PDF Download • Belgian “Ordinary of the Mass” (Organ Accompaniment) — 191 pages
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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).
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Listening to this Easter Alleluia—an SATB arrangement I made twenty years ago based on the work of Monsignor Jules Van Nuffel—one of our readers left this comment: “I get tears in my eyes each time I sing to this hymn.” I hope this person is weeping for joy!

To withdraw the pipe organ no longer has the impact it once did.

Jesus Christ “will not snap the staff that is already crushed, nor put out the wick that still smolders.”

What does it mean to “renew” a choir?

By March 1596 Marenzio had arrived in Poland. In October of that year, he directed a Mass he’d written in the form of an “echo.”
We were mentioned in article in an article by “The Times” (United Kingdom), as you can see here.

“Our hymnbooks know nothing of such a treasure as this, and give us pages of poor sentiment in doggerel lines by some tenth-rate modern versifier.” —Father Fortescue

What bishops need to know!
“One person I spoke to frequently—although I never met him…” (?)

If we destroy our mental health, we will be no good to anybody.

The word “Alleluia” changes to: “Praise be to Thee, O Lord, King of eternal glory.”

I’m much more comfortable in a baritone’s range than a soprano’s range!
To help my volunteer choir members learn, I have attempted to record all the vocal parts for Justorum Animae, composed for SOPRANO, ALTO, and BASS. It’s from a brilliant collection by Kevin Allen called Matri Divinae Gratiae. You can hear my attempt by visiting this website and scrolling down to “Justorum Animæ.” My singers really […]

Ponder this statement by the prefect for the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (a.k.a. “CDW”).
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