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Beautiful Music NOW - Saint Cecilia, Patron Saint of Music

WSHU | By Suzanne Bona
Published November 22, 2023 at 10:02 AM EST
Orazio Gentileschi and Giovanni Lanfranco, Saint Cecilia and an Angel, c. 1617/1618 and c. 1621/1627, oil on canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection
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Orazio Gentileschi and Giovanni Lanfranco, Saint Cecilia and an Angel, c. 1617/1618 and c. 1621/1627, oil on canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection

As "Patron Saint of Music" Saint Cecilia is the subject of many significant compositions! Her "feast day" is today -- November 22nd. So today's Beautiful Music is a performance of one of those works in tribute to her. Paul Agnew leads Les Arts Florissants performing George Frideric Handel's ODE FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY HWV 76.
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Suzanne Bona
Suzanne Bona is the host and executive producer of Sunday Baroque, a nationally syndicated weekly radio show of Baroque and early music which she originated on WSHU in 1987.
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