“Common” Hymn Melodies • What are they?
Choirmasters and organists understand how crucial flexibility is.
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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).

Choirmasters and organists understand how crucial flexibility is.

If you can read treble clef, you can read this edition … a brilliant idea!

This excerpt from a 1980 radio interview with Abe Chasins proves I’m not crazy…
Releasing this is probably a bad idea…too late!

I will most definitely be playing these pieces—based on hymn tunes—by Georg Philipp Telemann!

Saint Vitus • MATT GONZALEZ WEDDING • Saturday, 1 August 2020…bride walks at Noon! ——Call time for singers is 10:00am ENTRANCE Organist will play INTROIT • “Deus Israël conjungat” Sung by Men from Goupil-Chant Search the René Goupil website for “pro sponsis” KYRIE #81668 — Palestrina “Fons Bonitatis” part 1 #81249 — Palestrina “Fons Bonitatis” […]

Not a piece you expected to hear today!

Do me a huge favor…
Folks, there’s just one word for this: WOW.

Mr. Albert Bloomfield has done us a breathtaking favor.

From a rare book of Franciscan chants (1902)
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A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with one of the smartest Catholic priests alive.

“To contrast Ancient Sarum with Modern Roman is absurd.” —Fr. Adrian Fortescue (1912)

Have you ever seen a liturgical “instrument” like this?
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