What are your memories of liturgical music in that period after the Second Vatican Council? Here are mine.
First, understand this about my background: I was born in 1960, but was not taken to Mass until I was five years old. My mother was a faithful Catholic, my father was, as he would put it, a “lapsed Methodist.” I evidently didn’t behave well in Mass, so early on, my mother decided, why bother, when she can stay with David? - so I did.
That said, I don’t remember a thing – a thing – about liturgical music during my childhood when she did start allowing me to accompany her. Those first couple of years we went to a university Newman Center – I remember the look of the building and even the interior space, I remember being dropped off for CCD one morning when it wasn’t in session - but nothing about actually going to Mass. For much of my childhood, we were in your basic midwestern parish – I looked it up today, an it’s still there – and again, I remember nothing about Mass.
But then – high school. A Catholic diocesan high school in the south, from 1974-78. That I remember.
