PDF Download • ‘Choral Extension’ for the Sanctus (especially useful in the Ordinary Form)
It’d be easier to accept if they admitted they were explicitly contradicting Vatican II … but instead, they lied egregiously.
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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).

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.

I know of no greater commentary on the psalms. Its author—an erudite Dominican priest—founded the famous “Homiletic and Pastoral Review.”

A simplified keyboard accompaniment for the “O Jesus Christ, Remember” hymn.

This is something Monsignor Ronald Knox had to explain time and again…

“the ancient Christian versions (and some other ancient sources) seem to have been based upon a better Hebrew text…”

“A Man Can Kill With a Gun, a Bomb, or a Lance…”

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

“Mother and Head of all churches of the City and of the World” says the inscription over the entrance.
Exciting job opening in Michigan for a Roman Catholic choir director!

Since a new month has arrived, it’s my pleasure to remind you that…
Unsolicited advice for prospective choir directors.

This setting cleverly inserts themes from the absolution of the body.
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