MUSICA SACRA SAN ANTONIO
SCHOLA IN RESIDENCE AT
OUR LADY OF THE ATONEMENT CATHOLIC CHURCH.
DR. ROBERT M. FINSTER, MUSICAL DIRECTOR
Musica Sacra San Antonio is a new select choral ensemble dedicated to the study and preparation of fine arts liturgical music which will be offered at Sunday Solemn Evensong (Vespers) at Our Lady of the Atonement Church in northwest San Antonio. The Schola’s repertoire will be from Anglican, Latin, and Russian Orthodox musical sources.
Our Lady of the Atonement Church is the founding parish for the Anglican Use Liturgy within the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church, one of several parishes in the United States which was established under the terms of the Pastoral Provision granted by Pope John Paul II in 1980.
Dr. Robert Finster is a specialist in music from the Orthodox, Catholic, and Anglican church traditions, and is widely known to San Antonio choral music audiences as the founder and artistic director of Texas Bach Choir from 1976-1990 and as parish musician at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Alamo Heights and at Our Lady of the Atonement Church. For eighteen years he was then active in the Chicago area as organist and choirmaster for St. Mark’s Church in Evanston and as a principal conductor for Ars Musica Chicago, an early music ensemble. He was director of music and taught liturgical music at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston and was an adjunct music faculty member at Northwestern and DePaul Universities and Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary.
INAUGURAL SOLEMN EVENSONG
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2010, 4:00 PM
Musical Program
LITURGICAL CHORAL MUSIC BY
CHARLES V. STANFORD, GEORGE DYSON,
AND SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
Reception Following
OUR LADY OF THE ATONEMENT CATHOLIC CHURCH
Fr. Christopher G. Phillips, Pastor
Edmund G. Murray, Organist and Choirmaster
15415 Red Robin Road, San Antonio, Texas 78255
Exit Loop 1604 West at Babcock Dr., Stay on access road half mile, right on Red Robin Rd.
210-695-2944
2 comments:
Father Phillips:
Musica Sacra San Antonio is pleased to see this announcement of our new work at Our Lady of the Atonement. Our mission is to offer our music to the glory and praise of the Triune God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, through the prayers of the Mother of God, the Most Holy Theotokos, Our Lady of the Atonement.
Thanks be to God.
Robert M. Finster
Father-
This may sound like an odd inquiry: Do you receive 'hate-mail' (internet or otherwise) from fellow Catholic priests (anonimously of course) in your Dioceses? The reason I ask is I just finished reading an article about how hard it has been to get the Traditional Latin Mass in the churches until recently. It was just earlier this year that Fr. Francis McHugh allowed one regularly at Saint Pius X Church and it has been blowing away the Novus Ordo competition.
I can just hear those anti-trad priests grumbling about you "THAT ANGLICAN USE" guy and OLA and 'there he goes with another TRADITIONAL practice restored to the Church". At least now with Saint Pius X offering a full blown 1962 Latin Mass, they will have two things to distract them, taking some of the heat off you!
Just curious to know your thoughts on why they would be so anti-tradition in San Antonio Texas of all places!?!
Keep up the fight for Tradition!!!
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