Brace Yourself • “Raw” Recordings from Solemn Mass
There’s something remarkable about instances where the people involved don’t realize a recording is being made.
Jesus said to them: “I have come into this world so that a sentence may fall upon it, that those who are blind should see, and those who see should become blind. If you were blind, you would not be guilty. It is because you protest, ‘We can see clearly,’ that you cannot be rid of your guilt.”
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).
There’s something remarkable about instances where the people involved don’t realize a recording is being made.
When I first attended the Traditional Mass, I hated it.
“Receive ye the Holy Ghost; whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them, and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained.”
“The use of Psalm 150 is a change from the experimental Easter Vigil (1951-1955) in which Psalm 116 was used for Lauds.” —Msgr. McManus
The indispensable “Musician’s Guide to Good Friday,” including a 50-page PDF and rehearsal videos!
I haven’t studied the situation enough to know with certainty.
“O God, from Whom Judas received the punishment of his crime, and the thief the reward of his confession…”
Today we announce a special guest who will be present at the Sacred Music Symposium!
“The multitude goeth forth to meet our Redeemer with flowers and palms, and payeth the homage due to a triumphant conqueror.”
Two young ladies helped record these 14th-century harmonies.
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