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Are there any one of you who attend churches with orchestra (traditional instrumentation)? Every now and then I get CDs by a cathedral choir (namely, Westminister Cathedral, not Westminister Abbey). The pictures always seem to have orchestras in them.
 
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Are there any one of you who attend churches with orchestra (traditional instrumentation)? Every now and then I get CDs by a cathedral choir (namely, Westminister Cathedral, not Westminister Abbey). The pictures always seem to have orchestras in them.
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The only one in my area that I know of is Assumption Grotto. They occasionally have Masses with an Orchestra that you descrive.

Speaching of that, I will be going to a concert by the DSO (Detroit Symphony) where they will be doing one of Mozart Masses. I believe the pastor at Assumption has done some things with the DSO in the past.

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I would love to go to an Orchestral Mass at Grotto. Fr. Perrone has a (Masters?) degree in music, and I even remember hearing Fr. Rutler talking about how incredible it is.
 
I sang in a cathedral choir for over 18 years. The norm for us was a brass quintet with tympani on high holy days. We never went beyond a baroque orchestra of about 16 instrumentalists and that was in a concert setting. I don’t think that the CDs you are listening to are actual Masses but rather concerts. The only Mass I can think of with a full orchestra was said by JPII with the Berlin Philharmonic in attendance. It was Mozart’s Coronation Mass and it was filmed as a fund raiser.
 
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I would love to go to an Orchestral Mass at Grotto. Fr. Perrone has a (Masters?) degree in music, and I even remember hearing Fr. Rutler talking about how incredible it is.
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I would probably not go.

Reason: My hearing is so sensitive and where they are set up at the Grotto would be too close. I would not be able to hear it properly.

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Oh, how I miss Westminster Cathedral…

But, according to my (admittedly quite fallible) memory, there was never an orchestra present during Mass.
 
It’s not just Grotto in Detroit. The oldest continuous orchestral Mass tradition in the area is actually at St. Joseph Church. The current organist and choir director there is local celeb Dave Wagner, who is also known to Southern California readers as program director of K-Mozart 105.1 FM.

Old St. Mary’s used to have orchestral Masses on Christmas and Easter, but I’m not sure if they still do.

And a new tradition is starting at St. Josaphat Church, where we have had one orchestral Mass already, and will be holding more in the future.

But we must, of course, acknowledge the granddaddy of this tradition in the United States, St. Agnes in St. Paul, MN. They hold more orchestral Masses than any other chuch I know of worldwide.
 
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Oh, how I miss Westminster Cathedral…

But, according to my (admittedly quite fallible) memory, there was never an orchestra present during Mass.
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I’ve never been to it, though there are pictures of choir and orchestra on my two CDs from them, eventhough both of the CDs themselves are a capella (sp?)!
 
This may be a little far afield, but I recall an orchestra in the Munich cathedral many years ago. Before going to Rome the present Holy Father was archbishop in Munich.
 
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