September 17th is the feast day of St. Hildegard von Bingen, the 12th century abbess, author, counselor to kings, naturalist, scientist, philosopher, physician, herbalist, poet, visionary...
...and composer.Hildegard's music was the inspiration for the formation of Prima Vox. In fact, we get our name from the lyrics of one of her chants: "O Pastor animarum et prima vox" or "O Shepherd of our souls and first voice." So tonight we celebrated Hildegard, our music and our artistic residency by participating in an evening service at the Church of the Holy Communion.
We read from Hildegard's writings.
We chanted her chants.We felt so fortunate to be able to experience the creations of this amazing woman, in an amazing space, with each other.
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