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Views from the Choir Loft

Vox Antiqua’s Debut

Andrew Leung · November 9, 2017

AST WEEK, I shared about my new project. On the Feast of Christ the King, which according to the 1962 Missale Romanum is the last Sunday in October, Vox Antiqua made its debut. Works by Baroque Venitian composer, Antonio Lotti, were sung at the Missa Cantata. We sang Lotti’s setting of Ecce Panis Angelorum during communion and here is a live recording of us:



We also sang his Mass in Bb, written for three equal voices, and his motet Sanctus Dominus. I have put together a video with highlights from these two pieces.



YES! Both of these recordings were recorded LIVE! Please pardon us for the “not so good” quality. And yes, you can hear the cry of the babies (which, by the way, is always a good sign because they are the future of the Church), the sound of the thurible and the priest saying his prayers.

One of the things I like about the Traditional Latin Mass in Hong Kong is that the congregation usually takes part in the singing pretty actively. On a normal Sunday, the Ordinaries are sung antiphonally between the schola cantorum and the faithful; hymns in Latin are also sung during the offertory and communion. Aside from singing Lotti’s pieces at our choral Mass, Vox Antiqua also helped lead the faithful in singing some liturgical chants, as well as three other hymns: Christus Vincit by Kunc, Lauda Sion by Caudana and the Pontifical Anthem O Felix Roma by Gounod at the end of the Mass.

Please pray for our new choir as we continue to serve God and the Church with music. Right now, there is a wedding, another Mass in the Extraordinary Form and a choral workshop on our agenda for the upcoming two months. You can follow and support us on our Facebook page.

Soli Deo Gloria!

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About Andrew Leung

Andrew Leung currently serves the music director of Vox Antiqua, conductor of the Cecilian Singers, and music director at Our Lady of China Church.—(Read full biography).

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23 May 2022 • FEEDBACK

From a reader: “I wasn’t looking for it. But, I stumbled across your hand-dandy arrangement of Pachelbel’s Canon. Jeff, this is the greatest thing since sliced bread! I had to play a wedding on Saturday. The bride requested the Canon. There were 11 bridesmaids! The organ loft is a football field away from the communion rail. It’s so difficult to play and keep checking the mirror. Your arrangement is absolutely genius. One can skip and choose which variations to use. The chord names are handy so that when my eyes are off the music, I always know where I am at. A thousand times thank you for sharing this arrangement!”

—Jeff Ostrowski
19 May 2022 • “Trochee Trouble”

I’m still trying to decide how to visually present the “pure” Editio Vaticana scores, using what is (technically) the official rhythm of the Church. You can download my latest attempt, for this coming Sunday. Notice the “trochee trouble” as well as the old issue of neumes before the quilisma.

—Jeff Ostrowski
16 May 2022 • Harmonized Chant?

This year’s upcoming Sacred Music Symposium will demonstrate several ways to sing the CREDO at Mass. This is because—for many parishes—to sing a full-length polyphonic CREDO by Victoria or Palestrina is out of the question. Therefore, we show options that are halfway between plainsong and polyphony. You can hear my choir rehearsing a section that sounds like harmonized plainsong.

—Jeff Ostrowski

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“If I could only make the faithful sing the Kyrie, the Gloria, the Credo, the Sanctus, and the Agnus Dei…that would be to me the finest triumph sacred music could have, for it is in really taking part in the liturgy that the faithful will preserve their devotion. I would take the Tantum Ergo, the Te Deum, and the Litanies sung by the people over any piece of polyphony.”

— ‘Giuseppe Cardinal Sarto, Letter to Msgr. Callegari (1897)’

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