Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Video – Immaculate Music #39: The FI Sisters’ Choir with Cardinal Burke in Rome

Video – Immaculate Music #39: The FI Sisters’ Choir with Cardinal Burke in Rome

Click to Play Video Immaculate Music #39 – Communion Hymn of our FI Sisters ( 03min) >>> Play
Ave Maria!
In March of 2011, our friars and sisters celebrated a Pontifical High Mass with Cardinal Raymond Burke in Rome at the Church of St. Nicolas (imprisoned). Here’s a “short-short” of one of the sister’s hymns sung after Holy Communion, with Sr. Maria Cecilia Manelli  as conductor of the choir.
Ave Maria!
 
Sr. Dr. Maria Cecilia Pia Manelli, FI. PhD
Sr. M. Cecilia Manelli was born in Rome in 1973 and entered the Religious Institute of the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate in 1991.
She graduated with honours in Piano (1994), and Organ and Organ Composition (1997) from the Music Conservatory of Frosinone and Benevento, Italy.
She obtained a degree in Music Composition from the Benevento Music Conservatory and subsequently her Doctorate in Gregorian Chant from the
Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome.
She has directed and recorded with the “Corale dell’Immacolata” , a choir of friars and sisters of the Franciscans of the Immaculate since 1994 and
has performed internationally as a soloist and part of instrumental and vocal ensembles.
She has taught various courses in Gregorian music internationally including the renowned Solesmes Abbey, as part of the centenary of the monastery’s
founding in 2001.

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