THE ASCENDING VOICE IV
AN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF SACRED A CAPPELLA MUSIC
Malibu, California | May 12-14, 2016 WELCOME!
Pepperdine University proudly welcomes you to The Ascending Voice IV, the fourth international symposium of sacred a cappella music. A decade ago we first conceived of a great gathering of people who love sacred a cappella music. We could not have imagined then that this triennial gathering would appeal to so many people beyond national, ethnic, cultural, and denominational boundaries. Each time we convene we re-experience the great truth: a cappella music is truly universal in its appeal. Of course, all great music has the potential to uplift and entertain; but unaccompanied human voices, when joined together in song to express the great themes of Scripture, can inspire the soul unlike anything else. Such music can transform lives, shape movements, and revive communities. Ascending Voice is more than a conference to stimulate the intellect or satisfy the appetite for virtuoso performances, though wonderful lectures, workshops, and concerts will be in abundance. Singing is above all something God calls us to do. So this year’s event is especially focused upon practice. This is the time for singing! Blest be the tie that binds Our hearts in Christian love; The fellowship of kindred minds Is like to that above. Connecting to our theme from Psalm 96:1, Cerulean (our very own choir- in-residence) and the Festival Choir have programmed a diversity of a cappella sacred Christian music from around the world. As we listen, learn, and sing together may our “kindred minds” join together before the fount of every blessing. May our hearts be tuned to sing his grace. And may each one find refreshment of the spirit through conversation, worship, shared meals, and singing. In the words of poet-musician-theologian George Herbert, may divine music be “the way to heaven’s door.” Darryl Tippens, Ryan Board, and N. Lincoln Hanks Directors, The Ascending Voice Symposium
“Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come.” —Song of Solomon 2:12 agenda
WEDNESDAY, May 11
Registration, Mullin Town Square...... 3—5 pm
THURSDAY, May 12
Breakfast, Waves Cafe...... 7—8:15 am All Sing, Raitt Recital Hall...... 2—2:45 pm Registration, Mullin Town Square...... 8:30 am—5 pm Keith Lancaster Praise & Harmony Concurrent Session I ...... 9:30—10:15 am “Timeless Hymnal Workshop: Part 1,” Stauffer Chapel Collegiate Concert, Stauffer Chapel...... 3—3:45 pm Mark Shipp • Centenary College Choir Austin Graduate School of Theology, Austin, Texas Concurrent Session II...... 4—4:45 pm Randy Daw • “Sacred Harp Singing School: Part 1,” Lindhurst Theatre Timeless Hymnal, Greenville, Texas Jesse P. Karlsberg James Tackett Timeless Hymnal and Paperless Hymnal, Austin, Texas • “They Sang with One Voice: Hymnology and Weekly Communion in the Early Stone-Campbell Movement," • “From Olney Hymns to Hymns Ancient and Modern BPC 188 (The Triumph of the English Hymn Books)," BPC 190 Jason Fikes Jerry Rushford Abilene Christian University Press and Leafwood Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, Publishers, Abilene, Texas • “Rurality, Authenticity, and the Folklorization of A Cappella • “‘For Such a Time as This’: Imagining a Vibrant Future for Southern Hymnody,” BPC 189 Congregational Singing,” BPC 189 Jesse P. Karlsberg Lorraine Brugh Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana Plenary Address, Stauffer Chapel...... 10:30—11:30 am Vespers, Stauffer Chapel...... 5—5:45 pm • “Like a Lark” Keith Lancaster Marva Dawn Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia Dinner, Waves Cafe...... 6—7:15 pm Lunch, Waves Cafe...... 11:30 am—12:45 pm Evening Concert, Smothers Theatre...... 7:30 pm • Cerulean and All Sing Collegiate Concert, Stauffer Chapel...... 1—1:45 pm • Lubbock Christian University Choir AGENDA
FRIDAY, May 13
Breakfast, Waves Cafe...... 7—8:15 am Concurrent Session IV...... 4—5 pm Morning Song, Stauffer Chapel...... 8:30 am • “Heart, Mind, Body, and Song,” BPC 188 Ken Nafziger Linda King Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, Virginia St. Paul School of Theology, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Concurrent Session III...... 9:30—10:15 am • Hymns in the Campbell Tradition • “Timeless Hymnal Workshop: Part 2,” Stauffer Chapel “‘Come, My Christian Friends and Brethren’: Clement Nance’s Anthem for the Christian Movement,” Mark Shipp, Randy Daw, and James Tackett BPC 189 • “Communal Singing: More Than Meets the Ear,” BPC 188 McGarvey Ice Lorraine S. Brugh Brown Library, Abilene Christian University, Valparaiso University; with Valparaiso University Abilene, Texas students: Samuel Brandt, Nathan Hopper, Emma Lipasti, “Residual Traces of Campbell’s Hymnody: ‘O Thou Rachel McLaughlin, and Kaitlyn Matthews Fount of Every Blessing’,” BPC 190 • “‘Blessed Assurance’: Hymns as Internal Iconography,” Harold Fletcher Raitt Recital Hall Oklahoma Christian University, Oklahoma City, Shawn Kirchner Oklahoma La Verne Church of the Brethren, La Verne, California • “Russian Hymns for North American Churches,” Stauffer Chapel All Sing, Stauffer Chapel...... 10:30—11:30 am Psalom, St. Petersburg, Russia Keith Lancaster Vespers with Psalom, Stauffer Chapel...... 5:15—6 pm Lunch, Waves Cafe...... 11:30 am—12:45 pm Dinner, Waves Cafe...... 6—7:15 pm Collegiate Concert, Stauffer Chapel...... 1—1:45 pm • Rochester College A Cappella Chorus Collegiate Choral Festival Concert, Smothers Theatre...... 7:30 pm Director All Sing, Raitt Recital Hall...... 2—2:45 pm Simon Carrington Ken Nafziger Featuring Collegiate Concert, Stauffer Chapel...... 3—3:45 pm Centenary College Choir Harding University Chamber Singers • Pepperdine University Chamber Choir Lubbock Christian University Chamber Singers Pepperdine University Chamber Choir Rochester College A Cappella Chorus AGENDA
SATURDAY, May 14
Breakfast, Waves Cafe...... 7—8:15 am Collegiate Concert, Stauffer Chapel...... 10:45—11:30 am Morning Song (Taizé), Stauffer Chapel...... 8:30—9:15 am • Harding University Choir N. Lincoln Hanks and David Lemley Lunch, Waves Cafe...... 11:45 am—1 pm Pepperdine University, Malibu, California Break...... 1—5:30 pm Concurrent Session V...... 9:30—10:30 am Dinner, Waves Cafe...... 5:30—7 pm • “Sacred Harp Singing School: Part 2,” Lindhurst Theatre “Take 6” Concert, Smothers Theatre...... 7:30 pm Jesse P. Karlsberg • Singing with Psalom, Raitt Recital Hall
Cerulean
Definition (from oxforddictionaries.com): a deep blue color; azure - from Latin caeruleus, probably from caelum sky
As the resident ensemble of Pepperdine University’s The Ascending Voice, Cerulean is an elite chamber choir of mixed voices whose mission is to discover, rediscover, promote, and celebrate the highest forms of Christian sacred a cappella music. The name connects to the purpose of The Ascending Voice and evokes the notion of voices of praise offered up to the heavens for God’s glory. Working within the parameters of the triennial symposium The Ascending Voice, Cerulean performs high-quality public concerts and serves as a resource to workshop and lecture presentations, singing examples of various a cappella worship styles. Cerulean also advances the cause of new Christian art music by commissioning and performing new sacred a cappella concert works. Cerulean’s members include professional singers, composers, and church musicians from across the U.S. who love sacred a cappella music. Performing a cappella singing at its highest level, Cerulean is especially pleased to include Pepperdine alumni in the ensemble.
TAKE 6 Take 6 is one of the most pioneering and influential contemporary Christian a cappella groups of all time. Six virtuosic voices unite in crystal clear harmony, against a backdrop of syncopated rhythms, innovative arrangements, and funky grooves that bubble into an intoxicating mix of gospel, jazz, R&B, and pop. Praised by such luminaries as Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Brian Wilson, Ella Fitzgerald and Whitney Houston, the multi-platinum-selling sextet has toured the globe, collaborated across genres, and is recognized as one of the preeminent a cappella groups in the world. Quincy Jones called them the “baddest vocal cats on the planet!” Since their 1988 debut, Take 6 has received 24 Grammy nominations in four genres: gospel, jazz, R&B and pop—winning 10 Grammys in three categories. In addition, they have won 10 Dove Awards, and one Soul Train Award. The group, originating on the campus of Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama, is famous for its creative integration of spiritual and inspirational lyrics with R&B and jazz influences. They have collaborated with numerous artists including Ray Charles, Don Henley, Al Jarreau, k.d. lang, Queen Latifah, Stevie Wonder, and many others. Their newest album Believe, which debuted in April, has appeared simultaneously on six Billboard charts. According to the Huffington Post, “If you don’t remember just how successful and influential a cappella group Take 6 is, well, that’s okay. They’re ready to serve a reminder with their new release Believe.”
Bookstore in Tyler Campus Center
The Pepperdine University Bookstore in the Tyler Campus Center will feature books written and selected by presenters during the symposium. Please visit the display of materials during regular bookstore hours, Monday through Friday, 8 am – 5 pm; Saturday, 12 noon – 4 pm.
Resources in the Tyler Campus Center Please visit the display of selected books and materials in the Tyler Campus Center near the cafeteria entrance. festival chorus Concert
ASCENDING VOICE IV FESTIVAL CHORUS CONCERT Simon Carrington, Director
FEATURING Centenary College Choir Harding University Chamber Singers Lubbock Christian University Chamber Singers Pepperdine University Chamber Choir Rochester College A Cappella Chorus
ROCHESTER COLLEGE A CAPELLA CHORUS Rochester, Michigan | Joe Bentley, Director I’m Gonna Sing ‘Til the Spirit Moves in My Heart Moses Hogan (1957–2003) In the First Light arr. Bob Kauflin and John Coates
HARDING UNIVERSITY CHAMBER SINGERS Searcy, Arkansas | Kelly Neill, Director Lord, For Thy Tender Mercy’s Sake Richard Farrant (1530–1580) Ain’t Got Time to Die Hall Johnson (1888–1970)
LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY CHAMBER SINGERS Lubbock, Texas | Philip Camp, Director Wondrous Cross Byron Rogers (manuscript, 2014) Text by Isaac Watts, 1707 Hallelujah arr. Shawn Kirchner (2012) No. 3 from Heavenly Home: Three American Songs Text by William Walker, 1835
CENTENARY COLLEGE CHOIR Shreveport, Louisiana | David Hobson, Director See Dat Babe arr. Stacey V. Gibbs (b.1962) O Nata Lux Morten Lauridsen (b.1943) O born light of light, Jesus, redeemer of the world, mercifully deem worthy and accept the praises and prayers of your supplicants. Thou who once deigned to be clothed in flesh for the sake of the lost ones, grant us to be made members of your holy body. FESTIVAL CHORUS CONCERT
PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY CHAMBER CHOIR Malibu, California | Ryan Board, Director
Kyrie from Missa Rigensis Uǧis Prauliņš (2002) Lord, have mercy Christ, have mercy Lord, have mercy Elijah Rock Moses Hogan (1957–2003)
Intermission
ASCENDING VOICE IV COLLEGIATE FESTIVAL CHORUS Simon Carrington, Director Hanacpachap Anon 17th-century Peruvian ed. Escalada Glory of heaven, for thousand reverenced; estimated fruit of fruitful tree, hope that encourages and support of men, come to my call. Listen to me mother of God, my hope, appreciated white flower, fragrant white lily, my anguished cry to your Son, my hope be shown. Ave virgo gloriosa Richard Dering (1580–1630) Hail glorious Virgin sweeter than honey: Glorious Mother of God, star brighter than the sun, You are the beautiful one, nothing is more beautiful Redder than the rose, whiter than the lily. Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist Johann Walter (1496–1570) We now beg the Holy Spirit for true belief above all so that he may watch over us at our end when we travel home from this miserable world. Lord, have mercy Howl Ye Randall Thompson (1899–1984) No. IV from “The Peaceable Kingdom” Ave verum Philip Stopford (2007) Hail the true body, born of the Virgin Mary: You who truly suffered and were sacrificed on the cross for the sake of man. From whose pierced flank flowed water and blood: Be a foretaste for us in the trial of death. O sweet, O merciful, O Jesus, Son of Mary. Have mercy on me. Amen. Soon I Will Be Done arr. Stacey V. Gibbs FESTIVAL CHORUS CONCERT
CENTENARY COLLEGE CHOIR Shreveport, Louisiana | David Hobson, Director
SOPRANO Alto Tenor Bass Tessa Anderson Zoe Blanchard Jonathan Alvarado Kyle Boston Lauren Benoit Emmaline Dyer Jaydon Dahlquist Trey Davis Colleen Durnin Elena Hibbs Calvin Davis Dr. James Eakin ‘00 Jada Hayes Brianna Jackson Coco Gutierrez Bradley Harden Mary Ellen Kidd Christina Langston Herman Hope Jacarllus Hill Shelby Pickett Catherine Leblanc Collin Hughes Steven Knight Hannah Rachal Victoria Sundin Timothy Mccoy Joseph Ligon Rebecca Vacha Aaliyah Thomas Scott Nguyen Victor Robert Grace Willis Amanda Willis Alex Shannon Roberto Roig-Perez Micah St. Romain Andre Trahan ‘15 David Westbrook
HARDING UNIVERSITY CHAMBER SINGERS Searcy, Arkansas | Kelly Neill, Director
Soprano Alto Tenor Bass Sydney Kern Renee Maynard Luke Kays Brent Hall Janine Locke Jessie Pendergraft Drew Locke Forrest Parker Elena Rabago Kaylynn Wolfe Daniel Smith Andrew Robison
LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY CHAMBER SINGERS Lubbock, Texas | Philip Camp, Director
Soprano Alto Tenor Bass Kayle Morin Emily Evans Johnathan Anchondo Trey Dye Meredith Ramirez Nikki Greer Cameron Insilan Stephen Minchew Jordan Sanders Kathryn Morrison Alec Girouard Kyle Pace Abby White Hannah Tarron Mason Griffin Michael Peschell Lexi Willis Courtney Terral Nathan Hull Michael Long Alyssa Willis Mercedes Weast Colton Wheeler FESTIVAL CHORUS CONCERT
PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY CHAMBER CHOIR Malibu, California | Ryan Board, Director
Soprano Alto Tenor Bass Rebecca Calix Danielle Adair Clayton Briggs Alden Bettencourt Julie Cowger Shalei Heflin Michael Doces Marcus Klotz Sophia Emmons Hailey Hoffman Jon Gibson Phillip Lee Chloe Jasso Nicole Kennedy Preston Hereford Andrew Leidenthal Michelle Pina Leah Owen Ryan Murphy John Sampson Jessica Ragsdale Christina Panchal Peau Porotesano Matthew Soibelman LoRee Wilkinson Cora Pruitt Jared Taylor Turner Staton Kathryn Semple Patrick Wells Caitlin Quisenberry
ROCHESTER COLLEGE A CAPPELLA CHORUS Rochester, Michigan | Joe Bentley, Director
Soprano I Alto I Tenor I Bass I Olivia Butler Morganne Bentley Tarrikk Brown Christian Carlisle Olivia Feldman Hannah Brackney Caleb Touchstone Johnathan Lykins Sara Kmiec Katie DeVries Matt Maranian Tenor II Kathryn Lawson Madison Kolke Matt Sanders Sam Berry Adina VanLoo Hannah Kwiecinski Ryan Woods Troy Wilkinson Devan Watkin Soprano II Chris Winter Bass II Emily Bodine Alto II Matt Burrows Laura Corp Lexi Basinger Zak Kwiecinski Ashlee Holland Hayley Caddell Alex Link Nicole Mullaly Peighton Douglas Noah Mabey Kristina Sutherby Danielle Fecteau Hannah Kajer Jadera Perdue Presenters Speakers Conductors
JOE BENTLEY, professor of music LORRAINE BRUGH occupies the and chair of the department of music Frederick J. Kruse Endowed Chair in at Rochester College in Rochester Church Music at Valparaiso University, Hills, Michigan, has taught at the where she also serves as the college since 1986. He holds degrees university organist and director of in music education and conducting chapel music. She is the director of from Harding University, the University the Kantorei, a select choir providing of Louisiana at Monroe, and Michigan leadership to campus worship. She State University. He has served as helped lead the development of guest conductor for local and regional Evangelical Lutheran Worship, the choral festivals and co-conducts the worship guidebook and hymnal of the Rochester Community Chorus. His work with the Rochester College A Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, and is coauthor of the Cappella Chorus spans 30 years and includes tours all over the United Sunday Assembly (2008), which helps church leaders incorporate the States and parts of Canada. At Rochester College, he has been hymnal’s materials into worship services. She has been involved in selected twice as Faculty Member of the Year. the development of Lutheran worship practices for many years and serves as executive director of Valparaiso’s Institute of Liturgical Studies, which annually brings together church leaders from across RYAN BOARD continues to garner the country to study and reflect upon worship practices. She is past international attention as a conductor, president of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians. She choral artist, teacher, and clinician. In received her PhD in religious studies in the joint program at Garrett- his role as director of choral activities Evangelical Theological Seminary and Northwestern University in at Pepperdine, Dr. Board directs the Evanston, Illinois. Pepperdine Concert Choir and the Pepperdine Chamber Choir and teaches courses in conducting, music PHILIP CAMP is professor of history, and music education. His music and director of choral activities research interests focus on rhetoric for Lubbock Christian University (LCU). and affections in the sacred vocal With degrees from Abilene Christian music of the Baroque Era. He maintains an active schedule as a University and Arizona State professional singer and conductor. For five years he has directed the University, he began teaching for renowned Kansas City Collegium Vocale and was previously the Lubbock Christian University in 1996. director of Armonia Early Music Ensemble. He is currently principal He has conducted LCU choral conductor for the Prague Choral Festival and is also an avid conductor ensembles in overseas outreach tours of choral-orchestral literature having conducted works ranging from as well as many local and regional J. S. Bach’s St. John Passion to Arnold Schoenberg’s A Survivor from outreach concerts, performing Warsaw. Choirs under Board’s direction have been invited to perform throughout Texas and the Southwestern U.S. International venues at prestigious venues for state, regional, national, and international for the choirs under his direction have included tours to the events including the national convention of the American Choral Philippines (1998), Mexico (2000), eastern Australia (2001 and Directors Association, the Prague Choral Festival, and the Piccolo 2005), Ireland (2003), and several trips to Eastern Europe in Spoleto Festival’s Spotlight Series. Early in his career, Board taught cooperation with Eastern European Mission where outreach concert choral music in the public schools of Idaho, and served as associate events were given in Ukraine, Austria, Greece, and Croatia (biennially music director for the World Vision Youth Ambassador Program for since 2007). He is a member of Texas Music Educators Association, which he performed and conducted in more than 18 countries in American Choral Directors Association, and the National Collegiate Europe, Asia, and the Americas. He has performed with notable early Choral Organization. music ensembles including Fuma Sacra and the Choral Scholars, both of Princeton, New Jersey, and also with the Simon Carrington Chamber Singers. He also serves as the director of music at St. Matthew’s United Methodist Church in Newbury Park, California. His degrees are from the University of Northern Colorado, Westminster Choir College, and the Conservatory of Music and Dance at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. PRESENTERS SPEAKERS CONDUCTORS
SIMON CARRINGTON has MARVA DAWN, internationally enjoyed a distinguished career as singer, renowned theologian, author, and double bassist and now conductor. From educator, serves as Teaching Fellow in 2003 to 2009 he was professor of choral Spiritual Theology at Regent College in conducting at Yale and director of the Vancouver, Canada. She has preached Yale Schola Cantorum, which he brought and taught at seminaries, clergy to international prominence. During his conferences, churches, assemblies, Yale tenure he led the introduction of a and universities throughout the U.S. new graduate voice degree for singers and around the globe, including specializing in oratorio, early music, and Canada, Australia, China, England, chamber ensemble; and, with his faculty Ireland, Hungary, Japan, Mexico, New colleagues, he guided two Yale graduate students to their first-prize wins Zealand, Norway, Poland, Singapore, and South Korea. A scholar with in consecutive conducting competitions at American Choral Directors advanced degrees in English, New Testament, Old Testament, and a Association National Conventions. Previous positions include director of PhD in ethics and scripture from Notre Dame, she is a popular choral activities at the New England Conservatory, Boston, and at the preacher and speaker for people of all ages and the author of University of Kansas. Prior to coming to the U.S., he was a creative force numerous articles and about 25 books, several of which have won for 25 years with the internationally acclaimed King’s Singers, which he awards and have been translated into other languages. cofounded at Cambridge University. He gave 3,000 performances in many of the world’s most prestigious concert halls, made more than 70 recordings and appeared on countless television and radio programs. In JASON FIKES is the director of the early days of the singers he also had a lively career as a freelance Abilene Christian University Press and bassist, playing in the major symphony and chamber orchestras in Leafwood Publishers. He holds a PhD London. Now a Yale Professor Emeritus and based in Europe, he in theology from Fuller Theological maintains an active schedule as a freelance conductor, leading Seminary. His areas of specialization workshops and master classes round the world. He has taught young and scholarly interests include conductors at the Royal Academy of Music, London, the Liszt American church history, Christian Conservatorium, Budapest, Hungary; the University of the Andes, spiritual formation, worship Bogota, Colombia the World Symposium in Argentina; and the Schools of (particularly the Lord’s Supper), and Music at Eastman, Indiana, Michigan, Temple and USC, among many the relationship between the Stone- others in the U.S. In 2014 he received an honorary doctorate from New Campbell Movement and England Conservatory and for the academic year 2016-2017 he has Evangelicalism. He has taught adjunct or lectured at Austin accepted a position as visiting professor of conducting at the University Graduate School of Theology, Pepperdine University, and Fuller of Birmingham, U.K. Theological Seminary. He has served as a minister for churches in California and Texas.
RANDY DAW is associate editor and music editor for the Timeless HAROLD FLETCHER is Emeritus Psalter, a three-volume compendium Professor of Music, Oklahoma Christian of new translations, commentaries, University, where he taught from 1950 and musical settings of the canonical to 1993, thereafter as an adjunct Psalms. He holds a BA in New professor through 2014. He is an Testament from Abilene Christian award-winning composer and arranger. University, a BMEd. in music In 2009 the State Legislature of education from West Texas State Oklahoma named his “The Oklahoma University, and an MA in religion from Run,” the official state song of the Pepperdine University. Randy is in his Oklahoma Land Run. He is the composer 20th year of ministry in the Johnson Street Church of Christ in of The Oklahoma Set, a collection of Greenville, Texas. songs about Oklahoma’s early days, honored by the Oklahoma Heritage Society and the Oklahoma Broadcasters Association. An alumnus of Abilene Christian College and graduate of Hardin Simmons University School of Music, his PhD is from the University of Oklahoma College of Education. He is a member of the Oklahoma Higher Education Heritage Society Hall of Fame and is a member of the Oklahoma Christian Master Teacher Hall of Fame. PRESENTERS SPEAKERS CONDUCTORS
N. LINCOLN HANKS, a JESSE P. KARLSBERG, of professional singer and composer, has Atlanta, Georgia, is a scholar of studied composition at Indiana vernacular sacred American music University with Don Freund, Frederick and a Sacred Harp singer, teacher, and Fox, and Claude Baker. He has won composer. He is the Postdoctoral the Contemporary Choral Composition Fellow in Digital Humanities Publishing Competition from the Roger Wagner at Emory University’s Center for Digital Center for Choral Studies and an Scholarship (ECDS) where he edits ASCAP award, and he was recently Sounding Spirit, a collection of digital honored as a finalist in the Lilly critical editions of 19th- and 20th- Fellows Program Arlin G. Meyer Prize century sacred American music books for his oratorio, Tegel Passion. Many distinguished performing artists published by the University of North Carolina Press. He is the editor of and groups, including pianist Paul Barnes, the Pittsburgh Symphony Original Sacred Harp: Centennial Edition (Pitts Theology Library, Orchestra, and the Dale Warland Singers, have performed his music. 2015), a scholarly edition placing a key early 20th-century shape-note His music as been featured on North/South Concerts, the Cutting tunebook in the context of debates over music genre, modernity, and Edge New Music Festival, and the Piccolo Spoleto Festival. He New South politics. His 2015 dissertation, Folklore’s Filter: Race, directs the composition program at Pepperdine University in Malibu Place, and Sacred Harp Singing, was profiled in the New York Times. where he holds the Blanch E. Seaver Professor of Fine Arts. He also He serves as vice president of the Sacred Harp Publishing Company, directs the Pickford Ensemble at Pepperdine, a collegiate instrumental the nonprofit that publishes The Sacred Harp: 1991 Edition, the most group that specializes in performing new works scored for silent film. widely used shape-note tunebook. He also serves as research director of the nonprofit’s Sacred Harp Museum and as editor of Shape Notes: The Journal of the Sacred Harp Publishing Company. DAVID HOBSON began He has taught hundreds of singing schools across Europe and North directorship of the Centenary College America—many with his wife Lauren Bock—and is a member of the Choir in the fall of 2007, becoming faculty of Camp Fasola, a residential all-ages Sacred Harp singing only the fourth conductor in the choir’s school held in Alabama and northern Poland. His shape-note 75-year history and the second to hold compositions have been published in The Sacred Harp: Revised the prestigious A. C. “Cheesy” Voran Cooper Edition (2012), The Northern Harmony (2012), and The Chair. He also serves as director of Shenandoah Harmony (2013), among other sources. choral activities for the college, as well as heading the Sacred Music Program. Continuing the rich legacy of LINDA KING is graduate of his predecessors, Hobson has led the Oklahoma Christian University, the choir in an annual schedule of more than 35 regional and international University of Oklahoma College of performances, including his Sydney Opera House conducting debut in Law, and Brite Divinity School. Linda is 2009. He is a 1998 alumnus of Centenary College and the choir, a practicing attorney and also an earning a bachelor of music degree with honors. He later completed instructor at the Saint Paul School of the master of sacred music program at Emory University and Theology in Oklahoma City. earned the doctor of musical arts in choral conducting at Louisiana State University.
MCGARVEY (MAC) ICE is an archives specialist in the Millikin Special Collections in the Center for Restoration Studies, the Brown Library, Abilene Christian University. He has particular interest in the 19th-century hymnody of the Stone- Campbell Movement. PRESENTERS SPEAKERS CONDUCTORS
SHAWN KIRCHNER is a DAVID LEMLEY is assistant composer/arranger, singer, and pianist professor of religion at Pepperdine active in the music circles of Los University. He teaches practical Angeles whose choral works are theology, emphasizing worship, performed throughout the world. His spiritual formation, and vocational appointment in 2012 to a three-year discernment. Earning his PhD in 2013 term as composer in residence for the from Fuller Theological Seminary, his Los Angeles Master Chorale was the dissertation, Liturgies of Word and culmination of an ongoing creative Turntable: Social and Sacramental relationship with music director Grant Effectiveness of Contemporary Gershon marked by numerous Worship Music in Christian Worship, commissions and premieres at Walt Disney Concert Hall. His works addresses contemporary worship music as a unique liturgical symbol are published by Boosey & Hawkes, Oxford, and Santa Barbara Music that helps to form Christian identity and mission. Publishing. As a tenor with the Master Chorale since 2001, he has performed with the chorale and the Los Angeles Philharmonic in many collaborations with the world’s leading conductors and KEN NAFZIGER was a composers. He majored in Peace Studies at Manchester University, postdoctoral conducting student with an historic Brethren college, where he also founded and directed the Helmuth Rilling in Stuttgart, Germany. Peace Choir, a group comprised of Brethren and international In addition to teaching at Eastern students. He currently lectures on music and worship at Bethany Mennonite University (EMU), he is Theological Seminary, combining practical musical leadership advice artistic director and conductor of the with church music history and sociological concepts of ritual. annual Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival and of the chamber choirs, Winchester Musica Viva (Winchester, KEITH LANCASTER is a worship Virginia) and Voce (Reston, Virginia). minister, singer, songwriter, producer, He has made numerous trips to Cuba, workshop instructor, and founder of where he was a guest orchestral and choral conductor, taught Acappella Ministries. He and his wife courses and workshops, and led the EMU Chamber Singers. He is Sharon travel the world extensively, music editor of Hymnal: A Worship Book (1992) and assistant to the equipping churches through “Praise & editor of Sing the Journey (2005). He coauthored Singing, a Harmony Workshops.” He often leads Mennonite Voice (2001). Since the first Ascending Voice in 2007, worship for regional events, Bible Nafziger has been a favorite worship leader and teacher at lectureships, and mission trips. He successive symposia. wholeheartedly subscribes to the idea that “the human voice is the greatest instrument of music ever created” and that “harmonizing hearts and KELLY NEILL is an associate voices in praise to the Creator is the highest calling of mankind.” In professor at Harding University in 1982 he began to pursue his dream to spread the Gospel through a Searcy, Arkansas, where he teaches cappella music by creating Acappella Ministries in his hometown of voice and conducts the Concert Choir Paris, Tennessee. That singing ministry has grown through the years and Chamber Singers. Prior to coming to to include other groups such as AVB, Vocal Union, The Lancasters Harding, he lived in Colorado where he and Durant. Many of the groups he started have won prestigious taught vocal and instrumental public awards, including induction into the Christian Music Hall of Fame. His school music and conducted the Valley songs and arrangements have been used in various feature films and Symphony Orchestra Chorus. He has TV commercials. When he isn’t traveling, Keith serves as worship sung professionally with the Robert minister for the Cullman Church of Christ in Cullman, Alabama. Shaw Festival Singers, the Kansas City Chorale, Conspirare, and the Santa Fe Desert Chorale. As a soloist, he has performed with the Pittsburgh Bach Choir and Abilene Philharmonic, as well as done leading roles with the Abilene Opera Association and the UMKC Conservatory. He is a graduate of Abilene Christian University, Baylor University, and the University of Missouri-- Kansas City Conservatory. PRESENTERS SPEAKERS CONDUCTORS
JERRY RUSHFORD is director of DARRYL TIPPENS is University the Center for Research on Churches Distinguished Scholar at Abilene of Christ and the Stone-Campbell Christian University, where he teaches Restoration Movement at Pepperdine English, researches, and serves in the University. Over his long career at Provost’s office. He is Provost Pepperdine, he has served as minister Emeritus of Pepperdine University, for the University Church of Christ, where he served from 2001 to 2014. director for the Office of Church He frequently speaks and writes about Relations, professor of religion at Christian spirituality and the Seaver College, and now director of relationship between faith and the arts the Jerry Rushford Center. He directed (including literature, film, and music). the Pepperdine Bible Lectures for 30 years (1983-2012). He is also With Lincoln Hanks, he is the cofounder of The Ascending Voice former editor of Pacific Church News. Rushford is a great lover of and symposium. He is the author or co-author of several books including authority on the history of English hymnody, having led 17 “Literary Pilgrim Heart: The Way of Jesus in Everyday Life; Shadow and Light: and Hymn Pilgrimages” to the British Isles. Passionate about the Literature and the Life of Faith; and That’s Why We Sing: Reclaiming spiritual force of hymns, for more than 50 years he has closed every the Wonder of Congregational Singing. sermon with the history of a hymn. KONSTANTIN ZHIGULIN is a R. MARK SHIPP is the Pat E. Russian composer and founder of Harrell Professor of Old Testament at the Psalom, a spiritual music ensemble. Austin Graduate School of Theology, The goal of Psalom is to bring new a Austin, Texas. He received his BA and cappella music—songs of hope and MS degrees in ministry from Pepperdine joy—to the church, so that, as the University, and the MDiv and PhD bride of Christ, she can sing to the degrees from Princeton Theological glory of our Creator God the Father, Seminary. He is general editor of Son, and Holy Spirit. After becoming a Timeless: Ancient Psalms for the Church Christian in 1994, Zhigulin began Today, a Psalter/commentary containing composing his many exquisite a new translations and commentaries, as cappella hymns for use in Russian-speaking churches. He continues well as new lyrics and musical settings for all 150 psalms—a unique to compose, lead singing, and teach worship leadership classes. venture in church history in that the project comprises new translations Today his hymns are being sung in churches throughout Russia, the and commentaries on each psalm, in addition to two or three new lyric Ukraine, the former Soviet Union, and the U.S. For a decade Psalom and music compositions. He enjoys hymn composition and translation, has been introducing this music to American churches. (About 50 of having translated 20 hymns from the Russian language. He is the Zhigulin’s hymns have been translated into English.) Some of his co-composer of Hinds’ Feet on High Places: An Oratorio. hymns are being published in the new hymnal Timeless (ACU Press), a three-volume set containing original compositions based upon all 150 psalms. Psalom continues to perform internationally, including JAMES W. TACKETT, a retired throughout the U.S.—at churches, festivals of music, and large-systems computer specialist, universities, including Princeton Theological Seminary, Geneva has led singing all his life. The owner College, Calvin College, Abilene Christian University, Austin Graduate of The Paperless Hymnal and Austin School of Theology, Lipscomb University, and Pepperdine University. Christian Acappella Music, he spends most of his time typesetting music and helping churches with their music needs. He has been a part of the Timeless Psalter project from the beginning, serving on the music committee. He has directed The Sweet Expressions, a small mixed chorus of Austin-area Christians since 1985, teaches at the Singing School at Abilene Christian University, and is an author. NOTES VP1604001 AN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF SACRED A CAPPELLA MUSIC ASCENDING ASCENDING VOICE VOICE Pepperdine University|Malibu, California May 12-14, 2016 THE THE IV