Ave Maris Stella - Judith Weir | Advent Calendar Project 2.0

The Advent Calendar Project: Ave Maris Stella by Judith Weir
Sung by: The Chamber Choir of Saint John's Episcopal Church, Tulsa, OK
Adam Pajan, Conductor, Joseph Arndt, Organist, Tyler Acord, Baritone Soloist
Ave Maris Stella, arr. by Judith Weir, CBE, the first female Master of the Queen’s Music. Weir’s “Illuminare Jerusalem”, commissioned by King’s College, Cambridge, was featured in the Advent Calendar Project last year. Read more on her website, listed below. The Ave Maris Stella is a Marian hymn first found in manuscripts, albeit without diastematic notation, in the 9th century (Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology). It remains a well-loved chant, opening, “Hail, star of the sea.” www.judithweir...
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