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THE
D I A PA S O N
NOVEMBER 2016
Yale University, Woolsey Hall
New Haven, Connecticut
Cover feature on pages 26–28
THE DIAPASON Editor’s Notebook
Scranton Gillette Communications
One Hundred Seventh Year: No. 11, In this issue
Whole No. 1284 This month we report on the national convention of the
NOVEMBER 2016 American Guild of Organists, which took place in Houston in
Established in 1909 June. Jonathan B. Hall and this writer provide their impres- Joyce Robinson
ISSN 0012-2378 sions on numerous convention performances. 847/391-1044; jrobinson@sgcmail.com
Maxine Thévenot describes the program to commission www.TheDiapason.com
An International Monthly Devoted to the Organ,
musical works at the Cathedral of St. John in Albuquerque,
the Harpsichord, Carillon, and Church Music
New Mexico. It is a unique venture, and Thévenot describes in Reminders
detail the workings of the program and its many benefits. If you have not yet notified us of any changes in your contact
CONTENTS Larry Palmer outlines approaches to concert programming. information or staff, you must do so this month in order for
FEATURES
John Bishop discusses the financing of a pipe organ (and of those changes (or a new listing for your business or organiza-
The Cathedral of St. John the church that houses it) and financial aspects of the care and tion) to appear in our 2017 Resource Directory. The deadline
Celebrates Ten Years of keeping of the organ. His fund-raising remarks mention Dur- for updates is November 15. Contact me if you need assis-
Cathedral Commissions ham Cathedral’s Lego™ model. Gavin Black is on hiatus and tance: jrobinson@sgcmail.com, or 847/391-1044.
by Maxine Thévenot 18
his column will return in December. Our cover feature is the We also announce our upcoming “20 under 30” awards for
American Guild of Organists Newberry Memorial Organ at Yale University’s Woolsey Hall, an 2017; see the notice below for further details. Nominations
National Convention 2016
Houston, Texas, June 19–24 important example of the work of the Skinner Organ Company, will open December 1.
by Jonathan B. Hall and which has been restored by the A. Thompson-Allen Company. Happy Thanksgiving to all! Q
Joyce Johnson Robinson 21
NEWS & DEPARTMENTS
Editor’s Notebook
Letters to the Editor
3
3
Special Bulletin
Here & There 3
Appointments 8 20 under 30
Nunc Dimittis 10
The Diapason announces its upcoming “20 under 30” publications and com-
Harpsichord News by Larry Palmer 12
In the wind . . . by John Bishop 16
nominations for 2017. We will recognize 20 young men and positions, offices held,
women whose career accomplishments place them at the fore- and significant positions.
REVIEWS front of the organ, church music, harpsichord, carillon, and Nominations will open
Music for Voices and Organ 13 organbuilding fields—before their 30th birthday. December 1, 2016, and
Book Reviews 13 Please consider whether any of your students, colleagues, or close February 1, 2017.
New Recordings 14 friends would be worthy of this honor. (Self-nominations will Nominees cannot have
New Organ Music 15
not be allowed.) Nominees will be evaluated on how they have reached their 30th birthday before January 31, 2017. Nomi-
New Handbell Music 15
demonstrated such traits and accomplishments as leadership nees not selected in a previous year can be nominated again.
CALENDAR 29
skills, creativity and innovation, career advancement, techni- Evaluation of the nominations and selection of the members
cal skills, and community outreach. Evaluation of nominees of the Class of 2017 will take place in March; the winners will
ORGAN RECITALS 33
will consider such things as awards and competition prizes, be announced in the May 2017 issue of The Diapason. Q
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Letters to the Editor
NOVEMBER 2016
Thoughts on Service Playing by on leading a congregation in the singing hymn leadership? May I suggest that
David Herman of hymns. Having spent my early years one turns to the Internet and look at the
The article by David Herman in the in a country where choirs in a service program “Nederland zingt on u tube”
September issue correctly identifies the are a rarity, my experience instead was and choose the traditional programs with
problem with service playing and specifi- focused on leading a congregation in the organ to see what varied congregational
cally hymn playing since most organists singing of hymns; as a result, the poor organ accompaniment can sound like.
Yale University, Woolsey Hall
New Haven, Connecticut
Cover feature on pages 26–28
are acting as an accompanist rather than hymn leadership by organists in Canada Accompaniment (or leadership) of a large
as a leader. Part of the reason for this situ- was very obvious to me. congregation is probably one of the most
ation is the fact that (especially in Britain As we appropriately look towards exciting and fulfilling activities imaginable
COVER and in North America) most churches Britain and their choral history for the and something I will continue to miss very
Skinner Organ Company Opus 722, restoration have one or more choirs participating example of our training as church musi- much because of many symptoms of my
by A. Thompson-Allen Co.: Woolsey Hall, Yale
University, New Haven, Connecticut 26 in the service, consequently the training cians, might we then also not look towards Parkinson’s disease.
and experience of organists is focused a country where the church choral tradi- William Vandertuin
on accompanying the choir rather than tion is much less advanced for ideas about Brantford, Ontario, Canada
Editorial Director JOYCE ROBINSON
and Publisher jrobinson@sgcmail.com
847/391-1044
Sr. Vice President RICK SCHWER
Here & There
rschwer@sgcmail.com
847/391-1048
Events Third Baptist Church, St. Louis, 12:20 to 12:50 p.m., through May 25.
Editor-at-Large STEPHEN SCHNURR The Cathedral Church of the Missouri, continues its Friday Pipes Weekend organ meditations, of diverse
sschnurr@sgcmail.com Advent, Birmingham, Alabama, contin- Series, Fridays at 12:30 p.m.: November repertoire, are presented Saturdays and
847/954-7989 ues music events: November 1, Cathedral 4, Harold Stover; 11/11, Linda Andrews; Sundays at 4 p.m. Programs are played
Sales Director JEROME BUTERA Choir, Duruflé, Requiem; 11/7, Frederick 11/18, Bradley Burgess. Alcee Chris will on the Bicentennial Organ, Opus 65
jbutera@sgcmail.com Teardo, Duruflé organ works; December perform 11/16, 6:00 p.m. For information: by Taylor and Boody Organbuilders of
608/634-6253 16, Mid-Day Music with the Cathedral third-baptist.org. Staunton, Virginia. For information:
Circulation/
Subscriptions DONNA HEUBERGER Ringers Handbell Ensemble; April 9, www.gracechurchnyc.org.
dheuberger@sgcmail.com 2017, Frederick Teardo, Dupré, Le Che- Trinity Episcopal Church, Reno,
847/954-7986 min de la Croix. For information: Nevada, hosts recitals Fridays at 12 Peachtree Road United Method-
Designer CATHY LEPENSKE www.adventbirmingham.org. noon: November 4, Dominic Pau; 11/18, ist Church presents concerts (at 7 p.m.
clepenske@sgcmail.com Joan Chambers; December 2, Michael except as noted): November 13, Jeremy
847/954-7964 Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Lynch; 12/16, Philip Manwell. For infor- McElroy and colleagues; December 11,
Contributing Editors LARRY PALMER
Church, Cleveland, Ohio, presents mation: www.trinityreno.org. The Many Moods of Christmas; 12/16
Harpsichord organ recitals: November 2 & 9, Flor- & 17, Christmas with the Georgia Boy
ence Mustric, works of Dupré and Grace Church, New York City, Choir; February 7, Eastman Organ-
JAMES MCCRAY Gardner Read; 11/16 & 23, Bob Myers, presents the Bach at Noon Organ Medi- ists’ Recital (Nathaniel Gumbs and
Choral Music
“Giving thanks;” 11/30, Brian Wentzel, tations Series, played by Patrick Allen, Thomas Gaynor); 2/25, Georgia Boy
JOHN BISHOP Bach, “Well-Tempered Clavier.” For Grace Church’s organist and master of Choir Festival concert; March 12, Dan
In the wind . . . information: www.trinitycleveland.com. choristers, Tuesday through Friday from ³ page 4
GAVIN BLACK
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³ page 3 Dupré, Rheinberger, and Reger. At 5:00,
Josh Ring will perform the second of his
Performer’s Certificate recitals, which
will include works by Buxtehude, Bach,
Messiaen, Franck, and Guilmant.
Bella Voce, directed by Andrew
Lewis, presents concerts: November
19, Handel, Messiah, at St. Luke’s
Episcopal Church, Evanston, Illinois;
11/20, Messiah at Fourth Presbyterian
Church, Chicago; December 17 (St.
Procopius Abbey, Lisle) and 12/18 (St.
Luke’s, Evanston), holiday concert; April
1 (Fourth Presbyterian, Chicago) and
4/2 (St. Luke’s, Evanston), Brahms, Ein Jeff Farr, Joby Bell, Randall Dyer, and Bradley Jones at Cumberland Presbyterian
deutsches Requiem. For information: Church, Greeneville, Tennessee
Mander organ, Peachtree United www.bellavoce.org.
Methodist Church The Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Greeneville, Tennessee, dedicated
its new two-manual, 15-rank Randall Dyer & Assoc. organ on August 21. Joby Bell
Forrest, Requiem for the Living; 3/23, of Appalachian State University played selections by Bach, Bobo, Franck, Willan,
Three Choirs Festival; 3/29, The Tallis Guilmant, Callahan, Parry, Rowley, and Böellmann to a full house. Shown in the
Scholars; April 2, Musical Stations of the photograph above, taken at the dedication, are: Jeff Farr, director of music; Joby Bell,
Cross; 4/9, Coro Vocati: Bach, St. John and Randall Dyer and Bradley Jones, organ builders.
Passion; July 12, 7:30 p.m., Thomas Trot-
ter. For information: www.prumc.org.
To honor the life and work of the
late Canadian organist, composer, and
teacher Raymond Daveluy (see “Nunc
Dimittis,” page 10), American Public
Media’s Pipedreams will broadcast a
tribute, Raymond Daveluy (1926–2016):
In Memoriam. The program, originally
planned as part of the composer’s 90th
birthday celebration, will air on radio
stations in the United States during the
week of November 14 and also will be
globally accessible online from that date
forward at either pipedreams.org or, Christ Episcopal Church
particularly for portable digital media, at
yourclassical.org/pipedreams. Christ Episcopal Church, Braden-
Pipedreams host Michael Barone ton, Florida, announces its 2016–17
interviewed Daveluy at his Montréal series: November 20, Mozart Mass in C
home in 2011, and excerpts from that (“Sparrow”); December 4, Advent Les-
conversation will be interspersed among sons & Carols; 12/11, Sarasota Young
representative compositions, including Voices; January 22, 2017, Dexter Ken-
movements from the organ sonatas, nedy in recital; 1/29, lecture by Richard
the Mass in E Minor for Choir and Benedum: Mozart’s Requiem; February
Organ, and the Organ Concerto; solo- 19, Tenth Anniversary Recital on the
ists include former Daveluy students Létourneau organ with Richard Bene- Goulding & Wood Opus 47 at Madonna della Strada Chapel
Rachel Laurin, Gaston Arel, and Regis dum, Carol Hawkinson, Dwight Thomas,
Rousseau. Also included are perfor- and the Christ Church Chorale; 2/26, Loyola University Chicago’s Madonna della Strada Chapel continues its organ
mances by Daveluy himself of selections Schubert, Mass in G; March 12, Stephen concert series, third Sundays of the month at 3 p.m., on the 70-rank Goulding & Wood
by Bach and Daquin performed on the Hamilton plays Dupré’s Le Chemin de Opus 47: November 20, Steven Betancourt, with VOX3 Vocal Collective; December
5-manual 1960 Beckerath organ at the la Croix. Two concerts for the Sarasota- 18, Daniel Segner; January 15, 2017, David Ritter; February 19, Grant Nill, with the
Oratoire Saint-Joseph on Mont-Royal, Manatee Bach Festival are hosted by Madonna della Strada Schola Cantorum; March 19, Robert Woodworth; May 21,
over which Daveluy presided from 1960 Christ Church featuring Bach concertos, Geoff Pautsch. For information: www.LUC.edu/organ.
until 2002. November 26 and March 5, 2017.
Advent organ recitals are offered:
Northern Illinois University, December 1, John Fraser Jull; 12/8, Julane Rodgers, harpsichord. For more 5, Evensong, February 17, Ted Davis;
DeKalb, will present two student recit- James Culver; 12/15, Richard Benedum information: www.christchurchswfla.org. March 17, Colin Lynch; May 5, Ken
als November 19 on the Martin Ott and William Holt. Lenten organ recitals Cowan; 5/25, Evensong. For information:
instrument in Boutell Memorial Concert are offered: March 2, 2017, Glen Olsen; St. Peter in Chains Cathedral, www.emmanuelchesterparish.org.
Hall. At 1:00 p.m., William Twohig will 3/9, John Fenstermaker; 3/16, Cynthia Cincinnati, Ohio, presents its 2016–17
perform his senior recital, featuring Roberts-Greene; 3/23, Ann Stephenson- Great Music in a Great Space concerts:
works by Buxtehude, Bach, Franck, Moe; 3/30, Nancy Siebecker; April 6, November 20, Kentucky Symphony
Orchestra & Cathedral Choir; 11/27,
Advent Festival of Lessons & Carols;
April 7, Chanticleer; 4/12, Ancient
MANDER ORGANS Office of Tenebrae. For further informa-
tion: www.stpeterinchainscathedral.org
or phone 513/421-2222.
New Mechanical
Action Organs Grace Lutheran Church, River
Forest Illinois, presents its Bach Cantata
Vespers series. A lecture precedes, at 3
p.m., with a prelude at 3:45 p.m., except
as noted: November 20, Cantata 71;
January 29, Cantata 14; February 19,
Cantata 127; March 19, O sacred bath
of water and the Holy Spirit; April 8, 7
p.m., and 4/9, 4 p.m., St. John Passion,
³ St. Peter’s Square - London E 2 7AF - England BWV 245; May 21, Ascension Oratorio. Methuen Memorial Music Hall
For further information:
[t] +44 (0) 20 7739 4747 - [f] +44 (0) 20 7729 4718
Exquisite www.bachvespers.org. Methuen Memorial Music Hall,
Continuo Organs [e] ManderUK@mander-organs.com Methuen, Massachusetts, continues
www.mander-organs.com Emmanuel Church, Chestertown, organ recitals: December 2, Holiday
Maryland, presents music events: Novem- Open House, “A Merry Music Hall
ber 23, Evensong; December 11, Advent- Christmas;” 12/3, featuring Ray Cornils
Imaginative Reconstructions Christmas Lessons & Carols; January ³ page 6
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week at Norwich Cathedral. The choir in Oradea, Cluj Napoca, Sibiu, and Bra-
sang music by American composers sov, followed by recitals in Altenberg,
Michael McCabe, Jeffrey Carter, Rich- Hildesheim, and Zwillbrock in Germany
ard DeLong, and Gerald Near; the and Geldrop in Holland. On August 30
Canadian/American composer Peter he gave his final recital as organist and
Mathews; and UK composers David director of music at St. James United
Cooper, Timothy Noon, Sydney Wat- Church, Montreal, having resigned in
son, Charles Villiers Stanford, William May after thirty years—the longest serv-
Mathias, Herbert Howells, and Ralph ing in this capacity in the history of the
Vaughan Williams. Peter Yardley-Jones church. Crozier also serves as the accom-
of the Suisse Church in London was the panist to the Stewart Hall Singers and
organist. Jordan Bucker was flutist for the Concordia University Chorus and as
several voluntaries. a substitute organist and accompanist to
various choral and instrumental groups,
as well as maintaining an international
People career as a solo recitalist.
Gail Archer performs concerts:
November 4, St. Augustine Cathedral,
Kalamazoo, Michigan; 11/6, Central
Oregon Bach Festival Organ Institute participants Synagogue, New York City, works of
Reger; 11/18, Holy Rosary Church,
The Oregon Bach Festival Organ Institute presented a recital July 2 Bozeman, Montana; 11/20, Cathedral
featuring eight participants showcasing their week’s work in class. The per- Basilica of the Immaculate Conception,
formers, selected through competitive auditions, took part in masterclasses Denver, Colorado; 11/27, St. Patrick’s
and seminars led by Paul Jacobs. The recital featured music of Bach, Lan- Cathedral, New York City, works of
glais, Vierne, Messiaen, as well as transcriptions of works by Wagner and Reger; December 4, Lessons & Carols,
Dvorák on the three-manual Hochhalter organ of the First United Methodist Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New
Church of Eugene. Two participants of the class, Ryan Kennedy and Gregory York; 12/10, Bach, Mass in B Minor, with
Zelek, performed on a festival program the following week featuring the choral Barnard-Columbia Chorus, Church of
music of Bach and Frank Martin. Shown in the photo are, back row: Gregory the Ascension, New York City; 12/13,
Zelek, David von Behren, Dalaie Choi, Paul Jacobs, Ryan Kennedy; front row: Church of the Gesu, Milwaukee, Wis- Eleanor Carter
Madeleine Varda, Mitchell Won, Grant Wareham, Caroline Craig. consin. For further information:
www.gailarcher.com. Clare College, Cambridge, UK, has
welcomed its first female organ scholar,
³ page 4 in suburban Chicago, Illinois: Decem- Eleanor Carter, who matriculated
and brass; and on 12/4, featuring The ber 4, 4 p.m., St. Raymond Church, in October. Carter is from Guildford,
Copley Singers. For further information: Mount Prospect; April 2, 4 p.m., Trinity Surrey, where she was a music scholar
www.mmmh.org. Lutheran Church, Des Plaines; June 3, at the Tormead School. She will assist
7:30 p.m., All Saints Lutheran Church, Graham Ross with the choir in chapel
Quire Cleveland continues its Palatine. For information: including three services each week
2016–17 season at venues in Cleveland, www.nwchoralsociety.org. during the academic terms, as well as
Ohio: December 2–4, Trinity Cathedral, an external schedule of concerts, tours,
St. Paul’s Akron & Historic St. Peter The Minnesota Orchestra continues recordings, and broadcasts. Carter began
Church, Carols for Quire; April 8 and 9, concerts in Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis: study of the piano at age six and organ
St. Bernard Parish (Akron) and Historic December 9 and 10, Handel, Messiah; at age nine. She also plays the cello. Her
St. Peter Church (Cleveland), Richard April 21 and 22, The Dream of Gerontius organ teachers have included Kather-
Davy, The St. Matthew Passion; May 20, by Edward Elgar. For information: ine Dienes-Williams at the Guildford
The Holland Theatre (Bellefontaine), www.minnesotaorchestra.org. Joey Brink, Letters from the Sky Cathedral and Anne Marsden Thomas
Wondrous Rounds & Catches. For infor- and Peter Holder at the Royal Academy
mation: quirecleveland.org. Carillonneur Joey Brink, of the “20 of Music.
under 30” Class of 2015, plays three
VocalEssence continues its season world premieres of 2016 works at the
of concerts: December 3, 9, 10, 11: University of Chicago’s Rockefeller
Welcome Christmas, with Conrad Memorial Chapel during the Ear Taxi
Susa’s Carols and Lullabies; 12/10, Festival: . . . the way nets cannot hold
Star of Wonder, family holiday concert; water by Iddo Aharony; Invention—An
January 13, 2017, Community Sing with Ascent by Tomás I. Gueglio Saccone; and
Melanie DeMore; February 19, WIT- his own Letters from the Sky. Brink will
NESS: Underground Railroad; April 22, also play his Capriccio (2015) and Invo-
Miracle Mass, with pianist and composer Trinity Choir of Grace and Holy Trinity cation (2016). A reception will follow.
Stephen Hough; May 2, ¡Cantaré! Cathedral at Exeter Brink’s new CD, Letters from the Sky,
Community Concerts, with more than will be released at the Ear Taxi Festival
500 students joining VocalEssence to The Trinity Choir of Grace and and will be available at all Ear Taxi events D. Leslie Smith with James Bailey, RCCO
celebrate Mexico through song. For Holy Trinity Cathedral in Kansas and at Rockefeller Chapel. For informa- past president (photo credit: Eric Harrison)
information: www.vocalessence.org. City, Missouri, made its fifth tour to tion: www.eartaxifestival.com.
Great Britain from July 11 through The Waterloo-Wellington Center
The Northwest Choral Society July 24, 2016, singing the first week of the Royal College of Canadian
announces its 2016–17 season at venues at Exeter Cathedral and the second Organists has recognized D. Leslie
Smith with its Distinguished Service
Award for his work as an organ builder.
Formerly employed by Gabriel Kney,
Smith later spent many years working
alongside Gerhard Brunzema, eventu-
ally carrying on Brunzema’s work in his
own name out of the latter’s workshop
in Fergus, Ontario. He helped build
Brunzema’s early organ for Blessed
Philip Crozier Sacrament Catholic Church in Kitch-
ener (1983), later helping to add
Church of Saint Jude the Apostle During the summer, Montreal organ- the second manual (1991). St. John
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin ist Philip Crozier performed nine recit- the Evangelist Anglican Church in
Three manuals – forty ranks als in Europe. This included his first trip Kitchener became the new home of a
to Romania where he played five recitals ³ page 8
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Appointments in London, to First United Church in Publishers Recordings
Waterloo (2004). Smith has also built
his own instruments: St. James Anglican
Church, Dundas, Ontario (Opus 6), St.
Patrick’s Catholic Church, Vancouver,
British Columbia, (Opus 7, 2013).
Among his most innovative organs is the
one at Mount Royal Commemorative
Services, Montréal, Québec.
Daniel Moult
Arise, Shine CD cover
Daniel Moult has been
appointed associate head of organ The Cathedral of St. Joseph the
studies for Birmingham Con- Workman, La Crosse, Wisconsin, has
servatoire, part of Birmingham released a new CD by the Cathedral Gal-
City University in the United lery Singers, Arise, Shine. Brian Luckner
Kingdom. The Birmingham Con- Ein feste Burg vol. 1 is conductor and organist. Featuring choral
servatoire is preparing to move to works by Charles Villiers Stanford, the
its new facility, which includes a In time for celebrating the 500th program includes both accompanied and
60-seat organ studio. £3 million James Mellichamp, Piedmont College anniversary of the Reformation (also unaccompanied pieces: Arise, Shine; Be
will be allocated for instruments President, and Yumiko Tatsuta called Luther Year) in 2017, Dr. J. Butz- Merciful unto Me; Justorum animae; Coe-
in the organ department. A native Musikverlag announces two new organ los ascendit hodie; Beati quorum via; The
of Manchester, Moult studied at As part of the SuperNova Concert music publications edited by Andreas Lord Is My Shepherd; Eternal Father; Veni
the University of Oxford, attain- Series at Piedmont College, Demor- Rockstroh, based on Martin Luther’s Creator Spiritus; Glorious and Powerful
ing Fellowship status in the Royal est, Georgia, organist Yumiko Tatsuta hymn “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God:” God; How Beauteous Are Their Feet; I
College of Organists, and also at presented a recital on September 18 in Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott—Romantic Heard a Voice from Heaven; and Ye Choirs
the Amsterdam Conservatorium. the Piedmont College Chapel. Tatsuta is chant arrangements for organ solo (Ped.). of New Jerusalem. This recording features
Moult’s performances have been a graduate student at the Jacobs School Vol. 1 (21 pieces, BU 2784, 72 pages, the cathedral’s Noack organ installed in
broadcast on the BBC and Radio of Music, Indiana University, in the stu- €18.00) is a compilation of works from the 2010. The CD is available for $16.95 plus
Netherlands, and he has released dio of Janette Fishell. Conceived as an Romantic period, including chorale-based $2 shipping, through the gift shop section
recordings on the Sony BMG and opportunity to showcase rising talent in works (Choralbearbeitungen). Vol. 2 (BU of the cathedral website: www.cathedralsj-
Fugue State labels. Moult suc- the organ field, the SuperNova Series 2788, 80 pages, €20.00) contains six large workman.org/index.php/gift-shop.
ceeds Henry Fairs, who has been also allows for undergraduate music fantasias in concert style. For information
head of organ studies at Birming- students at Piedmont College to interact or to order: butz-verlag.de/engl/index.htm The Choir of St. Luke in the Fields
ham for ten years. Q with young professionals and learn more or www.ohscatalog.org. has announced that their new album,
about the possibility of graduate study in Pierre de Manchicourt: Missa Reges
music and concert careers. Michael’s Music Service announces terrae, has been released on the MSR
³ page 6 new sheet music reprints: Everett label. The CD was recorded at St. Mary
transplanted two-manual Kney organ, Patrick Parker presents organ recit- Truette, Hymnus; Garth Edmundson, the Virgin Church in Midtown Manhat-
originally built for Park Street United als (in Texas except as noted): November Humoresque Fantastique; Jean Sibelius, tan. The music director is David Shuler.
Church in Chatham (1977). 4, St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, Sug- Romance, transcribed by Sumner Salter; Pierre de Manchicourt (c. 1510–1654),
Smith’s most recent addition to the arland; 11/6 and 11/13, complete Men- Fred Feibel, Yankee Doodle; Edward the first director of Philip II’s chapel
organ community of the Waterloo- delssohn organ works, Episcopal Church Elgar, transcribed by Edwin H. Lemare, of Flemish singers, was the last great
Wellington Center was the installation of the Good Shepherd, Lake Charles, Sursum Corda; Gatty Sellars, Cantilene composer writing in the older style of
of Gabriel Kney’s Opus 98, originally Louisiana; December 15, St. David’s Rustique; Will C. Macfarlane, Chanson Franco-Flemish polyphony, standing
built for Good Shepherd Lutheran Episcopal Church, Austin; January 11, Joyeuse; Felix Mendelssohn, Notturno between Josquin and Lassus. This disc
Church in Pennsylvania and now in its 2017, Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ features Manchicourt’s six-voice Missa
new home at Trinity Lutheran Church, Nassau Bay; February 24, St. George’s arranged by Samuel P. Warren. A monthly Reges terrae and the Easter motet
New Hamburg (2015). Perhaps his Episcopal Church, Germantown; March discount bundle of selected pieces at a Regina caeli, along with other motets,
best-known regional accomplishment 26, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, special price is offered. Also available is composed for the chapel of a King.
was his relocation of the 3-manual New York City; June 4, Christ Church Jesse Crawford’s Intermediate Method, This project was funded in part with
1971 Kney organ from Aeolian Hall Episcopal Cathedral, Houston. “developed for pianists . . . who have a a grant from the Marcia Brady Tucker
reasonable familiarity with piano nota- Foundation. Price: $12.95 (plus $2.95
tion (treble and bass clefs).” Crawford’s shipping). To order: www.stlukein-
beginning course is offered for free thefields.org/store/product/pierre-de-
opus 124 — 40 ranks
Braddock Street United
Methodi Church
winchester, virginia
on Michael’s Music Service’s website: manchicourt-missa-reges-terrae-cd.
michaelsmusicservice.com. ³ page 10
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Here & There
Nunc Dimittis
Raymond Daveluy, Paul, and Verne, sisters, Linda and Lynn, and their home. He was 97. Born and
Canadian organist, com- spouses and partners. raised in Pittsburgh, Rhea
poser and teacher, died studied music for two years
September 1. He was 89. Robert Burns King, 78, died September 27 in at what is now Carnegie
As a youth he studied with Burlington, North Carolina. Born in 1938, he grew Mellon University, and also
his father, organist and up in Conway, South Carolina, where he began to studied organ for two years
bandmaster Lucien Dave- play for Episcopal and Methodist churches. He with Carl Weinrich at the
luy. Daveluy studied music earned a bachelor’s degree in music and French Delacroze School of Music
theory with Gabriel Cusson at Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, in New York City. Dur-
and organ with Conrad and a master of sacred music degree from Union Arthur D. Rhea Jr. ing World War II, Rhea
Raymond Daveluy Letendre in Montréal and Theological Seminary, New served in Europe as a field
with Hugh Giles in New York City, where he studied artillery officer with Gen.
York City. Daveluy presided over the 5-manual 1960 organ with Vernon de Tar. George S. Patton, Jr.’s 3rd Army. He was discharged
Beckerath organ at the Oratoire Saint-Joseph on He studied as a Fulbright in 1946 with the rank of captain. In 1949, he earned
Mont-Royal in Montréal from 1960 until 2002. He Scholar in 1961–62 with a bachelor’s degree in music from Yale University
served as president of the Académie de musique Maurice Duruflé and Jean and in 1950 received a master’s in music from Yale.
du Québec and director of the Conservatoire de Langlais and was the first He studied further at the Berkshire Music Festival,
musique du Québec à Trois-Rivières. American to win the Prix de Aspen Music Festival, and the Salzburg Music Fes-
Virtuosité from the Schola tival, where he studied conducting under Herbert
Peter Jay Hopkins, 57, died September 26. Robert Burns King
Cantorum in Paris. Later, von Karajan.
Born April 14, 1959, in Frankfort, Michigan, he he studied in Germany In 1950, Rhea was named organist and choirmas-
was a singer, conductor, organist, harpsichordist, with Michael Schneider. ter at historic Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg,
and a noted music and biblical scholar. He earned His early career was spent as organist for churches Virginia. In 1951 he was appointed music consultant
bachelor’s and master’s degrees with subsequent in Greenville, South Carolina, Rockaway Beach, New and resident harpsichordist for Colonial Williams-
doctoral work at Michigan State University and York, and in Paris. After a year of teaching at Samford burg, Inc., which provided him in 1953 a research
studied with Helmuth Rilling in Stuttgart, Germany. University in Birmingham, Alabama, he served for 45 grant to study 18th-century music at the British
He served the Oregon Bach Festival for thirty years years as organist-choirmaster for an extensive music Museum in London. He was also instructor in organ
as chorus master, harpsichordist, organist, vocal program at Burlington’s First Presbyterian Church, at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg
coach, and singer, winning a Grammy Award in retiring in 2007. During this time he taught at Elon and performed regularly at the Governor’s Palace,
1997. He served as associate professor of music at College (now University), Elon, North Carolina, including command performances for such figures
Kalamazoo College and artistic director and conduc- and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro as England’s Queen Mother and the Crown Prince
tor of the Kalamazoo Bach Festival. With his wife, (UNC-G). He was a consultant for various new organ of Belgium.
Paula Pugh Romanaux, he moved to Grand Rapids, projects, including Schantz and Andover organs at Rhea came to Baltimore in 1961 when he was
Michigan, to serve as minister of music for West- the First Presbyterian Church and for an Andover appointed organist and choirmaster at Redeemer. In
minster Presbyterian Church, director of the Grand organ at UNC-G. He performed recitals across the 1963 he joined the Peabody Conservatory organ fac-
Rapids Choir of Men and Boys, chorus master of United States as well as in Germany, France, Italy, ulty, retiring in 1984. Rhea’s compositions included
the Grand Rapids Symphony, and founder of the Great Britain, and Portugal. Toccata on an American Folk Tune, Te Deum Lau-
Michigan Bach Collegium. Peter and Paula moved Robert Burns King is survived by a brother-in-law, damus, and Psalm T wenty-Four. He also served on
to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to be co-directors of Daniel Burn Shelley, Jr., a niece and nephew, Susan the Service Music Committee, which compiled and
music for St. Peter’s Episcopal Church for 12 years. Shelley Sisk and husband Mike, and Daniel Burn edited The Hymnal 1982 of the Episcopal Church.
In 2014, Hopkins became director of music for St. Shelley, III, and wife April, and extended family. He was a past president of the Association of Angli-
Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia; can Musicians.
he directed the Virginia Girls Choir and founded the Arthur D. Rhea Jr., former organist and choir- Arthur D. Rhea, Jr., is survived by his wife, Doro-
Virginia Boys Choir. Peter Jay Hopkins is survived master for 23 years at the Church of the Redeemer thea Rhea, sons Clifton L. Rhea and R. Douglas Rhea,
by his wife, Paula Pugh Romanaux, daughter Han- in Baltimore and organ faculty member at the Pea- and eight grandchildren. He was predeceased by a son,
nah Grace Hopkins, brothers James, Randy, Jeff, body Conservatory, died August 14 of cancer at his Arthur D. Rhea, III, in 2004. Q
Organ Builders two-manual, ten-rank instrument is the Hindemith, Alkan, Schumann, and
first pipe organ for this historic church, Bach. For further information on M. P.
which dates from 1867. Rathke: www.rathkepipeorgans.com.
The organ employs suspended
mechanical key action and mechani-
cal stop action. Manual sharps are of
rosewood capped with cow bone, with
naturals of grenadil. The pedalboard is
flat and non-radiating. Key compasses
are 58/30, and the organ uses Kellner
temperament at A=441. The walnut
pipeshades were carved by sculptor
Rendering of Létourneau organ, Epis- Morgan Faulds Pike of Rockport, Mas-
copal Church of the Good Shepherd sachusetts; the wrought iron stopknobs
were accomplished by blacksmith Lou-
The Episcopal Church of the Good ise Pezzi of Philadelphia.
Shepherd in Austin, Texas, recently
signed a contract with Orgues Létour- Manual II (unenclosed) Blower of Aeolian-Skinner Opus 892
8′ Stopped Diapason
neau for a new pipe organ as the first in a 4′ Open Flute
two-phase project. Once the renovation 8′ German Trumpet Foley-Baker Inc. of Tolland, Con-
of Good Shepherd’s nave is complete this Tremulant (general) necticut, has begun reinstallation of
autumn, a 32-rank organ will be installed Manual I (unenclosed)
Aeolian-Skinner Opus 892 at Northrop
in a new gallery at the west end of the 8′ Principal (#9–25 façade) Auditorium in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
church. The organ will be played from a M. P. Rathke Opus 8 (photo credit: R Wesley 8′ Gemshorn Originally built in 1932, the organ is
three-manual console in the Anglo-Amer- Thompson) 4′ Octave being reconditioned one division at
ican style with 300 levels of memory and a 2 ⁄3′
2
Twelfth a time. The next phase is the return
2′ Fifteenth
full complement of thumb and toe pis- Consultant Thom Miles played the of the Choir and Great divisions. The
tons. Plans for the second phase of the dedicatory recital of M. P. Rathke, Inc. Pedal (unenclosed) project is scheduled to be completed
project include another pipe organ to be Opus 8 on September 25 at Newtown 16′ Bourdon in spring of 2018. Pictured above is
installed in the church chancel and play- United Methodist Church in Cincinnati, 8′ Open Diapason the blower room, which is nearing
able from the same console. For more Ohio, to a capacity audience. Housed The program included works by completion. For more information:
information: www.letourneauorgans.com. in a case of solid walnut, this compact Mendelssohn, Bennett, Pachelbel, www.foleybaker.com.
10 Q THE DIAPASON Q NOVEMBER 2016 WWW.THEDIAPASON.COMHarpsichord News By Larry Palmer
Some thoughts on the main conceit of the drama: which in the eighteenth century. Two Purcell
programming is more important in opera, words or songs (Fairest Isle and I’ll Sail Upon
A frequently asked question after a music?). A main reason for choosing the Dogstar), the Spring, Couperin,
recital is: “How did you come up with this excerpt was the return of Strauss’s and McKean pieces heard earlier in
such a program?” Depending on the final opera to the five-opera repertory the month, and the almost-certain pre-
tone of voice employed, I am either for Santa Fe Opera 2016. The program miere performance of Gabriel Fauré’s
elated or frightened! The planning of concluded with Di rigori armato il seno, enchanting four-song cycle L’horizon
interesting programs took center stage the Italian Tenor’s virtuoso solo from chimérique with the accompaniment
for me during the summer of 2016 when Der Rosenkavalier and segued into the played on a harpsichord. The program
I was faced with choosing repertory for sublime Trio for three sopranos, heard concluded with American river songs:
six varied concerts, a task both enjoyable this time in organ transcription. Shenandoah and Shall We Gather at the
and dreaded, in nearly equal proportions. For the second TGIF offering, a River? The large crowd of interested
As I write this column all six programs program for solo organ, I alternated the folk who flocked to the stage to greet us
have been performed, each designed to varied textures and sounds of Festivity and to ask questions about the instru-
engage its very different audience. by the British composer Cyril Jenkins, ment seemed to validate the program
They were, in chronological order: Gerald Near’s Air with Variation (yes, choices we had made.
1) an annual private program for a only one) from his Sonata Breve, a The sixth concert showcased the
Dallas doctor who owns a lovely Flem- 12-measure Bach fragment, Fantasia in organ, beginning with three centuries
ish-style two-manual harpsichord made C, BWV 573, as extended to 26 measures of Iberian organ music by composers
by the San Antonio builder Gerald Self; by various editors, followed by César Cabanilles, Domenico Scarlatti, and
audience: four or five; Franck’s Fantasie in C (in the 1868 José Lidon. Since the organ was built
2) and 3) two consecutive organ recit- Fast Fingers: Larry Palmer (drawing by version that he may have played for the originally for a Lutheran organist, I
als in the free Friday afternoon concert Jane Johnson) dedication of the organ at Notre Dame thought it right and proper to program
series at First Presbyterian Church, Cathedral, plus the addition of the final some Lutheran music: the chorale Dear-
Santa Fe, New Mexico, where the “So, Palmer,” you say, “let’s see what Adagio from the usual published ver- est Jesus, We Are Here and J. S. Bach’s
instrument is a three-manual Fisk organ; you came up with to satisfy the varied sion of the piece), and both Prélude and one-page prelude on that tune, followed
usual audience: 50–100; audiences you mentioned above.” Divertissement from 24 Pièces en style by the C-Major Fantasy, and a one-
4) the opening program of season 33 For the doctor’s private recital I con- libre by Louis Vierne. As an encore, page setting of Gelobet seist du, Herr
for our Dallas house concert series, Lim- sidered it necessary to pay at least slight the enthusiastic audience heard Calvin Jesu Christ by Friedrich Hark, who,
ited Editions; maximum attendance: 40; homage to the July 3 date, the eve of our Hampton’s Consonance, my first ever like Hugo Distler, was a casualty of the
5) a harpsichord recital on a specific national birthday, so I began with George organ commission, given to my Oberlin Second World War. As respite from the
theme for the one-day Waxahachie Chau- Washington’s March, a short, snappy classmate in 1957. organ, three pieces on my John Challis
tauqua to be played in the early 20th- piece dedicated to the first United States Back in Texas I played the opening clavichord: Bach’s ubiquitous Prelude in
century open-air auditorium, an historic President, published in George Wil- house concert, program number 99 C Major (Well-Tempered Clavier Part
building in the Texas town’s Getzendaner lig’s Musical Magazine, Philadelphia, since the series’ inception. At the Schudi I) and Howells’s De la Mare’s Pavane
Memorial Park: 40–60 auditors; 1794–95. Next came J. S. Bach’s Capric- organ (1983) the Jenkins, Near, and Cima (from Lambert’s Clavichord), ending
6) a season-opening benefit concert cio on the Departure of his Beloved works heard in Santa Fe, followed by with a one-page song that I composed
for the Dallas-based Orchestra of New Brother, BWV 992, a much-loved early music performed on Richard Kingston’s earlier this year, using as text poet De
Spain, offered in the lofty music room work obviously modeled on the then Franco-Flemish double harpsichord la Mare’s four-line poem Clavichord,
of an architecturally exciting lakefront recently published Biblical Sonatas of (1994): Buxtehude’s Praeludium in G in which I used brief quotations from
home with an eight-stop tracker organ Johann Kuhnau, and provided this with Minor, BuxWV 163; three short works by the two clavichord pieces. After a long
by local builder Robert Sipe: audience, narration describing the varied pictorial three composers, all of whom have been intermission, the refreshed (and fed)
a full house of 80. sections of the work. For stylistic variety, associated with the University of Michi- audience returned for Jenkins’s Festiv-
During my six-decade career of play- some contemporary music composed gan School of Music: Knight Vernon’s ity, two Hungarian religious folk song
ing, listening, and teaching I have devel- in 2014 by the Michigan harpsichord Rondo, a Dallas premiere of William Bol- settings by Ferenc Farkas, Guy Bovet’s
oped some fundamental ideas about maker Knight Vernon, a two-page Rondo com’s The Vicarage Garden (composed The Bolero of the Divine Mozart, two
effective program planning. Primary from his Three Contemplations, followed in 2015), and Gerald Near’s Triptych (all American river songs, and Thayer’s
among considerations is the expected by the 1982 Triptych (Carillon, Siciliano, three movements as listed above). Since America: a fugue a 5 voci.
audience. Are the auditors primarily and Final) by the American master Ger- the Chautauqua program was imminent, For audience enjoyment of these con-
academics, professional or amateur ald Near—all delightful melodic, witty I previewed harpsichord works from that certs, perhaps one of the most important
musicians, or a more general lay group writing, and not too much for the doctor, program: Glenn Spring’s clever Hommage elements may be the short spoken intro-
of listeners? What is the purpose of the whose musical taste is well centered in to Debussy and the whole-tone scale (Le ductions that I customarily offer before
program: education, entertainment, a the eighteenth century. The program soir dans la ruelle, 2006), Couperin’s playing the pieces. It behooves us to
general or specific event, sacred or secu- continued with François Couperin’s Baricades Mistérieuses (which began on remember that, while we may have toiled
lar—or, as so often happens, a mixture of Les Ondes (The Waves), a piece remi- the same B-flat that ended the Spring for many long hours to learn the music,
all these categories? niscent of the composer’s better-known piece), Water (from Five Elements) by much of what we perform will be new to
Too often, it seems, we performing art- Baricades Mistérieuses. The A-major Californian Ronald McKean (one of many in our audience, no matter where
ists, especially in choosing music for sin- key led directly to the opening notes of the Aliénor Contemporary Harpsichord or what we play. I usually try to sketch
gle instrument solo recitals, tend to select W. A. Mozart’s Fantasia in D Minor, K. Music Competition winners in 2008), and out, in written form, the main points I
works that please us, but ones that too 397, utilizing my own ending rather than the Mozart D-minor Fantasia. Finally, wish to share. We academics (and, from
often leave the audience baffled, bewil- the published final measures, which are acknowledging the concert’s date (Sep- what I observe, some non-academics) are
dered, or bored. This result frequently not by Mozart. Finally, to conclude this tember 11), at the organ: New Mexico prone to ramble, when what is needed for
stems from a lack of variety in the music modest-length recital, the shortest of composer Gregory Alan Schneider’s Mel- communication before a musical work is
selected—the end result of programs Bach’s harpsichord toccatas, his Toccata ancholy Prelude (composed on 9/11/2001 generally some short but cogent bit of its
that are based primarily on our personal in E Minor, BWV 914. as his meditative response to that day’s history or mention of a particular unusual
gratification rather than consideration For the first Santa Fe TGIF recital tragedies). After a moment of solemn moment—in other words, anything that
for our listeners. After many seasons of I chose to title the 35-minute program silence, Eugene Thayer’s America: a will engage a listener’s interest and keep
enduring frequent punishment (and, no “Opus 133 Goes to the Opera” and fugue a 5 voci (from his Second Organ it focused on the music. But plan these
doubt, sometimes inflicting the same on began it with the 16th-century Milanese Sonata, composed in 1865–66) offered words carefully, and keep them brief and
my listeners) I am, at last, exercising my composer Giovanni Paolo Cima’s two- an uplifting and patriotic conclusion with clearly enunciated!
elder right to life, liberty, and the pursuit page Canzona Quarta: La Pace, followed music from an earlier time of strife and I hope that these paragraphs may be
of auditory happiness by leaving the by Herbert Howells’s Master Tallis’s warfare in our country, based on a tune of some help in suggesting that shorter
premises at intermission, or simply choos- Testament. Then came opera composer known by everyone—another tenet that I pieces may provide a welcome variety
ing not to attend that particular concert if Giacomo Puccini’s youthful Salve Regina have been striving to keep: whenever pos- in programming for diverse audiences.
I have seen a program that promises little for tenor and organ, followed by a sible include at least one piece that will Of course there are times and places
except for “too much of the same.” transcription of his hauntingly beautiful be, in some way, familiar to all listeners. for our complete organ symphonies,
Flower Duet from Madama Butterfly. By the time of the September 24 great and lengthy masterpieces from the
My favorite opera composer Richard Chautauqua date, I had found a singer harpsichord repertoire, and the many
Strauss contributed the Gavotte from his who could fill the void created when wonderful works that are available for
final opera Capriccio, performed here my usual collaborative artist was forced collaborative performance. I continue
with a short bit of the concert ending to cancel all his vocal appearances for to find gems that I had overlooked, and
he composed for harpsichordist Isolde the fall. Baritone Daniel Bouchard, a I am particularly grateful when friends
Ahlgrimm (my first transference of this recent graduate of Southern Method- and correspondents send suggestions
piece from harpsichord to organ) fol- ist University, enabled us to present a from their own unique experiences. Stay
lowed by the signature aria that drives wide-ranging program to complement curious, read reviews, and keep sub-
the plot of the opera, the tenor’s Sonnet this year’s theme, “The World of Water.” scribing to The Diapason. Q
(with words by the opera’s character The organizers had requested Handel’s
Olivier and music by his rival Flamand, Water Music, so it was with three Comments are welcome. Please
both of whom are attempting to win the excerpts that I opened that program: the address them to lpalmer@smu.edu or
love of a widowed countess, who cannot first section of the Overture, the Air, and Larry Palmer, 10125 Cromwell Drive,
decide between them, thus underscoring Hornpipe as transcribed for keyboard Dallas, Texas 75229.
12 Q THE DIAPASON Q NOVEMBER 2016 WWW.THEDIAPASON.COMReviews
Music for Voices and Organ from a youth chorale in Minnesota and harmonic setting. There are three verses, “the craft” of church music, both from
by James McCray is easy for both the accompanist and the with the second for soloists or a semi- the viewpoint of the church musician
singers, although the octave leaps will chorus performing offstage or away from dealing with musical matters of the
Music for Christmas Eve need careful control to maintain their the main choir. The first and last verses congregation and musical matters of the
softness by the choristers. There are six employ a six-part choir, but neither verse choir. This is followed by “historical per-
Sing of this glorious night, infant adored. unaccompanied measures. The work has is difficult. This traditional setting keeps spectives” and “the challenges we face.”
Shine, stars, with wondrous light; welcome
the Lord! a quiet dynamic throughout. the emphasis on the mood and unaccom- Westermeyer begins by discussing
—Victor V. Bobetsky panied harmony of the meditative music. those who are called to be church musi-
Coventry Carol, Stephen R. Johnson. cians and puts this discussion into a bibli-
Christmas Eve is such a magical time! SAB and piano, Concordia Publish- A Celtic Silent Night, arr. Patrick cal and theological context, citing biblical
The warm, overflowing service of wor- ing House, 98-4236, $1.90 (M). Tierney. SATB with optional violin or passages to support his viewpoint. He
ship in church is usually followed by the In this 15th-century carol (“Lully, guitar, bass, and synthesizer, Hope explains that the called people are a com-
exchanging of gifts in the home. This Lully”) four verses are set, with the first Publishing Co., C 5663, $2.25 (M). munity and that central to this community
often brings forth memories of times in unison, the second for two-part women, The solo violin music is on the back is the fact that the church sings with the
past, of events that have been an impor- and the third for unison basses. The fourth, cover, but the rhythm parts for guitar, whole creation as proclaimed in Psalm
tant part of our lives. Christmas Eve is a in which all three parts sing, has a few bass, and synthesizer must be ordered 150. He raises and answers questions
time when we often reflect on those who mildly dissonant harmonies. Throughout, separately (C 5663 R). The lilting music about music’s purpose using Bach’s Orgel-
are no longer here. the piano part is supportive and generally is in 9/4 with the chorus on two staves and büchlein to provide answers. First, the
Yet, for church choir directors and their easy. The coda is a soft unison that uses a often in two parts. All three verses are set Orgelbüchlein provides musical instruc-
singers, there is also a sense of exhaustion; Picardy third on the final chord. with some moments of surprising har- tion based on chorales that are used in
this is the conclusion of a month filled mony; the third verse starts loud but ends church services and second, it provides
with numerous musical programs, ser- Christmas Lullaby, John Rutter. quietly. The solo violin part is not difficult the deeper meaning of being used for
vices, and caroling. December is a mixed SATB and organ, Oxford University and plays during most of the work. Useful God’s glory and edifying one’s neighbor.
blessing for musicians, and congregations Press, 978-0-19-341392-4, $1.80 (M-). for a youth choir and works comfortably Again using biblical support, the role
have a tendency to forget to thank them In this very simple lullaby there are without the rhythm instruments and with or vocations of the clergy and church
for their extensive service. In that mad three verses, with the first two in unison only piano/violin accompaniment. musician must be understood within the
rush to get home to the presents under for TB and SA, respectively; the third broader frame of the whole congrega-
the tree, people often overlook saying a verse for SATB is delayed by a setting of A contemporary Latin motet tion or community. The clergy have two
simple “thank you” to the choir. the text Ave Maria that is inserted before O magnum mysterium, Howard major roles: first, to preach the word and
Directors, too, are often neglectful; it and is sung twice. The unaccompanied Helvey. SATB unaccompanied, E. C. administer the sacraments. Added to
they are encouraged to send thank-you third verse connects directly to another Schirmer, No. 8119, $1.95 (M+). this, Westermeyer defines “Presiding”
notes to each choir member. This should variation of the Ave Maria that quietly This slow and very sensitive setting is as “gathering with the people around
be apart from sending the pedantic closes the music. This is a sweet and calm music for the sophisticated choir. the Word, Font, and Table.” In other
schedules to remind folks when rehears- easy setting that is certain to be loved The harmony is filled with warm disso- words the presider becomes the leader,
als begin following Christmas. A separate by everyone. There is also a version for nance that tends to move together. This and the author gives some examples of
thank-you note would be greatly appreci- a small orchestra (978-0-19-341563-5). modern motet will require a solid choir bad presiding. The liturgy, the work of
ated and a wonderful way to bring closure Lovely music! that can produce long phrases of quiet, the people, also serves as a protection
to the season. unaccompanied music. Highly recom- of both the presider and the people.
In reflecting on this past year, there Born in the Night, Mary’s Child, arr. mended to very sensitive choirs. Less time is spent discussing the church
seems to be a decline of the moral basis Hal H. Hopson. SATB, piano, optional musician’s role, but Westermeyer does
of society. If this is true, as I believe, it is C instrument, Augsburg Fortress, define that leadership role, and this role
a sad commentary on life in 2016. Let’s 978-1-5064-1382-2, $1.80 (M-). Book Reviews primarily leads two groups: first, the
all pray that next year will not only bring Based on a tune by Geoffrey Ainger (b. Church Musicians: Reflections on congregation and second, the choir. Four
happiness and good health, but also a 1925), this gentle folk-song-style setting Their Call, Craft, History, and Chal- desirable working relationships between
reawakening to the ascetic demands on has four verses, with the first two in unison lenges, by Paul Westermeyer. St. clergy and musicians are spelled out in
everyone. There are simple obligations (SA, TB). The third verse adds men sing- Louis, Missouri: MorningStar Music, order to have powerful outcomes.
which have been strong pillars of our ing on “oo” below the melody, and only $15.00, www.morningstarmusic.com. In the chapter dealing with the church
society, but they seem to be disappearing, the fourth is in SATB. The C instrument This book is derived primarily from musician and the congregation, Wester-
and that is seriously unfortunate. Albert plays throughout all four verses; its music material that Paul Westermeyer pre- meyer makes the following points: the
Einstein said, “Remember your humanity and that of the piano accompaniment are pared for three conferences in 2014 congregation “signs up to sing, but not to
and forget the rest.” What a sage he was. simple. Tender music that remains slow and 2015. The perspective is theological practice;” the church’s music is primarily
This month’s reviews feature choral and soft throughout with a coda on a text with musical implications. The book is vocal; the music is communal; the highest
music that may be appropriate for a of Mary’s Child, Prince of Peace is born. divided into five chapters, each dealing quality is assumed; music fits into wor-
Christmas Eve service. The music for with a different area concerning church ship so that it becomes part of the whole.
these services is usually soft and gentle; “Silent Night” settings music. These include “the call” of every- Additionally, the acoustical character of
all these reviews are of calm, quiet, and Silent Night, arr. Peter Anglea. SATB one connected with church music and the worship space has to be considered.
sensitive music. The broad topics are “At and keyboard, Beckenhorst Press,
the Crib,” and contrasting Silent Night set- Inc., BP 2059, $2.25 (M).
tings. There is also a Latin motet for those Each of the three sung verses hint at the
directors wanting something more sophis- melody, but the arrangement keeps it dis-
ticated and challenging. So, as we happily guised, which saves the tune for the con-
head into the end of the year, my wish for gregation’s singing it (in many churches,
each of you is that next year will be even this is done at the ending of the service,
better. My thanks to you for your monthly with a candle-lighting). Between the sec-
reading of my thoughts and reviews. ond and third verses the choir sings differ-
ent music on “oo” above a keyboard solo
At the Crib playing the traditional Franz Gruber tune.
Away in a Manger, Emily Lund. SATB, The choir and keyboard music are not dif-
piano, with optional flute, Hope Pub- ficult; both have an expressive gentility.
lishing Co., C 5650, $2.20 (E).
Two tunes are used in this easy arrange- Silent Night, Sandra Peter. SATB and
ment. The first is Beach Spring, set to piano or organ with optional strings,
the words of “Away in a Manger” and the MorningStar Music Publishers,
second is the traditional melody and text MSM-50-1965, $1.70 (M-).
for the popular carol “Away in a Manger.” In contrast to the Anglea arrangement
Most of these words are set in unison above, this setting clearly keeps the
with only 16 of the total 72 measures tune focused and recognized. All three
sung in four parts. The flute plays most verses are sung, with the first one using
of the time; its music is in the score and only women. Each verse is in a different
separately on the back cover. The piano key, with the third having an additional
music also is very easy. The soft dynam- chamber choir. The piano music is easy;
ics in combination with a somewhat free however, for organ there is a separate
tempo makes this a simple setting for a score (MSM-50-1965 O). Reproducible
Christmas Eve service. string parts are also available (MSM-50-
1965 B). A simple, tranquil arrangement.
Manger Carol, Matthew Culloton.
SATB and piano, MorningStar Music Stille Nacht (Silent Night), arr. Joseph
Publishers, MSM-50-1124, $1.70 (M-). Gregorio, SATB unaccompanied,
The text, “Infant Holy, Infant Lowly,” E. C. Schirmer, 8267, $1.95 (M-).
is borrowed from a Polish carol but set to Both German and English texts
new music. This work was a commission are provided in this straightforward
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