[TPIN] Tips for playing at a Catholic church?

[Orion Development Corp - D. Arndt]

My *guess* (guess) is that policies (including bans on anything) are as much 
due to the nature of the clergy/staff running a particular church/parish, as 
any hard and fast doctrine.

We see variation like this in the Presbyterian Church also (Protestant).  
Some are extremely conservative, and never step outside the mold - follow 
the Church's Book of Order to the letter, and also program music very 
conservatively, while other (like ours) have all sorts of variation - 
including mixing of sacred and secular music with the service.  

I've done everything from playing excerpts from the Messiah, to The Prayer 
of St. Gregory (Orthodox in theme) to the Gottfried Reiche, to Jazz Trios... 
and even Dixieland.  Once, a minister had me stand up - in the congregation, 
in the middle of a sermon - and play the fanfare from the William Tell 
Overture.  I've long since forgotten what the theological message was in 
connection with that one! ...something about "confidence" or something like 
that.

- da


On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 09:10:07 -0500, Mark Deaton wrote
> I'm really amazed! I am a Catholic and have played at at least 250 
(probably
> more ) weddings at churches all over NY (mostly Rockland, Orange, Putnam
> counties & Northern NJ) and I have never encountered the "ban" on the
> Wedding March.