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Cabrini Shrine: Renaissance Choral Music

This will be a performance of Renaissance choral music – the Hapsburg Court Composers Heinrich Finck, Heinrich Isaac, and their students Thomas Stoltzer and Ludwig Senfl – led by choral director Richard Porterfield, which will include movements from favorite masses, Marian and celebratory motets and psalms, on Saturday October 26, 2024 at 5pm at the Shrine of St Francis Cabrini (near the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park), 701 Fort Washington Ave, Manhattan. To reach the Shrine, take the A train to the 190th Street station, or the M4 bus. Suggested admission donation, $20. Students, free.

To add to this Saturday Experience, come early and walk through the adjacent Fort Tryon Park Gardens down to the famed Cloisters Museum- the Met Museum of medieval art, enjoying Fall Colors and unequaled Hudson River and Palisades Views! [the M4 bus goes directly there if needed]

Cabrini Shrine: Immigration and Prejudice with Author Paul Moses

“Immigration and Prejudice.” Paul Moses, author of An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York’s Irish and Italians, and The Italian Squad: The True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia, speaks on what the New York story—and the personal experiences of Mother Cabrini and famed detective Joseph Petrosino—can tell us about trying to break the historical cycle of prejudice that confronts immigrants, even in this City of Immigrants.