Assumption BVM: Solemn High Choral Mass

From Christina Doherty

Assumption BVM: Solemn High Choral Mass, sponsored by Mater Ecclesiae will be held at 7PM on Friday, August 14 at the Cathedral-Basilica of Ss. Peter & Paul.

Dr. Timothy McDonnell has selected the music for this year’s Assumption Mass: Die Schöpfungsmesse by Luigi Gatti after Haydn’s Oratorio, The Creation. “Regarded as one of his finest compositions, Franz Josef Haydn’s Oratorio The Creation is a touchstone in the sacred choral repertoire. Sometime after 1800, Fr. Luigi Gatti, then the chapel master at the cathedral in Salzburg, produced a version of Haydn’s celebrated Oratorio using the text of the Latin Mass. This adaptation brings all the energy and lyricism of Haydn’s magnum opus to the liturgical context.”
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