue the conversation with the plenum speakers.

D 02 Lectionary Anthem Project II: Lent/Easter Year A
Timothy Dyksinski
Explore choral anthems and motets for the Lent and Easter seasons, based on the readings for Year A of the Lectionary.

D 04 Singing The Mass
Paul Ford
Tired of your parish’s version of the “four-hymn sandwich”? Learn how to use the Sacramentary and the Roman and Simple Graduals to find psalms, songs, and hymns that allow our Catholic musical traditions to minister spiritually to our contemporary needs. Receive handouts and helpful hints that will simplify your job.

D 05 Celebrating Marriage
Paul Covino, Elaine Rendler-McQueeney and Larry Madden, SJ
Pastoral, musical, and liturgical perspectives and resources for helping your community celebrate the Rite of Marriage.

D 06 What Poetry Are We Praying?
Alan Hommerding
Liturgy demands poetry and the arts to address the whole person. Discover how poetry and prayer are interconnected in our worship.

D 08 Cultural Concerns: Serving Spanish Communitites in Worship
Ronald Krisman
Practical items a non-Spanish speaking musician needs to know to serve the Latino/a communities.

D 09 Técnicas para los cantantes españoles
Norma Garcia
Una sesión en español para ayudarle a aprender las técnicas vocales que Se utilizan en la liturgia si usted es cantor/salmista o miembro del coro.

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D 10 Using Your Voice to Lead Prayer
Melanie Coddington
Discover how your voice and person can lead an assembly’s prayer.

D 11 Techniques to Improve your Sound and Leadership, Part I
Mary Clare McAlee
Musical and pastoral techniques that will help you serve the assembly with the voice.

D 12 I've Got Rhythm
Gerry Chiusano, Bobby Fisher
Basic rhythm section tips and techniques for assigning, controlling, and blending the standard piano, bass, drum, and guitar sections.

D 13 Justice for All: Contracts and Other Practical Issues
Anne Ketzer
Down to earth information about the managerial concerns that are part of our ministry.

D 14 Organ Registration
Marie Kremer
What stops do I pull to obtain which sound and for what style of music?

D 15 Organ Improvisation Techniques
John Miller
Discover the tools that will serve for creative and confident improvisation on the organ.

D 16 Adapting Hymnody to the Piano
William Gokelman
Practical tools to lead a hymn from the piano keyboard.

D 17 The Electronic Keyboard in the Liturgy
Keith Kalemba
Unlock the key to the puzzle that electronic keyboards can be and explore how to utilize them in serving the liturgy.

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KALEMBA

TOMASZEK

ANSLINGER

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DiNARDO

D 18 Music Ministry for All Generations
Tom Tomaszek
Music ministry serves and is served by all age groups in the church. What would a more inclusive program look like?

D 19 New Texts: Concerns for Presiders and Pastors
Archbishop Daniel Di Nardo
Explore the opportunities and challenges that the new texts of the Roman Missal will offer presiders and pastors.

D 20 Volunteer Singers and Vocal Development
Thomas Porter
Practical tips to empower your singers in a healthier and more productive use of their vocal instrument.

D 21 Conducting the Humane Rehearsal
James Jordan
Choir directors can offer care and feeding of the entire choir by conducting a humane rehearsal.

D 22 Teaching Children to Sing: Body-Mind-Spirit-Voice - It Takes the Whole Person to Sing and Rejoice! (1 ½ hour session)
Helen Kemp
The child voice, it's nature and nurture will be discussed. A selection of anthems (complementary) will illustrate appropriate singing ranges and vocal technique.

D 23 Traditional and Contemporary: How Do We Worship Together?
John Flaherty, Paul Hillebrand
Reflect on all that needs to be considered in bringing together various styles of worship so “that all may be one.”

D 24 Do Part-Time Music Directors and Coordinators Have Special Needs?
Carey Landry
An interactive session at which participants will be invited to share the needs and concerns that are unique to those who offer music ministry on a part-time basis, and explore means to give each other greater support.

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FLAHERTY

LANDRY

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D 25 Singing the Liturgy as the Center of the Community Life
Tom Kendzia
Reflect on how the liturgy can serve whole community and whole person catechesis.

D 26 One Step at a Time
Robert VerEecke, SJ
Ritual movement and dance as a way of celebrating the Body of Christ as one. Simple movement patterns will be offered as a way of inviting the whole community into an experience of prayer as one.

D 27 MusOp: The Rosary
Bob Hurd
Pray the rosary through icon, scripture, prayer, and the song of Bob Hurd. Sponsored by OCP.

D 28 Showcase: Choral Music for the Parish
Mark Lawson
MorningStar Music Publishers presents new choral publications appropriate for parish choirs including the newest publications in the St. Louis Cathedral Series.

D 29 Showcase: Enhancing the Liturgy through Ringing
Kathleen Ebling-Thorne
This “hands-on” session will introduce handbells and Choirchimes. Ideas will be offered to embellish the liturgy. An introduction to beginning a ringing program will be presented. Sponsored by Malmark, Inc. - Bellcraftsmen

D 30 Showcase: Music That Sings!
Jane Holstein and David Weck
Receive a packet of choral music from Hope Publishing Company, as together we sing and explore the latest offerings from today’s choral writers.

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12:45 pm - Noontime Organ Recital at St. John's Church
Dr. John Miller, FAGO, the director of music ministries for the Catehdral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Newark, New Jersey, artistic director of the Cathedral Concert Series, music coordinator for the Archdiocese of Newark, and chapter director for NPM Newark.

Industry Showcase: OCP Publications 1:30-2:30 PM Today's Music for Today's Church Come and experience the newest and best resources from OCP and meet the faces behind our music. Attendees will receive a packet of the best resources OCP has to offer!

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Breakout Sessions 3:00 - 4:15 pm

E 01 The Real Presence of the Assembly: Toward Full, Active, and Conscious Participation
Roc O’Connor, SJ, John Foley, SJ
Real presence and full, active, and conscious participation are two important values offered us in the reformed liturgy. They connect in the assembly that gathers for worship. Connect the dots.

E 04 Preparing the Church's Prayer: Introductory Rites and Liturgy of the Word
Jerry Galipeau
Explore the basic elements of the Introductory Rites and the Liturgy of the Word.

E 05 Singing the Rites: Music and the RCIA
Christopher Walker
Wonderful resources that will help your assembly sing the rituals of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults.

E 06 A Chance to Talk with the BCL
Anthony Sherman
Enjoy the opportunity to have a conversation with the associate director of the Bishops’ Committee on the Liturgy.

E 07 Liturgical and Devotional Prayer: Blend? Compliment?
Joyce Ann Zimmerman, C.PP.S.
This workshop will describe, compare, and contrast these two very different prayer forms and explore practical ways to implement devotional prayer in a healthy parish prayer life.

E 08 Resources for Sacraments: Weddings and Funerals
Norma Garcia
A session that shares bilingual resources for weddings and funerals.

E 09 Celebrando los Ritos de RICA
Joe Coleman
Una sesión en español que ofrece las herramientas prácticas para celebrar los ritos del RICA, especialmente durante la Vigilia Pascual.

E 10 The Psalms: Artistic Perspectives
Kathleen Harmon, SND de N
The Psalms need to be approached from a variety of perspectives when prayed in worship. Reflect upon the artistic considerations that cantors need to ponder.

E 11 Techniques to Improve your Sound and Leadership, Part 2
Mary Clare McAlee
A continuation of D-11.

E 12 Everything and the Kitchen Sink
Barney Walker
A crash course in arranging and orchestrating for a full ensemble consisting of piano, bass, drum, guitar, brass, strings, and auxiliary percussion.

E 13 Managing a Music Program, Part 2
Steve Petrunak
A continuation of C-13.

E 14 Buying, Maintaining or Building an Organ
Paul Skevington
Pipe vs. electronic, the organ committee, education, raising money, working with a builder, tonal considerations, restoration and rebuilding, acoustics, new churches, maintenance, and much more.

E 15 Conducting From the Console
John A. Romeri
Practical ideas about how to conduct and play at the same time.

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SHERMAN

ZIMMERMAN

KAUFFMAN

WALKER

SKEVINGTON

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E 16 Keyboard Improvisation Techniques
Paul Tate
Invite your creative side to meet your practical side to develop resources for improvising at the piano keyboard.

E 17 Feet Don't Fail Me Now!
Alan Hommerding
One session that will help a pianist discover the basics needed to lead from the organ.

E 18 Effective and Appropriate Use of Diverse Genres
David Haas, Tony Alonso
Many genres of music are written for liturgical and devotional use. Explore how to discern which genres to use when, and some criteria for deciding.

E 19 Singing the Proclamations: Christmas, Epiphany, Exsultet
Columba Kelly, OSB
Discover how these important proclamations can be sung in your parish setting.

E 20 Score Preparation Basics
Paul French
All the elements one needs to consider in preparing a score for conducting the choir.

E 21 Choral Repertoire that Challenges and Inspires
Kent Tritle
Discover repertoire that will be both challenging and inspiring to your choir, your community, and to you.

E 22 Children's Choir in Churches (1 ½ hour session)
Helen Kemp
How to make the children's choir a religious, educational, artistic, musical and joyful experience for the choristers.

E 23 Enhancing School Liturgies with the Talent of the Band
Pamela Holmes
Discover how to tap the resources available in student musicians to enhance your school liturgical celebrations.

E 24 Resources for Communities Small in Number and Large in Faith
Thomas Porter
Resources that will help your community sing and pray the liturgy.

E 25 How Other Choirs Work: Culture in the Rehearsal Room
Rufino Zaragoza, OFM
Explore how to prepare liturgies for one-time events: Chrism Mass, Diocesan Multicultural Celebrations, ordinations, etc., with the requisite intercommunication skills and knowledge of liturgical and musical resources needed for these celebrations.

E 26 Peace before You: A Spiritual Centering Through Music, Movement and Prayer
Donna Anderle, Mark Friedman
A treat for mind, body, and spirit through beautiful music, simple movement and gesture, breathing techniques, Scripture, and meditation.

E 27 MusOp: Follow Me
David Kauffman, William Gokelman
Pray and sing with the music of composers and musicians from Good For The Soul Music.

E 28 Showcase: What to Consider When Taking Your Choir on Tour
Jim Wickman, Moderator
A panel of representatives from tour operators specializing in performance tours will answer specific questions from a moderator and also answer questions from the attendees.

E 29 Showcase: Newly Expanded Sourcebook for Sundays and Seasons 2008
Liturgy Training Publications
Come learn how you, especially music ministers, and your parish can benefit from the expanded Sourcebook for Sundays and Seasons each day of the liturgical year. Now in its twentieth year, the 2008 Sourcebook includes expanded features and additional elements that are essential for vibrant liturgy, all at the same affordable price.

E 30 Showcase: "Taken by Love": Year A with Songs in His Presence
Jane Terwilliger, Amy Righi
Featuring reverent and uniquely beautiful Lectionary-conforming Psalms for use in Year A. Discover a wealth of stirring new hymns and their success in liturgy, including funerals and weddings. Samples included

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Lori True Come re-connect with each other, share the best of the week so far, and find new energy to face what lies ahead as you return to parishes and schools. Come celebrate new friends, insights, and commitment for the future. Come sing and pray and begin to say good-bye.

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THURSDAY GALA EVENT INDIANAPOLIS CHILDREN'S CHOIR at the Hilbert Circle Theater Joshua Pedde, Conductor 6:30 - 7:30 pm and 8:30-9:30 pm Gather on the last evening of the convention for a world-class performance in a world-class concert hall. The internationally acclaimed Indianapolis Children’s Choir will perform at the Hilbert Circle Theater under the direction of Assistant Conductor Joshua Pedde in a program giving voice to music of the world.Come and hear the voices of children that inspire hope! Enjoy a reception for convention participants at the Hilbert Circle Theater. The Indianapolis Children’s Choir provides high quality choral music instruction and performance opportunities for children of all backgrounds, while fostering personal and social growth and promoting a sense of self esteem, accomplishment, and pride. Each week the ICC gathers 1700 kids from 17 Central Indiana counties in 24 ensembles and programs. Members of the choir have performed at the US Grand Prix and the Indianapolis 500 Parade, and have shared the stage with artists such as Judy Collins, Celine Dion and the Canadian Brass.

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