“Singing With The Girls”
The version by Father Victoria is also quite beautiful, although the ranges for some voices are challenging.
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).
The version by Father Victoria is also quite beautiful, although the ranges for some voices are challenging.
“I had never directed for the TLM before this semester, and your resources have been beneficial…”
When the congregation isn’t moved, such a musician will reply: “Well, that’s just because they’re uneducated philistines who don’t know anything.”
This one was put in a “brighter” mode—owing to its text—based on the somewhat peculiar place the original came from.
Readers have expressed interest in looking over the “music list” I’ve prepared for this coming Sunday.
Forcing the entire congregation to assume various postures has a rather sordid history.
I’ve been patiently waiting to release this since the summer!
The Tenor line is particularly pleasant, the way it rises with stepwise motion and then descends.
I just got off the phone with a very high ranking official at the USCCB…
This one’s in Mode 3, imitating the authentic Gregorian chant.
With a digression on a 1971 film called “Fiddler on the Roof.”
Readers have expressed interest in looking over the “music list” I’ve prepared for this coming Sunday.
Dom Ermin Vitry, OSB, was in charge of building the pipe organ for the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception in Peoria, IL.
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