AMERICAN GUILD OF ORGANISTS ENDOWMENT FUND DISTINGUISHED ARTIST AWARD RECITAL AND GALA BENEFIT RECEPTION HONORING Joan Lippincott FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 2017 PHOTO CHRISTIAN STEINER PHOTO JOSEPH ROUTON PRINCETON UNIVERSITY CHAPEL PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY Lippincot_AD_MGZN.indd 1 4/12/17 7:56 AM April 21, 2017 Dear Friends, ELCOME TO THE 2017 AGO Endowment Fund Distinguished W Artist Award Recital and Gala Benefit Reception honoring our beloved friend and colleague, Joan Lippincott. We extend our heartfelt gratitude to the Office of Religious Life at Princeton University for allowing us to share their beautiful Chapel and magnificent pipe organ with you this evening. We are deeply blessed by Joan’s lifelong career as a teacher and performer. Through her performances, recordings, and students, she has touched the hearts and stirred the souls of millions of people she will never know. We are forever grateful for her gift of music and her enthusiastic support of the American Guild of Organists. We are also grateful for your support of the AGO—the largest organization of its kind in the world promoting a single musical instrument and the performers and listeners who enjoy organ music—through your gifts to the AGO Endowment Fund this evening. Although many organ degree programs at institutions of higher education are being threatened—even in Princeton—the American Guild of Organists, founded in 1896, is here to stay. Your support of the AGO Endowment Fund helps to ensure that we will. The AGO Endowment Fund secures the future of the Guild through educational programs such as Pipe Organ Encounters that introduce young people to the organ and encourage their study of the instrument. The AGO is proud of this program, our most effective means of ensuring that there will be organists in churches and concert halls for generations to come. Finally, we extend our deepest gratitude to Scott Dettra, John McElliott, and Eric Plutz, for joining Joan in preparing such a colorful and interesting program of organ repertoire for us to enjoy. Thank you again for your support and for being here this evening! Sincerely, Michael Bedford, AAGO, CHM President The mission of the American Guild of Organists is to foster a thriving community of musicians who share their knowledge and inspire passion for the organ. Learn more about the Guild online at www.agohq.org. SPONSORS gala ticket sponsors Marilyn Kay Schempp, spc ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (as of April 10) Barbara W. Adler, spc John W. Shannon and Richard Allen the Rev. Walter G. Edmonds performers major support is provided by Wyndham Anderson Jack Spencer Scott Dettra AGO National Headquarters Rodney Ayers and Vince Edwards Michael and Margaret Stairs Joan Lippincott Elizabeth Bailey JoAnn and Hank Stankiewicz The American Organist John McElliott Meredith E. Baker, fago Mary V. 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Samuel Donald Vaughan in-kind contributions American Guild of Organists Judith Scheide Suzanne C. Riehl Bethlehem Bach Choir Cherry Rhodes and Ladd Thomas Glenn L. Rodgers, aago Len Levasseur, prepress and design 475 Riverside Drive, Suite 1260 Victor Printing Kenneth D. Sass Organ Historical Society New York, NY 10115 Yale Institute of Sacred Music Vicki J. Schaeffer Joseph Routon, photography 212-870-2310 | Agohq.org AMERICAN GUILD OF ORGANISTS in cooperation with PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF RELIGIOUS LIFE Joan Lippincott • Scott Dettra • Eric Plutz organ J April 21, 2017, at 7 p.m. Veni Creator Spiritus . Nicolas de Grigny en taille à 5 (1672–1703) Fugue à 5 Duo Récit de Cromorne Dialogue sur les Grands Jeux John mcelliott chant JOAN LIPPINCOTT Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 547 . .Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) JOAN LIPPINCOTT Prélude et Fugue sur le nom d’Alain, op. 7 . Maurice Duruflé (1902–1986) SCOTT DETTRA Cinquième Symphonie pour Grand Orgue, op. 47 . Louis Vierne III. Tempo di Scherzo ma non troppo vivo (1870–1937) V. Final: Allegro moderato ERIC PLUTZ Präludium und Fuge über BACH . Franz Liszt (1811–1886) JOAN LIPPINCOTT The OHS celebrates Joan Lippincott Follow tHE journey that leads tHE OHS to STONELEIGH STONELEIGH.ORGANSOCIETY.ORG Program Notes icolas de grigny’s Premier Livre d’Orgue (1699) is the music alphabet past H (the German equivalent for regarded as one of the most significant collections of B natural), so that ALAIN is represented by the pitch- Norgan music from the French Baroque period. It consists es A-D-A-A-F, the principal theme of both the prelude of an organ mass and five organ hymns, one of which is and the fugue. He also quotes the theme of Alain’s most Veni Creator Spiritus (Come Creator Spirit). Grigny’s famous organ work, Litanies, in the closing section of composition is distinguished by rich texture, complex the prelude. The double fugue is one of the finest exam- counterpoint, expressive melodic embellishment, and ples of contrapuntal writing in the 20th-century organ intense feeling. The organ hymn Veni Creator Spiritus repertoire. The entire fugue is a gradual crescendo, using is a composition of five versets intended to be played in the first theme in inversion and stretto to build tension. alternation with the singing of the chant. The titles of the Finally, the crescendo reaches full organ and the piece versets indicate registration and suggest style and tem- climaxes in a thrilling blaze of D major. po. The opening verset is in overture style with the chant heard in the tenor (taille) played on trumpet sound in he last great late-Romantic French organ com- the pedal. Fugue à 5, the second verset, is a fugue whose poser, Louis Vierne, was organist at Notre-Dame theme relates to the second phrase of the chant. Duo is TCathedral for 37 years. He wrote six organ symphonies. a gigue of lively rhythm played on colorful stops. Récit As a student of both Widor and Franck, Vierne seemed de Cromorne is an exquisitely ornamented solo played destined to bring the organ symphony to its pinnacle. on the cromorne stop. Dialogue sur les Grands Jeux, the In Vierne’s music, one can hear the influence of Widor’s final verset, is a stunning overture of opening and closing clear command of counterpoint and classical forms, as sections on full reed sound (Grands Jeux) framing a sec- well as Franck’s attention to melodic development.