— — February — 2006 The Organizer A G O Monthly Newsletter The Atlanta Chapter L O G O AMERICAN GUILD of ORGANISTS The Organizer FEBRUARY — 2006 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Guest Artist Puts New Instrument A CELEBRATION Through Its Paces of the new Hailed as one of today's leading young organists by critics on CORNEL Zimmer Organ both sides of the Atlantic, J. Christopher Pardini maintains at an active concert schedule in addition to his duties as Organist and Director of Music at Shadyside Presbyterian North Decatur Presbyterian Church Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He earned the Bachelor of 611 Medlock Road at North Decatur Music degree in Sacred Music from Westminster Choir Decatur, GA College, and a Master of Music in Organ from the Eastman 404.636.1429 School of Music, where he studied with David Higgs. In 1998 he was the first-place winner in the San Marino Organ Host: Jamie Shiell Competition in California, and has served on the Board of Directors of the Clarence Mader Scholarship Fund. Previously Christopher served as Senior Organist at the Friday • February 17, 2006 Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California. His compositions are published by G.I.A. and Fred Bock Music Featuring Company. CHRISTOPHER PARDINI PROGRAM Trumpet Tune in A Major David N. Johnson Organist Soliloquy David Conte Joy of the Redeemed Clarence Dickinson _____________________________________ Hymn, "Blessing and Honor" Master Tallis' Testament Herbert Howells Punch Bowl - 6 PM Festival Toccata Percy Fletcher Hymn, "Holy, Holy, Holy" Dinner - 6:30 PM "Mein Junges Leben" Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck $12 Reservations by 2/14/06 Toccata, Adagio and Fugue Johann Sebastian Bach Cantabile Cesar Franck Recital - 8 PM Grand Choeus Triomphal in A Alexandre Guilmant Dinner Menu for and Directions to the church may be found on Page 4 - In This Issue - March Meeting and Members Recital Mixtures . 2/7 The March meeting of the Atlanta Chapter will be held at First Dean’s Message . 3/7 Presbyterian Church in Marietta, with Ed Schneider and Cal Dinner Menu/Directions . 4 Johnson as hosts. The date is Tuesday, March 14, and the program Elections/Officers . 5 will be a members' recital, featuring "Organ Plus One" (music for Employment Referral . 4 organ and another instrument or voice). Events Calendar . 6 If you would like to perform on this recital, please contact Michael AGO Chapter at a Glance . 9 Morgan at [email protected] very soon. The program will In Memoriam . 7 be in the historic sanctuary, which is a beautiful space to experience. We hope to have a lot of variety for this program, so enlist the talents Scholarship News . 8 of your friends! The Organizer — 2 — February — 2006 2006 Atlanta Chapter Commissioned Work "Reflections on Holy Week According to the Gospel of Music at The Cathedral of St. Philip Saint Mark," by David Kocsis, is the commissioned work Sunday Afternoon Recital Series - All recitals begin in the for this year. The score will be available at the February Cathedral at 3:30 p.m. as a prelude to the 4 p.m. Evensong, which is 17th meeting. This impressionistic, introspective, and sung by the Cathedral Schola or Choir. Evensong on Third Thursdays at 5:45 p.m. is sung by the Choir of Girls, Boys and Adults. inspiring suite for organ is in four movements: Betrayal, Trial, Crucifixion, Resurrection. David is a very gifted FEBRUARY Organ Recitals at 3:30 o’clock composer, and this new suite promises to be a valuable 5 Atlanta Flute Ensemble and illuminating addition to the literature for this most 12 Alvin Blount (Augusta, GA) significant season of the Christian year. 19 Trey Clegg (Atlanta, GA) 26 Chattahoochee High School Orchestra (Jim Palmer, Conductor) Music for Sacred Spaces Thursday — 2 February Candlemas procession The Music and Arts Program of Peachtree Road United And Eucharist Methodist Church is thrilled to welcome the Atlanta For the Feast Of Chamber Players as they take us on a musical journey through London, Paris, Vienna, and New York — the The Presentation great musical capitals of Europe and America. The The Cathedral Choir Johann Walter / Nunc dimittis group’s “Sacred Spaces” series continues in the Sanctu- William McKie / We Wait for thy loving kindness, O Lord ary of Peachtree Road, where the audience will be invited Jehan Alain / Messe modale to sit in the round, in the choir loft, and close by the Johann Eccard / When to the temple Mary Went performers. Brahms’ dramatic C minor Piano Trio will Williliam Byrd / Senex puerum portabat anchor this program, which also features Petroushkates, a brilliant quintet by distinguished American composer EVENSONG Joan Tower, and Florent Schmitt’s Sonatine en Trio, a Cathedral Schola lyrical showcase for principal ASO winds (flutist Sunday — 5 February 4 pm Christina Smith and clarinetist Laura Ardan.) Grace and Heathcote Statham / Responses delicacy will begin the program with “Papa” Haydn’s Gerald Near / St. Mark’s Service classical “London” trio for flute and strings. The concert Gerald Near / They that wait upon the Lord Gerald Near / Christ hath a garden will take place on Sunday, February 12 at 5 pm in the Sanctuary. Admission is free, however a suggested Sunday — 12 February 4 pm donation of $20 ($10 for students) will be accepted. Thomas Morley / Responses Peachtree Road United Methodist Church is located at Christopher Tye / Evening Service 3180 Peachtree Road, N.E., in the Buckhead community. Christopher Tye / Sing unto the Lord For more information about the event, please call the Atlanta Chamber Players Concert Hotline at Thursday — 16 February — 5:45pm 770-242-2ACP (2227). The Choir of Girls, Boys and Adults Thomas Morley / Responses Christopher Tye / Evening Service Christopher Tye / Sing unto the Lord Hi All…. Is anyone in the Chapter a nurse or trained medical professional, or part of a parish nurse program Sunday — 19 February 4 pm at your church? I’d like to speak with you about this need The Choir of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church / Atlanta for the 2007 Regional Convention if you, or they, might be interested. Sunday — 26 February 4 pm Thomas Tomkins / Responses TIM YOUNG, 770.437.8295 Harold Darke / O gladsome light Thomas Tallis / Short Service AGO 2007 Hospitality Chair Thomas Tallis / O nata lux Frank Boles / Christ upon the mountain peak The Organizer — 3 — February — 2006 Director, James E. Thomashower, on page 4 of TAO's January A Message from '06 issue. Give him a read, and follow where your inspiration The DEAN leads! Just 2 pages away (inside front cover), our friend PAUL JACOBS peers out at you, wondering if you're applying to play for his ORGAN CLASS AT SPIVEY HALL: 11am on Saturday, March 4th (Sunday afternoon March 5th will be Paul's concert I love it when the obvious dawns on me! Somewhere along there)! What a GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY to receive Mr. Jacobs' the line, it occurred to me that QUALITY AND CULTURE input on your playing without enrolling at Juilliard. If you do not ARE NOT SYNONYMOUS. What I mean to say is, if I hear a receive the application via our LISTSERV, contact Amber piece of music from a culture about which I know relatively Dimkoff at 678 466-4481. little, and then I assume that this piece fairly represents the We build by investment! Our annual Chapter Scholarship best of music from that culture, I will surely form inaccurate Auditions especially need your monetary support in this impressions and probably go no further. When composer pre-convention planning year, in order to sustain recent levels of Noel Dexter journeyed from Jamaica at Dr. Marian Dolan's SCHOLARSHIPS GIVEN FOR ORGAN STUDY. Send or give to invitation, to share a concert with Emory University's Candler James Mellichamp, Treasurer (P.O.Box 878 Demorest, GA Choraliers in 1999 (while in seminary, I was their 30535) your check to Atlanta Chapter AGO, earmarked accompanist), I had a delightful encounter with the wonderful "scholarship auditions", and please plan to attend on April sacred choral music of the Carribean. Worldsong/Augsburg 28th to HEAR THESE STUDENTS PLAY! Fortress has published a collection of this music: "Let the - continued on page 7 - Peoples Sing," Vol.1, edited by Marian Dolan. Look Who Won Door Prizes at When I arrived at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Atlanta for the Annual Holiday Party….. "A Celebration of African American Organ Music" on January 10th, I was thrilled to see that all the music on the program Thanks to Doug Johnson & Bill Weaver, five wonderful Door was included in a BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ORGAN WORKS by Prizes were contributed for our Christmas Party on 12/27. 95 BLACK COMPOSERS - compiled by Dr. Calvert Johnson I thought you would like to hear about who the delighted (it's been on our website) and UPDATED for distribution that winners were. night! Like some of you, I NEED HELP 'getting to know' these We gathered in Warren Williams' large music room, in the composers, and locating their music (some pieces are light of the sparkling tree. Our youngest Chapter Member, published by the South African Music Rights Organization). Bryan Anderson, was in attendance so I invited Bryan to draw Performing for the CONCERT were Dr. Cal Johnson (playing five names from the slips of paper representing the 47 party works by Fela Sowande, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and guests - which he did, with aplomb and the following results! Florence Price), Dr. Joyce Johnson (pieces by Calvin Taylor 1. Large (probably 20x30") framed antique etching of the left and Adolphus Hailstork), David Crawford Stills (playing his organ transept of Rheims Cathedral. Hand-colored, signed, OWN variations on William Billings' tune, CHESTER), and and older than the World War I destruction of the cathedral.