October 2012 Volume 91, Number 8 PITTSBURGH PIPELINES N EWSLETTER OF THE P ITTSBURGH C HAPTER OF THE A MERICAN G UILD OF O RGANISTS 144 North Dithridge Street, Apartment #307, Pittsburgh PA 15213 www.pitago.org Inside this issue: Dean’s Notes Dean’s Notes p. 1 By Ann Labounsky, FAGO, ChM – Dean ([email protected]) We are off and running, as they say, with the fall programs well established. We October Mtg. p. 3 are grateful to Suzie Gilliland for her important work in preparing our chapter directory. Note the inclusion of the new list of chapter programs that you can Noteworthy place on your refrigerator door (or other prominent place). Do consider making Events p. 4 a standing reservation so you won’t have to pay for the dinner at each meeting. Positions p.6 After our very number of successful AGO Certification candidates we will continue to have the classes for each level prior to the meetings. This is a good Substitutes p.10 time for you to reconsider your part in your growth. Look at the requirements in the July issue of TAO. Many of the repertoire pieces are remaining the same. This month is a very exciting time for us in the co‐sponsorship of the Charles Tournemire conference from October 21‐24. Charles Tournemire was the organist at Sainte‐Clotilde church in Paris from 1898 until his death in 1939, the church where César Franck was the first organist and Jean Langlais the last in this important tradition of improvisation, mysticism, and Gregorian chant; Tournemire was also professor of chamber music at the Paris Conservatory. A great mystic, his music has been little known outside of his famous improvisation on the chant “Victimae paschal.” The title of our conference is “The Aesthetics of Charles Tournemire: Chant and Improvisation in the Liturgy.” You are cordially invited to participate in the sessions which are open to the public. Registration deadline is Friday, September 28 which includes more detailed information on the conference. (Note that AGO members may register a few days after the official deadline.) http://musicasacra.com/tournemire/ (Please see pages 2‐3 for the full conference schedule.) Soli Deo Gloria! We Extend Our Sympathy The Pittsburgh Chapter would like to express their sympathy to the following members: Rita Sue Wilmouth died on Sunday , August 13, 2012. Services were held on Saturday, August 18, 2012 at Ingomar United Methodist Church. Condolences can be sent to: The Family of Rita Sue Wilmouth, c/o Musik Innovations, 9795 Perry Highway. Wexford, PA 15090‐9700 Virginia Alice Burkhart died on Wednesday, September 5, 2012 at age 101 in Erie, Pa . Virginia was a elementary teacher and was the pianist and organist at Aspinwall Presbyterian Church for 60 years retiring in 1993. Service was held on Saturday, September 8, 2012 at Aspinwall Presbyterian Church. Condolences can be sent to: The Family of Virginia Burkhart, c/o Weddell Ajak Funeral Home, 100 Center Avenue, Aspinwall, PA 15215‐3017 Page 2 October 2012 Pittsburgh Pipelines NEWSLETTER OF THE PITTSBURGH CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN GUILD OF ORGANISTS Conference Shedule The Aesthetics of Charles Tournemire: Chant and Improvisation in the Liturgy SUNDAY October 21st ‐ Pre‐Conference Events Time Event Place Topic Presenter 1:30 PM – Transportation information to Oakland will be provided – Pre‐Registration Heinz Chapel DU Staff and Volunteers 3:00 PM transportation will be via carpool, public bus, or on your own 3:00 PM Recital Heinz Chapel DU Alumni Recital: works of Tournemire and his students Ann Labounsky Oakland 5:00 PM DINNER ON YOUR OWN ‐ RESTAURANT LOCATIONS WILL BE PROVIDED Neighborhood Transportation information from Oakland to the hotel will be 8:00 PM Compline Heinz Chapel provided ‐ transportation will be via carpool, public bus, or on your Alastair Stout own MONDAY October 22nd ‐ Africa Rooms in the Duquesne University Union Time Event Place Topic Presenter 8:00 AM – Registration 8:50 AM: Opening remarks from Dean Kocher DU Staff and Volunteers 11 30 AM Ron Prowse, Sacred Heart 9:00 AM Lecture The Art of Improvisation and L’Orgue Mystique Seminary Africa Room Whose music is it anyways? Perceptions of authenticity in the Kirsten Rutchman, Duke 9:45 AM Lecture (Union) Tournemire/Duruflé Five Improvisations University La Musique Mystique et Vatican II : Charles Tournemire’s Legacy as Post‐ Vincent Rone, UC Santa 10:30 AM Lecture Conciliar Correctives in the Music of Maurice Duruflé and Jean Langlais Barbara Improvisations start at 11:30 AM; DU Chant Schola providing the music for Sr. Marie Agatha 11:30 AM ‐ Daily Mass with DU Chapel the Mass; extended postlude improvisation; performers TBA; Mass at Ozah, Duquesne 12:45 PM Improvisation preludes 12:00PM University 12:45 PM – Uptown LUNCH ON YOUR OWN ‐ RESTAURANT LOCATIONS WILL BE PROVIDED 2:00 PM Neighborhood Charles Tournemire’s Seven Last Words, Ave maris stella and Victimae Mickey Thomas Terry, 2:00 PM Recital paschal laudes from Cinq Improvisations organ Choral Masses of the Late 19th and Early Twentieth Centuries: Windows Ed Schaefer, University of 2:45 PM Lecture/Recital into the Liturgical Culture of Tournemire’s Era – Selected Choral Works of Florida, and Florida Schola Tournemire’s Teacher, Colleagues, and Students Cantorum Epiphany Church Recital “The Improvisational Style of Charles Tournemire” and paper “Existential Act of Creative Freedom; or Striving for Organic Masterpiece. Boguslaw Raba, University 3:30 PM Lecture/Recital Charles Tournemire’s Improvisations and Written Works: A Comparative of Wroclaw, Poland Existential and Transcendental Analysis” 6:00 PM ‐ AGO Dinner and Richard Spotts Paid Dinner ($15) – see registration page 9:00 PM presentation (Alan Lewis) TUESDAY, October 23rd Time Event Place Topic Presenter Transportation information to Calvary will be provided – transportation will 9:00 AM TRAVEL be via carpool, public bus, or on your own Robert Lord, University of 9:30 AM Lecture L’Orgue Mystique – Where to begin? Pittsburgh Dominica Resurrectionis from L’Orgue Mystique and Symphonie Romane by David Jonies, Holy Name 10:15 AM Recital Widor Cathedral, Chicago Crista Miller, Co‐Cathedral 11:00 AM Recital Works by Naji Hakim and Charles Tournemire Calvary Episcopal of Sacred Heart, Houston 12:00 PM LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED AT THE CHURCH DU Staff and Volunteers David McCarthy, 1:00 PM Lecture Using the Five Improvisations as a source for Improvisation Pedegogy Episcopal Church of the Incatnation, Penfield, NY Lecure “Performance as ritual, Improvisation as Prayer” and Recital Zvonimir Nagy, Duquesne 2:00 PM Lecture/Recital excerpts from “De Harmonia Animae” by Dr. Nagy University 3:00 PM Recital Student Recital: works of Tournemire and his students DU Students Shadyside 4:30 PM DINNER ON YOUR OWN ‐ RESTAURANT LOCATIONS WILL BE PROVIDED Neighborhood Transportation to St. Elizabeth’s ‐ transportation will be via carpool or on 6:15 PM TRAVEL your own St. Elizabeth Paul Weber, Franciscan Ann Seton Transportation from St. Elizabeth’s ‐ transportation will be via carpool or on 7:30 PM High Mass University of Steubenville your own Page 3 October 2012 Pittsburgh Pipelines NEWSLETTER OF THE PITTSBURGH CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN GUILD OF ORGANISTS WEDNESDAY, October 24th Time Event Place Topic Presenter Epiphany 9:00 AM Recital Improvisations on Marian antiphons and submitted themes David Hughes Church Improvisation Room 314 – Ann Labounsky, Benjamin 11:00 AM Masterclass School of Music Cornelius‐Bates, Zvonimir Uptown 1:00 PM Lunch ON YOUR OWN Neighborhood 3:00 PM Recital PNC Recital Chamber works of CT DU Students and Faculty 4:00 AM Closing Remarks Hall Dean Edward Kocher October at Epiphany By Alan J. Lewis – Chapter Sub-Dean ([email protected]) Our October meeting takes place Downtown, at the Church of the Epiphany (184 Washington Place, across the street from Chatham Center. Dinner and our business meeting will take place in the palatial undercroft, with a meal prepared by our redoubtable Cindy Bowen. She calls it an Oktoberfest Blow‐Out. The program for the evening is part of the Church Music Association of America’s Tournemire Symposium, going on at Duquesne University that week, of which the Chapter is a proud co‐sponsor. Richard Christopher Spotts, of Doylestown, PA, has made the organ music of Tournemire, and specifically the monumental liturgical cycle, L’Orgue Mystique, his specialty, and is both performing widely from the collection, and completing a magisterial book‐length study of the role of Chant in the cycle. His program will begin with an illustrated lecture on the life of Tournemire, followed by a performance of pieces from L’Orgue Mystique, the latter complemented by the Duquesne University Gregorian Chant Schola, conducted by Sister Agatha Ozah, singing the chants on which the pieces are based. Looking ahead, our program on November 19, at Christ United Methodist October Menu Church in Bethel Park, will be a master‐class with Joan Lippincott. Members Oktoberfest Blow‐Out who would like to be considered to play in that class are asked to be in touch Family‐Style Salad with Rolls & Butter with me by telephone or email as soon as possible, providing both their “Best of the Wurst” name and contact information, and the piece they would like to offer. And it Pulled Pork also isn’t too soon to plan for our January Members’ Recital, for which I Spätzle Romanoff hope the program will feature music by some of this year’s “anniversary” Bavarian‐Style Green Beans composers (those with milestone anniversaries of birth or death in 2013). Chocolate Bavarian Dessert These include Scheidemann, Titelouze, Zachow, Krebs, Pierne, Hindemith, Britten, Elmore, Purvis, and surely others I’ve failed to notice. Please, think about something you might like to play to contribute to this celebration, and let me know.