Once again the Catholic Church in Canada stumbles in perplexity over that misbegotten liturgical and calendrical monstrosity: Ascension Thursday Sunday. For some background on this festival, you may wish to read this post from last year. In the meantime, let’s mark the day with a little music. I remember attending church on Ascension Thursday some years ago (at an Anglican parish) and hearing this piece — L’Ascension, by Olivier Messiaen — played during the recessional. “Who let the monkey into the organ loft?” I wondered. (I was, as yet, uninitiated into the glories of Messiaen’s music.) Well, this organist is not a monkey, but rather Olivier Latry, organist at Notre Dame de Paris. Here he is playing the organ of the Royal Albert Hall in London.
Ascension Thursday Sunday night, 2009
May 24, 2009
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