Crucial Tips • “Teaching Children How to Sing”
When it comes to the children, I help them memorize each word…
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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).

When it comes to the children, I help them memorize each word…

An “ensemble of soloists” will never sound the same as a true choir.

Why should that feast overpower Our Lady of Guadalupe?

Including a new harmonization for the pipe organ.

Simplified keyboard accompaniment for “Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus” (Advent hymn).

Readers have expressed interest in examining the music list I prepared for 8 December (“In Conceptione Immaculata Beatae Mariae Virginis”).

Since a new month has arrived, it’s my pleasure to remind you that…

It’s hard to banish that round once it enters your ears!

This image is found on the first page of a 1974 Sacramentary.

Readers have expressed interest in examining the “music list” I prepared for this coming Sunday.

Growing up, I remember hearing this adage…

From a mother of 11 children whose brother-in-law is a Catholic priest.

It’d be easier to accept if they admitted they were explicitly contradicting Vatican II … but instead, they lied egregiously.

“Catholic parishes are slow to change their habits. They still sing what the oldest members learned at school.” —Evelyn Waugh

Readers have expressed interest in examining the “music list” I prepared for this coming Sunday.
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