24 October 2013

In This Issue

Not to be confused with his famous Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565, J.S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 538, is often referred to as the "Dorian." While in Weimar (1708-1717), Bach's study of many Italian composers influenced his Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 538. This toccata is one of the few works that Bach indicated to contrast manuals to create an echo effect, an attribute commonly found in the Italian concertato style. His themes built on broken chords throughout the piece are also found in Vivaldi and Corelli's Italian violinistic style. These adopted Italian styles became prominent characteristics of the North German organ school.

 

Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918) was an English composer, scholar and teacher. Combining these three activities with a forceful personality and social position, he exercised a revitalizing influence on English musical life at a time in the 19th century when standards of composition, performance, criticism and education were low. In 1900, he was appointed Heather Professor of Music at Oxford. Due to his declining health he was forced to give up the chair at Oxford in 1908, but retained his directorship at the Royal College of Music until his death. As a composer he is best known for the coronation anthem "I was glad". Elegy was written for the occasion of the Funeral of Sidney, 14^th Earl of Pembroke on April 7^th, 1913. His musical style and sensibility, capable of passionate yearning and affecting melancholy, is also imbued with a natural reserve, a tempered respect for technique and a propensity for moderation. These attributes, combined with a profound sense of the composer's obligation to society, was his legacy to a younger generation of composers and admirers, among them Vaughan Williams, Holst, Howells, Bliss and, most notably, Finzi.

 

Richard Proulx (1937-2010) was an American composer and editor of church music, including anthems, service music, hymn concertos, organ music and music for handbell choir. He served as a consultant on several important hymnals, including The Hymnal 1982 and the United Methodist Hymnal. He had a long association with Holy Name Roman Catholic Cathedral in Chicago, and has made several recordings with The Cathedral Singers, a professional chorus which he founded in 1991. He died in Chicago at the age of 72. His Variations on Sine Nomine treat the familiar tune (For all the saints, Hymn 287) as a trio (three voice texture), a canon (one voice following the other in strict imitation), a gigue (a jaunty dance in 6/8 meter), a chorale (the melody appearing in the top voice in long notes while supporting voices provide lush harmonies), and a fugato (a more complicated version of a canon).

 

Marcel Dupr� (1886-1971) came from a family of keyboardists; his mother was a pianist and his father was an organist. He received his first organist position at Saint-Vivien in Rouen when he was twelve years old. After initially studying with his father, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Guilmant and Widor. Dupr� was well known internationally as a recitalist, most notably for performing the entire works of Bach from memory in 1920. Upon Widor's retirement from Saint-Sulpice, Dupr� was appointed organist and held the position for 64 years. Dupr� was celebrated for his many compositions and improvisations. Cort�ge et Litanie was originally written as the last of a set of four piano pieces in 1922. He also arranged it for both organ and orchestra and as an organ solo, which is the most commonly heard form today. The piece uses a wide range of the organ's colors and dynamics, from the solemn opening Cort�ge to the prayerful repetitious Litanie that gradually expands from a single, simple melody to a magnificently thick texture that intertwines the Cort�ge and Litanie themes. 

 

This Sunday 11/3 we welcome organist Maria LeRose to play the 4:15pm concert. Maria completed her Master of Music in Sacred Music with an emphasis in organ as well as a Certificate in Music Theory Pedagogy at the University of Kentucky in 2006. She graduated with a Bachelor of Music in Organ Performance in 2004. She is currently an organ student of Dr. Schuyler Robinson.

 

Maria studied with Dr. John Turnbull at Converse College in Spartanburg, SC during her first two years of undergraduate study. In summer 2004, Maria studied organ in Salzburg, Austria with Bernhard Gfrerer.  While at Converse College Maria was honored as a Daniel Music Scholar and received a Music Honors Scholarship. During her undergraduate studies at UK she was selected twice to represent the keyboard division at the Honors Convocation Recital. She was a 2005, 2007, & 2010 - 2013 scholarship winner from the Fellowship of United Methodists in Music and Worship Arts.

 

Currently Maria is the choirmaster and organist at Trinity Episcopal Church in Danville, KY and is on the faculty at the Centenary School of Music.  Maria is working toward a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Organ Performance.  She recently completed her third doctoral recital toward her degree. This fall Maria is taking a leave of absence from Trinity and focus on writing her dissertation.

We have launched an exciting new concert series each Sunday afternoon throughout the academic year.  Though these concerts are primariliy organ recitals, 

many different genres of music will be celebrated throughout the year.  

Please spread the word and invite your friends!

All Sunday afternoon concerts are at 4:15pm and admission is free, 

however, donations are gratefully accepted.

 

3 November 2013 - 4:15pm - Organ Recital by Maria LeRose. Free admission.

                        Maria LeRose is Organist/Choirmaster at Trinity Episcopal Church, Danville, Kentucky,

                        and a DMA organ student at the University of Kentucky.     

 

10 November 2013 - 4:15pm - Organ Recital by Mark DeAlba. Free admission.

                        Mark DeAlba is an undergraduate organ student at University of Kentucky

                        and organist at Central Baptist Church, Lexington.

 

17 November 2013 - 4:15pm - Organ/Trumpet Recital by Roy Nance and David Goins. Free admission.

                        Roy Nance has recently retired as Minister of Music at First United Methodist

                        Church, Frankfort, Kentucky. David Goins is the newly appointed Minister

                        of Music at the same institution.

 

24 November 2013 - 4:15pm - Organ Recital by Rob Vanover. Free admission.

                        Rob Vanover is Organist at Centenary United Methodist Church, Lexington,

                        and is on the music staff at Lexington Catholic High School.

 

1 December 2013 - 4:15pm - Organ Recital by Owen Sammons. Free admission.

                        Owen Sammons is Director of Arts & Music at St Peter's Episcopal Church, Paris, Kentucky.

 

8 December 2013 - 4:15pm - Organ Recital by Jane Johnson. Free admission.

                        Jane Johnson is Organist at Crestwood Christian Church, Lexington,

                        and is Director of Student Affairs, College of Fine Arts, University of Kentucky.

 

15 December 2013 - 4:15pm - Organ Recital by John Linker. Free admission.

                        John Linker is Organist/Choirmaster at Church of the Good Shepherd, Lexington.    

 

                        Program

                        Widor / Symphonie gothique, Op. 70

 

22 December 2013 - NO CONCERT TODAY.

                        5:00pm A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols

 

24 December 2013 (Christmas Eve) - 6:15pm - Organ Recital by John Linker. Free admission.

                        John Linker is Organist/Choirmaster at Church of the Good Shepherd, Lexington.    

 

                        Program

                        Widor / Symphonie gothique, Op. 70

 

29 December 2013 - NO CONCERT TODAY.

Back by popular demand is The Dick Sisto-Steve Allee Spirit of Life Quartet for a dynamic program called "The Spiritual Music of Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn.  The concert is Friday, November 22nd, at 7:30pm.  Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door.  (For tickets, call 859 252 1744 or visit www.goodshepherdlex.org.)

Making their second appearance on the Good Shepherd Friends of Music Concert Series, Dick Sisto (vibraphone) and Steve Allee (piano) will delight the audience with their soul-satisfying rhythms, angelic melodies, and modern jazz harmonies.  

A native of Chicago, Sisto has had an illustrious career throughout the United States, performing with such noteworthy musicians as Milt Hinton, David "Fathead' Newman, Willie Pickens, Ira Sullivan, Fred Hersch, and Barry Ries, just to name a few.

www.dicksisto.com 

Steve Allee, Pianist

A year of fun and service ahead!

 

A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols for Christmastide

This annual favorite will take place on 22 December at 5:00pm.  Please arrive early to find a good seat, as this is one of our most popular services of the year.

 

Organist Olivier Latry coming to Good Shepherd in 2014

Olivier Latry, one of the three organistes-titulaires de Grande-Orgue of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, will be playing a recital in Good Shepherd on Friday 28 February 2014. This remarkable event will be co-sponsored between the Lexington and Louisville Chapters of the American Guild of Organists as well as Good Shepherd. Latry is also organ professor at Paris Conservatory and is considered to be one of the finest organists in the world. You may read more info about this dynamic musician here.

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