Music for Ascension Thursday
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 5:30 p.m.)
Prelude: Majesté du Christ demandant sa gloire à son Père [Majesty of Christ praying that His Father should glorify Him] (from L’Ascension) (Messiaen)
Missa Octavi toni (Orlando di Lasso, c.1532-1594)
Gregorian Mass of Ascension Day: Viri Galilaei
Alleluia: Ascendit Deus (plainsong, mode iv) [Student Schola]
Alleluia: Dominus in Sina (plainsong, mode viii) [Student Schola]
Motet at the Offertory: Jesu nostra redemptio (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Motet at the Communion: Ascendens Christus (Jacob Handl, 1550-1591)
Motet at the Communion: Regina cæli (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Postlude: Transports de joie d’une âme devant la gloire du Christ qui est la sienne [Outbursts of joy from a soul before the Glory of Christ which is its own glory] (from L’Ascension) (Messiaen)

The Schola Cantorum is joined today by the St. Mary’s Student Schola.

The Schola Cantorum is joined today by the St. Mary’s Student Schola.
Mass is followed by the May Crowning.

Music for the Sixth Sunday of Easter
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain (Gaudeamus pariter)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Ego vos elegi (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: O nations, bless the Lord our God (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Offertory: Surrexit Christus hodie (Andreas Hammerschmidt, 1611-1675)
Communion: Ego vos elegi (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Communion: Ave Maria (Edward Elgar, 1857-1934)
Marian Antiphon: Regina cæli (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

Music for the Fifth Sunday of Easter
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation (Westminster Abbey)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Christus resurgens (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the imposition of scapulars: O Sanctissima
Offertory: Shout joyfully to God, all the earth (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Offertory: Jesu, the very thought of Thee (Edward Bairstow, 1874-1946)
Communion: Ego sum vitis vera (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Communion: Panis angelicus (César Franck, 1822-1890)
Motet at the Communion: I sat down (Bairstow)
Marian Antiphon: Regina cæli (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

Music for the Fourth Sunday of Easter
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: The King of Love My Shepherd Is (St. Columba)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Ego sum pastor bonus (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: O God, my God (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: This Joyful Eastertide (arr. Charles Wood, 1866-1926)
Communion: Ego sum pastor bonus (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Communion: Alleluia! Alleluia! Hearts to Heaven (Lux eoi) (Arthur Sullivan, 1842-1900)
Marian Antiphon: Regina caeli (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

The Schola Cantorum is joined today by the St. Mary’s Student Schola.

Music for the Third Sunday of Easter
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: At the Lamb’s High Feast We Sing (Salzburg)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Oportebat pati Christum (plainsong, mode iv)
Offertory: Praise the Lord, o my soul (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Offertory: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (Gustav Holst, 1874-1934)
Communion: Cantate Domino (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Communion: Cantate Domino (Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, 1657-1743)
Marian antiphon: Regina cæli (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

St. Mary’s is pleased to present a recital by Terrence B. Fay, trombone and tenor,

on Friday, 20 April 2012, at 7:30 p.m.

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Songs and Romances of Western Europe

Carl Nielsen: Romance

Henri Duparc: Three Songs
- Le Manoir de Rosemonde
- Sérénade florentine
- La vie antérieure

Robert Schumann: Three Romances

Johannes Brahms: Fünf Lieder (Op. 49)
- Am Sonntag Morgen
- An ein Veilchen
- Sehnsucht
- Wiegenlied
- Abenddämmerung

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Six Studies in English Folksong

Giacomo Puccini: Two arias from Tosca
- Recondita armonia
- E lucevan le stelle

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with Alexis Zingale, piano

Suggested donation is $15.
For further information, please e-mail music@stmarynorwalk.net.

Terrence B. Fay has been singing professionally throughout Connecticut and New York for over a decade. He has been a soloist most recently with the choirs of St. John’s Lutheran Church, Stamford, Trinity Episcopal Church, Torrington, and the Marquand Chapel Choir at the Yale Divinity School. He has been a member of the choir of Christ Church, New Haven, the Basilica of St. John the Evangelist, Stamford, and of the Grammy-award winning choir, Gaudeamus, while also performing frequently with MidAmerica Productions in New York City under the direction of John Rutter, among others. He is currently a member of the Schola Cantorum of St. Mary’s Church, Norwalk.

Terrence also makes much of his living as a trombonist. He is currently the assistant principal trombonist of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra and principal trombonist of the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic, Wallingford and Waterbury Symphonies, Orchestra New England, and the Wisconsin and Moscow State Chamber Orchestras, among others. Terrence is currently on the faculty of the Educational Center for the Arts, the Neighborhood Music School, Choate Rosemary Hall, and the Universities of Bridgeport and New Haven.

Music for the Second Sunday of Easter
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Processional Hymn: Christ the Lord Is Ris’n Today (Llanfair)
Alleluia: Post dies octo (plainsong, mode vii)
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: Christ the Lord Is Ris’n Today (Surgit in haec dies)
Marian antiphon: Regina cæli (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above