Concert of Organ Masses
May 8, 2009
An upcoming concert at St. Thomas Episcopal will include Vierne’s Messe Solenelle and Haydn’s Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo as well as other works for organ.
AGO Organ Scholarship Contest
May 7, 2009
ATTENTION all young piano students interested in taking organ lessons!!
The Palm Beach County Chapter of the American Guild of Organists is sponsoring:
2009 Annual Organ Scholarship Competition
Saturday, June 6, 2009 10 a.m. – Noon
Trinity Lutheran Church, 400 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach, FL 33444
SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS: 1st place – $250, 2nd place – $150, 3rd place – $75
The purpose of the competition: Award three Palm Beach County piano students with scholarship money to be used toward organ lessons. The applicants must be ages 14-21.
FOR AN APPLICATION AND MORE INFORMATION: please e-mail Dr. Kirsten Hellman at khellman@trinitydelray.org or call 561-278-1737 ext. 212 or www.organiste.net/More.html
DEADLINE to turn in application: Saturday, May 23, 2009
This article by Ana Rodriguez-Soto appeared in last Friday’s edition of The Florida Catholic. The article was the inaugural article in a state-wide series on the liturgy.
A link is offered here with the following clarifications and corrections:
– “such as during entrance processions or as responsorial psalms. Entrance antiphons even are associated with the Mass for each day.”
– The gradual, not the responsorial psalm, is an inter-lectionary chant which is a distinct genre in the Gregorian repertoire.
– The introit (entrance) antiphon is the chant that occurs during the procession at the beginning of Mass. Each Mass of the liturgical year has a introit antiphon assigned to it.
– Jennifer Donelson is an assistant professor of music at NSU, not an associate professor.
The Schola Cantorum of the Palm Beaches will assist the first Mass offered by Brian Campell after his ordination on May 2, 2009 at 4:30pm at the Cathedral of St. Ignatius in Palm Beach Gardens, FL.
Palm Beach Atlantic Early Music Consort Concert
May 1, 2009
Pope Calls Music the Heart’s Abandonment to God
May 1, 2009
Pope Calls Music the Heart’s Abandonment to God
Asks for Prayer at Beginning of 5th Year of Pontificate
VATICAN CITY, APRIL 30, 2009 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI proposed that music becomes prayer and the “abandonment of the heart to God” when he gave thanks today for a concert held in honor of his fourth anniversary as Pope.
The concert was held in his honor at the Vatican by the president of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano. The Holy Father listened to the music seated in the center of Paul VI Hall, together with Napolitano and the Italian First Lady.
Benedict XVI marked four years as Pontiff on April 19.
The music was offered by the Giuseppe Verdi Symphonic Orchestra and Choir of Milan, directed by Xian Zhang and Erina Gambarini, respectively. They interpreted Haydn’s “Symphony 95,” Mozart’s “Haffner Symphony,” Vivaldi’s “Magnificat in G minor” and Mozart’s “Ave Verum Corpus.”
At the end of this last piece, the Holy Father said that “meditation gives way to contemplation: The gaze of the soul rests on the Blessed Sacrament to recognize the Body of the Lord, the Body that was truly immolated on the cross and from which sprung forth the fountain of universal salvation.”
“Mozart,” he continued, “composed this motet shortly before dying, and in it one can say that music truly becomes prayer, abandonment of the heart to God, with a deep sense of peace.”
Benedict XVI thanked President Napolitano for the concert, which, he said, “has richly been able not only to gratify the aesthetic sense, but at the same time, to nourish our spirit, and therefore, I am doubly grateful.”
In beginning his fifth year as Pope, the Holy Father requested of those present: “Remember me in your prayers so that I can always fulfill my ministry as the Lord desires.”
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