Jeff Ostrowski’s Symposium Talk • Released!
Title: “Fifty Tips For Training Amateur Choirs”
“If we do not love those whom we see, how can we love God, Whom we do not see?” Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
I plan to do more of this in the future and I would recommend it to all others who direct any kind of church choir.
“The presider claims a form of privilege to change things that do not belong to him…”
What music does a newly ordained priest, who currently plays the drums in a jazz band, choose for his first Mass? A priest who also has a degree from the Hartt School of Music in Music Production and Technology? The answer will surprise you.
The Basilica of Sts. Peter & Paul is a Guardian of the Sacred Tradition and a great Patron Sacred Music and Arts.
Download this 47-page booklet … and please pardon any typos!
I have received a number of emails of late from such musicians with questions regarding the musical training of the very young…
A phenomenal event which involves our District Superior & Archbishop Gomez.
By shear will I chip away at the wretched dumpster fire of incongruence on the page. Then a purpose languidly surfaces with each revised note: Composing is a form of prayer.
Southeastern Sacred Music presents Summer Sacred Music Workshop 2016.
Our program continues to expand, and we look forward to working with more than 60 students next year!
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We’re under tremendous pressure to transfer our website to a “subscription model.”
We don’t want to do this. We believe our website should remain free to all. It’s annoying to have to search for login credentials (e.g. if you’re away from your desk).
Our president has written the following letter:
* Thirteen Men & Coins (Holy Thursday Appeal)
Traditionally on Holy Thursday, the priest washed the feet of thirteen men. Theologians held various opinions regarding whom the “13th man” represented. Before the liturgical changes of Pope Pius XII (which changed the number from thirteen to twelve), the priest washed each man’s feet, kissed his foot, and gave him a coin.
This “coin” business seems providential—inasmuch as our appeal begins on Holy Thursday this year.
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