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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).
Can you hear the difference between females and males?
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Lorin Maazel was conducting major orchestras at the tender age of eight.
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Over the next few weeks, I will release five (5) different Mass settings which can be sung with a single cantor & organist.
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In the Ordinary Form, the “Our Father” is sung by all present.
Today, we received this wonderful message from a Catholic Priest: I want to say thank you for everything you have done to bring back the sense of the sacred in The liturgy. We are going through a liturgical renewal here in the parish where I was assigned as a parochial vicar. I’ve only been a […]
Let it be known: I have added the Pentecost melody (“Veni Creator Spiritus”) to the Seasonal Benediction website. I am slowly adding all the different melodies for the “O Salutaris Hostia”—so we can be seasonally appropriate during Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.

Potiron, Ostrowski, Bragers, Marier, Desrocquettes, Murray, and more!
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Nor does this world always punish vice.

Over these next few months, I want to try reach out to our readers.

Before we began recording, the participants unanimously gave permission to post online.

Sigh … another day, another invisible “white note” to ignore!
Regarding the CCW mailing list, a priest (Father E. J.) wrote to us yesterday: “Sometime ago, you wrote something along the lines that none of your emails are copies or merely pitches; each one is individual. I respect you so much for that. I don’t always get to read through them, but they remain in […]

Did you know every Mass is a celebration of our Lord’s Ascension? — Here’s proof.
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It’s hard to believe, but Father Knauff’s “Christ the King Hymnal for Congregational Singing” (1954) omitted this hymn!
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Including O SALUTARIS (“O Saving Victim Opening Wide”) and TANTUM ERGO (“Down in Adoration Falling”) in Latin and English.
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