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SAINT BENEDICT MUSIC SERIES
Periodic concerts at Saint Benedict's offer high-quality music to parishioners and serve as a powerful tool for evangelization, providing non-Catholics with a window to the Catholic faith.
Concerts of sacred music "Create in churches a setting of beauty conducive to meditation, so as to arouse even in those who are distant from the Church an openness to spiritual values,” and "keep alive the treasures of Church music which must not be lost; musical pieces and songs composed for the Liturgy but which cannot in any way be conveniently incorporated into liturgical celebrations in modern times."
(Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments,
Music in Churches Other Than During Liturgical Celebrations, 1987)
Concerts
We are extremely pleased to host a full series of musical events at Saint Benedict.
Each of our performances is without cost and open to all. Free-will offerings and designated donations are taken up to make these concerts possible. Please check back for future events!
Trio Niche
On Sunday, November 3, at 4:00 p.m., Saint Benedict Music Series will present Trio Niche.
Susan Via, violin, Tom Marshall, fortepiano, and Sarah Glosson, cello come together to form Trio Niche—a fortepiano trio presenting “a historical sensibility to repertoire from the turn of the nineteenth century.” Using a fortepiano that is a modern replica of an 1805 Walther instrument built by Paul McNulte, and both nineteenth-century violin and cello played with reproduction “transitional” classical bows by Eitan Hoffer, the ensemble “brings to life the sounds of the salons of Jane Austen’s Bath and Thomas Jefferson’s White House.”
The concert will feature works including Mozart’s Piano Trio in D Minor, K. 442, Haydn’s Piano Trio in A Major, Hob.XV:18, in addition to vocal sections from Schubert’s song cycle Die schöne Müllerin and Beethoven’s Scottish and Irish songs sung by guest tenor Joel S. Kumro.
There is no cost for this concert; however, a free-will offering will be taken. For more information, please contact Joel S. Kumro, Choirmaster and Organist.
