“Come Holy Ghost” • Improvisation

Jeff Ostrowski · June 12, 2018

HE ORGANIST at the FSSP Apostolate in Los Angeles does the most amazing things. Sometimes he takes the hymn and improvises on it throughout Mass, in a billion different sumptuous styles.

Here’s something he did with “Come Holy Ghost” during the Offertory:

* * Mp3 Download • E. Haman improvises

Some of those sections—at the 1:00 marker, for example—are really gorgeous, don’t you agree?

Mr. Haman is an undergraduate student at the university here.

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