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Music for Palm Sunday, 29 March 2015
Music for Palm Sunday
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Antiphon at the consecration of palms: Hosanna filio David [All Choirs]
Antiphons at the procession: Pueri Hebraeorum portantes, Pueri Hebraeorum vestimenta [Student Scholas]
Antiphons at the entrance into the church: Gloria laus et honor; Ingrediente [All Choirs]
Introit: Domine, ne longe facias (plainsong, mode viii) [St. Cecilia Student Schola]
Kyrie Salve (plainsong, mode i) [All Choirs]
Gradual: Tenuisti (plainsong, mode iv)
Tract: Deus, Deus meus (plainsong, mode ii) [All Choirs; trebles & basses in alternatim]
Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundum Matthaeum (polyphonic turba settings by Richard Davy, c.1465-1507)
Credo I (plainsong, mode iv)
Offertory: Improperium (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Offertory: Improperium (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Sanctus & Benedictus: Missa Videte manus meas (Hugh Aston, c.1485-1558)
Agnus Dei: Missa Videte manus meas (Aston)
Communion: Pater, si non potest (plainsong, mode viii) [St. Gregory Student Schola]
Motet at the Communion: Miserere (George Malcolm, 1917-1997)
Motet at the Communion: O Jesu Christe (Jacquet de Berchem, c.1505-c.1580) [St. Mary’s Choir]
The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum
The St. Mary’s Choir
The St. Cecilia Student Schola
The St. Gregory Student Schola
The St. John the Baptist Choristers
Music for Holy Week 2015
PALM SUNDAY
Missa Videte manus meas (Hugh Aston)
Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundum Matthæum (Richard Davy)
Improperium (Palestrina)
O Jesu Christe (Jacquet de Berchem)
Miserere (George Malcolm)
April 1, 8:00 p.m.
TENEBRÆ
The complete plainsong office of Matins & Lauds for Holy Thursday
Lamentationes Jeremiæ (Lassus)
Tenebræ responsories (Victoria)
Miserere (Allegri)
April 2, 7:00 p.m.
MAUNDY THURSDAY
Missa Pange lingua (Josquin)
Domine, tu mihi lavas pedes? (Cardoso)
Ubi caritas (Duruflé)
Nos autem gloriari (Palestrina)
Ave verum corpus (Elgar)
Pange lingua (Byrd)
April 3, 3:00 p.m.
GOOD FRIDAY
Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundum Joannem (Byrd)
Crucifixus à 8 (Lotti)
Ecce lignum / Crux fidelis (Willaert)
Officium de Cruce (Compère)
Salvator mundi (Blow)
April 4, 8:00 p.m.
THE SOLEMN EASTER VIGIL
Missa pro Victoria for double choir (Victoria)
Surrexit a mortuis (Widor)
Regina cæli for double choir (Guerrero)
Dum transisset Sabbatum (Taverner)
Pascha jucundissimum (Hughes)
organ music of Widor
April 5, 9:30 a.m.
EASTER SUNDAY
Missa Pascale (La Rue)
Hæc dies (Léonin)
Christus resurgens (Byrd)
Congratulamini mihi omnes (Willaert)
organ music of Bach and Widor
The Musical Month: March 2015
14 March 2015
With the midway point of Lent just in the rearview mirror, the choirs at St. Mary's in Norwalk are busy in rehearsals, classes, and preparations! The time between now and Holy Week, in particular, has several notable feasts that we will be marking with especial musical and liturgical solemnity. I'm pleased to introduce "The Musical Month," a short digest to keep you, our friends and supporters of the music program, abreast of the work we endeavor, with God's grace, to perform.
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On Thursday, March 12th, the Student Schola honored one of its co-patrons, St. Gregory, on his feast day (in the traditional calendar). The St. Gregory and St. Cecilia Student Scholas combined to sing Vespers at 5:30 p.m.Tomorrow, March 15th is Laetare Sunday, when the liturgical rigors of Lent are relaxed ever so slightly, flowers appear, and the solo organ reappears briefly. The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum will sing John Sheppard’s festive and masterful Missa Cantate at the 9:30 Solemn Mass, coupled with organ voluntaries of Bach (An Wasserflüssen Babylon and partitas on Ach, was soll ich Sünder machen?).That same Sunday afternoon, March 15th, the St. Cecilia Society is pleased to present its second concert of the spring season. Flautist Sharon Levin and oboist Gerard Reuter join forces to bring to life some very fine repertoire by, among others, Telemann and Marcello. I had the pleasure of rehearsing with Sharon and Gerry both last week and this, and their musicianship is breathtakingly good. We’re really excited to be giving this concert, and sincerely hope that you will be able to join us! The concert is at 4:00, and a festive reception will follow. Information about the repertoire and the artists is available at stmarynorwalk.net/recitals.
Thursday, March 19th, is St. Joseph’s Day. This feast of the patron of the universal Church is a busy one at St. Mary’s. At 12:10 p.m., the students of Regina Pacis Academy will sing Mass, including English propers and the complete Latin Missa Dominator Deus (Mass XV). At 5:30 p.m., the students of the St. Cecilia and St. Gregory Scholas will once again join forces to sing Vespers for the feast. Then, at 7:00 p.m., the St. Cecilia Student Schola joins the St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum (the professional ensemble) to sing Solemn Mass. The ordinary is Padilla’s charming Missa Ego flos campi for double choir (the professionals sing choir 1, and the students choir 2), coupled with Palestrina’s motet Veritas mea and the plainsong hymn Te Joseph celebrent.
On Passion Sunday, March 22nd, the St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum sings Cristóbal de Morales’ dark and plangent Missa Aspice Domine (based on the motet “Regard, O Lord, how desolate lies the city”). On this first day of Passiontide, we will also sing Byrd’s mysterious and heartfelt piece Infelix ego, which sets the text that begins the Meditation on the Miserere which Girolamo Savonarola (!) wrote shortly before his death.
To celebrate Annunciation Day, Solemn Mass will be offered at 7:00 p.m. A number of volunteer men from the parish, and several seminarians from St. John Fisher in Stamford, will join the Schola Cantorum to sing the Missa Salve Regina by the twentieth-century French composer Jean Langlais. The St. Cecilia Student Schola will sing the propers, as well as Peter Philips’ Ave Maria and Victoria’s Ave Regina caelorum for double choir. This Mass should be especially beautiful, and, we hope, a worthy celebration in this parish church dedicated to Our Lady.
The students of Regina Pacis Academy sing the office of None approximately once a month. They will continue do so on the Thursday of Passion Week, March 26th, at 3:00 p.m.
On the 9:30 Solemn Mass on Palm Sunday, March 29th, many of the choirs of the parish (St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum, the St. Mary’s Choir, the Coro Hispano, the St. Cecilia Student Schola, the St. Gregory Student Schola, and the St. John the Baptist Choristers) join to sing Hosanna filio David! at Our Lord’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem. The combined choirs will sing motets of Palestrina, Jachet de Berchem, and the plainsong propers. The Schola Cantorum will render the rarely-performed Missa Videte manus meas of Hugh Aston (an English composer of the early to mid-sixteenth century), polyphonic turba responses from the Eton Choirbook, and (continuing the English theme) the Miserere of George Malcolm (master of music at Westminster Cathedral in the 1950s).
Stay tuned for an update on the services of Holy Week!
Yours,
David
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At a glance:
March 12, 5:30 p.m.: St. Gregory Day Vespers (Student Schola)
March 15, 9:30 a.m.: Laetare Sunday Solemn Mass (St. Mary's Schola Cantorum)
March 15, 4:00 p.m.: Sharon, Gerry, David concert
March 19: St. Joseph Day
12:10p Mass (Regina Pacis Academy)
5:30p Vespers (Student Schola)
7:00p Mass (St. Mary's Schola Cantorum & Student Schola)
March 22, 9:30 a.m.: Passion Sunday Solemn Mass (Schola Cantorum)
March 25, 7:00 p.m.: Annunciation Day Solemn Mass (Schola Cantorum & Student Schola)
March 26, 3:00 p.m.: Sung None (Regina Pacis Academy)
March 29, 9:30 a.m.: Palm Sunday Solemn Mass (combined choirs)
Music for None of the Thursday of Passion Week, 26 March 2015
Thursday, 26 March 2015, 3:00 p.m.
Music for None of the Thursday of Passion Week
Prelude: Audi, benigne Conditor (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn: Rerum, Deus, tenax vigor (plainsong, mode viii)
Antiphon: Numquid redditur pro bono, with Psalms 74 and 75 (plainsong, mode iv)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)
The office of None is sung by the students of Regina Pacis Academy.
Music for the Feast of the Annunciation, 25 March 2015
Wednesday, 25 March 2015, 7:00 p.m.
Music for the Feast of the Annunciation
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa Salve Regina (Jean Langlais, 1907-1991)
Gregorian Mass of the Annunciation: Vultum tuum
Introit: Vultum tuum (plainsong, mode ii) [Student Schola trebles]
Tract: Audi filia (plainsong, mode ii) [Student Schola trebles & basses in alternatim]
Offertory: Ave Maria (plainsong, mode viii) [Student Schola basses]
Motet at the Offertory: Ave Maria (Peter Philips, c.1560-1628) [Student Schola]
Communion: Ecce virgo concipiet (plainsong, mode i) [Student Schola trebles]
Hymn at the Communion: Ave Regina cælorum for double choir (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611) [Student Schola]
Postlude: Ave Maria, Ave maris stella (Langlais)
The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum
The St. Cecilia Student Schola
Music for Passion Sunday, 22 March 2015
Music for Passion Sunday
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Missa Aspice Domine (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)
Gregorian Mass of Passion Sunday: Judica me Deus
Motet at the Offertory: Infelix ego (prima pars) (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Motet at the Communion: Quid igitur faciam / Ad te igitur (Infelix ego, secunda et tertia pares) (Byrd)
Music for the Fifth Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: When I Survey the Wondrous Cross (Rockingham)
Introit: Judica me (plainsong, mode iv)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Offertory: Confitebor tibi (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Offertory: The Royal Banners Forward Go (Agincourt Hymn)
Communion: Qui mihi ministrat (plainsong, mode v)
Hymn at the Communion: Litany of the Passion (Holy Jesu, By Thy Passion) (from The Crucifixion) (John Stainer, 1840-1901)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)
Music for Solemn Mass of St. Joseph’s Day, 19 March 2015
Thursday, 19 March 2015, 7:00 p.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Joseph
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Prélude pour le fête du Saint Joseph (Charles Tournemire, 1870-1939)
Missa Ego flos campi for double choir (Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, c.1590-1664) [Student Schola]
Gregorian Mass of St. Joseph: Justus ut palma
Introit: Justus ut palma (plainsong, mode i) [Student Schola trebles]
Tract: Beatus vir (plainsong, mode viii) [Student Schola trebles & basses in alternatim]
Offertory: Veritas mea (plainsong, mode ii) [Student Schola basses]
Hymn at the Offertory: Veritas mea (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Communion: Joseph fili David (plainsong, mode vii) [Student Schola trebles]
Motet at the Communion: Te Joseph celebrent (plainsong, mode i) [Student Schola]
Postlude: Concerto del Sig.r Tomaso Albinoni appropriato all’Organo [in F major] (Johann Gottfried Walther, 1684-1748)
The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum
The St. Cecilia Student Schola
Music for Vespers of St. Joseph’s Day, 19 March 2015
Thursday, 19 March 2015, 5:30 p.m.
Music for Vespers of the Feast of St. Joseph
Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite
Ibant parentes Jesu & Psalm 109 (mode i)
Cum redirent & Psalm 110 (mode ii)
Non invenientes Jesum & Psalm 111 (mode iii)
Dixit mater ejus & Psalm 112 (mode iv)
Descendit Jesus & Psalm 116 (mode viii)
Hymn: Te Joseph celebrent (plainsong, mode i)
Magnificat antiphon: Ecce fidelis servus (mode viii)
Commemoration of the Thursday of the Fourth Week of Lent: Propheta magnus (plainsong, mode ii)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)
The St. Gregory Student Schola
The St. Cecilia Student Schola
Music for Mass of St. Joseph’s Day, 19 March 2015
Thursday, 19 March 2015, 12:10 p.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Joseph
(Missale Romanum of 2002)
Prelude: Prélude pour le fête du Saint Joseph (Charles Tournemire, 1870-1939)
Introit: The righteous man shall flourish (plainsong, mode i)
Missa Dominator Deus (Vatican Gradual, Mass XV)
Offertory: My fidelity and my mercy (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Hail, Holy Joseph, Hail! (Maria Jung und Zart)
Communion: Joseph, son of David (plainsong, mode vii, with verses)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)
Postlude: Improvisation
Mass is sung approximately once per month by the students of Regina Pacis Academy.