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“Is it not true that prohibiting or suspecting the extraordinary form can only be inspired by the demon who desires our suffocation and spiritual death?” —The Vatican’s chief liturgist from 2014-2021; interview with Edw. Pentin (23-Sep-2019)
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).
“My most important vocation is not that of a musician but as a husband and a father to my four children.” —Richard J. Clark
Readers have expressed interest in perusing the “music list” I’ve prepared for this feast.
Rachmaninoff said: “Nine hours? That’s nothing. For a period of my life, I used to practice 17 hours a day.”
Father Mathias served as organist for Strasburg Cathedral, where he founded the “Saint Leo Institute for Church Music” in 1913.
The book is called: “Cantica Sacra: Hymns for the children of the Catholic Church.”
This Introit is in mode iii, which some consider the most beautiful.
What is he talking about? Where can I go to hear these “aesthetically superior” interpretations? Where can they be found?
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