[Magdalen] Music question

Jay Weigel jay.weigel at gmail.com
Fri Nov 18 03:21:02 UTC 2016


Proulx? C'est Belgique?

On Thursday, November 17, 2016, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> /Maudit anglaise/, in my childhood, to which the response from me was
> /maudit crapeau/.
>
> Marion, a pilgrim /bilingue/
>
> On 11/17/2016 3:39 PM, Molly Wolf wrote:
>
>> Vous ne savez pas la langue de la Nouvelle France.  C'est "proo," comme
>> le son de la vache (en anglaise): "moo."
>>
>> Molly
>> maudit anglo
>>
>> The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no
>> other way. -- Mark Twain
>>
>> On Nov 17, 2016, at 2:58 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
>>> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> When you say Pruuu, do you mean "Prooh", or is it "Prooh, ooh!, ooh!" ?
>>>
>>> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
>>> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
>>> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 11:35 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
>>> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> In a message dated 11/16/2016 5:32:57 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>>>> revegger at gmail.com writes:
>>>>
>>>> Yes,  Richard.  to me his name looks like it should be pronounced
>>>> "Prowlex"
>>>>
>>>> It's Pruuu.  At least that's the way he wants it.
>>>>
>>>> Some of his "Community Mass" is in TEC '82 Hymnal.  The local
>>>> Procathedral at one point printed up pew cards with the Mass Ordinary
>>>> for easy use, but the old low-church hardliners objected because it
>>>> used the word, "Mass."  They had to be withdrawn, even though  the
>>>> hymnal version is used without problem.
>>>>
>>>> Proulx was on the '82 Hymnal Committee, even though he is a
>>>> Roman Catholic, and long time O/C of Chicago's RC Holy Name
>>>> Cathedral.
>>>>
>>>> He gained a sort of fame by appealing to the national church music
>>>> community (successfully) to help him out with coronary bypass surgery
>>>> expenses.  Apparently the Archdiocese of Chicago had a cheapo
>>>> medical policy that didn't cover the expense.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> David S.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>
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