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Sunday, May 13, 2018Location: St. Mary's Cathedral, 1111 Gough Street @Geary, San Francisco 941091111 Gough Street @Geary, San FranciscoSing Hymns to Mary,
with "The Benedict Sixteen" 16-voice choir
4:00 p.m.
The Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship invites you to a Mother’s Day Festival of Marian hymns at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, offering an innovative “Lessons and Carols” format to honor Our Blessed Mother.
The congregation (not merely an audience) will sing together simple versions of hymns to Mary, both classic and new. The songs will be followed by spiritual reflection. And then the gorgeous sacred polyphonic form of these hymns will be sung by a 16-voice professional choir, affectionately dubbed “The Benedict Sixteen.”
The choir is under the direction of John Renke, Pastoral Associate for Divine Worship at the Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland.
Admission is free. And there is plenty of free parking in the Cathedral lot. Register here at Eventbrite.
Hymns include:
Monteverdi's Ave Maris Stella
Pleading Savior
Rilke's Annunciation to Mary
Chepponis's Magnificat
Rachmaninoff's Ave Maria
Eisenach's The God of Earth and Sea and Sky
Tomas Luis de Victoria's Anthem
When Mary Weeps
Caldara's Stabat Mater
Caccini's Ave Maria
Aichinger's Regina Coeli
Erbach's Hodie Maria
Hail Holy Queen
Sponsored by the Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship
benedictinstitute.org