Prelude: Praeludium in D Major, BuxWV 139 (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)
Communion: Optimam partem (plainchant, mode viii)
Postlude: Improvisation on Gelobt sei Gott
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St. Mary’s at the CMAA Colloquium
St. Mary's was represented at the 2007 Summer Music Colloquium, sponsored by the Church Music Association of America in Washington, D.C., by a contingent of five parishioners:
From left to right, Adelaide Anderson, Mary McFeely (Coordinator of Religious Education), Ann Marie Mitchell, Fr. Greg Markey (Pastor), and David J. Hughes (Organist & Choirmaster).
Music for the Fifteenth Sunday of the Year, 15 July 2007
Prelude: Dies sin die heil'gen zehn Gebot' [These are the Holy Ten Commands], BWV 679 (J.S. Bach, 1685-1750)
Mass Ordinary: Missa de Angelis (Mass VIII)
Communion: Passer invenit (plainsong, mode i)
Postlude: Praeludium in G Major (Bach)
Music for the Fourteenth Sunday of the Year, 8 July 2007
Prelude: Freu dich sehr (Max Reger, 1873-1916)
Alleluia: Magnus Dominus (plainsong, mode vii)
Communion: Gustate et videte (plainsong, mode iii)
Postlude: Acclamations Carolingiennes [Christus vincit] (Jean Langlais, 1907-1991)
Music for the Thirteenth Sunday of the Year, 1 July 2007
Prelude: Improvisation on the Introit Omnes gentes plaudite manibus
Mass Ordinary: Missa de Angelis (Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Omnes gentes plaudite manibus (plainsong, mode i)
Communion: Inclina aurem tuam (plainsong, mode iv)
Postlude: Improvisation
Music for the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, 24 June 2007
Our guest organist this weekend is Mr. Tom Hopkins.
Music for the Eleventh Sunday of the Year, 17 June 2007
Our guest organist this weekend is Mr. Darryl Podunavac.
Music for the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, 10 June 2007
Prelude: Le Banquet Céleste [The Celestial Banquet] (Olivier Messiaen, 1908-1992)
Mass Ordinary: Missa de Angelis (Mass VIII)
Sequence: Lauda Sion (plainchant, mode vii)
Alleluia: Caro mea (plainchant, mode vii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (Picardy)
Communion: Hoc corpus (plainchant, mode viii)
Motet at the Communion: Ave Verum Corpus (Edward Elgar, 1857-1934)
At the Procession of the Most Blessed Sacrament: Hymns as in the program
Postlude: Rhapsodie Grégorienne [Lauda Sion, Sacris Solemniis, Verbum Supernum] (Jean Langlais, 1907-1991)
Solemn Vespers and Organ Demonstration, Trinity Sunday, 4:00 p.m.
Please join us for Vespers this Sunday afternoon at 4:00 p.m. to commemorate the great Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. The Second Vatican Council asked that the laity join in the praying of the Divine Office, and particularly Vespers, and today affords a splendid opportunity to participate in this beautiful prayer of the Church.
“The Divine Office, because it is the public prayer of the Church, is a source of piety, and nourishment for personal prayer. And therefore priests and all others who take part in the Divine Office are earnestly exhorted in the Lord to attune their minds to their voices when praying it. The better to achieve this, let them take steps to improve their understanding of the liturgy and of the Bible, especially of the psalms.” (Sacrosanctum Concilium, 90)
“Pastors of souls should see to it that the chief hours, especially Vespers, are celebrated in common in church on Sundays and the more solemn feasts. And the laity, too, are encouraged to recite the divine office, either with the priests, or among themselves, or even individually.” (SC, 100)
Following Vespers, at 4:30 p.m., all parishioners are invited to join Organist & Choirmaster David Hughes for an informal lecture/demonstration on the King of Instruments: what it is, its construction, how it works, and how our instrument at St. Mary’s fits into a 2400-year tradition. The program will be interspersed with several short works to demonstrate the range of the organ.
For further information about the St. Mary’s Concert Series, please contact the music office: (203) 866-5546 x115 or music@stmarynorwalk.net.
Music for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, 3 June 2007
Prelude: Rejoice with us in God the Trinity (J. Wilson)
Mass Ordinary: Missa de Angelis (Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Benedictus es (plainchant, mode viii)
Hymn at the Offertory: I Bind Unto Myself Today (St. Patrick’s Breastplate)
Communion: Benedicimus Deum caeli (plainchant, mode iv)
Motet at the Communion: Laudate nomen Domini (Christopher Tye, c.1505-1572)
Postlude: Fugue in E-flat Major (St. Anne) (BWV 522) (Bach)