Pontifical Vespers for Candlemas at Old Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in New York – a magnificent liturgical and musical presentation that took place on Friday evening. It was co-sponsored by the Society of Saint Hugh of Cluny. The music, in addition to chant, was by Italian composers of the first half of the eighteenth century – especially Vivaldi. In particular, his Dixit Dominus (one of several settings of this text that Vivaldi composed) was a revelation in its expressiveness. We should be grateful to the otherwise disastrous liturgical developments of the last 60 years, which, by freeing us from the misguided strictures of Pius X against women singers and orchestral instruments, have enabled us to hear once again this music in its proper liturgical context.
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