The Scala Foundation invites you to a choral evensong on Tuesday, February 16, 2027, to celebrate the launch of Musica Domestica. This two-volume Catholic guide to bringing song back into the home, written by David and Andrew Goldstein (of the Vigil Project), is published by Word on Fire. It will be released on February 9th, but you can pre-order and learn more at musicadomestica.com.
Precise details will follow, but the service will be held on the evening of February 16th at St. Patrick Church, 309 S. Taylor St., South Bend, Indiana, a Dominican parish. The Saint Hildegard Project, an excellent Indiana choral ensemble devoted to the Church’s sacred music, will sing.
The evensong will feature David’s psalm tones from the book, newly harmonized by Paul Jernberg under a Scala commission and heard for the first time. The ‘anthem’, always sung as a contemplative piece of music at the end of evensong, will be a new three-minute motet, The Way of Beauty, composed by renowned composer and conductor Sir James MacMillan, an old friend of Scala Foundation. The words, written by David, consist of a prayer for inspiration and an adaptation of St Augustine’s famous passage about beauty from Book 10, Chapter 27 (section 38) of his Confessions. This is the world premiere of what will be Scala’s anthem for the evangelization of the culture. Sir James is expected to attend.
Time and precise details to follow. The event will not be ticketed.
Learn more about the book: musicadomestica.com
