Cristi Catt leads The Hildegard Project -- an ensemble of women's voices collaborating with Concordia Consort -- in a special program honoring recently canonized saint Hildegard von Bingen. The concert of music for women's voices features music from Hildegard's famous morality play, Ordo Virtutum, as well as polyphony from the Las Huelgas Codex and other medieval sources.
Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179), the 'Sibyl of the Rhine', was a German writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, Benedictine abbess, visionary and polymath. She wrote theological, botanical and medicinal texts, as well as letters, sacred songs, and poems, while supervising brilliant miniature illuminations.
Though considered a saint by acclamation for centuries, Hildegard was declared the 35th 'doctor of the church' by Pope Benedict XVI on October 7 of this year.
