Conference XLI - England - January 2024

The Steering Committee cordially invites you to England January 15–22, 2024 in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Conference of Roman Catholic Cathedral Musicians. An exceptional week is planned that includes visits to Westminster Cathedral, Brompton Oratory, and Westminster Abbey in London; excursions to the cathedrals at Canterbury, Winchester, Salisbury, and Ely; in Cambridge, experience Trinity, King’s, and St. John’s Colleges. Many of these visits will include liturgies and/or sessions with the resident musicians. A brochure containing details of the schedule, first class accommodations, and others features of the trip will soon be available from Peter’s Way Tours. Please check back here for further updates.

We encourage all CRCCM members and their guests to participate in this extraordinary opportunity!

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.

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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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