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One can almost say, that it now got into tradition that Schola Cantorum Jubilate animates the ‘Te Deum’ High Mass in the morning preceeding the village feast.
With a Basilica fully decorated for the village feast of the Nativity of Our Lady, Daniela Sultana and Richard Grech joined in matrimony. The groom, is a close collaborator of SCJ.
The Xewkija Parish Church bells rang joyfully to announce the Wedding of a young couple – Samantha Cefai and Clifford Debattista.
Schola Cantorum Jubilate is taking a new initiative in order to provide a good choral education together with a good basis in theory and vocal technique. A course for beginners is in the pipeline and those interested do not necessarily need to have a musical background. Marouska Attard, director of Schola Cantorum Jubilate will conduct these sessions in Gozo.
Rodianne Xerri, former member of Schola Cantorum Jubilate got married to Christian Xerri at the Basilica of Xagħra. The new couple requested the choir to animate their Nuptial Mass.
Mass, officiated by Mgr. George Farrugia, started at 5.30pm with the bride reaching the alter where her groom expected her excitedly. She was welcomed by Schubert’s ‘Ave Maria’ which was interpreted by Soprano Georgina Gauci.
The choir was under the direction of Mro. Mark Gauci and accompanied by John Anthony Fsadni on the organ, Jacob Portelli on the violin and Noemi Attard as flutist. They performed various classical and sacred pieces amongst which: ‘Allelulia’ (Taize’), ‘Panis Angelicus’ (Franck), ‘Sanctus’ and ‘Agnus Dei’ (Oltrasi), ‘Make me a channel of your peace’ (Temple) and finally ‘Exaltabo te’. At the very end of the ceremony, the organist played Mendelsshon’s ‘Wedding March’.
Schola Cantorum Jubilate extends its sincere greetings to the new couple.