(Rehearsal Clips) • Sacred Music Symposium 2025
Even if I live a hundred years, I’ll never forget last week’s conference!
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).
Even if I live a hundred years, I’ll never forget last week’s conference!
There’s something thrilling about soprano descants!
A few days ago, Dominique Gatté released something quite extraordinary.
We feel this conference will be one for the history books!
This notice shows that in Seville, as elsewhere, polyphonic singers clustered around a large open choirbook set on a stand in the middle of the grilled choir-enclosure.
Jeff Ostrowski’s attempt to harmonize the most well-known of all Gregorian chants.
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This will be used while our congregation processes around the city to various churches.
Readers have expressed interest in examining the “music list” I prepared for Pentecost Sunday.
Our choir sang so beautifully for this special Mass!
It’s an excerpt from a much longer composition by Sebastian Bach.
“This question comes up twice this month, both for Pentecost and the Feast of Ss. Peter and Paul.” —Marissa R.
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