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Praise God [lp recording] Ursuline College Chatham, a.k.a. "The Pines," Chatham, Ontario Concert, June 25, 1964

Jacket notes summary:

“A concert of sacred music sung by the Ursuline Choir in their convent chapel in Chatham, Ontario. Mother Anne Genevieve, a student of Pius X School of Liturgical Music, Manhattanville, New York directs a choir of sixty young sisters . . .

This program of Sacred Polyphony, Choir and Organ was initially produced to celebrate the name day of Mother M. St. David, the Superior General of the Ursulines of the Chatham Union . . . “

Graham Murray, Wonderland Recording Studios, London, ON – WRLP – 1
(based on the catalogue number, this may have been the first recording of the Wonderland Recording Studios)

Program notes summary:

The triumphant processional hymn, Praise Ye the Father, by Gounod, was sung at the dedication of the Ursuline Motherhouse Chapel, at “The Pines”, Chatham in 1962.

Side 1

Praise Ye the Father Gounod

Hymn of Joy – Let hymns of joy to grief succeed from Aurora coelum purpurat

How Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place – Requiem Johannes Brahms

Pascha Nostrum Oreste Ravanello

Resurrexi – Gregorian theme based on the Introit for Easter – organ

Resurrexi (vocal)

Side 2

Pie Jesu – from the Requiem Gabriel Fauré

Terra Tremuit – 3-part arrangement Caro Caturan

Create in Me – motet Johannes Brahms

Prelude in D - organ J. S. Bach

Psalm 95 [sic, Psalm 96], Chantez a Dieu Jan Sweelinck

Regina Coeli Melchiorre Maura-Cottone

Sanctus – from the Requiem Gabriel Fauré

Op. 2695 was a console-only job for St. Anne's Catholic Church in Penetanguishene, Ontario; the Ursuline College organ was given the opus number of 2695A.

Identified through information in Casavant documents, courtesy of Simon Couture and Denis Blaine. The tonal director was Lawrence Phelps.