Too Many Sopranos? Try This Canon!
A compositional miracle by Rev’d Tomás Luis de Victoria (d. 1611).
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).
A compositional miracle by Rev’d Tomás Luis de Victoria (d. 1611).
Do you understand why I’ve highlighted various points?
Such underlay would be considered loathsome by composers like Guerrero. Indeed, it’s an impossibility!
Anyone care to hazard a guess regarding why a blue biretta would have been used circa 1933?
They will assume—and why shouldn’t they?—that “approved by the USCCB” applies to the hymns and songs…
“To the historian their decisions are disgusting nonsense that people of my kind want simply to ignore.” — Fr. Adrian Fortescue (1919)
“…pour forth Thy mercy upon us, to take away from us those things which our conscience feareth…”
If your priest requires the congregation sing the “Alleluia,” there’s a nice way to do this.
“O God, Who dost chiefly manifest Thy power in forbearance and mercy…”
Like all the books we release, this extremely rare hymnal was previously unavailable until we scanned and uploaded it.
The Bishop of Little Rock has sent a letter (14 July 2016) forbidding his priests to celebrate Mass “ad orientem.”
“…and that Thou mayest grant their desires to them, make them ask only for things that please Thee…”
Without question, the most popular piece I ever “wrote.”
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