Transfigured Nights

Let everything that has breath... 2017–2018 Season

Episcopal Church of the Transfi guration „ , Prelude~

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Hallelujah! – Psalm 150:6

The fi nal verse of the fi nal Psalm in the Bible seems a very apt theme for the fourteenth season of Transfigured Nights, as we “pull out all the stops” in various ways to bring you another year of enriching musical offerings, both within and apart from the context of worship.

Our season includes three Evensong services: two to frame the series– for Holy Cross Day in September and St. Barnabas Eve in June; and one to conclude the Sundays after the Epiphany in February. Our November offering will feature Maurice Durufl é’s beloved Requiem in its original version for organ and choir, with baritone and cello soloists. Two superb organists with connections to Transfi guration will put the Jerry D. Godwin Organ, Richards, Fowkes & Co.’s Opus 17, through the paces with recitals in October and January. The pinnacle of the season will occur in April with our Pipes & Strings evening of chamber music, and, of course, our Advent Procession of Lessons & Carols will once again prepare us for a holy celebration of the Nativity.

Art Music Mondays returns for its seventh season with four concerts presented in the Performance Hall by area musicians and guests.

We hope to see you often during the coming season and that your spirit will be refreshed and renewed by these offerings. We are ever-grateful to our patrons, musicians, and volunteers who continue to make all this possible, and look forward to another year of music.

Transfigured Nights Executive Committee

The Reverend R. Casey Shobe, RECTOR Alan Dunlop, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Joel Martinson, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Paula Tiffi n, TREASURER

Barbara DeLizza Janet Dunlop Lisa Green Robert Hacker John Makowski E. T. Manning Sally Manning Delynda Moravec Mickey Owens Ryan Tatum We offer the following events to the public free of admission charge. Childcare is provided for all Transfi gured Nights programs (printed in blue).

2017 September 17 Sunday, 5:00 p.m. Evensong for Holy Cross Day Church

October 2 Monday, 7:30 p.m. Art Music Monday Performance Hall

22 Sunday, 7:00 p.m. Concert – Stefan Engels Church

November 2 Thursday, 7:00 p.m. Solemn Requiem for All Souls’ Church

13 Monday, 7:30 p.m. Art Music Monday Performance Hall

December 3 Sunday, 5:00 p.m. Advent Lessons & Carols Church

2018 January 21 Sunday, 7:00 p.m. Concert – Alcee Chriss Church

February 11 Sunday, 5:00 p.m. Evensong for Last Epiphany Church

26 Monday, 7:30 p.m. Art Music Monday Performance Hall

April 22 Sunday, 7:00 p.m. Concert – Pipes & Strings Church

May 7 Monday, 7:30 p.m. Art Music Monday Performance Hall

June 10 Sunday, 5:00 p.m. Evensong for Eve of St. Barnabas Church Solemn Evensong for Holy Cross Day September 17, Sunday, 5:00 p.m. The fourteenth season of Transfigured Nights opens with a celebration of the 61st Anniversary of the founding day of Church of the Transfi guration – the Feast of the Holy Cross. The Transfi guration Choir will lead a Solemn Evensong featuring music by Herbert Sumsion (1899-1995), including his Preces & Responses for Durham Cathedral and Evening Service in G Major for SATB choir and organ. The anthem for the service will be the premiere of new work commissioned in memory of long-time parishioner Virginia Kerner by her three daughters. This piece is a collaboration between Delores Dufner, OSB (text), and Joel Martinson (music), and is uniquely tailored to Virginia’s life and ministry and the mission of Transfi guration in carrying the Cross of Christ into the world. A reception will follow the service in the Gathering Space. Concert – Stefan Engels, organist October 22, Sunday, 7:00 p.m. Stefan Engels has been Professor of Organ and Leah Fullinwider Centennial Chair in Music Performance at Southern Methodist University since 2014. Previously, he served for ten years as professor of organ at the prestigious University of Music and Performing Arts “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” in Leipzig, Germany. Engels maintains a vigorous international concert schedule and is a sought-after teacher, having presented lectures and master classes across Europe, North America, South Korea and Russia. He was a featured recitalist at the 2006 National AGO Convention in Chicago and performed recitals at three regional AGO conventions this past summer. Stefan Engels received his musical education in his native Germany and the , and holds an Artist Certifi cate from SMU. Engels’ program will include repertoire from Germany well-suited to our instrument, including compositions representative of late 19th-century Romanticism, which is his speciality. Solemn Requiem for All Souls’ Day – DuruÁ é Requiem with Simon Thomas Jacobs, organist November 2, Thursday, 7:00 p.m. Transfigured Nights commemorates the Feast of All Faithful Departed with a Solemn Requiem offered in remembrance of all loved ones who have gone before us in the faith. The service will feature the Transfi guration Choir in Maurice Durufl é’s Requiem, Op. 9 (1948), based on the traditional Gregorian chants of the burial mass. Guest organist Simon Thomas Jacobs will play the virtuosic organ accompaniment, with soloists Jason Awbrey, baritone, and Gayane Manasjan Fullford, cello. Following the liturgy, the congregation is invited to join the clergy and choir in the Memorial Garden for the reading of names of all those interred in Transfi guration’s Columbarium.

Advent Procession of Lessons & Carols December 3, Sunday, 5:00 p.m. The Transfi guration Choir and congregation celebrate the richness of the Advent season through scripture and song. During the service the choir will move from place to place throughout the church as it sings carols and anthems. The congregation will join in singing hymns, chants, and carols accompanied by organ, handbells, and other instruments. A reception follows the service in Roper Hall.

Concert – Alcee Chriss, organist January 21, Sunday, 7:00 p.m. Alcee Chriss III won the Firmin Swinnen Silver Medal at the Longwood Gardens International Organ Competition in 2016, where Choir and Organ magazine wrote, “Chriss stole the show.” He has been celebrated for his “grace, skill and abundant profi ciency” (Journal Assist News, Albuquerque) and has performed throughout the United States and France. An alumnus of Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Alcee received the Master’s degree in historical keyboard and a Bachelor’s degree in Organ, where he studied with James David Christie and Olivier Latry, and had lessons in improvisation with Marie-Louise Langlais. (continued next page) Mr. Chriss is presently working on his doctorate degree at McGill University in Montreal as a student of the acclaimed Swedish organist Hans-Ola Ericsson. A native of the Dallas area and graduate of the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Mr. Chriss’s program will include some of his transcriptions of African-American gospel and jazz works, along with selections from the classical organ repertory.

Solemn Evensong for the Last Sunday after the Epiphany February 11, Sunday, 5:00 p.m. The Transfi guration Choir will lead an Evensong service on the fi nal Sunday before Lent featuring the Magnifi cat & Nunc Dimittis in C (based on Latin American Rhythms) composed by Bryan Kelly (b. 1934) for the 1965 Southern Cathedrals Festival. Pipes & Strings – An Evening of Chamber Music April 22, Sunday, 7:00 p.m. Transfigured Nights presents an program of 20th-century chamber music for winds and other instruments, highlighting several favorite performers of the series – Willa Henigman, oboe, Susan Frazier, horn, and Gayane Manasjan Fullford, cello – as well as Joel Martinson, organ. The principal work on the program will be Paul Hindemith’s (1895-1963) Kammermusik No. 7 (1927). This work, a concerto for organ with a unique combination of winds and low strings, will be conducted by Paul Phillips, the Martha Raley Peak Centennial Chair and Director of the Meadows Symphony Orchestra at SMU. A woodwind quintet, as well as solo works for instrument and organ, will round out the concert. Solemn Evensong for the Eve of St. Barnabas the Apostle June 10, Sunday, 5:00 p.m. The 2017-2018 Transfigured Nights season fi nale will be an Evensong service led by the Transfi guration Choir for the Eve of St. Barnabas Day. The featured canticles will be Magnifi cat & Nunc Dimittis in B-fl at by the contemporary American Composer Howard Helvey (b. 1968), organist and choirmaster of historic Calvary Episcopal Church in Cincinnati, . A reception will follow the service in the Gathering Space. Art Music Mondays A chamber music series in the intimate environment of Transfi guration’s Performance Hall, Art Music, under the direction of cellist Gayane Manasjan Fullford, provides an opportunity to hear well-known and newer classical music works performed by Dallas’ fi nest musicians. Each event is free of admission and includes coffee and light desserts. All performances are on Monday evenings and begin at 7:30 p.m.

October 2 – Romantic Trios ~ Young & Mature Max Bruch – Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 5 Johannes Brahms – Piano Trio in B minor, Op. 8 (1891 version) Eugene Cherkasov, violin Gayane Manasjan Fullford, cello Larissa Cherkasov, piano

November 13 – Vaughan William & Borodin Ralph Vaughan Williams – Six Studies in English Folksong for Cello & Piano Merciless Beauty for Tenor, Two Violins & Cello Alexsandr Borodin – String Quartet No. 2 David Reece, tenor Steven Li & Andrea Tullis, violins Kenny Kim, viola Gayane Manasjan Fullford, cello Joel Martinson, piano

February 26 – The Three Great B’s J. S. Bach – Two Duets from the Clavierübung for Violin & Cello Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Trio, Op. 97 “Archduke” Johannes Brahms – Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 60 Theodore Arm, violin Susan Dubois, viola Gayane Manasjan Fullford, cello Steve Harlos, piano

May 7 – Classical Meets Neoclassical W. A. Mozart – Duo in G Major, K. 423, for Violin & Viola Walter Piston – Duo for Viola & Cello W. A. Mozart – Divertimento in E-fl at Major, K. 563 for Violin, Viola & Cello Emanuel Borok, violin Anat Malkin Almani, viola Gayane Manasjan Fullford, cello Transfigured Nights of of and music, and music, in concerts, or other in concerts, or other unique offerings of quality unique offerings guration.net guration guration parishioners and serves as and serves parishioners guration secular music, we utilize the talents utilize the talents secular music, we gurednights.com Dallas, TX 75254 Dallas, „ and local artists, as well as present concerts and local artists, as well as present continues in the Anglican tradition Anglican tradition continues in the www.transfi  „ nest sacred and and international performers. The series offers offers series The and international performers. gurednights@transfi experiences to Transfi experiences to guration Altar by Charlotte and William Hallett. Photo taken William Charlotte and Altar by guration transfi MAIL enriching the lives of the people of God through art of the people of God the lives enriching E of parish musicians 972-233-1898 Cover Photo: a portion of the Old Testament Saints panel of the Testament Photo: a portion of the Old Cover Transfi Robert Hacker. by and transformed 14115 Hillcrest Road an outreach to those in the broader community. an outreach Transfi of the Episcopal Church Transfigured Nights Transfigured programs. Striving to create and host Striving programs. musical by national by whether in the liturgical rites of the church, the church, in the liturgical rites of whether featuring the fi Contact Information Mission Statement