Recital Series
Friday, 23 March 2012, 7:30 P.M.
The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum
The St. Cecilia Society of St. Mary Church is pleased to present its annual benefit concert in honor of St. Cecilia on Friday, 23 March 2012 at 7:30 p.m. The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum, under the direction of David Hughes, will sing a program of Lenten sacred music centered around the penitential text Media vita.
This concert, which is usually sung each year in mid-November, near to the feast of St. Cecilia, was postponed this year because of the magnificent repainting of the St. Mary’s sanctuary this past fall. (It is not inappropriate to relocate it to the month in which occurs the feast of St. Gregory the Great.) It is the single annual fundraiser to support the work of the Schola Cantorum.
A reception will follow the concert. Suggested donation is $25 general admission, $15 for students & seniors; all proceeds go to support the work of the St. Cecilia Society throughout the year. For more information, please e-mail music@stmarynorwalk.net, or call the parish office at 203-866-5546.
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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.
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Friday, 8 June 2012, 7:30 P.M.
David J. Hughes, organ
works of Hindemith and Bach