Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1911 — St. Cecilia and Music. [ARTICLE]

St. Cecilia and Music.

St Cecilia was made (he “patroness” of church music without any apparent reason, for the casual expressldft “cantantibus organis” in her legend merely refers to the playing of wind instruments at her wedding, 'Possibly the autiphones of her festival wrought upon the Imagination of the middle ages, and so brought about her connection with sacred music. The anniversary of this young Roman prude suddenly sprang into immense popularity toward the close of the seventeenth century, and Is associated with the x mighty names of Purcell, Pope, Addison and Handel. It has been revived of recent years by the Worshipful Company of Musicians, led by Sir Frederick Bridge. A "lost chord” of our national music suggests a subtle harmony, for Sir Arthur Sullivan —fellx opportunltate mortis—died upon St. Cecilia’s day.—London Chronicle.