PDF Download • Belgian “Ordinary of the Mass” (Organ Accompaniment) — 191 pages
This volume has been professionally scanned—and you’ll love the results!
Weeping For Joy! (We Hope!)
Listening to this Easter Alleluia—an SATB arrangement I made twenty years ago based on the work of Monsignor Jules Van Nuffel—one of our readers left this comment: “I get tears in my eyes each time I sing to this hymn.” I hope this person is weeping for joy!
Pipe Organ During Lent?
To withdraw the pipe organ no longer has the impact it once did.
Crd. Roche Breaks His Silence Re: Cardinal Sarah
Jesus Christ “will not snap the staff that is already crushed, nor put out the wick that still smolders.”
Absolute Key to a Healthy and “Renewed” Choir
What does it mean to “renew” a choir?
Greatest Choral Piece Ever Written? • It Might Be Marenzio’s “Salve Regina”
By March 1596 Marenzio had arrived in Poland. In October of that year, he directed a Mass he’d written in the form of an “echo.”
“The Times” mentions CCW
We were mentioned in article in an article by “The Times” (United Kingdom), as you can see here.
Eleven (11) Rare Lenten Hymns You’ve Not Sung!
“Our hymnbooks know nothing of such a treasure as this, and give us pages of poor sentiment in doggerel lines by some tenth-rate modern versifier.” —Father Fortescue
Roche’s Rescript • “Canonically Binding? Yes or No?”
What bishops need to know!
Marier’s Majestic Music • In Singapore?
“One person I spoke to frequently—although I never met him…” (?)
My Wish for Each of You
If we destroy our mental health, we will be no good to anybody.
PDF Download • “Quinquagesima Sunday” Organ Accompaniment Booklet (25 pages)
The word “Alleluia” changes to: “Praise be to Thee, O Lord, King of eternal glory.”
Jeff’s Attempt At Singing
I’m much more comfortable in a baritone’s range than a soprano’s range!
Three-Voice Piece You’ll Love!
To help my volunteer choir members learn, I have attempted to record all the vocal parts for Justorum Animae, composed for SOPRANO, ALTO, and BASS. It’s from a brilliant collection by Kevin Allen called Matri Divinae Gratiae. You can hear my attempt by visiting this website and scrolling down to “Justorum Animæ.” My singers really […]
Cardinal Roche on discouraging or limiting “ad orientem” celebration: “It is an absurdity”
Ponder this statement by the prefect for the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (a.k.a. “CDW”).