“I chose ’The Virgin’s Cradle Song’ because of its warm and immediate impression of gentleness and repose the piece imparts—a kind of musical ’Madonna and Child.’” — Timothy McDonnell, Director of Sacred Music. The Latin text of this haunting lullaby was copied down by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge from an engraving he discovered on a tour of Germany in 1798 in the company of poet William Wordsworth. The text is a charming image of the Virgin Mary lulling her baby to sleep as she did

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