Monthly Archives: September 2009

Music for the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, 27 September 2009

Music for the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)

Prelude: Canzone “La spiritata” (Giovanni Gabrieli, c.1554-1612)
Missa sine nomine (Ludovico da Viadana, 1564-1627)
Gregorian Mass of the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost: Justus es Domine
Motet at the Offertory: Exaudi Domine (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Dixit Dominus (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Postlude: Fuga IX tono (Gabrieli)

Music for the Twenty-Sixth Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)

Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Paratum cor meum (plainsong, mode iii)
Motet at the Offertory: Verily, Verily I Say Unto You (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585)
Communion: Qui vult venire (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Communion: Non nobis, Domine (trad.)
Organ music as above

Piano recital by Jason Cutmore, 25 September 2009, 7:30 p.m.

St. Mary's is very pleased to present a recital by the excellent pianist Jason Cutmore on Friday, 25 September 2009, at 7:30 p.m.   Mr. Cutmore will play works of Schubert, de Severac, de Falla, and Poulenc.  A flier for the recital is available here.  The suggested donation is $10.  Visitors are invited to be seated in the choir loft of the church in order to more closely listen to and watch the artist at work.

Copies of Mr. Cutmore's recent CD of piano music by Manuel de Falla will be available for sale at the recital.

The recital is presented by the St. Cecilia Society of St. Mary Church.

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Canadian pianist Jason Cutmore has performed solo recitals and collaborative concerts throughout North America, Europe and India. Mr. Cutmore made his Chicago recital debut in the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts in 2005 with an all-Liszt programme that was broadcast live on WFMT radio, and shown on Chicago Cable TV 25. Since then he has appeared in Canada’s Colours of Music Festival, the Elora Festival, the University of Calgary’s Celebrity Series, as well as at venues in Cleveland, Chicago, New York City, and elsewhere in North America. His concert performances, and an ardent interest in foreign travel, have frequently taken him abroad to Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, and India, including concerts at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai, India, and the Franz Liszt Museum in Budapest.

In 2008, Mr. Cutmore’s debut commercial CD, an album of piano music by Spanish composer Manuel de Falla on Centaur Records, was released to critical acclaim. Gramophone magazine declared that “more than a few orchestras can learn from Cutmore’s perfectly placed accents and ideal dance tempi” and Classicstoday.com called it “a first-rate release.”

Mr. Cutmore holds degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the SUNY Purchase College Conservatory of Music in New York. His major teachers have been Robert Shannon, Stephanie Brown, and Michael Massey. Originally from Edmonton, Canada, Mr. Cutmore now resides in a suburb of New York City.

St. Mary’s Children’s Schola: 2009-2010

Dear Parents:

I am happy to announce that there will be not one, but two Children's Scholae this year: one for beginning students, and one for intermediate or advanced students. Rehearsals will be continue to be on Thursday afternoons, which seemed to work well for most families last year. The schedule will be as follows:

Thursdays
3:30 - 4:15 Beginning
4:00 - 5:00 Advanced

As you see, there will be a small overlap between the Beginning and Advanced scholas, so that we can learn some repertoire together, in addition to our separate work. We made great progress this past year, and I look forward to continuing to do so in the coming one. In addition to our continued work in reading chant, I plan for the advanced students to have some experience singing polyphony with the professional schola before the conclusion of academic year.

The fee for families for the year is $200 for the first child, $100 for the second, and every subsequent child free.  Checks should be made payable to St. Mary Church.  As always, scholarships are available, and financial constraints should prevent no child from learning to sing.

I will compile a list of the dates for sung Masses for the coming year in short order and send that along; we will sing approximately once per month at the 9:30 Sunday Latin Mass. One Mass you may want to mark on your calendars immediately is our first one for the year, on *Monday*, October 12th, at 9:30 a.m. St. Mary's will be having a Solemn Mass on Columbus Day in honor of Our Lady, with a procession after Mass to the statue of Christopher Columbus by the turnpike, and lunch to follow back at the parish.

Our first rehearsal will be *next week*, Thursday, September 24th. In the meantime, to sign up your children for schola -- or if you have any questions -- please write back, and I will respond straight away. If you would please share this information other with other parents who may be interested, I would be most grateful.

I'm looking forward very much to working with your children this year in making a joyful (& beautiful & prayerful) noise unto the Lord!

Yours sincerely in Christ,

David J. Hughes
Organist & Choirmaster

Music for the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, 20 September 2009

Music for the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)

Prelude: Vater unser im Himmelreich (BuxWV 219) (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)
Missa Jesu redemptor (Vatican Gradual, Mass XIV)
Gregorian Mass of the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost: Miserere mihi
Motet at the Offertory: Miserere mihi Domine (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Motet at the Communion: Cantate Domino (Giovanni Croce, 1557-1609)
Postlude: Præludium in the Phrygian Mode (BuxWV 152) (Buxtehude)

Music for the Twenty-Fifth Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)

Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Confitemini Domino (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Offertory: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Communion: Memento verbi tui (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Communion: Ave verum Corpus (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

Music for Votive Mass of Our Lady at Church of Our Saviour, NYC, 18 September 2009

Friday, 18 September 2009, 5:30 p.m.
Special Parish Mass
Church of Our Saviour, New York City
Votive Mass of Our Lady

Missale Romanum of 1962
Prelude: Versets on Ave Maris Stella: En taille à 5, Fugue à 4 (Nicolas de Grigny, 1672-1703)
Missa secunda (Hans Leo Hassler, 1548-1612)
Gregorian Mass of Our Lady: Salve Sancta Parens
Motet at the Offertory: Ave Maria (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Hymn at the Communion: Ave Maris Stella (Claudio Monteverdi, 1567-1643)
Postlude: Versets on Ave Maris Stella: Dialogue sur les Grands Jeux (de Grigny)

Music for the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, 13 September 2009

Music for the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)

Prelude: Vor deinen Thron tret ich hiermit (BWV 668) (Johann Sebastian Bach, c.1685-1750)
Missa Dum esset Summus Pontifex (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Gregorian Mass of the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost: Inclina Domine
Motet at the Offertory: Exspectans exspectavi (Palestrina)
Motet at the Communion: Ego sum panis vivus (Juan Esquivel, c.1560-c.1613)
Postlude: Prelude & Fugue in A Major (BWV 536) (Bach)

Music for the Twenty-Fourth Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)

Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Timebunt gentes (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Offertory: Da pacem, Domine (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: O God, Beyond All Praising (Thaxted)
Communion: Qui vult venire (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Communion: Take Up Your Cross (Orlando Gibbons)
Organ music as above

Music for the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, 6 September 2009

Music for the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)

Prelude: Ballade en mode phrygien (Jehan Alain, 1911-1940)
Missa Spem in alium (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Gregorian Mass of the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost: Protector noster
Motet at the Offertory: Gustate et videte (Orlando di Lasso, c.1532-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Quaerite primum regnum Dei (G.B. Martini, 1706-1784, after Mozart)
Postlude: Carillon de Westminster (Louis Vierne, 1870-1937)

Music for the Twenty-Third Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)

Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Domine exaudi (plainsong, mode vii)
Motet at the Offertory: My Eyes for Beauty Pine (Herbert Howells, 1892-1983)
Communion: Vovete et reddite (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Communion: Jesu, Rex Admirabilis (Palestrina)
Organ music as above

The volunteer 11:30 Choir resumes its choral season this Sunday.
For more information about the choir and its work, please contact David Hughes.