Archives for October 2024

Jeff Ostrowski · October 22, 2024

PDF Download • “Entrance Chant in English” (30th Sunday in Ordinary Time) for 27-OCT-2024

When the congregation isn’t moved, such a musician will reply: “Well, that’s just because they’re uneducated philistines who don’t know anything.”

Jeff Ostrowski · October 22, 2024

This one was put in a “brighter” mode—owing to its text—based on the somewhat peculiar place the original came from.

Jeff Ostrowski · October 20, 2024

Readers have expressed interest in looking over the “music list” I’ve prepared for this coming Sunday.

Jeff Ostrowski · October 19, 2024

Forcing the entire congregation to assume various postures has a rather sordid history.

Jeff Ostrowski · October 19, 2024

I’ve been patiently waiting to release this since the summer!

Jeff Ostrowski · October 16, 2024

The Tenor line is particularly pleasant, the way it rises with stepwise motion and then descends.

A few years ago, I attended Mass at Westminster Cathedral in London…

Jeff Ostrowski · October 16, 2024

I posted this on social media. Tons of people requested a copy…

Veronica Moreno · October 16, 2024

Veronica Moreno shares a ‘quick thought’ regarding the topic of the sacred liturgy.

Jeff Ostrowski · October 15, 2024

I just got off the phone with a very high ranking official at the USCCB…

Jeff Ostrowski · October 15, 2024

This one’s in Mode 3, imitating the authentic Gregorian chant.

Jeff Ostrowski · October 15, 2024

With a digression on a 1971 film called “Fiddler on the Roof.”

Jeff Ostrowski · October 14, 2024

Jeff shares a ‘quick thought’ regarding the topic of the sacred liturgy.

Daniel Tucker · October 13, 2024

The best conducting advice I’ve ever received…

Andrea Leal · October 12, 2024

To be a successful choir director is to sacrifice and to persevere in a nearly insane manner.