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Views from the Choir Loft

President's Corner

Jeff Ostrowski · October 31, 2025

“Music List” • All Souls (2 November)

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

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 29, 2025

2-Voice Arr. • “Creator of the Starry Height”

Over the centuries, this ancient him became associated with the season of Advent.

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 29, 2025

“Equal Voices” Choir Pieces

Including a setting of the “Ave Maria” and “Tantum Ergo.”

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 25, 2025

Typo in the “Missale Romanum” (1962)

Father Valentine Young, OFM, pointed out many errors and typos in the 1962 Missal.

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 24, 2025

“Music List” • 30th in Ordinary Time (Year C)

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 24, 2025

Little Encouragement?

Have you read the parable about the 10 lepers?

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 20, 2025

(Part 2) • Did they simplify this hymn?

Looking through a (Roman Catholic) German hymnal printed in 1929…

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Corpus Christi Watershed · October 20, 2025

PDF • “Lectionary Comparison Chart”

Such tinkering has gone on for 60+ years, and it’s reprehensible.

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 20, 2025

Monsignor Klaus Gamber Speaks!

An interesting quotation from the eminent liturgist, Monsignor Klaus Gamber…

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 18, 2025

“Music List” • 29th in Ordinary Time (Year C)

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 14, 2025

Liturgical Round (“Canon”) in C-Major

I have provided an accompaniment, but it’s only for use during rehearsal.

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Corpus Christi Watershed · October 13, 2025

Latin Liturgy Association

The newsletter of the “Latin Liturgy Association” is definitely something worth looking at!

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 11, 2025

“Music List” • 28th in Ordinary Time (Year C)

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 9, 2025

PDF Download • “Offertory” for this Sunday

Anyone know why the Book of Esther was chosen? That same section of Esther was chosen for last Sunday’s Introit.

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 8, 2025

Why A “Fugue” Here?

I think you will agree about this.

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President’s Corner

    Music List • “Ascension of the Lord”

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    PDF Download • “For Pentecost Sunday”

    There’s a triple ‘allelúja’ and I just love the chord at the end of the 2nd iteration.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    PDF Download • “Organ Accompaniment”

    The following declaration will probably smack of “blowing my own horn.”

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    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    “Thee” + “Thou” + “Thine”

    Regarding approval for the “Revised Standard Version (Catholic Edition).”

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Reminder” — Month of May (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). 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
    Simplified Version • “Canon in D” (Pachelbel)

    I don’t care what people say; I love this piece!

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    —Jeff Ostrowski

Random Quote

“The sun, at one moment surrounded with scarlet flame, at another aureoled in yellow and deep purple, seemed to be in an exceedingly swift and whirling movement, at times appearing to be loosened from the sky and to be approaching the earth, strongly radiating heat.”

— ‘Dr. Domingos Pinto Coelho, noted lawyer from Lisbon and chairman of the Bar Association (1917)’

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