Commercial Pop Culture + Church Music?
This brief video—filmed at an Episcopal church in 2013—may offend you.
Jesus said to them: “I have come into this world so that a sentence may fall upon it, that those who are blind should see, and those who see should become blind. If you were blind, you would not be guilty. It is because you protest, ‘We can see clearly,’ that you cannot be rid of your guilt.”
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).
This brief video—filmed at an Episcopal church in 2013—may offend you.
“Sometimes when you are confusing, you are mistaken for being learned.” —Fulton J. Sheen
I have a confession to make: I can’t stand hearing wrong notes.
Pardon my squeaky Soprano notes, but I wanted to demonstrate how it sounds! • A wonderful setting of the haunting “Easter Alleluia” based on a work by Monsignor Jules Van Nuffel.
“Grant, we beseech Thee, O merciful God, that we may treat with unfeigned veneration…Thy holy rites which we constantly celebrate.”
The absolute best method for choosing starting pitches…
“When a strong man armed keepeth his court, those things which he possesseth are in peace…”
“On Holy Saturday in 1545—while the pope and several cardinals were present—two of the oldest choir members flew at each other during the blessing of the new oils, shouting in a loud voice…”
Fr. Christopher Smith has created a 7-part series on Vatican II.
Yesterday, I used the text on page 366 to create an SATB Hymn for Lent.
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