"And propounding to them themes of music, they sang before him." - Ainulindale, 1977
The oldest representations of St. Cecilia show her in the attitude usual for martyrs in the Christian art of the earlier centuries, either with the crown of martyrdom in her hand (e.g. at S. Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna, in a sixth-century mosaic) or in the attitude of prayer, as an Orans (e.g. the two sixth and seventh-century pictures in her crypt). In the apse of her church in Trastevere is still preserved the mosaic made under Pope Paschal, wherein she is represented in rich garments as patroness of the pope. Medieval pictures of the saint are very frequent; since the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries she is given the organ as an attribute, or is represented as playing on the organ, evidently to express what was often attributed to her in panegyrics and poems based on the Acts, viz., that while the musicians played at her nuptials she sang in her heart to God only ("cantantibus organis illa in corde suo soli domino decantabat"); possibly the cantantibus organis was erroneously interpreted of Cecilia herself as the organist. In this way the saint was brought into closer relation with music. When the Academy of Music was founded at Rome (1584) she was made patroness of the institute, whereupon her veneration as patroness of church music in general became still more universal; today Cecilian societies (musical associations) exist everywhere. The organ is now her ordinary attribute; with it Cecilia was represented by Raphael in a famous picture preserved at Bologna. In another magnificent masterpiece, the marble statute beneath the high altar of the above-mentioned church of St. Cecilia at Rome, Carlo Maderna represented her lying prostrate, just as she had received the death-blow from the executioner's hand. Her feast is celebrated in the Latin and the Greek Church on 22 November.
This video is made in remembrance of the departed musicians Vidonne Sayre-Riemenschneider: 04/11/1949 - 11/22/2015, and William J. Tsamis: 03/13/1961 - 05/13/2021.
Vidonne was born April 11, 1949 in Churdan, Iowa, the daughter of Don and Vicky Price Riemenschneider. She was a graduate of Marshalltown High School and had attended Drake University. Vidonne lived in Los Angeles for many years where she was a film actress. She later moved to Florida where she sang and recorded with her former spouse, Bill Tsamis. Vidonne was preceded in death by her parents, her nephew Ian Riemenschneider and former spouse Doug Clemens.
William J. Tsamis was born March 13, 1961 in Oakland, California. Tsamis graduated as valedictorian and worked as a professor at Trinity College. The former spouse of Vidonne Sayre-Riemenschneider, Tsamis was a well respected and admired musician operating in southern California before moving to Florida. Tsamis passed away May 13, 2021 in Tarpon Florida.
Eternal rest grant unto them oh Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon them. May the souls of Vidonne Sayre-Riemenschneider and William J. Tsamis and all the faithful departed, through the great mercy of God, by the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, by the intercession of Our Lady Of Fatima, and by the intercession of St. Cecilia Patron Saint of Musicians, rest in peace.
Tracks:
1.) 00:00 Hymn of St. Cecilia - Geoffrey Chaucer, Paul Corfield Godfrey
2.) 05:26 Hymn to St. Cecilia - Wystan Hugh Auden, Benjamin Britten
3.) 16:27 Lady Vidonne (A Love Song) - Vidonne Sayre-Riemenschneider, William J. Tsamis
4.) 21:14 In Peace He Comes Again - Vidonne Sayre-Riemenschneider, William J. Tsamis
5.) 25:05 Deliver Us (Single) - William J. Tsamis, Vidonne Sayre-Riemenschneider
6.) 31:01 Invaders (Single) - William J. Tsamis, Vidonne Sayre-Riemenschneider
7.) 37:06 Winter Tears (Live 2014) - William J. Tsamis, as played by Blacklands
8.) 41:39 Glory (Live 2014) - William J. Tsamis, as played by Blacklands
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