Transfigured Nights

The Voice of Prayer Is Never Silent 2015–2016 Season

The Episcopal Church of the Transfi guration # , Texas Prelude~

We are delighted to introduce you to the 2015-2016 season of Transfigured Nights. This year’s series will focus heavily on the Anglican Offi ce of Evensong, as the Transfi guration Choir prepares music for its England Tour 2016 during which it will be in residence for a week of services at Bristol Cathedral. Two guest will make their debut recitals on the Jerry D. Godwin Organ – Richards, Fowkes & Co.’s Opus 17. The Transfi guration Choir will also present two events which will benefi t the upcoming tour – “From Broadway to Bristol” in October and “Tea and Tallis Three!” in April.

Our popular chamber music series in the Performance Hall – Art Music Mondays – returns for its fi fth season with four concerts. The March 14 event will feature Arnold Schoenberg’s seminal work Verklärte Nacht (“Transfi gured Night”) in a program performed in the Church. Please see the inside back page of the brochure for specifi cs on all the programs.

We hope that you will join us often during the coming season and that your spirit will be refreshed and renewed by the musical and liturgical offerings for which Transfigured Nights has become known. The next page includes a complete listing of the offerings of the 2015- 2016 combined series. Keep it handy as you plan your activities each month. Also, see the back page for details regarding Orpheus Chamber Singers Christmas Program which will be presented at Transfi guration again this year.

Transfigured Nights Executive Committee

The Reverend R. Casey Shobe, RECTOR Russell Bourdette, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Joel Martinson, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Bart Stockton, TREASURER

George Banitch Laurel Brewster Alan Dunlop Janet Dunlop Robert Hacker John Makowski E.T. Manning Sally Manning Mike Rawlins Diana Rawlins David Reece With the exception of the October Benefi t & April Gala, we offer the following events to the public free of admission charge.

Childcare is provided for all Sunday programs.

2015 September 20 Sunday, 5:00 p.m. Evensong – Holy Cross Day Church

October 17 Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Benefi t & Auction Roper Hall

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

November 1 Sunday, 5:00 p.m. Evensong – All Souls’ Eve Church

December 6 Sunday, 5:00 p.m. Advent Lessons & Carols Church

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

2016 January 31 Sunday, 7:00 p.m. Concert – Bruce Neswick Church

March 6 Sunday, 5:00 p.m. Solemn Evensong Church

14 Monday, 7:30 p.m. Art Music Monday Church

April 10 Sunday, 7:00 p.m. Concert – Johann Vexo Church

24 Sunday, 5:00 p.m. Gala Concert – Tea & Tallis Church

May 9 Monday, 7:30 p.m. Art Music Monday Performance Hall

June 12 Sunday, 5:00 p.m. Evensong & Tour Preview Church Solemn Evensong for Holy Cross Day September 20, Sunday, 5:00 p.m. The twelfth season of Transfigured Nights begins with our traditional evensong service in celebration of the founding day of The Church of the Transfi guration – the Feast of the Holy Cross. The Transfi guration Choir will sing Joel Martinson’s Evening Service for the Transfi guration as well as Philip Moore’s anthem It Is a Thing Most Wonderful in honor of the parish’s 59th anniversary.

A reception in the Gathering Space and Tower Cloister will follow this 2015-2016 Season opener.

BeneÀ t & Auction – From Broadway to Bristol October 17, Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Transfigured Nights hosts an evening of song, desserts, and drinks presented by the Transfi guration Choir in Roper Hall. Favorite music theatre and popular song selections from the US and England will be performed by our splendid parish singers. A delectable array of desserts by Transfi guration’s best practitioners of the culinary arts will be accompanied by wine and non-alcoholic beverages. A silent auction of artistic, musical, and other treasures will accompany the entertainment and will benefi t the Choir’s England Tour 2016. This event will last approximately two hours. Childcare will be provided.

As seating is limited, advance purchase of tickets is required: $35 per person or $250 for a table of 8. Please watch for printed or email notices for additional details regarding ticket sales. This event sold out in 2013, so email jmartinson@ transfi guration.net now to reserve your table! Evensong for All Souls’ Eve November 1, Sunday, 5:00 p.m. Transfigured Nights commemorates the Feast of All Faithful Departed with an evensong offered in remembrance of all loved ones who have gone before us in the faith. Following the liturgy, attendees are invited to join the clergy and choir in the Meditation Garden for the reading of names of all those interred in Transfi guration’s Columbarium.

Advent Procession of Lessons & Carols December 6, 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 hymn, chants, and carols accompanied by organ, handbells, and other instruments. A reception follows the service in Roper Hall.

Concert – Bruce Neswick, January 31, Sunday, 7:00 p.m. Critically-acclaimed organist Bruce Neswick makes his recital debut on the Jerry D. Godwin Organ in a program of works featuring American and English composers. An award- winning improvisateur Mr. Neswick’s concert will conclude with an improvisation based on submitted themes.

Neswick is Director of Music at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Portland, Oregon, and was formerly Professor of Music in Organ and Sacred Music at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. Prior to that, he served as Director of Music at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in , and the Episcopal cathedrals in , GA, Lexington, KY, and Buffalo, NY. Solemn Evensong March 6, Sunday, 5:00 p.m. The Transfi guration Choir will sing an evensong service on the Fourth Sunday in Lent. Concert – Johann Vexo, organist April 10, Sunday, 7:00 p.m. Johann Vexo has held the position of organist for the Choir Organ at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris since 2004. He also is titular organist for the Great Organ of the Cathedral in Nancy, his home town. He has performed concerts throughout France, , and North America, and has recently signed with an important artist agency in the USA, making his performance on Transfi guration’s Opus 17 possible. Gala Concert – Tea & Tallis – Three! April 24, Sunday, 5:00 p.m. Transfigured Nights pulls out all the stops for its third Tea and Tallis, a spring Gala benefi tting the Choir’s England Tour 2016. Works for choir, organ, solo voice, piano, harpsichord and other instruments will be performed from the front of the church and the gallery. The concert will be divided by an intermission during which attendees will sample some favorites of an English high tea, including scones with jam, fi nger sandwiches and desserts.

Tickets are $25 general admission, $15 students under 18 years of age, and will be available in advance and at the door.

Evensong & Tour Preview June 12, Sunday, 5:00 p.m. The 2015-2016 Transfigured Nights season fi nale will be an evensong service concluding with a few anthems to preview the Transfi guration Choir’s upcoming tour. This event will be followed by a champagne toast 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 26 Frank Bridge – Sonata for Cello & Piano Brahms – Trio, Op. 114, for Piano, Clarinet & Cello Paul Garner, clarinet Gayane Manasjan Fullford, cello Fredrica Phillips, piano

December 14 David Popper – Memoir, Op. 62, No. 1, for Cello & Piano Beethoven – Sonata No. 4 in A minor for Violin & Piano, Op. 23 Smetana – Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15 Aleksandr Snytkin, violin Gayane Manasjan Fullford, cello Andrey Ponochevny, piano

March 14 – Transfi gured Night This special Art Music Monday program will be performed in the church and will begin with a selection of duos and trios. The main work on the program will be Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht (“Transfi gured Night”), Op. 4, for string sextet, featuring guest violinist Theodore Arm.

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