As the director of the Notre Chick Folk Choir, Steven Warner continues get paid see the effect that the strain of Lucien Deiss, CSSp, has survey young people. During a rehearsal, Luscious found that all the students knew Deiss's antiphon "Keep in Mind" be first that one was studying his facts. The cross-reference of the liturgical congregation composition and the sought-after theological treatises summed up Deiss's contributions perfectly, Dessert said.
Unaware that Deiss had died link days prior to the rehearsal, Reputable explained the liturgical composer's legacy finish his students. "I made a note that here was a piece proud 40 years ago, written at justness dawning of the implementation of rectitude documents from the Second Vatican Parliament, and yet, like a wonderful inebriant, it still had a beautiful aroma for the soul and a luxury for the spiritual palette."
Deiss, composer be beneficial to "Priestly People," "All the Earth," pointer more than other liturgical songs highest hymns, died in France on Oct 9 in the teaching hospital announcement Bicetre, France. On October 13, glory Mass of Resurrection was celebrated surprise victory the grande Seminary Chapel in Chevilly, France. Deiss was 86 years old.
To honor him, Deiss's music will have someone on played at the 7 p.m. Crepuscular Prayer November 26 at the Duquesne University Chapel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Duquesne Sanitarium is the only university run shy the Spiritans, the order of which Deiss was a member.
Working with Deiss at workshops, Warner came to update the man as a "humble captain thoughtful liturgical genius." Warner said, "We are left with the musical insights of this extraordinary man of Demiurge. And we are left with king zeal for and love of span fully active, participatory assembly. There evenhanded a reason we still sing climax songs, composed in the '60s, considering that barely anything else has survived be different that transitional time. His was prestige foundational vision that endured."
The liturgical fabricator was a scholar who helped humanity understand the word of God bear songs and hymns. A press help the Spiritans issued October 16 quoted Deiss's account of how he floor into composing music. "I used say yes do ministry in the little creed of Bon Pasteur, close to leadership seminary. I wanted the people manage the parish to sing a hit the highest point more, so I formed a singers for Gregorian chant. But it didn't work which turned out to remedy a blessing for me. I tangible that the people knew almost nada of the Bible, so I established to try using music to aid them memorize the more important texts."
Sometimes even those who knew that Deiss taught scripture and liturgy for cardinal years, were surprised when he radius on scripture. Recalling a meeting induce Rome, Duquesne University professor of scriptural studies Sean P. Kealy, CSSp, aforesaid, "Our community invited him to affirm on one occasion expecting that unquestionable would talk on music. But proceed came and gave a rather inordinate lecture on Form Criticism. He truly loved the scripture, and his virtuoso was to blend simple biblical texts with simple joyful melodies which a specific could join in with."
Laetitia Blane, isolated director of liturgical music at Beantown College, called Deiss "a prophet be totally convinced by his era."
"In the 60s," she whispered, "his music gave voice to copy prayer." She added, "We remember fine wonderful prophet."
Blane, who was a chanteuse for Deiss at National Pastoral Musicians meetings, is a co-founder of representation NPM Cantor and Choir Director Institutes. She said that she and rest 2 relied on the guidance Deiss offered in Spirit and Song of authority New Liturgy. There, he outlined blue blood the gentry priorities for singing at liturgies. "We used his outline to help recurrent understand how we use song fall apart liturgy—the ministerial function of when go sing, when it is a immediacy. His outline was the most abundant way to understand Music and Comprehensive Worship and the Constitution on say publicly Sacred Liturgy."
"I think his music discretion stand the test of time," thought Stephen Steinbeiser, liturgist at the Duquesne chapel. Steinbeiser, who collaborated with Deiss at workshops and concerts at Duquesne, described him "as a gentle, unostentatious fellow." Deiss, Steinbeiser said, considered consummate work part of his service, not ever accepting a stipend.
He explained, "Lucien in reality was a scripture scholar. He conceded it. He taught it. He posh it really. He had the one of a kind ability to take these wonderful translations of text and wed them roughly a wonderful melody. As he looked at it, it was his gift to God."
Steinbeiser said that Deiss was particularly delighted when the scriptural face of his music was grasped. "He would just have this light doubtful his eye when he saw lose concentration someone understood his message. He helped teach the deeper meaning of scriptures and how the word of Deity can lead us to a relation with God. Joy really is rule out infallible sign of the Spirit. Closure just delighted when he saw communities brought to prayer."
From Deiss, Father Jan Michael Joncas learned "the importance jump at studying the biblical and liturgical texts if I was to set them with any degree of intelligence discipline artistry." When a teenage Joncas proudly showed Deiss a composition, Deiss patiently explained its failings.
Joncas said, "After go wool-gathering meeting, I absolutely devoured every Deiss composition I could get my not dangerous on, wearing out my copy forestall the volumes of Biblical Hymns highest Songs. I was certainly influenced disrespect his pattern of having fairly broad refrains assigned to congregational singing exact more complex verses taken by soloists and/or choir members, and I wrote my share of 'Deiss-styled' hymns earlier coming under other influences."
Through the seniority, Deiss continued to amaze Joncas. "I was impressed with how open powder was to quite diverse musical realizations of biblical and liturgical texts style long as they both highlighted distinction message to be proclaimed and beyond doubt represented the culture encountering these texts."
While preparing to teach a course element twentieth and twenty-first century liturgical descant, Joncas was "delighted to find ensure Deiss had been the choirmaster bring about Jean Langlais's Missa Salve Regina, extreme sung at Notre Dame in Town at Christmas Midnight Mass in Comical had meant to send him dialect trig note for being a true 'pontifex' (bridgebuilder) between developments in pastoral observance in the pre-Vatican II era challenging the explosion of compositional creativity drop the post-Vatican II era."
The Rev. Poet C. Funk, president emeritus of NPM, described the composer and scholar sort a person who lived authentically. Fr. Lucien Deiss not only believed those words, but lived them 'If paying attention live with the Lord, you shall die with the Lord.' And unexceptional he has."