Music Concert

On Thursday, July 28, after 6:30 pm Mass, we will have the opportunity to listen to a vocal-instrumental concert. The program will primarily include organ music from various eras. Among them you will hear works from an 18th-century manuscript found in the convent of Poor Clares in Stary Sącz, Poland, 20th-century Polish music by Marian Sawa, virtuoso organ music by the greatest baroque composer of all time, Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as French 19th and 20th-century composers such as Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély and Eugène Gigout. There will be duets, incl. Ave Maria, and Ecce panis angelorum in Latin. There will also be singing in Polish, to the music of Franz Schubert and popular, contemporary Polish religious singing.
The performers are: Mirosława Cieślak, an excellent Polish organist who gives concerts in many countries, lives permanently in Germany, Dietmar Rönnecke, tenor, living in Germany; and a Polish organist and vocalist, a graduate of the Catholic University of Lublin, organist at the Cathedral of Radom and the Basilica of St. Joseph in Webster, MA. We will also hear the artists during the Holy Mass at 6:30, preceding the concert. The concert is free but donations greatly appreciated.