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St. Cecilia's Choir
Saint Cecilia's Choir
This choir is open to all children in Kindergarten
through 5th Grade. We meet in the Adult Forum every
Wednesday afternoon at 4:00, until 4:45. We will be
singing in church on the third Sunday of EVERY
month! Our repertoire will include many different
styles of music (all sacred of course). We'll have a
great time singing and we hope you'll join us!
Saint Cecilia
Saint Cecilia is the patron saint of musicians and
Church music. Her feast day, celebrated both in the
Catholic and Orthodox Church, is November 22. She is
one of seven women, excluding the Blessed Virgin,
commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass. It
was long supposed that she was a noble lady of Rome
who, with her husband Valerian, his brother Tiburtius,
and other friends whom she had converted, suffered
martyrdom, C. 230, under the emperor Alexander
Severus.
The researches of Giovanni Battista de Rossi,
however, go to confirm the statement of Venantius
Fortunatus, bishop of Poitiers (d. 600), that she
perished in Sicily under Marcus Aurelius between 176
and 180. A church in her honor exists in Rome from
about the 5th century, and was rebuilt with much
splendour by Pope Paschal I around the year 820, and
again by Cardinal Sfondrati in 1599. It is situated in
Trastevere, near the Ripa Grande quay, where in
earlier days the Ghetto was located, and is the titulus
of a Cardinal Priest, currently Carlo Maria Martini.
Cecilia, whose musical fame rests on a passing notice
in her legend that she praised God, singing to Him, as
she lay dying a martyr's death, has inspired many a
masterpiece in art, including the The Ecstasy of St.
Cecilia by Raphael at Bologna, the Rubens in Berlin,
the Domenichino in Paris and at San Luigi dei
Francesi, and works by Artemisia Gentileschi, and in
literature, where she is commemorated especially by
Chaucer's Seconde Nonnes Tale, and by John
Dryden's famous ode, set to music by Handel in 1736,
and later by Sir Hubert Parry (1889). Other music
dedicated to Cecilia includes Benjamin Britten's Hymn
to St. Cecilia (based on a text by W. H. Auden), A
Hymn for St Cecilia by Herbert Howells, a mass by
Alessandro Scarlatti, Charles Gounod's Messe
Solennelle de Sainte Cécile, Hail, bright Cecilia! by
Henry Purcell, and an opera, Cecilia, by Licinio Refice,
SJ (1934). "Sankta Cecilia" is also the title of a 1984
Swedish hit song sung by Lotta Pedersen and Göran
Folkestad at the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1984.
Wikipedia contributors. Cecilia (saint). Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
August 18, 2007, 21:28 UTC. Available at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cecilia_%28saint%29&oldid=15
2113391. Accessed August 25, 2007.
This choir is open to all children in Kindergarten
through 5th Grade. We meet in the Adult Forum every
Wednesday afternoon at 4:00, until 4:45. We will be
singing in church on the third Sunday of EVERY
month! Our repertoire will include many different
styles of music (all sacred of course). We'll have a
great time singing and we hope you'll join us!
Saint Cecilia
Saint Cecilia is the patron saint of musicians and
Church music. Her feast day, celebrated both in the
Catholic and Orthodox Church, is November 22. She is
one of seven women, excluding the Blessed Virgin,
commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass. It
was long supposed that she was a noble lady of Rome
who, with her husband Valerian, his brother Tiburtius,
and other friends whom she had converted, suffered
martyrdom, C. 230, under the emperor Alexander
Severus.
The researches of Giovanni Battista de Rossi,
however, go to confirm the statement of Venantius
Fortunatus, bishop of Poitiers (d. 600), that she
perished in Sicily under Marcus Aurelius between 176
and 180. A church in her honor exists in Rome from
about the 5th century, and was rebuilt with much
splendour by Pope Paschal I around the year 820, and
again by Cardinal Sfondrati in 1599. It is situated in
Trastevere, near the Ripa Grande quay, where in
earlier days the Ghetto was located, and is the titulus
of a Cardinal Priest, currently Carlo Maria Martini.
Cecilia, whose musical fame rests on a passing notice
in her legend that she praised God, singing to Him, as
she lay dying a martyr's death, has inspired many a
masterpiece in art, including the The Ecstasy of St.
Cecilia by Raphael at Bologna, the Rubens in Berlin,
the Domenichino in Paris and at San Luigi dei
Francesi, and works by Artemisia Gentileschi, and in
literature, where she is commemorated especially by
Chaucer's Seconde Nonnes Tale, and by John
Dryden's famous ode, set to music by Handel in 1736,
and later by Sir Hubert Parry (1889). Other music
dedicated to Cecilia includes Benjamin Britten's Hymn
to St. Cecilia (based on a text by W. H. Auden), A
Hymn for St Cecilia by Herbert Howells, a mass by
Alessandro Scarlatti, Charles Gounod's Messe
Solennelle de Sainte Cécile, Hail, bright Cecilia! by
Henry Purcell, and an opera, Cecilia, by Licinio Refice,
SJ (1934). "Sankta Cecilia" is also the title of a 1984
Swedish hit song sung by Lotta Pedersen and Göran
Folkestad at the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1984.
Wikipedia contributors. Cecilia (saint). Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
August 18, 2007, 21:28 UTC. Available at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cecilia_%28saint%29&oldid=15
2113391. Accessed August 25, 2007.
Rehearsals
Rehearsals are Wednesdays at 4:30
until 5:30. We sing on September 21st!
Musicians
Can you play an instrument? Then we
need you! We're looking for musicians
to develop a music leadership team
(MLT). If you are interested in being a
part of the MLT, please contact Julie
Pierce or fill out the form below:
Rehearsals are Wednesdays at 4:30
until 5:30. We sing on September 21st!
Musicians
Can you play an instrument? Then we
need you! We're looking for musicians
to develop a music leadership team
(MLT). If you are interested in being a
part of the MLT, please contact Julie
Pierce or fill out the form below:
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