Choral Mass of St. HIldegard
Tue, Sep 17
|St. Agatha-St. James Church
featuring her own works sung by a women's schola, with medieval instruments
Time & Location
Sep 17, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
St. Agatha-St. James Church, 3728 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Guests
About the event
Join Collegium Institute and the Durandus Institute for Sacred Liturgy & Music for an evening choral High Mass to commemorate the Feast of Saint Hildegard of Bingen on Tuesday, September 17. One of the four women proclaimed a Doctor of the Church, St. Hildegard (1098-1179) was a Benedictine nun and polymath famous for her singular contributions to sacred music as well as artistic illumination, philosophy, prayer, as well as medical writing. She even constructed her own language (known as the "lingua ignota") and is held to be “the founder of scientific natural history in Germany”.
This High Mass will be celebrated in a style familiar to Hildegard’s own medieval setting, featuring an all-women's schola to sing St. Hildegard's own compositions--including O Viridissima Virga, O Ignis Spiritus, and the Kyrie of the Messe de Sainte-Hildegarde--as they would have sounded from a convent of religious sisters. The singers will be accompanied…