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Music lineup for Mass at Yankee Stadium
Here is the music line up for the Mass at Yankee Stadium:
Symphony No. 9 in D minor – Ludwig van Beethoven
I. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso
II. Molto vivace
Entrance of the Holy Father
Hymnus Pontificius – Charles Gounod, arr. Alberico Vitalini
Dixit from Vesperae Solennes de Confessore – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Music for Mass
Jesus is Risen/ Cristo Jesús Resucitó – arr. John Rutter
Tu es Petrus – Dom Lorenzo Perosi
Kyrie, from Litany of the Saints – adapt. Richard Proulx
Gloria, from Missa O Magnum Mysterium – Tomás Luis da Victoria
Psalm – Dr. Jennifer Pascual
Alleluia (VICTORY) – arr. Wm. Glenn Osborne
Credo III
Trilingual Intercessions – Michael Hay, orch. Wm. Glenn Osborne
How Lovely is thy Dwelling Place – Johannes Brahms
Sanctus from German Mass – Franz Schubert, adapt. Richard Proulx
Christ Has Died/ Amen – Franz Schubert, adapt. Richard Proulx
Agnus Dei from Missa O Magnum Mysterium – Tomás Luis da Victoria
Panis Angelicus – Cesár Franck, Marcello Giordani, Tenor, Metropolitan Opera
Sicut Cervus – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina [One of Fr. Z’s favorites]
Ave Verum – Alexandre Guilmant, orch. Deborah Jamini
Amén. El Cuerpo de Cristo – John Schiavonne, orch. Carl Maultsby
Let Us Break Bread Together – arr. Carl Maultsby
This is the Feast – Richard Hillert, arr. Richard Kidd
Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee/ Jubilosos te Adoramos – from Hymn to Joy Fantasy – Bruce Saylor
Symphony No. 9 in D minor – Ludwig van Beethoven
IV. Presto
Not bad!
It sure beats Washington!
Comment by TNCath — 19 April 2008 @ 11:00 amAhh.. The Missa O Magnum Mysterium by Victoria.
Beats the Mass of Creation any day!
Comment by Justin — 19 April 2008 @ 11:13 amI was at Yankee Stadium as a young news person when Paul VI celebrated Mass there; I was an assisting deacon at John Paul II’s Mass at Aqueduct Race Track in Queens, NY; I will be spiritually, through EWTN, at Benedict XVI Mass Sunday. In these 50 years, this is the best music line-up ever! Thanks for posting it, Fr. Z!
Comment by FloridaJohn — 19 April 2008 @ 11:14 amWhat a difference, oh heaven, what a difference! I’m happy that the Holy Father will leave with hopefuly impressions concerning Divine Worship in this country, if indeed he would have been distressed by the travesty of Thursday morning in DC.
Comment by Emilio — 19 April 2008 @ 11:16 amMuch better than the cacophony heard at Nationals Stadium.
Comment by Christine — 19 April 2008 @ 11:17 amAgreed to everything, except: Do you realize the text of the last movement of Beethoven’s 9th symphony is masonic in nature and intent? I just don’t know if this is appropriate for a mass…
Comment by Victor — 19 April 2008 @ 12:07 pmMore excellent music.
(“Sicut Cervus” is a fave at our parish too. We sing it often. Of course, there’s so much other beautiful Palestrina to sing. And then there’s Victoria, and Byrd, and Tallis . . . . )
The Brahms is particularly beautiful, quite a contrast with the Renaissance polyphony. Sort of the same contrast provided by the Biebl at St. Patrick’s.
Comment by An American Mother — 19 April 2008 @ 12:34 pmThat’s ok Victor it’s not your decision.
Comment by Volpius — 19 April 2008 @ 12:35 pmTo me, not just “not bad”—fantastic. Wish I could be there.
Does anyone have information about the conductor/choir director in charge of these selections, and the choirs which will be performing them? Especially maybe an email address or regular address where we could contact them and show our support?
As a veteran of many choirs who performed this type of music, it’s no small thing to prepare and perform this stuff. One of the tangible things that all of us who care about the state of the liturgy today can do is to give direct positive reinforcement to them if at all possible. We need to let them know how much the Church needs and appreciates what they have worked so hard to offer!
Comment by senorverde — 19 April 2008 @ 12:38 pmVictor, there’s been some speculation that Schiller was a Freemason, but there’s no record of it, and he denied it himself.
The text of An die Freude probably owes more to the general social ferment of the 1780s than to Freemasonry. And as C.S. Lewis once said, you can go far wrong trying to guess at the motivations of a writer.
Comment by An American Mother — 19 April 2008 @ 12:42 pmsenorverde, it’s my understanding that the music was selected by Dr. Jennifer Pascual, the organist/music director at St. Patrick’s, in consultation with Cardinal Egan.
I would think you would be able to reach her at the Cathedral website.
And I absolutely agree she and the choirs deserve props and praise! They have done a magnificent job.
Comment by An American Mother — 19 April 2008 @ 12:48 pmA little known fact.
The music director at St. Patrick’s ( and for all of the NY papal litrugy ) directed for a traditional latin mass community in her formal life. Several of her selections were ones that she directed during high masses for the old rite.
Comment by tradforlife — 19 April 2008 @ 12:49 pmThanks, American Mother, that’s great.
I found this on the website, in case anyone else is with me here:
Jennifer Pascual, DMA
Director of Music
Donald Dumler
Principal Organist
Robert M. Evers
Music Administrator
musicdept@saintpatrickscathedral.org
...looks like they’re all under the same email address, or something like that.
By the way, EWTN is re-broadcasting the mass right now if anyone is free to watch—they’re doing the Palestrina Ego Sum right now…[crossing fingers that the replay includes NO commentary in the middle of the song]...
Comment by senorverde — 19 April 2008 @ 1:01 pm....D’oh! not again. Rats.
Comment by senorverde — 19 April 2008 @ 1:03 pmFrom the German Wikipedia “Ode an die Freude” (translation by me, so my apologies in advance):
Comment by Victor — 19 April 2008 @ 1:09 pm“Schiller was friends with freemason Christian Gottfried Körner, who later compiled a complete edition of Schiller’s works from 1812 to 1816. At his request he wrote during the summer of 1785 the ode “to joy” for the freemason’s lodge “three swords” in Dresden.”
Even without knowing this, a careful reading of the text shows that the God praised in the Ode is “the Unknown”, “He who sits above the stars” etc. So, still: beautiful music, no doubt, but not really suitable for Holy Mass.
Wow, what a difference from the Washington debacle. Oh, and being a professional baritone, choir director for both forms of the Roman Rite, and organist in a Novus Ordo parish, I did leave a series of three “reflections” on the USCCB blogsite for the Washington Mass, and sure enough, they were all three deleted. Albeit they were pretty direct. But this this lineup is most respectable. Viva Vittoria! Viva Papa Benedicto XVI!
Comment by John Polhamus — 19 April 2008 @ 1:11 pmA part of my post was edited out by me. It should have said:
Comment by Victor — 19 April 2008 @ 1:14 pm...”He who sits above the stars” etc., in other words, not God the Father of Jesus Christ who came into this world, but a Deistic God who created the world but has no further involvement with it. So, still:...
Wow, what a difference from the Washington debacle. Oh, and being a professional baritone, choir director for both forms of the Roman Rite, and organist in a Novus Ordo parish, I did leave a series of three “reflections” on the USCCB blogsite for the Washington Mass, and sure enough, they were all three deleted. Albeit they were pretty direct. But this this lineup is most respectable. Viva Vittoria! Viva Papa Benedicto XVI!
Victor, Beethoven’s music was played before and after mass, not during. I think we can all make the mental leap.
Comment by John Polhamus — 19 April 2008 @ 1:14 pmThe music selections (other than the ones that are thrown in for pander purposes) are absolutely splendid and a definite cut above those featured at the Donnie Wuerle variety show in DC. John Polhamus, I too left a highly complimentary remark about the St. Patrick’s liturgy, saying it helped me pray better and wished I could enjoy such wonderful, Catholic music in my parish, and the censor deleted it. I seem to recall that the person in charge of USCCB is a woman and a pro-abortion type. If my recollection is accurate, could there be an “agenda” and a connection? Tom
Comment by TJM — 19 April 2008 @ 1:18 pmAgreed to everything, except: Do you realize the text of the last movement of Beethoven’s 9th symphony is masonic in nature and intent? I just don’t know if this is appropriate for a mass…
Comment by Victor
In what way is it masonic in nature and intent?
IMHO, the last movement of the 9th is the weak link of an otherwise superb piece of music. The first two movements are astounding genius, and some think the violins in the very beginning Beethoven