Daniel Brondel, organist 18 April 2021 at Four o’clock in the afternoon Kindly remember to silence all electronic devices. Sinfonia (Cantata No. 29) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) arr. Marcel Dupré (1886-1971) “Erstanden ist der heil‘ge Christ” (The Holy Christ Is Risen), BWV 628 Johann Sebastian Bach “Heut‘ triumphiret Gottes Sohn” (Today the Son of God Triumphs), BWV 630 (Orgel-Büchlein ‘Little Organ Book’) Offertoire sur les grands jeux (Messe pour les convents de religieux et religieuses - 1690) François Couperin (1668-1733) Andante in F for a Small Mechanical Organ (1791) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Hungarian Dance No. 5 in F# Minor (1869) Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) arr. Edwin Lemare (1865-1934) Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 (1936) Samuel Barber (1910-1981) arr. William Strickland (1914-1991) Andante con moto e poco rubato - Blue Lullaby (Preludes - 1926) George Gershwin (1898-1937) arr. Daniel Brondel Apparition de l’Église Éternelle (1932) Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) Deux Danses à Agni Yavishta, JA 77 & 78 (1932) Jehan Alain (1911-1940) Entr’acte II (Carmen - 1873-4) Georges Bizet (1838-1875) arr. Daniel Brondel Toccata (Symphony for Organ No. 5 in F Minor, Op. 42, No. 1 - 1879) Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937) WELCOME TO THIS AFTERNOON’S CONCERT. Funding comes, in part, from The Holy Trinity Music Fund. Additional donations received in the offering plates at the exits this afternoon will continue to benefit the Fund. Your generous contribution, freely given, assists the Music at Holy Trinity series in bringing events such as these to our worshippers and the community. Today’s Artist… Noted by The New York Times for playing the organ with flair, French-born musician DANIEL BRONDEL is the Associate Director of Music at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, where he plays Masses each week that are streamed on the Internet and broadcast live on SiriusXM Satellite Radio. He is also the Associate Director of the Cathedral Choir, and he manages the organ recital series. He performs solo recitals in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Europe, and has also appeared as soloist in piano concertos of Mozart and Rachmaninoff, and organ concertos of Poulenc and Jongen. He recently accompanied the Sistine Chapel Choir during their visit to Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, and he has collaborated with famous opera stars, including Renée Fleming, Angela Gheorghiu, Michael Fabiano, Isabel Leonard, Matthew Polenzani, Susan Graham, James Valenti, Danielle de Niece, and Joyce DiDonato. Mr. Brondel is the Artistic Director of The Salvatones, a new vibrant professional choral ensemble based in New York City. He made his Weill Recital Hall (Carnegie Hall) debut in 2010 as narrator in a performance of Erik Satie’s Sports et divertissements. He has also recorded and appeared regularly as countertenor soloist (Schnittke’s Requiem and Bach’s B-Minor Mass) with Grammy-Award-winner Paul Halley, and has sung with the Gentlemen of the Choir of St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue. He has performed extensively in oratorios of Bach and Handel, and in opera, notably the lead role of Oberon in Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Praised for a colorful timbre and an exceptionally wide vocal range, he is featured as solo sopranist in Aural Borealis, a CD recording by award-winning Publick Musick. His first solo-organ album, The Glory of the Organ, recorded at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in 2010 on the JAV label, is available in the Cathedral’s Gift Shop, from JAV Recordings, on Apple Music, Spotify and other streaming services. Daniel Brondel’s JAV recording of his improvised Organ Fanfare (2010) was featured on American Public Media's Pipedreams, a national radio program of organ music. It is the first music selection of Program #1103: “Domestic Issues” (2011), which focuses on new American organ recordings. In 2005, Daniel Brondel founded the Cathedral of Saint Patrick Young Singers, the first auditioned youth choir at the Cathedral in over fifty years. The Young Singers performed in the presence of Pope Benedict XVI during his visit to New York City in April 2008. Following a televised prayer service led by the pontiff, Mr. Brondel was heard playing organ works of Bach for several minutes on the worldwide television broadcast. In October 2010, he played the organ at Saint Peter’s Basilica (Vatican) for the Mass that opened the 9th International Festival of Sacred Music and Art. Prior to his appointment at the Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Mr. Brondel was the Director of Music & Organist at nearby historic St. Malachy’s Church (The Actors’ Chapel), where he resurrected the legacy of famed organist/composer Paul Creston. He also served as Director of Music at St. Anne Church, in Rochester, New York, and as University Organist at the University of Rochester. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, where he studied organ with David Higgs and improvisation with Gerre Hancock and Rick Erickson, Mr. Brondel holds a Master of Music degree in Organ Performance. For three years, he served as teaching assistant of University of Rochester Vice-President Dr. Paul Burgett for a highly popular music appreciation course they designed and taught together for the University of Rochester. At Eastman, he did further doctoral work in organ and musicology, and studied voice with Jane McCoy. Master class teachers included Gillian Weir, Ludger Lohmann, Russell Saunders and Pierre Sancan. Mr. Brondel earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance cum laude from Georgia State University, Atlanta, where he studied piano with Geoffrey Haydon and organ with Sarah Martin. During his entire college career, he was a singer and French-diction coach for the Grammy-Award-winning Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus and Chamber Chorus, directed by Robert Shaw. Recipient of a grant from the Theodore Presser Foundation, several prestigious academic fellowships, and winner of various piano competitions, Daniel Brondel also won the First Prize at the 1996 Arthur Poister Competition and the Second Prize at the 1996 National Young Artist Competition in Organ Playing of the American Guild of Organists in New York City. Mr. Brondel was the recipient of the 2016 Médaille d’Or du Rayonnement Culturel by La Renaissance Française USA. A native of southern France, Mr. Brondel has lived in the United States since 1988. He is a member of EastWest Organists, the American Guild of Organists, and the Conference of Roman Catholic Cathedral Musicians. He has served as a member of the boards of Schola Cantorum on Hudson, of the New York City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists and of the St. Wilfrid Club. The Holy Trinity Music Fund 2020-2021—THANK YOU! Benefactor (1,000 or more) Sponsor (250-499) Donor (100-249) Al & Betty Alsobrook Jean Feingold Gregory Dickinson Ann Cawthon in memory of Bud & Mitzi Feingold in memory of Captain Donald Marion F. Colburn Brian & Linda Gendreau “Pete” Peterson, ACSO in memory of David R. Colburn in honor of Audrey, Claire, and Ryan Joan Dumbauld Rosie & Clay Connolly Patricia Liston in honor and memory Forrest S. Crawford Essie H. McClung of John Walter Dumbauld in memory of Sally H. Foote in memory of Mac McClung Ellen L. Esparolini Sandra Fackler Tom & Roxanne Meloy Claudette Finley Robert & Joan Gennings in honor of Dr. John T. Lowe, Jr. in memory of in memory of Olive Gennings Long The Reverend Canon J. 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