Each weekend, music is recorded at four services: the Saturday 5PM St. Elizabeth service, the Sunday 9:30AM St. Elizabeth service, the Sunday 11AM  Mother Cabrini Chapel service, and the Sunday 12:30 St. Elizabeth service. While the organist is the same for all four services, one cantor leads song at the 5PM and 12:30PM services, and the second cantor leads song at the other two services.

The microphones are pointed away from the organ pipes towards the front of the church to better capture the amplified cantors' singing. Even so,  the reverberation can obscure the vocals or make the words difficult to understand.  Inclusion of the hymn text would be beneficial, but often copyright protection prohibits this. Those texts in the public domain will gradually be added to this site. The copyright of the text of the psalm responses and gospel verses are held by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine Inc. The copyrights of the other hymns are listed in alphabetical order on a separate page (see link below).

The distance from the cantor to the organ pipes and the sound reverberation in St. Elizabeth both conspire to slow down the tempo of the music. Both parameters are smaller in Cabrini Chapel, resulting in a clearer (but harder) sound acoustic that allows for easier coordination between the organist and singer as well as better pickup of the congregational singing by the microphones.

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Revision Date: 6/3/08



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