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Views from the Choir Loft

Photo: Church Music Association of America (1964)

Jeff Ostrowski · August 24, 2014

1. J. Vincent Higginson
2. Rev. Joseph Foley, C.S.P.
3. Very Rev. Francis P. Schmitt
4. Rt. Rev. Rembert G. Weakland, O.S.B.
5. Very Rev. Richard B. Curtin
6. Rev. Cletus Madsen
7. Frank Szynskie
8. Rev. Richard J. Schuler
9. Mother Josephine Morgan, R.S.C.J.
10. Sr. M. Theophane, O.S.F.
11. Rev. Morris Cahill, C.P.
12. Mario Salvator
13. Rev. Albert Carman
14. Lavern Wagner
15. Paul Parthun
16. Very Rev. Joseph L. Mroczkowski
17. (unidentified)
18. Rev. Joseph Rogusz, C.S.C.
19. Paul Koch
20. Childs Wolfe
21. Feliks Gwozdz
22. Noel Goemanne
23. Paul Manz
24. Rev. Robert Skeris
25. Rev. Norbert Dorsey, C.P.
26. Rev. Robert Hayburn
27. Rev. Eugene Lindusky, O.S.C.
28. Mother C.A. Carroll, R.S.C.J.
29. Sr. M. Mathilde, B.V.M.
30. Rev. Peter D. Nugent
31. Omer Westendorf
32. Rev. Francis A Brunner, C.Pp.S.
33. Norbert Letter
34. Rev. Benedict Ehman
35. George Carthage
36. Rev. Robert Wurm
37. Rev. Lawrence Heimann, C.Pp.S.
38. Ralph Jusko
39. Sr. Rosalie, O.P.
40. Mrs. Winifred Flanagan
41. Sr. Remigia, C.Pp.S.
42. Sr. M Leonette, O.S.F.
43. Sr. Rose Vincent, S.L.
44. Rev. Elmer Pfeil
45. Rev. Robert Novotny
46. Rev. Thomas Reardon
47. Dr. John Rayburn
48. Rev. Bernard Christman
49. Rev. Ralph March, O.C.
50. Miss Louise Florencourt
51. Sr. Alphonse Marie, C.Pp.S.
52. Rev. Ambrose Karels
53. Sr. M. Matthias, I.H.M.
54. James Welch
55. Malcolm Breda
56. Rene Dosogne
57. Frank Denes
58. Rev. Columba Kelly, O.S.B.
59. Rev. Robert Ryan
60. Robert Snow
61. Rev. Irvin Udulutsch, O.F.M.Cap.
62. Robert Blanchard
63. John Gavin

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Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Church Music Association of America CMAA Last Updated: January 1, 2020

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About Jeff Ostrowski

Jeff Ostrowski holds his B.M. in Music Theory from the University of Kansas (2004). He resides with his wife and children in Michigan. —(Read full biography).

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    Urgent! • We Desperately Need Funds!
    A few days ago, the president of Corpus Christi Watershed posted this urgent appeal for funds. Please help us make sure we’re never forced to place our content behind a paywall. We feel it’s crucial that 100% of our content remains free to everyone. We’re a tiny 501(c)3 public charity, entirely dependent upon the generosity of small donors. We have no endowment and no major donors. We run no advertisements and have no savings. We beg you to consider donating $4.00 per month. Thank you!
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Booklet of Eucharistic Hymns” (16 pages)
    I was asked to create a booklet for my parish to use during our CORPUS CHRISTI PROCESSION on 22 June 2025. Would you be willing to look over the DRAFT BOOKLET (16 pages) I came up with? I tried to include a variety of hymns: some have a refrain; some are in major, others in minor; some are metered, others are plainsong; some are in Spanish, some are in Latin, but most are in English. Normally, we’d use the Brébeuf Hymnal—but we can’t risk having our congregation carry those heavy books all over the city to various churches.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Yahweh” in church songs?
    My pastor asked me to write a weekly column for our parish bulletin. The one scheduled to run on 22 June 2025 is called “Three Words in a Psalm” and speaks of translating the TETRAGRAMMATON. You can read the article at this column repository. All of them are quite brief because I was asked to keep within a certain word limit.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    “Hybrid” Chant Notation?
    Over the years, many have tried to ‘simplify’ plainsong notation. The O’Fallon Propers attempted to simplify the notation—but ended up making matters worse. Dr. Karl Weinmann tried to do the same in the time of Pope Saint Pius X by replacing each porrectus. You can examine a specimen from his edition and see whether you agree he complicated matters. In particular, look at what he did with éxsules fílii Hévae.
    —Corpus Christi Watershed
    Antiphons Don’t Match?
    A reader wants to know why the Entrance and Communion antiphons in certain publications deviate from what’s prescribed by the GRADUALE ROMANUM published after Vatican II. Click here to read our answer. The short answer is: the Adalbert Propers were never intended to be sung. They were intended for private Masses only (or Masses without music). The “Graduale Parvum,” published by the John Henry Newman Institute of Liturgical Music in 2023, mostly uses the Adalbert Propers—but sometimes uses the GRADUALE text: e.g. Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul (29 June).
    —Corpus Christi Watershed
    When to Sit, Stand and Kneel like it’s 1962
    There are lots of different guides to postures for Mass, but I couldn’t find one which matched our local Latin Mass, so I made this one: sit-stand-kneel-crop
    —Veronica Brandt

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An Indult of the “Commission for Russia” (25 November 1929) authorizes Bishops and Administrators Apostolic in Russia to permit the celebration of Mass and the reception of Holy Communion in the afternoon or evening, on condition that a Eucharistic fast of four hours from noon be observed.

— Sacred Congregation of Rites, 25 nov 1929

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