Monthly Archives: February 2015

St. Cecilia Concert Series: James Wetzel, 22 February 2015

James Wetzel, organ
works of Bach, Mendelssohn, and Franck

Sunday, 22 February 2015, 4:00 P.M.

General Admission: $15 / Students: $10

A festive reception will follow the recital.

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Pittsburgh-born James D. Wetzel has been the Organist and Choirmaster of the Church of Saint Agnes in Manhattan since 2010, directing one of the most respected Catholic music programs in the nation. The church’s professional Schola Cantorum sings for over 120 liturgies annually, including the weekly Tridentine Latin Mass. James is the Assistant Conductor and accompanist for the Greenwich Choral Society in Connecticut, accompanist for the New Choral Society in Scarsdale, New York, and holds a post as Assisting Organist at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine where he formerly served as Organ Scholar for two years under Bruce Neswick. Also, he is an adjunct lecturer at Hunter College where he directs the Chamber Singers and teaches organ.

Mr. Wetzel is also active as an organist and continuo player; recent highlights include performing at the Berkshire Choral Festival, with the American Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall and with the American Classical Orchestra in Alice Tully Hall. He is a board member of the New York City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists and the Catholic Artists Society, is music advisor to the New York Purgatorial Society, and is a member of the Saint Wilfred’s Club for Organists in Manhattan.

Mr. Wetzel earned a bachelor’s degree in organ performance from The Juilliard School where he studied with Paul Jacobs and was the first person ever to graduate with a master’s degree and a post-graduate professional studies certificate in choral conducting from Manhattan School of Music under Kent Tritle. He also studied privately with Donald K. Fellows and Robert Page. Additionally, James spend a year studying Early Christianity and Apologetics at Columbia University.

Music for the First Sunday of Lent, 22 February 2015

Music for the First Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Missa Ego flos campi for double choir (Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, c.1590-1664) [Student Schola] Gregorian Mass of the First Sunday of Lent: Invocabit me
Introit: Invocabit me (plainsong, mode viii) [Student Schola trebles] Tract: Qui habitat (plainsong, mode ii) [Student Schola trebles & basses in alternatim] Offertory: Scapulis suis (plainsong, mode viii) [Student Schola basses] Motet at the Offertory: Ave Regina cælorum à 5 (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Communion: Scapulis suis (plainsong, mode iii) [Student Schola trebles] Motet at the Communion: In jejunio et fletu (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585)

The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum
The St. Cecilia Student Schola
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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)
Introit: Invocabit me (plainsong, mode viii)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Offertory: Scapulis suis (plainsong, mode viii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Again We Keep This Solemn Fast (Erhalt uns Herr)
Motet at the Offertory: Hide Not Thou Thy Face From Us (Richard Farrant, c.1530-1580)
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)

Music for the Saturday after Ash Wednesday, 21 February 2015

Saturday, 21 February 2015, 9:00 a.m.
Music for the Saturday after Ash Wednesday
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Missa Deus Genitor alme (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Gregorian Mass of the Saturday after Ash Wednesday: Audivit Dominus
Hymn at the Offertory: Nunc tempus acceptabile (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Communion: Jesu, quadragenariae (plainsong, mode iv)

Mass will be preceded by the First Grade of the Catechumenate,
for those to be baptized at the Easter Vigil.

Music for Ash Wednesday, 18 February 2015

Music for Ash Wednesday
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 12:10 p.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Forty Days and Forty Nights (Heinlein)
Introit: Your mercy extends to all things (plainsong, mode i)
Missa pro Feriis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Antiphons at the imposition of ashes: Immutemur (plainsong, mode i), etc.
Hymn at the imposition of ashes: Attende Domine (plainsong, mode v)
Hymn at the Offertory: Again We Keep This Solemn Fast (Erhalt uns Herr)
Communion: He who medidates (plainsong, mode iii)
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: Have Mercy, Lord, on Us (Southwell)

Mass is sung approximately once per month by the students of Regina Pacis Academy.
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Music for Ash Wednesday
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 5:30 p.m.)
Missa Inter vestibulum (Francisco Guerrero, 1528-1599)
Antiphon at the blessing of ashes: Exaudi nos, Domine (plainsong, mode vii)
Antiphon at the imposition of ashes: Immutemur (plainsong, mode i)
Antiphon at the imposition of ashes: Juxta vestibulum (plainsong, mode iv)
Motet at the imposition of ashes: Emendemus in melius (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Gregorian Mass of Ash Wednesday: Misereris omnium
Motet at the Offertory: Inter vestibulum (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)
Motet at the Communion: Ne irascaris Domine (Byrd)

The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum

St. Cecilia Society Concert Series 2015

The St. Cecilia Society of St. Mary Church presents the
2015 CONCERT SERIES


At a glance:

Sunday, February 22nd
4:00 P.M.
James Wetzel, organ
works of Bach, Mendelssohn, and Franck

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Sunday, March 15th
4:00 P.M.
Sharon Levin, flute
Gerard Reuter, oboe
David Hughes, piano
works of Telemann, Marcello, and Quantz

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Wednesday, April 1st
8:00 P.M.
Tenebræ
The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum
The St. Mary’s Student Schola

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Sunday, May 17th
4:00 P.M.
Charlotte Dobbs, soprano
David Hughes, piano
works of Karg-Elert, Copland, and Hughes

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Music for Quinquagesima Sunday, 15 February 2015

Music for Quinquagesima Sunday
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß (BWV 622) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Missa In te Domine speravi (Orlando di Lasso, c.1532-1594)
Gregorian Mass of Quinquagesima: Esto mihi
Motet at the Offertory: In illo tempore, assumpsit Jesus (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)
Motet at the Communion: Ave Regina caelorum (Peter Philips, c.1560-1628)
Postlude: Fantasia & Fugue in A minor (BWV 561) (Bach)

Music for the Sixth Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: O God, Our Help In Ages Past (St. Anne)
Introit: Esto mihi (plainsong, mode iv)
Alleluia: Cantate Domino (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Benedictus es Domine (plainsong, mode iii)
Motet at the Offertory: From All That Dwell Below the Skies (Duke Street)
Communion: Manducaverunt (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Communion: O Sacred Feast (Healey Willan, 1880-1968)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

Music for the Feast of St. Valentine, 14 February 2015

Saturday, 14 February 2015, 9:00 a.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Valentine
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa Cunctipotens Genitor Deus (Vatican Gradual, Mass IV)
Gregorian Mass of a Martyr Not a Bishop: In virtute tua
Improvisation at the Communion
Postlude: Improvisation

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

Music for None of Thursday, 12 February 2015

Thursday, 12 February 2015, 3:00 p.m.
Music for None of Thursday
Hymn: Rerum, Deus, tenax vigor (plainsong, mode viii)
Antiphon: Invocabimus nomen tuum, with Psalms 74 and 75 (plainsong, mode vi)
Commemoration of the Seven Holy Servite Founders
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode v)

The office of None is sung by the students of Regina Pacis Academy.

Music for the Fifth Sunday of the Year, St. Mary’s, Greenwich, 8 February 2015

Sunday, 8 February 2015, 5:15 p.m.
St. Mary Church, Greenwich
Mass for the Fifth Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 2002)
Prelude: Improvisation
Introit: Venite adoremus (plainsong, mode ii)
Kyrie Orbis factor (plainsong, mode i)
Gloria: Mass for Four Voices (Thommas Tallis, c.1505-1585)
Alleluia: Laudate Dominum (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Come Down, O Love Divine (Down Ampney; descant by David Hughes)
Sanctus & Benedictus: Mass for Four Voices (Tallis)
Agnus Dei: Mass for Four Voices (Tallis)
Communio: Multitudo (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Communion: Ave verum corpus (Edward Elgar, 1857-1934)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)
Postlude: Rhapsody No. 3 in C-sharp minor (Op. 17, No. 3) (Herbert Howells, 1892-1983)

The St. Cecilia Student Schola

Music for Sexagesima Sunday, 8 February 2015

Music for Sexagesima Sunday
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt (BWV 637) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Gregorian Mass of Sexagesima: Exsurge
Missa L’homme armé super voces musicales (Josquin des Prez, c.1450-1521)
Motet at the Offertory: Perfice gressus meos (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Motet at the Communion: In illo tempore, cum turba plurima (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)
Postlude: Fantasia & Fugue in G minor (BWV 542) (Bach)

Music for the Fifth Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Rejoice, The Lord Is King (Darwall’s 148th)
Introit: Venite, adoremus Deum (plainsong, mode ii)
Alleluia: Laudate Dominum (plainsong, mode ii)
Offertory: Perfice gressus meos (plainsong, mode iv)
Motet at the Offertory: Perfice gressus meos (Franz Xaver Witt, 1834-1888)
Communion: Multitudo (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Communion: Verily, Verily I Say Unto You (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above