# Happy St. Cecilia's Day!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-st-cecilias-day/473950>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 22, 2008, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-st-cecilias-day/473950 "2008-11-22T03:16:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-st-cecilias-day/473950/1 "2008-11-22T03:16:59Z")

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Title says it all.

_Blessed Cecilia, appear in visions  
To all musicians, appear and inspire:  
Translated Daughter, come down and startle  
Composing mortals with immortal fire._

- W. H. Auden

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**Author:** ![WF\_Tomba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-st-cecilias-day/473950/2 "2008-11-22T03:23:31Z")

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To all who haven’t heard it, I recommend Britten’s setting of that poem. It’s really pretty cool (but not easy to sing).

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**Author:** ![Galena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@Galena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galena)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-st-cecilias-day/473950/3 "2008-11-22T03:42:41Z")

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I got a better one…

> [@](#):
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> Cecilia, you’re breaking my heart…  
> You’re shaking my confidence daily…

I still maintain that the song is about inspiration, and only the more cynical among us think it’s about sex. 😛

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**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-st-cecilias-day/473950/4 "2008-11-22T05:11:05Z")

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Beat to it by Galena!

_Cecilia, I’m down on my knees  
I’m begging you please to come home_

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-st-cecilias-day/473950/5 "2008-11-22T05:17:45Z")

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Cecilia…the sun!

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**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-st-cecilias-day/473950/6 "2008-11-22T05:33:56Z")

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We sang for Saint Caecilia’s feast day at mass this morning.

> [@WF Tomba](#):
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> To all who haven’t heard it, I recommend Britten’s setting of that poem.

My choir is scheduled to perform that work on 22 November next year.