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Jeff Ostrowski • Article Archive

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).

Jeff Ostrowski · May 6, 2025

Beginning a Men’s Schola

I feel like we have a great start…

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Jeff Ostrowski · May 5, 2025

“Basic Catechism of Gregorian Chant” • Fifteen Questions Answered

“Kids, you’re only on this floating rock for a very short time.”

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Jeff Ostrowski · May 5, 2025

“Reminder” — Month of May (2025)

Since a new month has arrived, it’s my pleasure to remind you that…

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Jeff Ostrowski · May 4, 2025

“Music List” • 3rd Sunday of Easter (Year C)

Readers have expressed interest in examining the “music list” I prepared for this coming Sunday.

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Jeff Ostrowski · May 2, 2025

Communion (3rd Sunday of Easter)

This piece is sung by either all men or all women.

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Jeff Ostrowski · April 29, 2025

“Entrance Chant” • 3rd Sunday of Easter

This “Entrance Chant” is used during liturgical years A, B, and C.

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Jeff Ostrowski · April 27, 2025

“Simple English Propers” • Error this Sunday?

Did the good of the Church “genuinely and certainly” require this confusing change in 1970?

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Jeff Ostrowski · April 26, 2025

PDF Download • “Extremely Rare” — German Organ Accompaniment for Hymnal (158 pages)

This year, we did something unusual.

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Jeff Ostrowski · April 23, 2025

“Reminder” — Month of April (2025)

Since a new month has arrived, it’s my pleasure to remind you that…

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Jeff Ostrowski · April 22, 2025

“Why Choir Directors Fail” • Six Reasons

Re: Singing in front of 580 people!

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Jeff Ostrowski · April 18, 2025

(2025) • “Vexilla Regis” + “Ubi Caritas”

But they said: “Lord, behold here are two swords.” And He said to them: “It is enough.” —Luke 22:38

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Jeff Ostrowski · April 18, 2025

“Music List” • Easter Sunday

Readers have expressed interest in examining the “music list” I prepared for this coming Sunday.

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Jeff Ostrowski · April 17, 2025

Caught on Video! • Choir Director’s Disturbing Holy Week “Meltdown”

Since Covid-19, many Catholic churches “live-stream” their Masses … and this disturbing footage emerged.

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Jeff Ostrowski · April 15, 2025

PDF Download • Exceedingly Rare! — “The Torn Tunic” (122 pages) … published in 1967

Is Tito Casini correct that vernacular plainsong is a “sin against nature?”

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Jeff Ostrowski · April 14, 2025

“Our Trials” • Choirmaster Crosses

How can we experience peace of soul when most people don’t even understand the mental trauma we deal with?

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    “Reminder” — Month of July (2026)
    On a daily basis, I speak to people who don’t realize we publish a free newsletter (although they’ve followed our blog for years). Since we were founded in 2006, not one of our board members has ever accepted any remuneration whatsoever—not a penny. We have no endowment, no major donors, no savings, and refuse to run annoying ads. As a result, our mailing list is crucial to our survival. It couldn’t be easier to subscribe! Just scroll to the bottom of any blog article and enter your email address.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Music List • (15th Sund. Ordinary Time)
    Readers have expressed interest in seeing the ORDER OF MUSIC I created for the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A), which is 12 July 2026. Please feel free to download it as a PDF file if that appeals to you. The hymns chosen are some of the most ‘traditional’ I have chosen (and were chosen by our pastor). The ENTRANCE CHANT radiates pure bliss, overflowing with joy.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Shortest Psalm In The Bible
    The shortest chapter in the whole Bible—as well as the shortest psalm—is PSALM 116 (“Laudáte Dóminum ómnes géntes”), which consists of just two verses. German-speaking Catholics did something really splendid (PDF) with PSALM 116. I was alerted to this many years ago by none other than Monsignor Robert Alexander Skeris. Click here to download—from different Catholic hymn books—ten (10) different harmonizations for this fabulous hymn.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    ‘Ould’ But Not Good
    Dom Samuel Gregory Ould (note the spelling) was a Benedictine monk at FORT AUGUSTUS ABBEY in Scotland. As musician, organist, and composer, Dom Ould was highly regarded. Moreover, he was considered an authority on Gregorian Chant. But not everything found in an old book—or, in this case, an “Ould” book—is necessarily praiseworthy. Consider this page from Dom Ould’s hymnal. Do you see the rhymes? They offend severely by ABR (“Abuse By Reuse”) and are utterly predictable. In my recent article—Two Ways to Defile a Hymn—I addressed this topic.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Reader Feedback” • 22 June 2026
    A reader wrote to us from Virginia: “I really appreciate the 23 harmonizations that you posted on CORPUS CHRISTI WATERSHED for the Daily, Daily, Sing to Mary hymn. I hope to find willing voices in our small Schola Cantorum to try the three-voice version. Carry on, sir! You’re doing the Lord’s work.” While we don’t know this gentleman personally, we note that he earned a Ph.D. (which demonstrates that our blog has something for everybody). 😊
    —Corpus Christi Watershed
    Time and Again We Are Asked…
    John Baptist Singenberger (d. 1924) was a central figure of Catholic Church music. In this utterly fascinating excerpt (Single-Page PDF), Singenberger writes: Time and again we are asked: “Is the Gregorian chant to be accompanied by the organ?” As a young student in Saint Gall, Singenberger befriended SEBASTIAN GEBHARD MESSMER, the future Archbishop of Milwaukee (Wisconsin). The two graduated together in 1861. The school they attended (Saint George’s Seminary) was a “seminary”—but in the older European sense. In other words, it provided a classical education without necessarily leading to ordination. Singenberger remained a layman his whole life, but Messmer was eventually made archbishop—by Pope Saint Pius X—of the very archdiocese in Wisconsin where Singenberger would spend his American career, giving him a powerful ecclesiastical ally.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Random Quote

Father Richard John Neuhaus once said, reflecting on his experience of a liturgical week held in Washington, D.C., after the Second Vatican Council, that he imagined the voices of the pre-conciliar Liturgical Movement lamenting: “That is not what we meant. That is not what we meant at all.”

— Father Richard John Neuhaus was a Roman Catholic priest

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