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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cecilia[/quote]

Cecilia (Latin for blind, the female form of Cecil. Some say it means lily of heaven, or a way to blind men. Others say it means of Celo or Heaven. In Hebrew it means a rock. Cecilia is a royal name with a divine connection and several musical links. St Cecilia is the Catholic patron Saint of both blindness and music.

The earliest stories of St Cecilia stem from the Golden Legend, a 13th century anthology of saints lives. Geoffrey Chaucer describes St Cecilia’s life in the Second Nun’s Tale from the Canterbury Tales in close association with the Lilly and the Rose, medieval code for good person talking. She died a Christian martyr who had been born into a wealthy privileged family in second century Rome, along with her husband Valerian whom she had converted, and his brother Tiburtius. She died refusing to denounce Christianity but legend has it it took three days and multiple harrowing murder methods for the execution to succeed, and she demanded a church be erected at the site of her execution and then she died.

It was not until the fifteenth century that she became associated with music, not as just a sensuous art, but as a revelation of divine order.

Raphael’s “Ectasy of Cecilia” (1515j was the first to depict St. Cecilia holding an organ surrounded by saints. It just takes one great artist to get things going (especially when 90% of the population are illiterate), and so then the legendary reputation of Cecilia, patron Saint for music, took off.

But really, popular symbols are popular symbols, and what does it matter if Cecilia’s divine association with music is a product of sixteenth century clamoring for more female saints?

Your family on both sides come from a long line of musicians of all genres and instruments. Country, opera, classical, pop, rock, folk, indie, jazz, techno pop, disco, and more. Your family lives and breathes for music.

You studied flute at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and work as a liaison between the National Symphony Orchestra and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,. You advocated tirelessly for the hard working musicians of the NPO who toil for years for their craft. You were outraged after the Kennedy Center stopped paying all the NPO musicians in March 2020, days after being awarded $25 million in corona virus aid at the beginning of the Pandemic. You prayed to Saint Cecilia for this worthy outcome to lead the blind into new pastures of liveable wages for top musicians in the nation’s Capitol. In April you helped the NPO to reach a compromise to avoid the furloughs.

Your daughter Cecilia is named for St Cecilia. She plays cello with great sensitivity in the Capitol Symphonic youth orchestra. She groans whenever people tell her bad cello jokes such as: “How does Yo Yo Ma answer the phone?” “Cello”[/quote]

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