Monthly Archives: April 2014

Music for the Octave Day of Easter, 27 April 2014

Music for the Octave Day of Easter (Low Sunday)
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Jesus Christus, unser Heiland (BWV 626) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Missa Regina caeli (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Gregorian Mass for the Octave Day of Easter: Quasi modo
At the Offertory: Offertorie (from Suite pour Quasimodo) (Charles Tournemire, 1870-1939)
Motet at the Communion: Post dies octo (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Postlude: Choral-Improvisation sur le Victimae Paschali (Tournemire)

Music for the Second Sunday of Easter
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Processional Hymn: Christ the Lord Is Ris’n Today (Llanfair)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Post dies octo (plainsong, mode vii)
Offertory: Angelus Domini (plainsong, mode viii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Ye Sons and Daughters (O filii et filiae, plainsong, mode ii)
Communion: Mitte manum tuam (plainsong, mode vi)
Hymn at the Communion: Ad regias Agni dapes (plainsong, mode viii)
Marian antiphon: Regina caeli (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

Recital by Judith Malafronte, 25 April 2014

Boulanger & Co.
works of Boulanger, Debussy, Finzi, Quilter, Satie, Schubert, Sondheim

Friday, 25 April 2014
7:30 p.m.
Judith Malafronte, mezzo-soprano
David Hughes, piano

 

General admission $15 | Students $10
For further information, please e-mail music@stmarynorwalk.net.
A PDF flier is available here.

Judith Malafronte is a Lecturer in Voice at Yale University, where she teaches a freshman seminar on Shakespeare and Music as well as graduate level courses in historical performance. Former director of the Yale Collegium Singers, Malafronte has curated and produced numerous concerts and theater projects in collaboration with Yale’s museums, libraries, professional schools and social clubs. In addition she teaches a popular course on opera for Yale Alumni College.

Malafronte has appeared as mezzo-soprano soloist with the San Francisco Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, the St. Louis Symphony, and Mark Morris Dance Group as well as opera companies in Europe and oratorio societies and early music groups throughout the United States. Master classes have taken her Europe and Asia, and she maintains an active private voice studio in New York City.

After earning degrees from Vassar College and Stanford University, Malafronte studied in Paris with Mlle. Nadia Boulanger and with Giulietta Simionato as a Fulbright scholar to Italy. She has recorded for major labels in a broad range of repertoire, from medieval chant to contemporary music, and writes regularly for online and print outlets including Opera News, Early Music America Magazine, The Classical Review, and Parterre Box.

Music for Easter Sunday, 20 April 2014

Music for Easter Sunday
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Christ lag in Todesbanden (BWV 625) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Missa Pascale (Pierre de la Rue, c.1452-1518)
Gregorian Mass of Easter Sunday: Resurrexi
Motet at the Offertory: Tulerunt Dominum meum (Philippe de Monte, 1521-1603)
Motet at the Communion: Congratulamini mihi omnes (Adrian Willaert, c.1490-c.1562)
Postlude: Final from Symphony No. 5 (Charles-Marie Widor, 1844-1937)

The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum

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Music for Easter Sunday
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Jesus Christ Is Ris’n Today (Easter Hymn)
Introit: Resurrexi (plainsong, mode iv)
Kyrie: Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Gloria, Sanctus, Agnus Dei: Missa de Angelis (Mass VIII)
Sequence: Victimæ Paschali laudes (plainchant, mode i)
Alleluia: Pascha nostrum (mode vii)
Offertory: Terra tremuit (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Offertory: The Strife Is O’er (Victory)
Communion: Pascha nostrum (plainsong, mode vi)
Motet at the Communion: Regina cæli (Gregor Aichinger, c.1565-1628)
Marian antiphon: Regina cæli (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

The St. Mary’s Choir

Music for the Solemn Easter Vigil, 19 April 2014

Saturday, 19 April 2014, 8:00 p.m.
Music for the Great Paschal Vigil and First Mass of Easter
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
The Exsultet
Canticle: Cantemus Domino (plainsong, mode viii)
Canticle: Vinea facta est (plainsong, mode viii)
Canticle: Attende caelum (plainsong, mode viii)
Litany of the Saints (plainsong)
Canticle: Sicut cervus (plainsong, mode viii)
At the aspersion: Asperges me (plainsong, mode vii)
Kyrie: Messe solennelle (Louis Vierne, 1870-1937)
Gloria: Messe solennelle (Vierne)
Alleluia: Confitemini Domino (plainsong, mode viii)
Tract: Laudate Dominum (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Offertory: Regina caeli à 8 (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Sanctus: Messe solennelle (Vierne)
Motet at the Communion: Christus resurgens (Peter Philips, c.1560-1628)
Motet at the Communion: Dum transisset Sabbatum I (John Taverner, 1490-1545)
Antiphon of Lauds: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, with Psalm 150 (plainsong, mode vi)
Benedictus antiphon of Lauds: Et valde mane (plainsong, mode viii)
Postlude: Carillon (from Pièces en style libre; Op. 31, No. 21) (Vierne)

The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum
The St. Mary’s Choir
Coro Hispano de Santa Maria

Music for Good Friday, 18 April 2014

Friday, 18 April 2014, 3:00 p.m.
Music for the Commemoration of the Passion & Death of the Lord
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Tract: Domine, audivi auditum (plainsong, mode ii)
Tract: Eripe me, Domine (plainsong, mode ii)
Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundum Joannem (polyphonic turba settings by David J. Hughes, b. 1980)
The Reproaches (plainsong)
Antiphon: Crucem tuam (plainsong, mode iv)
Motet at the Adoration of the Cross: Ecce lignum / Crux fidelis (Adrian Willaert, c.1490-c.1562)
Motet at the Adoration of the Cross: Officium de Cruce (Loyset Compère, c.1445-1518)
Antiphons at the Translation of the Sacrament: Adoramus te, Christe; Per lignum servi; Salvator mundi
Motet at the Communion: Maria plena virtute (Robert Fayrfax, 1464-1521)
Motet at the Communion: Salvator mundi (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585)

The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum

Music for Holy Thursday, 17 April 2014

Thursday, 17 April 2014, 7:00 p.m.
Music for the Mass of Maundy Thursday
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Introit: Nos autem gloriari (plainsong, mode iii) [All Choirs] Kyrie: Missa Nos autem gloriari (Pierre de la Rue, c.1452-1518)
Gloria: Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Gradual: Christus factus est (plainsong, mode v) [All Choirs] Antiphons at the Mandatum: Mandatum; Postquam surrexit Dominus
Motet at the Mandatum: Domine, tu mihi lavas pedes? (Manuel Cardoso, 1566-1650) [Schola S. Caeciliae] Offertory: Dextera Domini (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Ubi caritas (plainsong, mode vi) [All Choirs] Motet at the Offertory: Ubi caritas (Maurice Duruflé, 1902-1986)
Sanctus & Benedictus: Missa Nos autem gloriari (La Rue)
Agnus Dei: Missa Nos autem gloriari (La Rue)
Communion: Dominus Jesus (plainsong, mode ii) [Student Schola] Motet at the Communion: Dominus Jesus in qua nocte (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Ave verum corpus (William Byrd, 1540-1623) [All Choirs] At the procession: Pange lingua gloriosi (plainsong, mode iii; polyphonic verses by Byrd)
At the stripping of the altars: Diviserunt sibi, with Psalm 21 (plainsong, mode viii)

The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum
The St. Mary’s Choir
Coro Hispano de Santa Maria
The St. Mary’s Student Schola: Scholæ S. Caeciliae & S. Gregorii

The Holy Thursday Mass will be followed by the traditional procession to the seven churches of Norwalk.

Music for Tenebrae, 16 April 2014

Wednesday, 16 April 2014, 8:00 p.m.
Music for Tenebræ
(in the traditional Roman Rite)

Matins: First Nocturn
Antiphon Zelus domus tuae, with Psalm 68 (plainsong, mode viii)
Antiphon Avertantur retrorsum, with Psalm 69 (plainsong, mode viii)
Antiphon Deus meus, eripe me, with Psalm 70 (plainsong, mode viii)
A reading from the Lamentations of the prophet Jeremiah (I) (Pierre de la Rue, 1452-1518)
Responsory: In monte Oliveti (plainsong, mode viii)
A reading from the Lamentations of the prophet Jeremiah (II) (La Rue / plainsong)
Responsory: Tristis est anima mea (plainsong, mode viii)
A reading from the Lamentations of the prophet Jeremiah (III) (La Rue / plainsong)
Responsory: Ecce vidimus eum (plainsong, mode v)

Matins: Second Nocturn
Antiphon Liberavit Dominus, with Psalm 71 (plainsong, mode vii)
Antiphon Cogitaverunt impii, with Psalm 72 (plainsong, mode viii)
Antiphon Exsurge, Domine, with Psalm 73 (plainsong, mode i)
Commentary of St. Augustine on the Psalms (I)
Responsory: Amicus meus (Orlando di Lasso, c.1532-1594)
Commentary of St. Augustine on the Psalms (II)
Responsory: Judas mercator pessimus (Lasso)
Commentary of St. Augustine on the Psalms (III)
Responsory: Unus ex discipulis meis (plainsong, mode viii)

Matins: Third Nocturn
Antiphon Dixi iniquis, with Psalm 74 (plainsong, mode vii)
Antiphon Terra tremuit, with Psalm 75 (plainsong, mode viii)
Antiphon In die tribulationis, with Psalm 76 (plainsong, mode vii)
Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians (I)
Responsory: Eram quasi agnus innocens (Lasso)
Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians (II)
Responsory: Una hora (Lasso)
Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians (III)
Responsory: Seniores populi (plainsong, mode i)

Lauds
Antiphon Justificeris, Domine, with Psalm 50 (plainsong, mode viii)
Antiphon Dominus tamquam ovis, with Psalm 89 (plainsong, mode ii)
Antiphon Contritum est cor meum, with Psalm 35 (plainsong, mode viii)
Antiphon Exhortatus es, with Exodus 15 (plainsong, mode iv)
Antiphon Oblatus est, with Psalm 146 (plainsong, mode ii)
Antiphon Traditor autem, with the Benedictus (plainsong, mode i)
Responsory Christus factus est (plainsong, mode v)

Motet: Miserere mei, Deus (Gregorio Allegri, 1582-1652)

Music for Holy Week 2014

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April 13, 9:30 a.m.
PALM SUNDAY
Missa Aspice Domine (Palestrina)
Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundum Matthaeum (Guerrero)
O Domine Jesu Christe, adoro te in Cruce (Gombert)
O Jesu Christe (Jacquet de Berchem)
Vexilla Regis (plainsong)

April 16, 8:00 p.m.
TENEBRÆ
The complete plainsong office of Matins & Lauds for Holy Thursday
Lamentationes (La Rue)
Tenebræ responsories (Lassus)
Miserere (Allegri)

April 17, 7:00 p.m.
MAUNDY THURSDAY
Missa Nos autem gloriari (La Rue)
Domine, tu mihi lavas pedes? (Cardoso)
Ubi caritas (Duruflé)
Dominus Jesus in qua nocte (Palestrina)
Ave verum corpus (Byrd)
Pange lingua (Byrd)

April 18, 3:00 p.m.
GOOD FRIDAY
Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundum Joannem (Hughes)
Ecce lignum / Crux fidelis (Willaert)
Maria plena virtute (Fayrfax)
Officium de Cruce (Compère)
Salvator mundi I (Tallis)

April 19, 8:00 p.m.
THE SOLEMN EASTER VIGIL
Messe solennelle (Vierne)
Regina caeli à 8 (Victoria)
Christus resurgens (Philips)
Dum transisset Sabbatum (Taverner)
organ music of Vierne

April 20, 9:30 a.m.
EASTER SUNDAY
Missa Pascale (La Rue)
Tulerunt Dominum meum (de Monte)
Congratulamini mihi omnes (Willaert)
organ music of Bach and Widor

Requiem Mass for Lawrence K. Iannacone, 15 April 2014

Requiem Mass for Lawrence K. Iannacone
Tuesday, 15 April 2014, 9:30 a.m.
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Missa pro defunctis à 5 (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)
At the procession into the church: Subvenite (plainsong, mode iv) [tutti] Introit: Requiem æternam (Morales)
Gradual: Requiem æternam (plainsong, mode ii)
Tract: Absolve Domine (plainsong, mode viii) [tutti] Sequence: Dies irae (plainsong, mode i; Pie Jesu Domine from Morales) [tutti] Offertory: Domine Jesu Christe (plainsong, mode ii)
Communion: Lux æterna (Morales)
Motet at the Communion: Credo quod Redemptor (Alonso Lobo, 1555-1617)
Motet at the Communion: Ave verum corpus (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756-1791)
At the absolution: Libera me, Domine (plainsong, mode i) [tutti] At the procession to the cemetery: In paradisum (plainsong, mode vii) [trebles] At the procession to the cemetery: Credo quod Redemptor (plainsong, mode viii) [basses]

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