Monthly Archives: February 2013

Music for St. Joseph’s Day, 19 March 2013

Tuesday, 19 March 2013, 8:00 a.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Joseph
(Missale Romanum of 2002)
Prelude: Prélude pour le fête du Saint Joseph (Charles Tournemire, 1870-1939)
Hymn at the Procession: By All Your Saints Still Striving (St. Theodulph)
Kyrie Orbis factor (Vatican Gradual, Mass XI)
Gloria: English Missal (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Offertory: Hail, Holy Joseph, Hail! (Maria Jung und Zart)
Sanctus & Agnus Dei: Missa pro Feriis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Communion: Joseph fili David (plainsong, mode vii, with verses)
Postlude: Improvisation

The St. Mary's Student Schola:
Schola S. Benedicti
Schola S. Scholasticae
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Tuesday, 19 March 2013, 7:00 p.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Joseph
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa Quam pulchri sunt (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Gregorian Mass of St. Joseph: Justus ut palma
Motet at the Offertory: Veritas mea (G.P. da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Hymn at the Communion: Te Joseph celebrent (plainsong, mode i)
Postlude: Fugue in E-flat Major ('St. Anne') (BWV 552/2) (J.S. Bach, 1685-1750)

Music for Passion Sunday, 17 March 2013

Music for Passion Sunday
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Missa Aspice Domine (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)
Gregorian Mass of Passion Sunday: Judica me Deus
Motet at the Offertory: Tribulationes civitatum (prima pars) (Byrd, 1540-1623)
Motet at the Communion: Timor et hebetudo mentis (Tribulationes, secunda & tertia pars) (Byrd)

Music for the Fifth Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: When I Survey the Wondrous Cross (Rockingham)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Offertory: I will praise you, O Lord (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Offertory: God of Mercy and Compassion (Au sang qu’un Dieu) (after Pergolesi)
Communion: Nemo te condemnavit (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Communion: O Jesu Christe (Jacquet van Berchem, c.1505-c.1580)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)

Missa in die Creationis Papae Francisci

Wednesday, 13 March 2013, 7:00 p.m.
Missa in die Creationis Papae
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa Dum esset Summus Pontifex (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Gregorian Votive Mass for the Chair of St. Peter: Statuit ei
Motet at the Offertory: Tu es Petrus (Jacobus Clemens non Papa, c.1500-1558)
Motet at the Communion: Veni Creator Spiritus (Gilles Binchois, c.1400-1460)
Solemn Te Deum (plainsong, mode iv)
Postlude: Improvisation

Music for the Fourth Sunday of Lent, 10 March 2013

Music for the Fourth Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten (BWV 647) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Missa brevis (Gertrude Schmitt, b.1932)
Gregorian Mass of the Fourth Sunday of Lent: Laetare
Introit: Laetare (plainsong, mode v) [Schola S. Caeciliae] Tract: Qui confidunt (plainsong, mode viii) [Schola S. Caeciliae] Hymn at the Offertory: Attende Domine (plainsong, mode v) [Scholae S. Gregorii & S. Ioannis Baptistae] Communion: Jerusalem, quae aedificatur (plainsong, mode iv) [Schola S. Caeciliae] Motet at the Communion: Ave Regina caelorum (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)
Motet at the Communion: Panis angelicus (César Franck, 1822-1890)
Postlude: Litanies (Jehan Alain, 1911-1940)

The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum
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The St. Mary’s Student Schola:
Schola S. Caeciliae
Schola S. Gregorii
Schola S. Joannis Baptistae

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Music for the Fourth Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Word of God, Come Down On Earth (Liebster Jesu)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Offertory: Laudate Dominum (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Our Father, We Have Wandered (Passion Chorale)
Communion: Oportet te (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Communion: God So Loved the World (John Stainer, 1840-1901)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

Music for the Saturday of the Third Week of Lent, 9 March 2013

Saturday, 9 March 2013, 9:00 a.m.
Music for the Saturday of the Third Week of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Missa pro Feriis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Gregorian Mass of the Saturday after the Third Sunday of Lent: Verba mea
Hymn at the Offertory: Parce Domine (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Communion: Audi benigne Conditor (plainsong, mode ii)

The second Saturday of every month is a Missa cantata celebrated
for the intentions of the Gospel of Life Society at St. Mary's.

Recital by Charles & Elizabeth Weaver, 8 March 2013

The St. Cecilia Society of St. Mary Church, Norwalk, is pleased to present a recital by

Elizabeth Baber Weaver, soprano
&
Charles Weaver, lute

on Friday, 8 March 2013, at 7:30 p.m.

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SACRED SONG 1500-1650

Josquin, Lassus, Monteverdi, and more

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The St. Cecilia Society of St. Mary Church, Norwalk, is pleased to present a recital by Elizabeth Baber Weaver and Charles Weaver on Friday, 8 March 2013, at 7:30 p.m.? The program of music for voice and lute includes Lassus? Timor et tremor, and will culminate in Monteverdi?s masterful Pianto della Madonna.

General admission is $15, students $10. For further information, please visit stmarynorwalk.net/recitals, e-mail music@stmarynorwalk.net, or call 203-866-5546 x115.

Elizabeth Baber Weaver (soprano) and Charles Weaver (lute) made their debut as a duo at the 2004 Baltimore Shakespeare Festival with an innovative narrative program of songs from the plays of Shakespeare. The following year, their artist recital of 16th-century Spanish song at the Washington Early Music Festival met with a rave review from the Washington Post, which praised their ?impeccable performances? and ?imagination in programming.? They have since presented programs of Renaissance song in venues around the country, and have collaborated with ensembles such as New York Polyphony and Parthenia, a Consort of Viols. They are both faculty members of the New York Continuo Collective.

Elizabeth Baber Weaver has been praised by the Washington Post for her ?angelic brightness and dedication,? and the New York Times called her singing ?truly lovely.? Recent solo engagements include appearances with Hesperus, Parthenia, and Ex Umbris; the revival of The Play of Daniel at the Cloisters; chansons and airs de cour with Guido?s Ear at the Connecticut Early Music Festival; and ?A Vivaldi Festival!? with Voices of Ascension. Elizabeth is a member of the Grammy-nominated ensemble Pomerium. She has also performed and recorded as a guest artist with the acclaimed quartet New York Polyphony. Elizabeth is a native of Lexington, Kentucky, studied voice at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, and now lives in New York City.

Charles Weaver specializes in sixteenth and seventeenth-century music, and performs frequently on the lute and related historical plucked-string instruments: both as a soloist, and in concert with groups such as Early Music New York, Piffaro: The Renaissance Band, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the Folger Consort. The New York Times has noted his ?agile lute and Baroque guitar accompaniments.? He is on the faculty of the New York Continuo Collective, an ongoing workshop in how medieval music theory and the study of rhetoric inform the performance of seventeenth-century vocal music. He has also worked as a vocal coach at the Western Wind Workshop in Ensemble Singing, the Queens College Baroque Opera Workshop, and the Yale Baroque Opera Program. He was formerly director of the Holy Innocents? Schola and a member of the St Agnes Schola in New York. He now sings with the St. Mary?s Schola Cantorum.

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General admission $15 / Students $10
For further information, please e-mail music@stmarynorwalk.net.

A PDF flier is available here; click here for a printer-friendly version.

Music for the Third Sunday of Lent, 3 March 2013

Music for the Third Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Missa Media vita (Nicolas Gombert, c.1495-c.1560)
Gregorian Mass of the Third Sunday of Lent: Oculi mei
Hymn at the Offertory: Media vita (plainsong)
Motet at the Communion: Ad te levavi / Miserere nostri (G.P. da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)

Music for the Third Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days (St. Flavian)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Offertory: Justitiae Domini (plainsong, mode iv)
Motet at the Offertory: Thou knowest, Lord (Henry Purcell, 1659-1695)
Communion: Passer invenit (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Communion: Hear the Voice and Prayer (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)

Music for the Second Sunday of Lent, 24 February 2013

Music for the Second Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Missa tertii toni (Constanzo Porta, c.1529-1601)
Gregorian Mass of the Second Sunday of Lent: Reminiscere
Offertory: Meditabor (Orlando di Lasso, c.1532-1594)
Hymn at the Communion: Heu mihi Domine (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)

We welcome Mr. Charles Weaver as the guest director for this Mass.

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Music for the Second Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: The Glory of These Forty Days (Erhalt uns Herr)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Offertory: I shall meditate (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Christ Is the World’s Light (Christe sanctorum)
Communion: Visionem (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Communion: All Ye Who Seek a Comfort Sure (St. Bernard)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)

We welcome Mr. William V. Riccio, Jr., as the guest director & organist for this Mass.

Music for the First Sunday of Lent, 17 February 2013

Music for the First Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Missa sine nomine à 4 (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Gregorian Mass of the First Sunday of Lent: Invocabit me
Motet at the Offertory: Ductus est Jesus (Estêvão de Brito, 1570-1641)
Motet at the Communion: Parce Domine (Jacob Obrecht, c.1457-1505)

We welcome Mr. Charles Weaver as the guest director for this Mass.

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Music for the First Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Forty Days and Forty Nights (Heinlein)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Offertory: The Lord will overshadow you (plainsong, mode viii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Again We Keep This Solemn Fast (Erhalt uns Herr)
Communion: Scapulis suis (plainsong, mode iii)
Hymn at the Communion: If Thou But Trust in God to Guide Thee (Wer nur den lieben Gott)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)

We welcome Mr. William V. Riccio, Jr., as the guest director & organist for this Mass.