“Music List” • 4th Sunday of Lent
Readers have expressed interest in examining the “music list” I prepared for this coming Sunday.
“Is it not true that prohibiting or suspecting the extraordinary form can only be inspired by the demon who desires our suffocation and spiritual death?” —The Vatican’s chief liturgist from 2014-2021; interview with Edw. Pentin (23-Sep-2019)
A theorist, organist, and conductor, Jeff Ostrowski holds his B.M. in Music Theory from the University of Kansas (2004). He completed studies in Education and Musicology at the graduate level. Having worked as a church musician in Los Angeles for ten years, in 2024 he accepted a position as choirmaster for Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception in Michigan, where he resides with his wife and children. —Read full biography (with photographs).
Readers have expressed interest in examining the “music list” I prepared for this coming Sunday.
This is surely one of music history’s great ironies!
This “Entrance Chant” is used during liturgical years A, B, and C.
A simple Mass for Cantor + Organist.
Readers have expressed interest in examining the “music list” I prepared for this coming Sunday.
This “Entrance Chant” is used during liturgical years A, B, and C.
The vast majority of these women had never sung plainsong—but they’ve taken to it like a duck to water.
Since a new month has arrived, it’s my pleasure to remind you that…
Readers have expressed interest in examining the “music list” I prepared for this coming Sunday.
This concession was granted in part due to “the enormous and ever increasing frequency of weekend trips and skiing excursions…”
This English adaptation uses mode 4, as does the authentic Gregorian Chant version.
This particular hymn is being considered for inclusion in the “Cantoral del Padre Antonio Daniel.”
Few Catholics seem to realize it was Pope Pius XII who suppressed Tenebrae, a ceremony deeply loved by the faithful for centuries.
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