Sung Vespers: Lecture, Discussion, and Vespers Service “San Zeno”

Sunday March 6; Lecture at 2:30 PM, Service at 3:30 PM EST

Part of the Harvard Catholic Forum Sacred Music Series (Livestreamed)
Presented by the Harvard Catholic Forum and St. Paul’s Choir School
Co-Sponsored by the Saint Benedict Institute

The Saint Paul’s Choir of men and Boys will perform a polyphonic setting of psalms, hymns, and readings within a Sunday Vespers service. In the lecture and discussion before the Vespers service, Professor Thomas Kelly, along with James Kennerly, FRCO, examines the history, context, and structure of vespers within the Church’s cycle of prayer, the use and importance of musical settings in a vespers service, the historical and ecclesial context of the music chosen, and the place of sung vespers in contemporary Catholic worship.