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Fr. Augustine, thank you very much for posting this, I was surprised that his passing wasn't marked in a greater way before this, though there was a small notice on the Musica Sacra website. Perhaps the reason for this was that he wasn't so well known beyond the West Coast, but he was a scholarly musician who was generous in helping choirs and a great favorite of the liturgically minded seminarians and monks at Mt. Angel. Dom David, "In paradisum deducant te angeli..."
Requiem aeternum dona ei Domine et lux perpetua luceat ei. Requiescat in pace. Amen.
I remember sitting next to him in the refectory at Mt. Angel when I was a novice and we were visiting. He was a great gentlemen and a lover of good church music. Deducant te angeli in paradisum!
Requiem eternam dona ei, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei. Requiescat in pace. Amen
Not to mention his work "Liturgical music in Benedictine monasticism : a post-Vatican II survey" (with a volume on monks and a volume on nuns). Happily, the landscape has improved slightly since 1986 when it was published.
Requiescat in pace. I consider myself very fortunate to have known Fr. Dom David Nicholson, O.S.B. when I was in the Seminary in the 1960's and one of my interests were music. Fr. Dom David let me into the room that held the grand pianos for me to play; and, I did play on them to my heart's content. We shared conversations about music and the Passion of Christ then and at other times I would stop up at Abbey. He always had a warm greeting smile and a sense of humor.
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