Strong Vibrato • What Do You Think?
In my view, a “tight” vibrato can be quite a beautiful thing.
Pope Saint Paul VI (3 April 1969): “Although the text of the Roman Gradual—at least that which concerns the singing—has not been changed, the Entrance antiphons and Communions antiphons have been revised for Masses without singing.”
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).
Two young ladies helped record these 14th-century harmonies.
Listen to the instructions John Paul II gives the Chicago congregation.
The Jews therefore said to Him, “Thou art not yet fifty years old and hast Thou seen Abraham?”
This brief video—filmed at an Episcopal church in 2013—may offend you.
“Sometimes when you are confusing, you are mistaken for being learned.” —Fulton J. Sheen
I have a confession to make: I can’t stand hearing wrong notes.
Pardon my squeaky Soprano notes, but I wanted to demonstrate how it sounds! • A wonderful setting of the haunting “Easter Alleluia” based on a work by Monsignor Jules Van Nuffel.
“Grant, we beseech Thee, O merciful God, that we may treat with unfeigned veneration…Thy holy rites which we constantly celebrate.”
The absolute best method for choosing starting pitches…
“When a strong man armed keepeth his court, those things which he possesseth are in peace…”
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