MTSM Hosts Solemn Passiontide Vespers, Organ Recital

The Sacred Music Institute (SMI) at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary & School of Theology (MTSM) hosted its annual Solemn Passiontide Vespers and Organ Recital on Sunday, March 22 in the Chapel of St. Gregory the Great.

The program, sung by the Mount St. Mary’s Seminary Latin Schola, comprised of late medieval polyphony and plainchant drawn from several rites: Roman, Ambrosian, Dominican, Mozarabic and Sarum. To hear MTSM Director of Music Christopher Holman, DPhil perform the intercessions portion of the Vespers, see the video below.

Prior to the Solemn Vespers, an organ recital was performed by Michael Dailey, the Director of Music at Our Lord Christ the King Church in Cincinnati. Dailey’s program included peices by Bach, Buxtehude, Schroeder and Jessica French. You can watch the entirety of Dailey’s recital below.

The next Music & Liturgy event at MTSM will be on Sunday, April 12, the annual Eastertide Choral Mass and Organ Recital. The organ recital will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Chapel of St. Gregory the Great and be performed by Dr. John Deaver, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Organ at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and will feature excerpts from Charles-Marie Widor’s Symphonie Romane. Mass will begin at 7 p.m. and will include pieces from Widor’s Mass for Two Choirs and Two Organs being performed by the Athenaeum Chorale and Mount St. Mary’s Seminary Latin Schola. For more information, click here.