Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater | Musical Oratory

The Stabat Mater is an 13th century hymn to Mary portraying her love, sorrow, and lament, during the crucifixion of her son Jesus.  Pergolesi’s twelve movement setting for soprano and alto soloists, accompanied by strings and continuo, is widely considered...

Feast of St Cecilia

On this Feast of St Cecilia, patroness of musicians, we thank our musicians, singers, and organists! Together they lead our community in the sacred music of the Church, so that our love, expressed in the union of harmonious voices, may render pleasing worship to God....