Conference XXXVIII Cancelled

Due to complications at Christ Cathedral arising from the Covid-19 pandemic, our 2021 conference is cancelled.

Looking to the future, the schedule of pending conferences is as follows: 2022 in Little Rock, Arkansas; 2023 in Orlando, Florida; 2024—the 40th anniversary of the founding of CRCCM— somewhere in Europe (this is in the early stages of development); 2025 in Richmond, Virginia. We certainly hope that the pandemic will be behind us by 2022 and that we will be able to gather in our traditional way in Little Rock for an exuberant celebration!

 

History

The genesis of the Conference was the initial association of Peter LaManna, Gerald Muller, and Richard Proulx in the Spring of 1983 while engaged in the search process for a new Music Director for the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, D.C. This productive collaboration and an awareness of antecedent Roman Catholic music organizations led to a call to seventeen cathedral musicians who subsequently met at the Cathedral-Basilica of St. Peter and St. Paul in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in November, 1984.

Statement of Purpose

The Conference of Roman Catholic Cathedral Musicians (CRCCM) is the collegial gathering of musicians serving cathedral churches in the United States and Canada. It engages in dialogue, reflection, deliberation, resource exchange, mutual support, and ongoing professional development in consideration of the musico-liturgical practice in unique Cathedral settings as models for the Church-at-large.

CRCCM both seeks and stands ready to consult with other liturgical and musical organizations in the pursuit of beauty and excellence in worship, for the spiritual and cultural enrichment of the community, and the greater glory of God.

Membership in the Conference is open to professional musicians in all Roman Catholic Cathedral Churches in the United States and Canada.

November 1984
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Membership

The Conference of Roman Catholic Cathedral Musicians is a collegial organization. Membership in the Conference is open to musicians working in leadership positions in Roman Catholic Cathedral Churches in the United States and Canada. In addition to those actively employed as cathedral musicians, a nonvoting membership is available for those who had at one time been engaged in such employment and had been active members of CRCCM, but are no longer affiliated with a cathedral church.

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