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We Urgently Require Funds! • Can You Give $5.00 Per Month?

Jeff Ostrowski · July 4, 2021

ORE THAN A YEAR has elapsed since I made a fundraising appeal for our 501(c)3 organization. I will be honest: I used to hate fundraising. I was embarrassed to ask readers for money. But I realized something: I believe so strongly in what our organization is doing, I’m no longer ashamed to beg! Over the past year, our website has received approximately 1,500,000 page views. So our efforts are clearly making a difference—although we feel like we’re just getting started.

I ask you to read and share this letter:

*  PDF Download • “We Urgently Require Funds”
—A personal letter from the president of Corpus Christi Watershed (3 July 2021).

We must find 150 new donors willing to give $5.00 per month:

*  Click here to donate!

Please help us share with others what has been handed down to us. Thank you!

If you cannot open the PDF document, here’s a JPEG version:

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Opinions by blog authors do not necessarily represent the views of Corpus Christi Watershed.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Donate to Corpus Christi Watershed Last Updated: July 17, 2021

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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 Los Angeles.—(Read full biography).

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Quick Thoughts

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
14 May 2022 • “Pure” Vatican Edition

As readers know, my choir has been singing from the “pure” Editio Vaticana. That is to say, the official rhythm which—technically—is the only rhythm allowed by the Church. I haven’t figured out how I want the scores to look, so in the meantime we’ve been using temporary scores that look like this. Stay tuned!

—Jeff Ostrowski

Random Quote

The Sanctus and Benedictus are one text and should be sung through without a break. The practice—once common—of waiting till after the Consecration and then singing: “Benedictus qui venit…” is not allowed by the Vatican Gradual.

— Father Fortescue, writing in 1912

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