Conference XXXV - Kalamazoo/South Bend - January 8-12, 2018

It’s Michigan Part 2! demonstrating the incredibly rich diversity of the Catholic Church in Michigan!  While Detroit offered the historical dimension of deeply-rooted ethnic groups in an exciting urban setting, this coming January’s conference in Kalamazoo will offer the unique experience of the bustling lake shore region with the vibrant and energetic life of a thriving Midwest college town.  During this week we will be treated to stunning instruments by Nichols and Simpson and Paul Fritts, world-class performances by Craig Cramer, Thomas Fielding and the Ss. Peter and Paul Choral Scholars, and presentations and workshops by Fr. Brad Zamora, Fr. Andrew Menke, Dr. Paul Thornock and Marc Cerisier along with a visit to the internationally-recognized Western Michigan University Institute for Medieval Studies.  Our convention hotel will be the four-star Kalamazoo Radisson and our closing banquet will be held at Kalamazoo’s historic and elegant Henderson Castle.  And, of course, we will have our nightly camaraderie in the colloquium taking place in the Radisson’s Upjohn Suite.  Great things come in small packages and you won’t be disappointed!

 

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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