Ave Maria - 7

The video clip above is from Stage Door Canteen, a 1943 movie about a night club where famous stars dropped in to entertain the troops. The film was little more than a vehicle for cameos of headline performers of a range broad enough to include Yehudi Menuhin playing Schubert's Ave Maria. A longer, more formal and very moving rendition by Menuhin can be found here.

I hope you're making plans to bring a friend (or five!) to Evening Prayer this Sunday night, September 9 at 7:00 p.m., followed by the concert Chosen From All Women given by Lauren Sprague (soprano) and Carol Messina (piano). The concert is in honor of the Feast of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin (the day before) and the program will be all Marian music.

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