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An Evening of Sacred Music in Pioneer Seattle
featuring Cathedral Musicians and Special Guests from 1904

Dr. James Savage hosted the evening musicale. "A century ago,
the first music director of our parish, Edward Ederer, hosted weekly
Sunday evening musicales in his new home on Capitol Hill. Singers
came, violinists came, pianists and organists came, and even a few
stray musical priests came and together they made music. They played
piano four-hand arrangements of symphonies, they performed opera
arias and choruses, they tried out the latest sacred songs and they
sang their favorite hymns. From such weekly gatherings emerged
the Seattle Symphony, the Cathedral music program and the need for
such music schools as Cornish."

Kathryn Weld, Jenny Sokol, and Clint Kraus dressed in costumes
appropriate to the era. Their dramatic entrance was greeted
with spirited applause.

Father Ryan accompanies "O God of loveliness" on the great organ,
assisted by Clint Kraus. The performance met with enthusiastic
acclaim and cries of "Bravo!"

Kathryn Weld and Jenny Sokol perform Rosewig's Ave Maria.
Dr. Savage remarked: "At the Sunday evening musical gatherings
at the Ederer home 100 years ago, surely they was much talk over the
punch bowl of the great event that was just around the corner--the
ceremonial breaking of ground for the new cathedral that was to be
built next to the tiny wooden St. Edward's Chapel--the dream of
Bishop O'Dea and the Agens and Baillargeons and the Pigotts and a
host of other Catholic dreamers. Such a momentous occasion called
for music."

Special thanks to Frances and Mary Beth Kelly for the loan of
their Aunt Alice's violin. Alice Fairbairn, then a student at
St. Rose's Academy on Broadway, played the violin at the
groundbreaking of the Cathedral in 1905. Here, Alice
Fairbairn's niece, Frances Kelly, is pictured with violinist Jenny
Sokol--and the historic violin!

Jenny Sokol and Howard Fankhauser, with Joseph Adam at the piano,
perform C. F. Hanson's stirring "Ave Maria."
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The highly authentic title page of our hymnal for the
evening.
The hymns sung included "Holy God, we praise thy name"; "To Jesus' heart all
burning"; "Nearer, my God, to Thee"; "O God of loveliness"; "Hail, Queen of
Heaven, the Ocean Star"; "Hail, Holy Queen"; "O Lord, I am not worthy"; and
"Come, Holy Ghost."
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