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Andrew Leung · April 23, 2016

Who Says Young People Can’t Sing Traditional Sacred Music?

2 groups of high schoolers, over 200 young people, proved that they can sing and pray with traditional church music.

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Jeff Ostrowski · April 23, 2016

Dazzling Canon • “Adoremus in Aeternum”

John Paul II: “For compositions of liturgical music, I make my own the general rule of St. Pius X…”

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Jeff Ostrowski · April 22, 2016

Shocking Parallels By Guerrero

I’ve seen similar passages by Orlando Lassus.

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Richard J. Clark · April 22, 2016

Musician • Center of Attention or Servant?

Applause from a congregation for musicians, or musicians that impede congregational singing for the sake of personal artistry, are but symptoms. The church musician has been misidentified as a separate entity—a showpiece—and not properly identified as a servant of the liturgy, a servant of God, a servant of the people.

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Andrew Leung · April 21, 2016

Les Misérables and the Year of Mercy

Watch and Listen to Les Misérables during the Year of Mercy!

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Jeff Ostrowski · April 20, 2016

Benedictus & Hosanna • “Missa Beata Mater”

My friend was in charge of picking music for papal Masses under Pope St. John Paul II.

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Dr. Lucas Tappan · April 19, 2016

Spring Concert • Most Pure Heart of Mary Schola Cantorum

Your are invited to the MPHM Schola Cantorum’s Spring Concert!

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Jeff Ostrowski · April 19, 2016

“Catholic Choirmaster” • Fascinating Photo Taken 29 August 1964

CMAA was formed the same year “Inter Oecumenici” was issued by the Vatican.

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Jeff Ostrowski · April 18, 2016

“No Time For Cowardice” • A Letter To Liturgy Columnists

Too many columnists focus endlessly on minutiae while leaving untouched a crucial issue.

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Jeff Ostrowski · April 18, 2016

In Memoriam • Sister Clare Crockett

She passed away when the community’s house collapsed during the earthquake that hit the Ecuadorian coast on 16 April 2016.

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Andrew Leung · April 18, 2016

Position Opening • Music Director for the NY Dominican Parish

The Parish of St. Vincent Ferrer and St. Catherine of Siena in New York City is looking for a Director of Music and Organist.

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Jeff Ostrowski · April 16, 2016

Musical Resources • Third Sunday after Easter (Extraordinary Form)

“O God, Who dost show the light of Thy truth to them that go astray…”

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Jeff Ostrowski · April 16, 2016

Feeding Our Children Liturgical “Garbage”

Some of you know I’ve been extremely ill for more than two years…

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Jeff Ostrowski · April 15, 2016

Picture • Pope Pius XII in St. Peter’s (Low Mass)

With a lovely chasuble!

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Andrew Leung · April 13, 2016

Church Madness 2016

Put down your vote for Church Madness 2016!

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President’s Corner

    “Holy, Holy, Holy” transposed lower

    A simple setting based on a work by Canon Jules Vyverman.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Music List • (27th Sund. Ordinary Time)

    Readers have expressed interest in examining my “music list” for this coming Sunday: 4 October 2026

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    A Mystery! — Re: the “Liber Usualis”

    Even after all these years, nobody has been able to explain this.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    Preface of Saint Joseph (added by the pope)

    You can see the “Præfatio de Sancto Joseph” inserted directly into the priest’s missal.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Predictable Rhymes?” • A Follow Up
    We received considerable correspondence regarding my article, Two Ways to Defile a Hymn. More specifically, what really raised certain people’s hackles was its follow-up article dealing with the keyboard accompaniment for the CHRIST THE KING HYMNAL. But to quote Eliza Doolittle: “Have I said anything I oughtn’t?” Please examine this PDF file and see whether you agree. Were the editors of the BRÉBEUF HYMNAL incorrect to insist upon sophisticated and clever rhymes, rather than mind-numbingly predictable rhymes?
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    ‘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

Random Quote

“There are some so restless that when they are free from labour they labour all the more, because the more leisure they have for thought, the worse interior turmoil they have to bear.”

— Pope Gregory the Great

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