Music for your Wedding at the Cathedral Basilica

Please contact the Music Office at least 3 months prior to your wedding.  Dr. Romeri, our Director of Music, will meet with you and assist you in selecting your music, cantor, instrumentalists, as well as creating your program for your wedding liturgy.

Call 215-587-3696 or email jromeri@adphila.org to register to attend one of the following Wedding Music Meetings with couples:

Saturday, May 4, 2013         at 1:30 PM
Saturday, June 15, 2013      at 12:30 PM
Saturday, July 13, 2013        at 2PM
   
For those couples who might like to come and hear the cantors at the cathedral or to hear your particular cantor, here is the Cathedral Cantor schedule for February and March 2013.   (There are times when the cantors trade mass times.) 

 Upcoming Weddings:

Friday, May 3, 2013      4 PM     Cantor: Jeff Chapman; Trumpet
Saturday, May 18, 2013     3 PM   Cantor: Charlene Angelini
Thursday May 30, 2013     2 PM   Cantor: Charlene Angelini; 2 Trumpets, Violin, Timpani, Small Choir
Saturday, June 1, 2013      1:30 PM   Cantor: Jackie Dunleavy;  Trumpet
Saturday, June 1, 2013      3 PM   Cantor: Jackie Dunleavy; Trumpet, Violin, Vocal Quartet
Friday, June 14, 2013        4 PM   Cantor: Marcelle McGuirk
Saturday, June 15, 2013    3 PM   Cantor: Charlene Angelini
Saturday, June 29, 2013    3 PM   Cantor: Charlene Angelini;  Trumpet
Saturday, July 6, 2013       3 PM   Cantor: Jackie Dunleavy; Trumpet, Timpani, Harp
Friday, July 26, 2013         4:45 PM 
Friday, August 2, 2013      4 PM    Cantor:  Jeff Chapman; Trumpet
Saturday, August 3, 2013  3 PM    Cantor: Charlene Angelini
Saturday, August 10, 2013  3PM    Cantor: Jackie Dunleavy
Saturday, August 17, 2013  1 PM
Saturday, August 17, 2013  3 PM
Friday, August 23 2013       4 PM
Saturday, August 24, 2013  3 PM
 

Some Music Suggestions:

Processional Marches:
Trumpet Voluntary      Henry Purcell
Trumpet Tune in D Major    David Johnson
Te Deum    Marc Charpentier
Procession Alegre   Gary Cornell
Trumpet Tune and March     Henry Purcell
Canon in D   Johann Pachelbel
Musique Royale   Richard Delalande

Wedding Vocal Solos:
Where there is Love   Johann S. Bach
Whither Thou Goest   Flor Peeters   (The Wedding Song)
Whither Thou Goest   Heinrich Schutz
Ave Maria   Franz Schubert
Ave Maria   Bach-Gounod
Thy Perfect Love   John Rutter
Servant Song   Richard Gillard
The Gift of Love     arr. Hal Hopson
May Love Be Ours    Michael Joncas   (Not for Tongues of Heaven's Angels)
May the Grace of Christ our Savior    Johann S. Bach      (Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring)
Panis Angelicus    Cesar Franck
Laudate Dominum     Wolfgang Mozart
Let the Bright Seraphim    George F. Handel
The Call     Ralph Vaughan Williams  (Come My Way, My Truth, My Love)
Ave Maria   Philip Stopford

Recessional Marches:
Trumpet Tune     Henry Purcell
Hornpipe   George Handel
Ode to Joy   Ludwig van Beethoven
Rondeau   Jean-Joseph Mouret
Trumpet Tune   John Stanley
Psalm 19  Benedetto Marcello

 Click here for additional Music suggestions

Music Staff Contact

Dr. John A. Romeri, AAGO, ChM
215-587-3696
Director of Music and Organist

Dr. Steven Ball
Artist in Residence

Mr. William Roslak
Cathedral Organ Scholar