Singing for a Saint -- Music of Hildegard von Bingen at Old North Church

Cristi Catt leads The Hildegard Project in a special program at Old North Church 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.

Historic Old North Church, a famous Boston landmark, is located at 195 Salem Street in Boston's historic North End.  Donations welcomed. This special program lasts about 45 minutes.