The summer is quickly waning, which means the St. Mary’s Choir will soon be back in full swing for the new choral season. We always warmly welcome new members who have a love of the sung prayer of the Church and who wish to join us in rendering the chants, motets, and hymns of the 11:00 High Mass. The ability to read music is helpful but not required; we will teach you what you need to know musically, linguistically, and liturgically! The time commitment is reasonable: the Chant Schola will rehearse on Thursday evenings from 6:45 to 7:30, and the full Choir from 7:30 to 9:15. Our first rehearsal of the season will be on Thursday, August 30th. For more information, please speak to David Hughes after any Mass, contact the Music Office at 866-5546 x115, or e-mail music@stmarynorwalk.net. We hope you will join us!
Music for the Twenty-First Sunday of the Year, 26 August 2007
Prelude: Ciacona in C Minor [BuxWV 159] (Dietrich Buxtehude, c1637-1707)
Alleluia: Quoniam Deus (plainchant, mode vii)
Communion: De fructum operum tuum (plainchant, mode vi)
Postlude: Final from Symphony No. 3 (Louis Vierne, 1870-1937)
Music for the Twentieth Sunday of the Year, 19 August 2007
Prelude: Canzona in D Minor [BuxWV 168] (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)
Communion: Primum quaerite (plainchant, mode viii)
Postlude: Praeludium in F Major [BuxWV 145] (Buxtehude)
Music for the Solemnity of the Assumption, 15 August 2007
Prelude: Versets on Ave Maris Stella: En taille à 5, Fugue à 4 (Nicolas de Grigny)
Mass Ordinary: Missa cum jubilo (Mass IX)
Alleluia: Assumpta est Maria (plainchant, mode v)
Offertory: Ave Maria (Jacques Arcadelt)
Communion: Beata viscera (plainchant, mode i)
Postlude: Versets on Ave Maris Stella: Dialogue sur les Grands Jeux (de Grigny)
Music for the Nineteenth Sunday of the Year, 12 August 2007
Prelude: Prelude in A Minor [BWV 543] (J.S. Bach)
Communion: Beatus servus (plainchant, mode iii)
Postlude: Fugue in A Minor [BWV 543] (Bach)
Music for the Eighteenth Sunday of the Year, 5 August 2007
Prelude: Kommst du nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter (J.S. Bach, 1685-1750)
Mass Ordinary: Missa de Angelis (Mass VIII)
Communion: Panem de caelo (plainchant, mode v)
Postlude: Toccata in F Major [BWV 540] (Bach)
Music for the Seventeenth Sunday of the Year, 29 July 2007
Prelude: Vater unser im Himmelreich (J.S. Bach, 1685-1750)
Communion: Petite et accipietis (plainchant, mode i)
Postlude: Choral [JA 82] (Jehan Alain, 1911-1940)
Music for the Sixteenth Sunday of the Year, 22 July 2007
Prelude: Praeludium in D Major, BuxWV 139 (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)
Communion: Optimam partem (plainchant, mode viii)
Postlude: Improvisation on Gelobt sei Gott
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)