Toccata on Veni Emmanuel Adolphus Hailstork(b.1941)

Rorate caeli Jeanne Demessieux(1921-1968)

Gesù Bambino Pietro A. Yon (1886-1943)Former Music Director

from The Nutcracker Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (1840-1893)

Caroling, Caroling Alfred Burt (1920-1954)arr. Diane Bish (b.1941)

Jingle Bell Rhapsody Grimoaldo Macchia(b. 1972)

Sleigh Ride Leroy Anderson (1908-1975)arr. Thomas Trotter (b. 1957)

Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella Keith Chapman(1945-1989)

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Please hold all applause until the conclusion of the performance.If you must leave during the concert, kindly do so only at the conclusion of a work.

St. Patrick’s Cathedral“AmericA’s PArish church”

New York City

Jennifer Pascual, D.M.A., Organ

Thank you to the supporters of the Friends of Music who make these concerts possible.Please visit our website to join or for more details at: www.saintpatrickscathedral.org/fom.We encourage you to email us feedback and suggestions about the Kilgen Organ Recital Series at: music@SaintPatricksCathedral.org.

Sunday, December 20, 20203:15 P.M.

Dr. Jennifer Pascual was appointed Director of Music at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City in 2003, the first woman to hold this prestigious liturgical music position. Jennifer earned a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Organ Performance from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY where she studied with David Higgs. She holds a Master of Music Degree in Piano Performance from the Mannes College of Music and Bachelor of Music Degrees in Piano and Organ Performance and Music Education from Jacksonville University in Florida. She has served as an organist and choir director in the Dioceses of St. Augustine (FL) and Rochester (NY) and the Archdioceses of Newark (NJ) and New York (NY), including at three Roman Catholic Cathedrals. She currently also serves as the Director of Music of the New York Archdiocesan Festival Chorale.

For many years, Dr. Pascual has been a member of as well as served on the boards of several organizations pertaining to sacred music. She is a frequent recitalist, clinician and adjudicator at national conventions. She was a finalist in the Florida First Coast Piano Competition, participated in the Bach Aria Festival in New York, the International Bamboo Organ Festival in Manila, the Christmas International Festival in Moscow, the Terra Sancta Organ Festival in Israel and Palestine, and the Lebanese Pipe Organ Week. Dr. Pascual is a recipient of the Paderewski Medal and Theodore Presser Award. Jennifer has performed as an organist or conductor in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Spain, Vatican City and throughout the United States.

Dr. Pascual oversaw all of the liturgical music for Pope Benedict XVI during his 2008 Pastoral Visit to New York, con-ducting the choirs for the Masses at St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Yankee Stadium and the Ecumenical Prayer Service at St. Joseph’s Church (Yorkville). She conducted the choirs for Mass at Madison Square Garden and Vespers at St. Patrick’s Cathedral during the 2015 Pastoral Visit to New York of Pope Francis. Jennifer conducted the St. Patrick’s Cathedral Choir for President Bush at the White House for the National Day of Prayer in May 2008 and was named a Dame of the Order of St. Gregory the Great in December 2008. Annually, she participates as a conductor in the Handel Messiah Sing-In at Lincoln Center.

With the broadcast of live Mass from St. Patrick’s Cathedral on The Catholic Channel, SiriusXM 129, the St. Patrick’s Cathedral Choir, which she conducts, can normally be heard at 10:15am (Eastern) on Sundays from September to June. She also hosts a radio talk and music show called “Sounds from the Spires” also broadcast on The Catholic Channel. Three of Dr. Pascual’s organ recordings and a St. Patrick’s Cathedral Choir recording on the JAV label can be found at www.pipe-organ-recordings.com. More information is available at www.JenniferPascual.com

His EminenceTimothy Cardinal Dolan

Archbishop of New York

Rev. Msgr. Robert T. Ritchie, Rector

Jennifer Pascual, DMA, Director of Music & OrganistDaniel Brondel, Associate Director of Music & Organist

Michael Hey, Assistant Director of Music & OrganistRobert M. Evers, Music Administrator & Programs Editor

Peragallo Pipe Organ Company, Organ Curators

Fifth Avenue at 50th Street · New York, NY 10022(212) 753-2261

www.saintpatrickscathedral.org

Thank you to the supporters of the Friends of Music who make these concerts possible.Please visit our website to join or for more details at: www.saintpatrickscathedral.org/fom

Upcoming ConcertsAll 7:00pm Concerts are Virtual and will stream online only (www.saintpatrickscathedral.org/live).

3:15pm Sunday Afternoon Recitals are free and open to the public, and will also stream online.

January 17, 2021Daniel Brondel

February 28, 2021Michael Hey