The Christmas concert
We focused much of our music blog around jazz music so we found it as a great asset that we were able to attend a jazz Christmas concert in the oldest functioning cathedral in the United States. Below is my personal blog post about the experience:
The St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans was established in 1720 and is still in use today. Walking into this Catholic cathedral could leave just about everyone speechless. The ceiling center has a large painting of Jesus surrounded by apostles. The boarder was a detailed design consisting of red and gold. Throughout the cathedral there were many French (I am assuming) sayings such as "paissez mes agneaux, paiisez mes been is." I obviously had no idea what the saying meant so I used my little friend Google and learned that it meant "feed my lambs, feed my sheep." The artwork does not stop there though. On the other edges of the ceiling are multiple paintings of Jesus. Also attached to the ceilings were multiple gold chandlers that were slightly swaying due to the doors being open. The real reason I was there to listen to a Jazz-swing Christmas concert. Oddly enough the woman who was performing is the daughter of a musician we learned about during our music tour with Milton, Louie Prima. Lena Prima sang Christmas carols and some of her fathers music during the one hour show. Her voice was beautiful and really traveled in the cathedral. Her band was amazing and she split much of her performance with them which I thought was amazing but in all reality it seems to be the attitude of New Orleans and jazz music. Those who attended the concert seemed delighted and happy to be there. I had two older couples behind me that were singing along and dancing in their seats. They were extremely nice individuals when I spoke with them afterwards the concert. I walked outside to wait for the rest of my classmates when we were finished and just stared of the outside of the cathedral. I had such a deeper respect and awe of St. Louis Cathedral after experiencing it from the inside.
The ceiling of the cathedral
The back of the cathedral at night
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