2004 october vol xiii · no 2 worship · music · arts Prismyale institute of sacred music common ground for scholarship and practice Welcome New Students by William Cowen Each fall we welcome new students to the ISM who bring a wealth of diverse back- grounds and interests to the interdisciplin- ary enterprise. Many of them accepted our invitation to tell a bit about themselves, so that our alums and friends can catch the en- thusiasm that abounds at this time of year. RELIGION AND THE ARTS Elizabeth Churchill, seeking an MAR at ISM, comes to us from Boston University, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree. Megan Frank joins the ISM as an MAR candidate from Wheaton College in Illinois. Matthew Haugen is a fi rst-year MAR student concentrating in litur- gics at the ISM. He earned his BA in Classical Studies from Gustavus Adolphus College this spring, and is interested in using this back- ground to study Medieval and Byzantine liturgy, including monasti- cism and mysticism. He is also interested in the relation of liturgy to communal and individual identity, as means for creative expression and social change. Matthew Kustenbauder, a graduate of Messiah College in Grantham, PA, will be studying at ISM towards an MAR. William Ng, in pursuit of an MAR at the ISM, comes to us from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland). Christiana Peppard, who received her BA from Stanford University in California, joins the ISM as she pursues her MAR. Sam Soliman, a fi rst year MAR student, has worked with various non-profi t agencies as a grant-writer and director for the past several years. Sam earned his BA from Bethel College (Indiana) and this summer fi nished working on his Master of Public Administration de- gree at Indiana University. Sam is coming to Yale in January with his wife Jaime, 2 year-old daughter Leila, and a soon-to-be-born baby boy. Sam, who is Coptic Orthodox, has always had interest in early church history and transpiring liturgy which he will study at ISM. Gilbert Sunghera, S.J. is an STM student who earned his BA at the University of California, Irvine, with a focus in Environmental Psy- chology, and a Masters in Architecture from the University of Wiscon- sin, Milwaukee. After working a few years as an architectural designer in Los Angeles, he entered religious formation with the Jesuits, and received an MDiv from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley in 2002. He has served as Director of Liturgy for a large multicultural congregation in San Jose, California. He looks forward to continuing the study of the relationship between religion and architecture at Yale. Eileen Sypher, who comes to YDS seeking an MAR in Liturgy, taught the British novel at George Mason University for twenty fi ve years until last December. Having thought and written about secular spaces, especially the private house, she is now eager to work at Yale “on sacred houses, the body moving in these places, how to detach it, continued on page 2 Welcome New Students continued from page 1 yet connect it, how to ready it for grace.” She is an Church. Through the ISM, he hopes to fi nd ways organist in the UCC and wants to study the power of to infuse worship with great music and liturgy and music in liturgy. She wants to teach, and write “and may even “dust off [his] engineering skills to look at help churches strengthen a sacred phenomenology.” relationships between acoustics and religion (if there are any!).” Jeremy plays “piano, trumpet, and a little ORGAN guitar, and is a singer and vocal percussionist.” Vincent Carr, a native of Philadelphia, joins the Joel Hanisek is a second year MDiv student. He ISM to pursue an MM in organ performance. earned his AB in English with a concentration in Vince recently graduated from Indiana University International Studies from Davidson College in (Bloomington) with bachelor’s degrees in Music and 2002. Prior to coming to Yale he worked for the Spanish. In the fall he will start as Music Director of Presbyterian United Nations Offi ce tracking Middle St. Stephen Church in Hamden, CT. In his free time, East issues. Joel looks forward to “exploring the role Vince loves to read up on current events, workout at of poetry in peacemaking and in worship.” He is an the gym, go spinning, and write songs. Inquirer in the PCUSA. Stephen Fraser, seeking an MM in Organ, comes to Elizabeth Marie Melchionna, who comes to YDS to the ISM from the University of Toronto. pursue an MDiv and an Anglican Diploma, gradu- Eric Gundersen joins the ISM in pursuit of an MM ated with an AB from Davidson College in 2002. in Organ, after obtaining his BMUS from Utah Before beginning her studies at YDS, she worked as State University. an outdoor educator with a study abroad program Brian Harlow graduated from the ISM with an MM in New Zealand. She is interested in the study of in Organ Performance in 2001 and now returns to liturgical theology through the ISM. Elizabeth Marie complete the MMA program after a three year leave. is seeking holy orders in the Episcopal Diocese of For the past three years Brian has been working in Southwestern Virginia. the fi eld of church music. He served for one year as Melanie Ross (MAR ’04) returns to campus as an Interim Organist/Choirmaster at Groton School, of ISM student, in pursuit of an MDiv. which he is a graduate, and for two years as Assis- Emily Scott, beginning her second year at Yale Divin- tant Organist at Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue ity School pursuing an MDiv, is pleased to be a new in New York, working under Gerre Hancock (former student at the Institute of Sacred Music. A graduate ISM faculty). He is excited to be back in New Haven of Sarah Lawrence College, Emily is a trombonist and is looking forward to having another year to interested in exploring the relationship between mu- focus on the study of sacred music. sic and liturgy. She has a special interest in the role Dong-Ho Lee is a fi rst year ISM MM student from of improvisational or spontaneous music making in Seoul, Korea. She graduated from Yonsei University our worship services. Emily is an Episcopalian. with a BA and MM. She worked as an organist at Jared R. Stahler is a second year MDiv student who Seoul Cathedral Anglican Church of Korea for 4 earned a BMus degree at the Oberlin Conservatory of years. She looks forward to coming year “in spite of Music where he studied organ with Haskell Thom- worries about her new life at Yale.” son and James David Christie. His interests include Colin Lynch, seeking an MM in Organ at ISM, was worship and music, as well as religion and society. one of the last students to graduate this spring from Jared is a candidate for ordination in the Evangelical the Northwestern University organ department. In Lutheran Church in America, Northeastern Pennsyl- addition to working towards his MM degree, Colin vania Synod. will also serve as Assistant in Music at Christ and Holy Trinity in Westport. He plans to make sacred CHORAL CONDUCTING music and church ministry the focus of his career. Ryan Brandau is a fi rst year student pursuing an MM in choral conducting. He earned his BA in mu- LITURGICAL STUDIES sic at Princeton University in 2003, with certifi cates Videen Bennett, who earned her AB at Smith College, Northampton, Mass., comes to the ISM continued on page 3 from YDS, to complete her MDiv. Paul Cho, seeking an MDiv, was born in Seoul, Prism is published ten times a year by Republic of Korea, and his family immigrated to the Yale Institute of Sacred Music the United States when he was 8, “a decision,” says Margot E. Fassler, Director he, “in which I had no part.” His fi rst home in the 409 Prospect Street States was Philadelphia. He studied comparative lit- New Haven, Connecticut 06511 erature as an undergraduate at Yale College. He now telephone 203.432.5180 returns to Yale to study religion and literature. fax 203.432.5296 Jeremy Deaner is a fi rst year MDiv.MDiv. student from Madison, WI. He recently completed a BS Me- editor Melissa Maier chanical Engineering degree at Lafayette College [email protected] (Easton, PA). And while his engineering degree alumni and job placement editor William Cowen “really wasn’t BS at all,” he has turned his efforts [email protected] toward pursuing ordination in the United Methodist layout and design Elaine Piraino-Holevoet, PIROET 2 Zephyrus Arts Zephyrus Frederick Franck: Drawings, Paintings, and Icons at the ISM Frederick Franck: Drawings, Paintings, and Icons is A reception on display from September 20 through October 22 will be held to at the Institute. Frederick Franck is an internation- honor the artist ally renowned author, artist, and humanist. This and the exhibition exhibition draws from some fi fty years of what he on Thursday, calls “image making,” with a focus on subjects that September 23 from explore the common bonds of humanness and the 4:30 – 6:30 pm hopeful reconciliation of mankind’s divisiveness. at the Institute. “For nearly a century,” says the artist, Frederick Franck “while remaining unaffi liated with any religious will also sign copies institution, I have been passionately concerned with of his book Ode the depth dimension of the human life process as to the Human Face, just published by Codhill Press. I have observed it in myself and others.