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Central United Church of Christ presents the SOUTHSIDE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA WITH SPECIAL GUEST Vox Nova THE REFORMATION: 500 YEARS © CANTATA BWV 79 J. S. Bach CANTATA BWV 80 J. S. Bach SYMPHONY NO. 5 in D minor Mendelssohn FEATURING Patrick Clark, Artistic Director and Conductor Christine Jarquio Nichols, Vocal Director JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI NOVEMBER 3, 2017, 7:00 pm The Reformation, the German Southside, and Central United Church of Christ When German immigrants began arriving in Jefferson City in the 1840s, Catholic families settled west of St. Peter Church, and Refor- mation Protestant families settled on the south side of Wear’s Creek, creating a neighborhood now called Munichburg. These Protestant immigrants bought land for a church in 1850 and organized and built Central Church in 1858. They formed a congregation open to all German-speaking Protestants, regardless of creed or confession. The congregation’s name in the first constitution (1858) was Evangelical Central Congregation. “Evangelical” refers to the Good News of the gospel. It was a “union” congregation open to all German Protestants. Three Protestant tradi- tions converged: Lutheran (from Luther), Reformed (from Zwingli and Calvin), and Evangelical. The Evangelical denomination was formed when the Prussian ruler united the Lutheran and Reformed churches on October 31, 1817, the 300th anniversary of the Reformation. Since Prussian immigrants dominated the young congregation, Central saw itself an Evangelical church, a united and uniting church for Protestants. It recognized several confessions and catechisms insofar as they agreed, and respected individual conscience where they differed. Shortly after the Civil War, Lutherans who recognized only the Augsburg Confes- sion and Luther’s catechism as the sole creed arising from the Reformation withdrew from the Evangelical Central congregation and joined many more Lutherans who had never participated in the union congregation. In 1870 they formed their own congre- gation, Trinity Lutheran, a member of the Missouri Synod. Before that, Lutherans had been meeting in homes in the Southside. In 1870 they built a church on Monroe and McCarty streets, although most members lived in the Southside. Central Evangelical Church became Central Evangelical & Reformed Church in 1934, when the German Evangelical and German Reformed Churches merged nation- wide. Then, in 1957, Central Church became Central United Church of Christ upon the national merger of the Evangelical & Reformed Church with the Congregational Christian Church to create the United Church of Christ, or UCC. Central remains a united and uniting Reformation Protestant denomination. —Walter Schroeder 2 CONCERT PROGRAM November 3, 2017, 7:00 p.m. Central United Church of Christ WITH SPECIAL GUEST: VOX NOVA J. S. BACH Cantata BWV 79, “Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild” (1725) (1685–1750) Chorus: ‘Gott, der Herr, ist Sonn und Schild’ Aria: ‘Gott ist unser Sonn und Schild’ Christina Ray, Alto Chorale: ‘Nun danket alle Gott’ Recitative: ‘Gottlob! Wir wissen den rechten Weg zur Seligkeit’ Darrell J. Jordan, Bass Aria: ‘Gott, ach Gott, verlaß die Deinen nimmermehr’ Catherine Sandstedt, Soprano Darrell J. Jordan, Bass Chorale: ‘Erhalt uns in der Wahrheit’ J. S. BACH Cantata BWV 80, “Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott” (1735) (1685–1750) Chorus/Chorale fantasia: ‘Ein fest Burg ist unser Gott’ Aria and duet: ‘Alles was von Gott begoren’ Rachel Naughtin, Soprano Hugh Naughtin, Bass Recitative and arioso: ‘Erwäge doch, Kind Gottes’ Jeremy Wagner, Bass Aria: ‘Komm in mein Herzenhaus’ Emily Bennett, Soprano Chorale: ‘Und wenn die Welt voll Teufel wär’ Recitative and arioso: ‘So stehe den bei Christi blutgefärbten Fahne’ Jordan Walker, Tenor Duetto: ‘Wie selig sind doch die, die Gott im Munder tragen’ Christine Jarquio Nichols, Alto Brian Parrish, Tenor Chorale: ‘Das Wort sie sollen lassen stahn’ INTERMISSION FELIX MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 107, “Reformation” (1830) (1809–1847) Andante – Allegro con fuoco Allegro vivace Andante Andante con moto – Allegro vivace – Allegro maestoso 3 PERSONNEL Artistic Director and Founder*** Concertmaster** Principal* Conductor Cembalo Vox Nova Patrick Clark*** Gary Sanders Christine Jarquio Nichols, Vocal Director Flute/Piccolo Violin I Katie Smyth* Miguel Calleja** Soprano Kelly Copeland Johanna Boyer Emily Bennett Janna Volmert Lacey Gladden Oboe Rachel Naughtin Andrew Marjamaa* Violin II Catherine Sandstedt Melissa Edwards (Oboe/ Jesús Gómez* English horn) Cheryl Nield Alto Kristin Chisham (Oboe Robert Battle d’amore, BWV 80) Viola Betsy Bledsoe Morgan Owen* Christine Jarquio Nichols Clarinet Earl Braun Christina Ray Fred Lowrance* Terri Lloyd Cello Tenor Adrian Gómez* Nollie Moore Bassoon Daniel Keeler Brian Parrish Karel Lowery* Jared Smith Kassandra Ormsby Bass Jordan Walker Meyer Neel French Horn Bass Ryan McFall* Jake Clifford Lindsey Tevebaugh Darrell J. Jordan Hugh Naughtin Trumpet Jeremy Wagner Margaret Davis* Tom Tripp Steven Kretzer (Trumpet III, BWV 80) Trombone T. J. Higgins* SPO Board of Directors Tyler Martindale Patrick Clark, Artistic Director and Founder Julie Schroeder, President Bass Trombone Katie Smyth, Vice President Todd Yatsook Gary Sanders, Secretary Cheryl Nield, Treasurer Timpani Jimmy Kay Sanders, Rev. Rushan Sinnaduray, Tom Higgins Rebecca Talbert, Bonnie Verdot, Molly White 4 Biography Patrick David Clark was born in St. Louis, Mo, and is a composer, conductor, and also founder and Artistic Director of the Southside Philharmonic Orchestra. Patrick is conductor and musical director of the Jeffer- son City Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Director of Music at Central United Church of Christ, frequent guest conductor for the Columbia Civic Orchestra and Mizzou New Music Ensemble, and musical director for many productions by The Little Theater, including Bye Bye Birdie, Rent, The Odd Couple,and Peter Pan. As a composer Patrick has been commissioned by the Illinois Symphony Orchestra and many American and European chamber ensembles and soloists including his work for piano solo, Snow Coming, for St. Louis Symphony pianist Peter Henderson, and a chamber work for The Odyssey Chamber Concerts Series in Columbia, Mo. Orchestral works by Patrick have been programmed by the Seattle Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Nashville Symphony, Spokane Symphony, and the Nederlands Ballet Orkest. Chamber works by Patrick have been performed and recorded in The Netherlands and Israel. Recent performances include a performance by the Roosevelt University Contemporary Music Ensemble of Glancing Blade for chamber orchestra, March 2017. The Dutch new music ensemble, But What About . (BWA), whose formation has centered on a specific work of Patrick’s,Light Bending Forward, which is based on texts drawn from Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, includes this work in their regular performance reper- toire. Light Bending Forward has been listed in the Italian Journal Modern Accordion Perspectives: Critical Selection of Accordion Works Composed Between 1990 and 2010. Patrick is currently working with the American Composers Alliance in planning a tour for BWA to New York City to perform new works by American composers including new one of his own: Tao de ching. Dr. Clark has worked with American Voices as Composition faculty on several trips to Kurdistan, Thailand, and Lebanon. Patrick holds his Bachelor’s degree in composition from the University of Missouri, Columbia; earned his Master’s degree from the University of Arizona, studying with Dan Asia; and his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition from the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University. Patrick is a Tanglewood Fellow (1997), participated as a composer at June in Buffalo and studied with Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague in Holland on a Netherlands-America Foundation Grant (Fulbright). Patrick works regularly with the MU composition faculty in the Summer COMP (“Creating Original Music Project”) and the Mizzou International Compos- ers Festival. His own work written for this festival, Ptolemy’s Carousel, and many other works by Patrick can be heard at: http://soundcloud.com/patrick-david-clark. 5 6 Biography Christine Jarquio Nichols, mezzo-soprano, is an active music educator, singer, conductor, and pianist in Columbia, Missouri. In addi- tion to teaching middle school vocal music full- time, Christine directs and accompanies various ensembles with the Columbia Youth Choirs, as well as maintains a private voice studio in Columbia. She enjoys having time to sing in two professional choral chamber ensembles: Vox Nova and Prometheus, and also has the privilege of collaborating with Columbia area musicians as a guest soloist on occasion. She most recently sang the role of Hansel in the Humperdinck opera with MOstly Opera and the Jefferson City Symphony Orchestra. Past performances include scenes programs and opera productions with the University’s Show-Me Opera Program. With the Show-Me Opera Program, she sang the role of the sassy Dorabella in Mozart’s Così fan tutte. For two summers, Christine was part of the Janiec Opera Company at the Brevard Music Festival, where she performed in several opera productions and scenes. In 2012 she was selected as a winner of the Emerging Artists Competition and also won the regional division of the Classical Singer Competition. She has soloed in Mozart’s Coronation Mass in C, Beethoven’s Mass in C, Handel’s Messiah, J. Michael Haydn’s Missa Sancti Hieronymi, Bach’s Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, and Vivaldi’s