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This is one of the best articles I’ve seen to help explain the Music Industry business and your rights.  Easy to read, yet very thorough.  I recently used Tunecore.com to distribute an “all digital only” album.  They promised 48 hours turn-around to iTunes and it happened.  The backend money manager is also a breeze.  Good job, guys!

RandomHouze Productions was honored to produce over 30 hours of live webcasting and archival services for the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress, held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA. In addition to live streaming all events from the Arena, we provided remote location broadcasts from the Exhibit Hall and produced 6 hours of one-on-one interviews.

A sincere thanks to our partners at WorshipStream.com for a robust and easy-to-use video streaming service which helped us reach out to 10,000+ viewers in 17 countries around the world. Not only is it a great CDN…they are nice people too!    contact

Also thanks to the folks at NewTek for the use of their new Tricaster TCXD850 and the really cool control surface!  This provided us a much needed all-in-one webcasting solution…easy to operate, simple push-button commands and efficient workflows built right in to the box.   contact

Music and global outreach were both very important to Jean and Scott Adam, so it is fitting that the money raised from this album will fund our new Community Center Music Ministry Suite, creating future New Media products to help evangelize today’s digital continent.

This album includes “live” recordings of the choirs from our various liturgies, as well as select songs from our music CD projects, currently available in our bookstore. For the album iTunes link: click here.

This live audio recording is now available on our new iTunes album “Servants of Peace” click here
“You Hold My World” by Israel Houghton. Soloist: Jaffa Carrera, Cantor: Helena Buscema.

CLICK HERE for a PDF of the note shared by Msgr. Torgerson at tonight’s Sunday 530pm Mass.

Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. (1915-2011)

CLICK HERE for an MP3 audio sample of our 4:00pm Christmas Eve Liturgy with Msgr. Lloyd Torgerson and the Sunday 5:30 Choir.

…what are the benefits, barriers and lessons learned?

Presented by Daniel Houze (RandomHouze Productions) & Robin Rokisky (Seaton Delta Consulting), this 20 minute video is a discussion on the various uses of A/V technology in the liturgy and how it was done for the first time at Rel Ed Congress 2010.  Presented on March 20, 2010 at the Los Angeles Rel Ed Congress @ the Anaheim Convention Center.

was the theme of this year’s awesome OLA Regional Congress. Congrats to David Lara and the entire liturgy team…Thanks to so many of you for the support and participation! Below are links for the bilingual theme song and a live audio sample of music from the liturgy:

Theme Song – PDF sheet music (free download)

Theme Song – MP3 audio (free download)

LIVE Audio sample (music from the Liturgy): CLICK HERE

Click here to order a DVD

Los Angeles Catholic Prayer Breakfast 2010
Keynote: Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan
Sept 21, 2010 | Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral, Los Angeles, CA

The following was posted in a parish bulletin last week.  This is a good article for catechesis so I thought it might be worth sharing to everyone:

The cantor leads and sustains the singing of the assembly. The cantor may also sing solos or alternate with everyone else. Whether your church is blessed with a choir or prays without one, the cantor helps integrate the service.

The cantor is also one of the ministers assigned to parts of the Mass. When the priest, deacon, cantor, servers, assembly and others accept their respective roles, we all celebrate Mass with more understanding. The cantor may lead the psalm at the ambo, assuming the same position as the reader of Scripture. The cantor may read or sing the petitions of the penitential rite and of the general intercessions. The cantor may lead other music such as the Alleluia, the Lamb of God and the Communion song. Thus the cantor adds a degree of solemnity to the Eucharist. A cantor will also provide encouragement and example for others to join in singing.

A well-trained cantor blesses the community. Cantors should possess enough musical ability to execute their ministry, but they need something more. They need to be men and women with religious understanding, who can not only sing a text accurately but also share their faithful soul and inspire the prayer of others. A good cantor will invite participation in song and spirit.

Some people prefer not to sing when they hear the cantor. In our culture, we expect that someone singing into a microphone is a soloist, so we may forget that all of us are “performers” at church. When the cantor leads our song, we should sing, not listen.

Since the cantor sings praise, prayer, petition and sorrow, the ministry demands someone experienced with life. Cantors who share their struggles and joys in song will help us meet ours.

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