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Annual St. Cecilia’s Day Concert, 19 November 2010

The St. Cecilia Society at St. Mary Church is pleased to present its annual benefit St. Cecilia's Day Concert on Friday, 19 November 2010 at 7:45 P.M. The St. Mary's Schola Cantorum, under the direction of David Hughes, will sing polyphony from the Códice del Convento del Carmen, Mexico City. The pieces sung from this notable manuscript, the original of which is now lost, will include works of Francisco López Capillas, Fernando Franco, Francisco Guerrero, and Juan de Lienas. It will be an exciting evening of some of the most beautiful sacred music of the Iberian and Latin-American Renaissance!

Vespers in the Extraordinary Form for the Feast of St. Elisabeth of Hungary will be sung at 7:00 P.M., with the concert immediately to follow.  A festive wine & cheese reception will conclude the evening. 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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Music for the Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, 14 November 2010

Music for the Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)

(lections of the Resumed Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany)
Prelude: Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir (BWV 686) (J.S. Bach, 1685-1750)
Missa Simile est regnum caelorum (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Gregorian Mass of the Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost: Dicit Dominus: Ego cogito
Motet at the Offertory: De profundis (Estêvão Lopes Morago, c.1575-1630)
Motet at the Communion: Si iniquitates (Samuel Wesley, 1766-1837)
Postlude: Concerto in A minor (BWV 593) (Vivaldi/Bach)

Music for the Thirty-Third Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)

Hymn at the Procession: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (Picardy)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: De profundis (plainsong, mode vii)
Offertory: De profundis (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Offertory: O For A Closer Walk With God (Charles Villiers Stanford, 1852-1924)
Communion: Amen dico vobis, quidquid (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Communion: O Gladsome Light (Nunc dimittis)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Music for the Feast of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, 13 November 2010

Music for the Feast of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
Saturday, 13 November 2010, 9:00 a.m.
(Missale Romanum of 1962)

Prelude: Ricercare (obligo di non uscir mai di grado) (Girolamo Frescobaldi, 1583-1643)
Missa Deus Genitor alme (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Gloria: Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Gregorian Mass of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini: Tenuisti
Improvisation at the Offertory
Hymn at the Communion: Beata caeli regia (plainsong, mode viii)
Postlude: Ricercare (con obligo del basso come apare) (Frescobaldi)

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

Requiem Mass for Harrison Vicente, 8 November 2010

Requiem Mass for Harrison Vicente
Monday, 8 November 2010
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)

Missa pro defunctis (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)
Motet at the Offertory: Domine Jesu Christe (from the Missa pro defunctis) (Morales)
Motet at the Communion: Ave Maria (anonymous)
At the absolution: Libera me, Domine (plainsong, mode i)

Music for the Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, 7 November 2010

Music for the Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)

(lections of the Resumed Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany)
Prelude: Prélude pour le XXIIIe. Dimanche après la Pentecôte (from L’Orgue mystique) Charles Tournemire (1870-1939)
Plainsong Mass for a Mean (John Sheppard, c.1515-1558)
Gregorian Mass of the Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost: Dicit Dominus: Ego cogito
Motet at the Offertory: Memento mei Deus (Fernando Franco, 1532-1585)
Motet at the Communion: Bone pastor (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585)
Postlude: Concerto del Sig.r Meck appropriato all’Organo [in B minor] (Johann Gottfried Walther, 1684-1748)

Music for the Thirty-Second Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)

Hymn at the Procession: Faith of Our Fathers (St. Catherine)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Qui posuit (plainsong, mode iv)
Motet at the Offertory: All My Hope on God Is Founded (Michael) (Herbert Howells, 1892-1983)
Communion: Dominus regit me (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Communion: O What Their Joy and Their Glory Must Be (O quanta qualia)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Music for the Nuptial Mass of Maria Liliana Alzate and Welder Amed Gomez, 6 November 2010

Music for the Nuptial Mass of Maria Liliana Alzate and Welder Amed Gomez
Saturday, 6 November 2010, 2:00 p.m.
(Missale Romanum of 1970)

Prelude: Litaines (Jehan Alain, 1911-1940)
Prelude: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme [BWV 645] (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Entrance of the Bride: Improvisation on the Introit Deus Israel
Missa Quam pulchri sunt (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Gregorian Nuptial Mass: Deus Israel conjungat vos
Motet at the Offertory: Ave Maria (Charles Gounod, 1840-1910)
Motet at the Communion: Panis Angelicus (César Franck, 1822-1890)
Marian Motet: Dulcissima Maria (Francisco Guerrero, 1528-1599)
Postlude: Final from Symphony No. 6 [Op. 42, No. 2] (Charles-Marie Widor, 1844-1937)

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

Music for All Souls’ Day, 2 November 2010

Music for the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed
Tuesday, 2 November 2010, 12:10 p.m.
(Missale Romanum of 1970)

Missa pro defunctis (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Introit: Requiem aeternam (plainsong, mode vi)
Alleluia: Requiem aeternam (plainsong, mode viii)
Hymn at the Offertory: I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say (Kingsfold)
Communion: Lux aeterna (plainsong, mode viii)
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: O God, Our Help In Ages Past (St. Anne)

Music for the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed
Tuesday, 2 November 2010, 5:30 p.m.
(Missale Romanum of 1962)

Missa pro defunctis (Johannes Ockeghem, c.1410-1497)
Motet at the Offertory: Domine Jesu Christe (Ockeghem)
Motet at the Communion: In pace (Terrence B. Fay, b.1977)
At the absolution: Libera me, Domine (plainsong, mode i)

Music for All Saints’ Day, 1 November 2010

Music for the Feast of All Saints
Monday, 1 November 2010, 12:10 p.m.
(Missale Romanum of 1970)

Prelude: Gaudeamus (Charles Tournemire, 1870-1939)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Hymn at the Procession & Offertory: For All the Saints (Sine nomine)
Alleluia: Venite ad me (plainsong, mode viii)
Communion: Beati mundo corde (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Communion: If There Be That Skills to Reckon (Lewes)
Postlude: Point d’Orgue sur les Grands jeux (Nicolas de Grigny, 1672-1703)

Music for the Feast of All Saints
Monday, 1 November 2010, 5:30 p.m.
(Missale Romanum of 1962)

Missa O quam gloriosum (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Gregorian Mass of All Saints: Gaudeamus
Motet at the Offertory: O quam gloriosum (Victoria)
Hymn at the Communion: Placare Christe servulis (plainsong, mode viii, in organum)
Organ music as above

Postlude: Point d’Orgue sur les Grands jeux (Nicolas de Grigny, 1672-1703)

Music for the Feast of Christ the King, 31 October 2010

Music for the Feast of Christ the King
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)

Prelude: Prélude from Suite médiévale (Langlais)
Kyrie: Missa Orbis factor (Vatican Gradual, Mass IX) [Students' Scholas] Gloria, Sanctus, Agnus Dei: Missa O Rex gloriae (Palestrina)
Gregorian Mass of Christ the King: Dignus est Agnus
Hymn at the Offertory: Christus vincit (plainsong) [Students’ Scholas] Motet at the Communion: Jesu dulcis memoria (Palestrina) [Students’ Polyphonic Schola] At the Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament: O Salutaris (Hereford)
Hymn at Final Benediction: Tantum ergo (plainsong, mode iii)
Antiphon at Benediction: Adoremus in aeternum (plainsong, mode v)
Postlude: Symphony No. 6 in G minor: Allegro [Op. 42, No. 2] (Widor)

The St. Mary’s Students’ Scholas make their seasonal debut at this Mass,
including the new Polyphonic Schola, which will sing the Palestrina motet.

Music for the Thirty-First Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)

Hymn at the Procession: I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say (Kingsfold)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: O quam bonus (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Offertory: Adoro Te devote (plainsong, mode v)
Communion: Notas mihi fecisti (plainsong, mode vii)
Motet at the Communion: Bright the Vision that Delighted (Redhead No. 46)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Music for the Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost, 24 October 2010

Music for the Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)

Prelude: Improvisation on a theme of Josquin
Missa Una musque de Buscaya (Josquin)
Gregorian Mass of the Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost: Si iniquitates
Improvisation at the Offertory
Motet at the Communion: Substinuimus pacem (Isaac)
Postlude: Praeludium in E minor [Op. 59, No. 1] (Reger)

Music for the Thirtieth Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)

Prelude: Eins ist Not; ach Herr, dies Eine (Reger)
Hymn at the Procession: Come Down, O Love Divine (Down Ampney)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Lauda Jerusalem (plainsong, mode iv)
Motet at the Offertory: From the Rising of the Sun (F.A. Gore Ouseley, 1825-1889)
Communion: Laetabimur (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Communion: Praise to the Holiest in the Height (Newman)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Postlude: Praeludium in E minor [Op. 59, No. 1] (Reger)