SOMMARMUSIK, at #RosedalePresbyterianChurch TORONTO summer-long special music by its soloists and Director of Music #ChristopherDawes, continues through August with a progressive (a little bit every Sunday) perf of #HenryPurcell's Ode, "Hail! Bright Cecilia!" written 1692 for the Musical Society of London's annual St Cecilia concerts. Sunday services at 10:30am (the series concludes September 7th)
https://www.rosedalepresbyterianchurch.ca/hailbrightcecilia
portrait of Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
by John Closterman (1660-1711)