Transfigured Nights 2017 2018 Season Let everything that has breath... Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration Dallas, Texas
Prelude~ Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Hallelujah! Psalm 150:6 The final verse of the final Psalm in the Bible seems a very apt theme for the fourteenth season of Transfigured Nights, as we pull out all the stops in various ways to bring you another year of enriching musical offerings, both within and apart from the context of worship. Our season includes three Evensong services: two to frame the series for Holy Cross Day in September and St. Barnabas Eve in June; and one to conclude the Sundays after the Epiphany in February. Our November offering will feature Maurice Duruflé s beloved Requiem in its original version for organ and choir, with baritone and cello soloists. Two superb organists with connections to Transfiguration will put the Jerry D. Godwin Organ, Richards, Fowkes & Co. s Opus 17, through the paces with recitals in October and January. The pinnacle of the season will occur in April with our Pipes & Strings evening of chamber music, and, of course, our Advent Procession of Lessons & Carols will once again prepare us for a holy celebration of the Nativity. Art Music Mondays returns for its seventh season with four concerts presented in the Performance Hall by area musicians and guests. We hope to see you often during the coming season and that your spirit will be refreshed and renewed by these offerings. We are ever-grateful to our patrons, musicians, and volunteers who continue to make all this possible, and look forward to another year of music. Transfigured Nights Executive Committee The Reverend R. Casey Shobe, RECTOR Alan Dunlop, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Joel Martinson, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Paula Tiffin, TREASURER Barbara DeLizza Robert Hacker Sally Manning Janet Dunlop John Makowski Delynda Moravec Ryan Tatum Lisa Green E. T. Manning Mickey Owens
We offer the following events to the public free of admission charge. Childcare is provided for all Transfigured Nights programs (printed in blue). 2017 September 17 Sunday, 5:00 p.m. Evensong for Holy Cross Day Church October 2 Monday, 7:30 p.m. Art Music Monday Performance Hall 22 Sunday, 7:00 p.m. Concert Stefan Engels Church November 2 Thursday, 7:00 p.m. Solemn Requiem for All Souls Church 13 Monday, 7:30 p.m. Art Music Monday Performance Hall December 3 Sunday, 5:00 p.m. Advent Lessons & Carols Church 2018 January 21 Sunday, 7:00 p.m. Concert Alcee Chriss Church February 11 Sunday, 5:00 p.m. Evensong for Last Epiphany Church 26 Monday, 7:30 p.m. Art Music Monday Performance Hall April 22 Sunday, 7:00 p.m. Concert Pipes & Strings Church May 7 Monday, 7:30 p.m. Art Music Monday Performance Hall June 10 Sunday, 5:00 p.m. Evensong for Eve of St. Barnabas Church
Solemn Evensong for Holy Cross Day September 17, Sunday, 5:00 p.m. The fourteenth season of Transfigured Nights opens with a celebration of the 61st Anniversary of the founding day of Church of the Transfiguration the Feast of the Holy Cross. The Transfiguration Choir will lead a Solemn Evensong featuring music by Herbert Sumsion (1899-1995), including his Preces & Responses for Durham Cathedral and Evening Service in G Major for SATB choir and organ. The anthem for the service will be the premiere of new work commissioned in memory of long-time parishioner Virginia Kerner by her three daughters. This piece is a collaboration between Delores Dufner, OSB (text), and Joel Martinson (music), and is uniquely tailored to Virginia s life and ministry and the mission of Transfiguration in carrying the Cross of Christ into the world. A reception will follow the service in the Gathering Space. Concert Stefan Engels, organist October 22, Sunday, 7:00 p.m. Stefan Engels has been Professor of Organ and Leah Fullinwider Centennial Chair in Music Performance at Southern Methodist University since 2014. Previously, he served for ten years as professor of organ at the prestigious University of Music and Performing Arts Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Leipzig, Germany. Engels maintains a vigorous international concert schedule and is a sought-after teacher, having presented lectures and master classes across Europe, North America, South Korea and Russia. He was a featured recitalist at the 2006 National AGO Convention in Chicago and performed recitals at three regional AGO conventions this past summer. Stefan Engels received his musical education in his native Germany and the United States, and holds an Artist Certificate from SMU. Engels program will include repertoire from Germany well-suited to our instrument, including compositions representative of late 19th-century Romanticism, which is his speciality.
Solemn Requiem for All Souls Day Duru é Requiem with Simon Thomas Jacobs, organist November 2, Thursday, 7:00 p.m. Transfigured Nights commemorates the Feast of All Faithful Departed with a Solemn Requiem offered in remembrance of all loved ones who have gone before us in the faith. The service will feature the Transfiguration Choir in Maurice Duruflé s Requiem, Op. 9 (1948), based on the traditional Gregorian chants of the burial mass. Guest organist Simon Thomas Jacobs will play the virtuosic organ accompaniment, with soloists Jason Awbrey, baritone, and Gayane Manasjan Fullford, cello. Following the liturgy, the congregation is invited to join the clergy and choir in the Memorial Garden for the reading of names of all those interred in Transfiguration s Columbarium. Advent Procession of Lessons & Carols December 3, Sunday, 5:00 p.m. The Transfiguration Choir and congregation celebrate the richness of the Advent season through scripture and song. During the service the choir will move from place to place throughout the church as it sings carols and anthems. The congregation will join in singing hymns, chants, and carols accompanied by organ, handbells, and other instruments. A reception follows the service in Roper Hall. Concert Alcee Chriss, organist January 21, Sunday, 7:00 p.m. Alcee Chriss III won the Firmin Swinnen Silver Medal at the Longwood Gardens International Organ Competition in 2016, where Choir and Organ magazine wrote, Chriss stole the show. He has been celebrated for his grace, skill and abundant proficiency (Journal Assist News, Albuquerque) and has performed throughout the United States and France. An alumnus of Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Alcee received the Master s degree in historical keyboard and a Bachelor s degree in Organ, where he studied with James David Christie and Olivier Latry, and had lessons in improvisation with Marie-Louise Langlais. (continued next page)
Mr. Chriss is presently working on his doctorate degree at McGill University in Montreal as a student of the acclaimed Swedish organist Hans-Ola Ericsson. A native of the Dallas area and graduate of the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Mr. Chriss s program will include some of his transcriptions of African-American gospel and jazz works, along with selections from the classical organ repertory. Solemn Evensong for the Last Sunday after the Epiphany February 11, Sunday, 5:00 p.m. The Transfiguration Choir will lead an Evensong service on the final Sunday before Lent featuring the Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in C (based on Latin American Rhythms) composed by Bryan Kelly (b. 1934) for the 1965 Southern Cathedrals Festival. Pipes & Strings An Evening of Chamber Music April 22, Sunday, 7:00 p.m. Transfigured Nights presents an program of 20th-century chamber music for winds and other instruments, highlighting several favorite performers of the series Willa Henigman, oboe, Susan Frazier, horn, and Gayane Manasjan Fullford, cello as well as Joel Martinson, organ. The principal work on the program will be Paul Hindemith s (1895-1963) Kammermusik No. 7 (1927). This work, a concerto for organ with a unique combination of winds and low strings, will be conducted by Paul Phillips, the Martha Raley Peak Centennial Chair and Director of the Meadows Symphony Orchestra at SMU. A woodwind quintet, as well as solo works for instrument and organ, will round out the concert. Solemn Evensong for the Eve of St. Barnabas the Apostle June 10, Sunday, 5:00 p.m. The 2017-2018 Transfigured Nights season finale will be an Evensong service led by the Transfiguration Choir for the Eve of St. Barnabas Day. The featured canticles will be Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in B-flat by the contemporary American Composer Howard Helvey (b. 1968), organist and choirmaster of historic Calvary Episcopal Church in Cincinnati, Ohio. A reception will follow the service in the Gathering Space.
Art Music Mondays A chamber music series in the intimate environment of Transfiguration s Performance Hall, Art Music, under the direction of cellist Gayane Manasjan Fullford, provides an opportunity to hear well-known and newer classical music works performed by Dallas finest musicians. Each event is free of admission and includes coffee and light desserts. All performances are on Monday evenings and begin at 7:30 p.m. October 2 Romantic Trios ~ Young & Mature Max Bruch Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 5 Johannes Brahms Piano Trio in B minor, Op. 8 (1891 version) Eugene Cherkasov, violin Gayane Manasjan Fullford, cello Larissa Cherkasov, piano November 13 Vaughan William & Borodin Ralph Vaughan Williams Six Studies in English Folksong for Cello & Piano Merciless Beauty for Tenor, Two Violins & Cello Alexsandr Borodin String Quartet No. 2 David Reece, tenor Steven Li & Andrea Tullis, violins Kenny Kim, viola Gayane Manasjan Fullford, cello Joel Martinson, piano February 26 The Three Great B s J. S. Bach Two Duets from the Clavierübung for Violin & Cello Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Trio, Op. 97 Archduke Johannes Brahms Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 60 Theodore Arm, violin Susan Dubois, viola Gayane Manasjan Fullford, cello Steve Harlos, piano May 7 Classical Meets Neoclassical W. A. Mozart Duo in G Major, K. 423, for Violin & Viola Walter Piston Duo for Viola & Cello W. A. Mozart Divertimento in E-flat Major, K. 563 for Violin, Viola & Cello Emanuel Borok, violin Anat Malkin Almani, viola Gayane Manasjan Fullford, cello
Mission Statement Transfigured Nights continues in the Anglican tradition of enriching the lives of the people of God through art and music, whether in the liturgical rites of the church, in concerts, or other programs. Striving to create and host unique offerings of quality featuring the finest sacred and secular music, we utilize the talents of parish musicians and local artists, as well as present concerts by national and international performers. The series offers musical experiences to Transfiguration parishioners and serves as an outreach to those in the broader community. Contact Information Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration 14115 Hillcrest Road Dallas, TX 75254 972-233-1898 www.transfigurednights.com EMAIL transfigurednights@transfiguration.net Cover Photo: a portion of the Old Testament Saints panel of the Transfiguration Altar by Charlotte and William Hallett. Photo taken and transformed by Robert Hacker. Transfigured Nights