SATB “Alleluia” By Palestrina • Brief, Easy, & Sumptuous
I dare you NOT to immediately assign this piece to your choir!
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).

I dare you NOT to immediately assign this piece to your choir!

“We have received, O Lord, thy heavenly sacrament…”

“Until we are blue in the face, we could repeat what Vatican II said about Gregorian chant…”

All 255 pages of this famous hymn book can now be downloaded as a PDF.

The “Testament of the Spirit” is the new and permanent covenant established by Jesus Christ between God and men.

“Adoremus Bulletin” has uploaded a translation of the CDW Prefect’s document.

“Evelyn was sad when he read of churches in which the old altar was taken down…”

Cardinal Montini—later known as Pope Paul VI—celebrates Mass in the St. Peter’s Basilica during Vatican II.
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