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The Presidents Day Conference of the New York City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists The Presidents Day Conference of the New York City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists The Executive Board Keith S. Tóth, Dean David Enlow, Sub-Dean Christopher Barrett Jennings, Registrar Mary Huff, Secretary F. Anthony Thurman, Treasurer Steven E. Lawson, Renee Anne Louprette, Auditors Neal Campbell, John Edward Cantrell, Christopher Creaghan, Sebastian M. Glück, John T. King, Daniel Kirk-Foster, Christopher Babcock, Louise Basbas, James Kennerley, Matthew Lewis, Deanna Muro Presented in partnership with the CHURCH of St MARY the VIRGIN the BRICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH PALAZZETTO BRU ZANE and the CHURCH of the ASCENSION SCHEDULE at a GLANCE SUNDAY — 19 February 2012 Brick Presbyterian Church, Park Avenue at 91st Street, 4.00 pm Vierne & Dupré Chamber Music ~ Organ Music of Dubois, Franck, and Batiste Bernadette Hoke and Daniel Kirk-Foster, piano, Laura Bontrager, cello, and Cenovia Cummins, violin Diego Innocenzi (Switzerland), organ The Church of St. Mary the Virgin, 145 West 46th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues), 8.00 pm Organ Recital & 2011 International Performer of the Year Award Stephen Tharp, organ MONDAY — 20 February 2012 The Church of the Ascension, Fifth Avenue at 10th Street 9.00 – 10.30 am Morning Coffee (Catered by Balthazar Bakery), Display tables open 10.30 – 11.45 am 19th Century French Church Music & Interpretation, Diego Innocenzi 12.00 – 1.00 pm Marie-Madeleine Duruflé-Chevalier – Remembrances, Dr. Dennis Keene, Dr. Matthew Lewis 1.00 – 2.30 pm Lunch on your own, display tables open 2.30 – 3.45 pm Early Organ Works of Tournemire – Lecture/Recital, Dr. Andrew Henderson 3.45 – 4.15 pm Display tables open 4.15 – 5.30 pm Jehan Alain: Life and Works – Lecture/Recital, Renée Anne Louprette 5.30 – 7.30 pm Dinner on your own, display tables open 8.00 pm Clarion Choir, Steven Fox, conductor with Diego Innocenzi, organ, & chamber ensemble WELCOME If you are from outside our fair City, welcome to New York! We have worked to ensure that your experience will be as enriching as possible, and that there is plenty of time to visit with colleagues and friends old and new. There is a restaurant guide in this book and we hope your conference is enjoyable in all respects. If you are not a chapter member, please keep your program book as your pass to enter conference events. We conference participants are visiting three of New York’s venerable churches and hearing their renowned organs, St Mary’s famous Skinner, Brick Church’s recent monumental Coignet-Casavant, and Ascension’s practically brand-new, exciting Quoirin organ. Each has something special to contribute to French music in America, and we hope the conference builds our understanding and enjoyment of French music for years to come. 2 Arthur LaMirande Concert Organist ♦ [email protected] Frank L Crosio, FAGO Minister of Music Arthur Lawrence Garden City Community Church D.M.A, A.A.G.O., ChM. B [email protected] B [email protected] [email protected] www.davidenlow.com 3 Chamber Music of Vierne & Dupré Organ Music of Dubois & Batiste SUNDAY — 19 February 2012 The Brick Presbyterian Church, 4.00 pm Cenovia Cummins, Violin; Daniel Kirk-Foster, Piano Marcel Dupré Sonate pour Violon et piano, Op. 5 (à Louis Vierne) Allegro Andantino Presto Laura Bontrager, ‘Cello; Bernadette Hoke, Piano Louis Vierne Sonate pour Violoncelle et piano, Op. 27 (à Pablo Casals) Poco lento – Allegro moderato Molto largamente Risoluto – Allegro molto INTERMISSION Diego Innocenzi, Organ Édouard Batiste Offertoire op. 28 (1863) (1820-1876) à M. G. WASHBOURN MORGAN, organiste de "GRACE CHURCH" à New York Théodore Dubois Cantilène religieuse (1900) (1837-1924) Édouard Batiste Offertoire – Fantaisie – Orage op. 23 (1862) à mon ami BOISSIER-DURAN, organiste de la Cathédrale de Bourges Théodore Dubois Marche des Rois Mages (1886) à Eugène Gigout, organiste de Saint-Augustin Ludwig van Beethoven Fragments of symphonies transcribed by Édouard Batiste (1867) (1770-1827) à Mr. FETIS, directeur du Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles Offertoire (Allegretto scherzando of Symphonie no 8) Grande Sortie (Final of Symphony no 9) 4 Grand-Orgue (1) Positif expressif (11) Effet d’orage Bourdon (from and Pédale) -- Quintaton 61 Montre 61 Principal 61 Grand-Orgue à la Pédale Bourdon 61 Flûte harmonique 61 Grand-Chœur à la Pédale Montre 61 Bourdon 61 Récit à la Pédale Salicional 61 Dulciane 61 Récit Octave à la Pédale Bourdon 61 Unda Maris (gg) 54 Positif à la Pédale Prestant 61 Prestant 61 Positif Octave à la Pédale l Quinte 61 Flûte douce 61 Solo à la Pédale Doublette 61 l Nasard 61 Solo Octave à la Pédale l Grande Fourniture 111-vii 326 Flageolet 61 8 p| Tierce 61 Récit Grave au Grand-Orgue 8 k Larigot 61 Récit au Grand-Orgue 8 n~ Septième 61 Récit Octave au Grand-Orgue ; Piccolo 61 Positif Grave au Grand-Orgue 8 l k Plein Jeu 11-v 233 Positif au Grand-Orgue ; l 8 Solo Grave au Grand-Orgue k Fourniture 11-v 224 8 Solo au Grand-Orgue 8 8 Solo Octave au Grand-Orgue 6 8 Pédale au Grand-Orgue 6 8 6 ; Grand-Orgue au Positif 6 Clarinette basse 61 Grand-Chœur au Positif : Trompette 61 Récit Grave au Positif Cymbale 111-1v 232 Cromorne 61 Récit au Positif 8 Clarinette soprano 61 Récit Octave au Positif 8 Trémolo Solo au Positif ; Positif Grave ; Positif Muet Solo au Récit 8 Solo Octave au Récit 8 Solo expressif (1v) Grand-Chœur au Solo Basson (ext.) 12 Violoncelle 61 Baryton 61 Céleste 61 Grand-Orgue–Grand-Chœur/Positif Reverse Grand Orgue Grave Flûte majeure 61 Union des Expressions (all swells to swell) Grand Orgue Muet Flûte célestes 11 n 110 Coupure de Pédalier (pedal divide) Viole d’amour 61 Grand-Chœur (1) l Nasard harmonique 61 Violonbasse (ext.) 12 Octavin 61 Violon 61 p| Tierce harmonique 61 Flûte harmonique 61 Piccolo harmonique 61 Flûte octaviante 61 k Clochette harmonique 61 Grand Cornet v (from , m.c) -- 8 Cornet v (t.c) 245 8 Bombarde 61 8 Trompette 61 8 Clairon 61 Tuba Magna (from , t.c) -- Grand Chœur Grave Cor de basset 61 Grand Chœur Muet Tuba mirabilis 61 Cor français n 61 Récit expressif (111) Cor anglais (free reeds) o 61 Bourdon 61 Trémolo Diapason 61 Solo Grave Viole de gambe 61 Solo Muet Voix céleste 61 Solo Octave Flûte traversière 61 Sostenuto Cor de nuit 61 Clochettes Voix éolienne (t.c) 49 n= from the former Skinner organ Fugara 61 o= 19th-century French pipework Flûte octaviante 61 l Nasard 61 Pédale Octavin 61 Soubasse (ext.) 12 Cornet harmonique 11-v 245 Flûte 32 8 Contrebasse 32 8 Montre (g.-o.) 8 Violonbasse (g.-c.) Plein Jeu harmonique 11-v 228 Soubasse 32 8 Bourdon (récit) ; l Grande Quinte 32 ; Flûte 32 ; Violoncelle 32 8 Bourdon 32 Bombarde 61 o| Grande Tierce 32 Trompette harmonique 61 k Quinte 32 Basson-Hautbois 61 q~ Grande Septième 32 Clarinette 61 Octave 32 Voix humaine 61 Flûte 32 Clairon harmonique 61 Cor de nuit 32 Trémolo Contre Bombarde (ext.) 12 Récit Grave Bombarde 32 Récit Muet Basson (g.o.) Récit Octave Bombarde (récit) Sostenuto Trompette 32 Baryton (g.o.) Clairon 32 Meet the Performers Laura Bontrager came to New York City in 1986 to attend the Juilliard School, where she received her bachelor's and master's degrees. As a William Randolph Hearst Foundation and Leonard Rose Memorial scholar, she studied with Lorne Munroe and Joel Krosnick. Her commitment to contemporary music began with her well-received North American premiere of Richard Barrett’s Ne songe plus à fuir for solo cello at Juilliard’s Focus! Festival and continued in featured performances of works by Roger Sessions and John Tavener with the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble. Active on the New York freelance scene, Ms. Bontrager has appeared with a wide variety of orchestras and chamber music ensembles, in jazz and popular settings, and frequently in solo recital. She has performed with Leonard Bernstein, Michael Tilson Thomas, Leonard Slatkin, Bernadette Peters, Elvis Costello, and she has recorded on the RCA Victor and Sony Classical labels, among others. Ms. Bontrager is a longtime member of the cello quartet CELLO. and a faculty member at the Diller- Quaile School of Music in Manhattan. Cenovia Cummins is the concertmaster of the NY Pops, Riverside Symphony and School of American Ballet Orchestra. She has served as concertmaster for other orchestras including Eos, Roanoke Symphony, Naumberg Orchestra and the San Francisco Ballet. She is also an active chamber musician having played with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Grand Canyon and Moab music festivals. She has appeared on the David Letterman show, Saturday Night Live, VH1, and Good Morning America, backing up artists such as Tony Bennett, Britney Spears, Paul McCartney, Diana Krall, P. Diddy, Rod Stewart among others. As associate concertmaster she has twice toured with Barbra Streisand. Cenovia's violin solos have been featured in the major motion pictures Lovely and Amazing and more recently in the film Julie and Julia. She also has two feature violin solos on Nellie McKay's 2009 CD release "Normal as Blueberry Pie" a tribute to Doris Day. She was featured recently in the NY City Ballet "Red Angels" for four dancers and solo electric violin. Cenovia plays on a violin made in 1716 by Giovanni Grancino of Milan and bows made by contemporary bow makers, Michael Yeats and Jean-Pierre Gasq. Bernadette Hoke performs each year in concert and recital with a variety of vocalists, instrumentalists, choirs and chamber groups. Her New York performances include appearances on the Noonday Concert series in St. Paul’s chapel, The Friends and Enemies of New Music series and The MoBiA (Museum of Biblical Art) concert series.
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