SAINT BENEDICT MUSIC SERIES

Periodic concerts at Saint Benedict Catholic Church offer high-quality music to parishioners and serve as a powerful tool for evangelization, providing non-Catholics with a window to the Catholic faith.

Concerts of sacred music "Create in churches a setting of beauty conducive to meditation, so as to arouse even in those who are distant from the Church an openness to spiritual values,” and "keep alive the treasures of Church music which must not be lost; musical pieces and songs composed for the Liturgy but which cannot in any way be conveniently incorporated into liturgical celebrations in modern times."

(Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments,

Music in Churches Other Than During Liturgical Celebrations, 1987)

Upcoming Events

Sunday, May 31, 2026 at 4:00pm

Brady Lanier, L’Art de Toucher: The Viola da Gamba in France

Discover the rich sound of the Viola da Gamba, a bowed seven-stringed instrument (child of the violin and the guitar), described by Marin Mersenne in 1636 as being the instrument most able to imitate the human voice “in all its modulations, even in its most intimate nuances: that of grief and joy.” The instrument reached the pinnacle of its artistic expression in France during the reign of Louis XIV. This program explores music for solo viol from five generations of French Baroque viola da gamba players who all knew and influenced each other—but who did not always agree! Join Dr. Brady Lanier, recent Indiana University doctoral graduate and member of The Governor’s Musick at Colonial Williamsburg, in re-discovering l’art de toucher la basse de viol—the lost art of playing the bass viol, the French way.

There is no cost for this performance, but a free-will offering will be taken up to support the Saint Benedict Music Series. We appreciate your generosity.