MUSIC
2014 - 2015
Praise him, and magnify him for ever... About Music at Saint Paul’s The music ministry of Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church exists to provide meaningful music for our community in the worship of God. We also believe that our music is not just for our parish, but the entire community. Saint Paul’s choirs comprise more than 85 singers, and opportunities for involvement span all ages. There are also non-singing opportunities for those who would like to serve on the music guild and help with day to day operations of the music program. If you are interested in joining us in our work, contact the Director of Music at the church office. Sunday Morning There is choral music each Sunday morning at the 10:30 a.m. service of Holy Eucharist. This service is sung by the accomplished Saint Paul’s Choir. Twice a month, our choristers join the adults and form an intergenerational choir in the Anglican tradition. In addition, our cherub choir learn to be leaders of liturgy by participating in the 9 a.m. service once a month. About the Adult Choir and Choral Scholars Saint Paul’s Adult Choir is comprised of approximately 50 members, both professional and volunteer, who come from a variety of musical backgrounds. Membership through audition is open to adults and boys with changed voices. We sing the 10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist during the program year in addition to monthly Choral Evensong. The Choral Scholar program connects aspiring high school musicians to an intensive choral experience designed to give them experience in a semi-professional setting and a window into the requirements of being a professional musician. The Choral Scholars sing as a part of the Adult Choir. About the Choristers The Saint Paul’s Chorister program is a multi-faceted musical opportunity for boys and girls ages 8 and up. Our emphasis is on the education and development of each child. During rehearsals, we learn healthy vocal technique, how to read music, and how to be leaders within our community. The choristers perform both on their own, and with the accomplished Saint Paul’s Adult Choir, giving our youth the opportunity to perform with professional musicians from throughout the Philadelphia region. Our young singers also have the opportunity to study a musical instrument, for which a limited number of scholarships are available. The study of a musical instrument greatly reinforces the music skills taught in choir. For our Chorister program and Choir School, no prior musical experience is required and you do not have to be an Episcopalian or a member of Saint Paul’s Church to join.
OVERVIEW CHORAL EVENSONG & ORGAN RECITALS Sung at the close of day in Cathedrals and churches throughout the world, Choral Evensong is an Anglican expression of Evening Prayer, derived from the ancient offices of Vespers and Compline. In this service, the choir takes on the primary role of offering up praises to God on behalf of the community, while the congregation assists with their own prayer and meditation. Consisting of hymns, choral music, and readings, Choral Evensong is an opportunity for rest and mindfulness before the start of a busy week. Before each service, there is a 30 minute organ recital. At Christmas and Holy Week, Evensong is replaced by a service of Lessons and Carols traditional to the season. Freewill offerings support choral music at Saint Paul’s, and a reception follows in the parish hall. Ann Stookey Memorial Organ Recitals are at 4:30 p.m., with Evensong following immediately at 5 p.m. All are welcome. In 2014-2015, they are scheduled on the following Sundays: September 28 October 26 November 9 November 23
December 21 January 18 January 25 February 8
March 8 March 29 April 19 May 10
FIVE FRIDAYS Join us for five world-class concerts throughout the 2014-15 season. All proceeds benefit the Philadelphia Interfaith Hospitality Network and Face to Face Germantown. Held by candlelight, all concerts are on the labyrinth at the back of Saint Paul’s Church and are followed by a wine and cheese reception. Come enjoy yourself while supporting good work in your local community. Tickets and more info: www.fivefridays.org October 3: The Dali String Quartet November 14: Clarinet, Cello and Piano February 20: Soprano, Baritone and Piano April 10: String Trio May 15: Violin and Piano
MUSIC AT SAINT PAUL’S 2014-2015
September 14 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Pentecost 17 Trebles & Adult Choir Draw Us in the Spirit’s Tether - Harold Friedell Esto Les Digo - Kinley Lange September 21 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Pentecost 18 Adult Choir See What Love Hath the Father - Felix Mendelssohn Steal Away - arr. Dale Adelmann 5:00 CHORAL CONCERT The Schola Cantorum of Oxford University September 28 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Pentecost 19 Trebles & Adult Schola I Will Arise - arr. Alice Parker Teach Me, O Lord - Thomas Attwood 4:30 ORGAN RECITAL Bryan Anderson The Curtis Institute of Music - Philadelphia, PA 5:00 CHORAL EVENSONG Adult Choir Responses: Richard Ayleward Evening Service in G - E.C. Bairstow Factum est Silentium - Richard Dering Be Still, My Soul - Percy Whitlock October 3 7:30 FIVE FRIDAYS I The Dali String Quartet October 5 9:00 HOLY EUCHARIST Pentecost 20 Trebles & Adult Choir Fight the Good Fight - John Gardner 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Adult Schola O God, My Heart is Ready - Philip Radcliffe Jesu, Dulcis Memoria - Leo Nestor Ave Verum Corpus - Pierre Villette
October 12 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Pentecost 21 Adult Choir Faithful Shepherd - Grayston Ives As the Apple Tree - Robert Walker October 19 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Pentecost 22 Trebles & Adult Choir Judge Eternal - Gerre Hancock O for a Closer Walk - C.V. Stanford October 26 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Pentecost 23 Trebles & Adult Choir Dale Adelmann, Guest Conductor Greater Love Hath No Man - John Ireland Beati Quorum Via - C.V. Stanford 4:30 ORGAN RECITAL David Ball The Juilliard School - New York, NY 5:00 CHORAL EVENSONG Adult Choir Dale Adelmann, Guest Conductor Responses: William Smith of Durham Jesus College Service - William Mathias Let My Prayer Be Set Forth - Hubert Middleton All Wisdom Cometh from the Lord - Phillip Moore November 2 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST All Saints Adult Choir And I Saw a New Heaven - Edgar Bainton The Beatitudes - Arvo Pärt November 9 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Pentecost 25 Trebles & Adult Choir Never Weather-Beaten Sail - Richard Shephard 4:30 ORGAN RECITAL Clara Gerdes The Curtis Institute of Music - Philadelphia, PA 5:00 CHORAL EVENSONG Adult Schola Responses: Philip Radcliffe Evening Service in G - C.V. Stanford A Child’s Prayer - James MacMillan Thee Will I Love - Herbert Howells
November 14 7:30 FIVE FRIDAYS II Benito Meza (clarinet), Christine Lamprea (cello) Pallavi Mahidhara (piano) November 16 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Pentecost 26 Adult Choir Ecce Sacerdos Magnus - Anton Bruckner Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence - E.C. Bairstow November 23 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Christ the King Trebles & Adult Schola Let All the World - Ralph Vaughan Williams O Sacrum Convivium - Thomas Tallis 4:30 ORGAN RECITAL Thomas Gaynor The Eastman School of Music - Rochester, NY 5:00 CHORAL EVENSONG Adult Choir Responses: Craig Phillips Mount Saint Alban Service - David Hogan Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence - E.C. Bairstow Let All the World - Kenneth Leighton
Advent & Christmas November 30 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Advent 1 Adult Schola Missa Brevis in F - Healey Willan Drop Down, Ye Heavens, from Above - Judith Weir Audivi Media Nocte - John Taverner December 5 7:00 CONCERT - VOX AMADEUS Handel’s Messiah December 7 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Advent 2 Trebles & Adult Choir Adam Lay Ybounden - Frank Boles O Radiant Dawn - James MacMillan February 12 8:00 CONCERT - VOX AMADEUS A Renaissance Noël
December 13 7:30 CONCERT - THE MENDELSSOHN CLUB A Feast of Carols December 14 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Advent 3 Adult Choir The Spirit of the Lord - Edward Elgar Rejoice in the Lord Alway - Anonymous December 20 7:30 CONCERT - TEMPESTA di MARE Handel’s Messiah December 21 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Advent 4 Adult Schola Ecce Virgo Concipiet - William Byrd Fair in Face - Healey Willan 5:00 LESSONS AND CAROLS Trebles & Adult Choir Adam Lay Ybounden - Frank Boles Riu, Riu, Chiu - Mateo Flecha the Elder A Spotless Rose - Herbert Howells See Amid the Winter’s Snow - John Goss Second Eve - Ola Gjeilo Light Looked Down - Phillip Moore The First Noel - arr. Paul Halley A Babe is Born - William Mathias December 24 10 pm HOLY EUCHARIST Christmas Eve Adult Choir Salvation is Created - Paul Tschesnokoff What Sweeter Music - John Rutter The Shepherd’s Farewell - Hector Berlioz December 28 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Christmas 1 Adult Choir Torches - John Joubert Myn Lyking - R.R. Terry
All ye works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord Praise him, and magnify him for ever...
Epiphany January 4 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Christmas 2 Trebles & Adult Choir A Babe is Born - William Mathias In the Bleak Mid-Winter - Harold Darke January 11 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Baptism of Sung by the Cathedral Choir School of Delaware the Lord Arreon Harley, Artistic Director January 18 10:30 Martin Luther King, Jr.
CHORAL EUCHARIST Sung by the combined choirs of Church of the Holy Spirit, Harleysville, St. Stephen’s Pro-Cathedral, Wilkes- Barre, and Immanuel Church, New Castle DE Sue-Ellen Echard, Mark Laubach, & Jack Burnam Directors of Music
4:30 ORGAN RECITAL Zachary Fritsch-Hemenway Saint Paul’s Director of Music 5:00
CHORAL EVENSONG Sung by the combined choirs of Church of the Holy Spirit, Harleysville, St. Stephen’s Pro-Cathedral, Wilkes- Barre, and Immanuel Church, New Castle DE Sue-Ellen Echard, Mark Laubach, & Jack Burnam Directors of Music
January 25 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Feast of Adult Choir Saint Paul Locus Iste - Anton Bruckner A Festival Te Deum - Benjamin Britten Ave Verum Corpus - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 4:30 ORGAN RECITAL James Roman Westminster Choir College - Princeton, NJ 5:00 CHORAL EVENSONG Trebles & Adult Schola Responses: Richard Ayleward Evening Service in D - Herbert Brewer O Gracious Light - David Hogan A Song of Wisdom - C.V. Stanford O for a Closer Walk with God - C.V. Stanford
February 1 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Epiphany 4 Adult Choir Glorious Everlasting - M. Thomas Cousins Almighty and Everlasting God - Orlando Gibbons February 7 5:00 TEMPESTA di MARE RECITAL SERIES Lisa Terry (viola da gamba) February 8 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Epiphany 5 Trebles & Adult Schola O Savior of the World - Sir John Goss Ave Verum Corpus - Edward Elgar 4:30 ORGAN RECITAL Gregory Zelek The Juilliard School - New York, NY 5:00 CHORAL EVENSONG Adult Choir Introit: Abendlied - Josef Rheinberger Responses: Bernard Rose Collegium Regale Service - Herbert Howells O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem - Herbert Howells February 15 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Last Epiphany Adult Choir Antiphon - Ralph Vaughan Williams Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence - Gustav Holst
Lent February 18 7:30 HOLY EUCHARIST & IMPOSITION OF ASHES Ash Wednesday Adult Schola Mass for Five Voices - William Byrd Miserere Mei - William Byrd Emendemus in Melius - William Byrd February 20 7:30 FIVE FRIDAYS III Kathryn Guthrie (soprano), Adam Fry (bass-baritone) Andrew Hauze (piano) February 22 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Lent 1 Trebles & Adult Choir The Ballad of the Judas Tree - Richard Lloyd Wash Me Throughly - Samuel Sebastian Wesley
March 1 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Lent 2 Adult Choir In the Departure of the Lord - John Bull Ave Verum Corpus - William Byrd March 8 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Lent 3 Trebles & Adult Schola Teach Me, O Lord - Thomas Attwood O for a Closer Walk with God - C.V. Stanford 4:30 ORGAN RECITAL Tate Addis The Yale Institute of Sacred Music - New Haven, CT 5:00 CHORAL EVENSONG Adult Choir Responses: Phillip Radcliffe Truro Service - Gabriel Jackson Like as the Hart - Herbert Howells March 15 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Lent 4 Adult Choir God So Loved the World - Bob Chilcott Ave Verum Corpus - Camille Saint-Saëns March 22 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Lent 5 Adult Schola Salvator Mundi - John Blow Miserere Mei - William Byrd
O ye Angels of the Lord, bless ye the Lord. Praise him, and magnify him for ever...
HOLY WEEK March 29 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Palm Sunday Trebles & Adult Choir Hosanna Filio David - Tomas Luis de Victoria Solus ad Victimam - Kenneth Leighton O Vos Omnes - Carlo Gesualdo 5:00 MEDITATIONS ON THE PASSION OF CHRIST Adult Choir The Lamentations - Edward Cuthbert Bairstow In Monte Oliveti - Orlande de Lassus God So Loved the World - Bob Chilcott O Vos Omnes - Carlo Gesualdo Drop, Drop, Slow Tears - Kenneth Leighton The Reproaches - John Sanders Jesus, So Lowly - Harold Friedell April 2 7:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Maundy Adult Choir Thursday Nos Autem Gloriari - Felice Anerio Thee We Adore - T. Frederick H. Candlyn O Salutaris Hostia - Camille Saint-Saëns April 3 12:00 HOLY EUCHARIST Good Friday Adult Schola The Passion according to St. John Zachary Wadsworth The Reproaches - Tomas Luis de Victoria Drop, Drop, Slow Tears - Kenneth Leighton
Easter April 4 7:30 HOLY EUCHARIST The Great Adult Choir Vigil of Easter Sing Ye to the Lord - E.C. Bairstow Haec Dies - William Byrd April 5 9 & 11 HOLY EUCHARIST Easter Day Trebles & Adult Choir Introit for Easter - Healey Willan On this Bright Easter Morn - Craig Phillips Haec Dies - William Byrd O Filii et Filiae - Volckmar Leisring
April 10 7:30 FIVE FRIDAYS IV Luosha Fang (violin), Ayane Kozasa (viola) Gabriel Cabezas (cello) April 12 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Easter 2 Adult Choir I Know that My Redeemer Liveth - G.F. Handel Come Ye Faithful - R.S. Thatcher April 19 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Easter 3 Trebles The Father’s Love - Simon Lole Risen Lord - Barry Rose 4:30 ORGAN RECITAL Edward Landin Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church 5:00 CHORAL EVENSONG Adult Choir Introit: The First Song of Moses - Orlando Gibbons Responses: Martin Neary Evening Service in d minor - T.A. Walmisley Sing Ye to the Lord - E.C. Bairstow April 26 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Easter 4 Adult Choir Greater Love Hath No Man - John Ireland Surrexit Pastor Bonus - Orlande de Lassus May 3 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Easter 5 Sung by the Choir of Trinity Church, Asbury Park, NJ Diane Caruso, Director of Music May 10 10:00 HOLY EUCHARIST Easter 6 Choristers & Adult Schola Most Glorious Lord of Life - William Henry Harris If Ye Love Me - Thomas Tallis 4:30 ORGAN RECITAL Karl Robson The Eastman School of Music - Rochester, NY
(May 10) 5:00 CHORAL EVENSONG Adult Choir Hail Gladdening Light - Charles Wood Responses: William Smith of Durham Evening Service in C - Bryan Kelly Sing Ye Faithful, Sing with Gladness - Richard Dirksen May 15 7:30 FIVE FRIDAYS V Luosha Fang (violin) and Sejoon Park (piano) May 17 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Easter 7 Adult Choir O Clap Your Hands - Ralph Vaughan Williams Ascendit Deus - Peter Philips May 24 10:30 HOLY EUCHARIST Pentecost Adult Choir The Spirit of the Lord is Upon Me - Edward Elgar O Thou Sweetest Source - Charles Wood
O ye servants of the Lord, bless ye the Lord. Praise him, and magnify him for ever...
MAKE A DONATION SUPPORT THE CHOIRS If you wish to support the choirs of Saint Paul’s Church, donations are welcome at anytime. Though the parish budget generously supports music on Sunday mornings, choral evensong services are made possible by the plate offering at Evensong and by generous contributions. Please help us keep the Evensong tradition alive. SUPPORT THE ORGAN If you wish to support the Organ Saint Paul’s Church, you can do so by making a contribution to the Ann Stookey Fund for Music at Saint Paul’s Church. The Ann Stookey Fund for Music, established in 2012, will endow in perpetuity the unique character of our landmark Aeolian-Skinner Organ. This fund, once fully realized, will ensure the ongoing maintenance required to keep the organ in excellent repair in addition to funding projects that further the use and integrity of Saint Paul’s incredible Aeolian-Skinner Pipe Organ. A committed member of the Saint Paul’s choir, Ann Stookey (1952-2012) held Saint Paul’s Aeolian-Skinner Organ in high regard, and this instrument played a major role in her musical experience that she valued greatly. Upon her death, Ann’s family and friends set up a fund in her memory that will secure the future condition of the organ, enabling others to enjoy it as much as she did. The maintenance costs of such an instrument are substantial, and this fund will allow Saint Paul’s Music to continue into the future. Donations of any size are helpful, and may be sent to: Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church Ann Stookey Fund for Music -or- Evensong Fund 22 East Chestnut Hill Avenue Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19118 When writing checks, please designate your intention in the memo line. Contributors to the Ann Stookey Fund for Music of $1,000 or more are eligible to “adopt” one of the stops on the Saint Paul’s Organ. Requests for further information regarding giving to Saint Paul’s Music and to the Ann Stookey Fund for Music, including inquiries into making a planned gift should be addressed to Zach Hemenway, Director of Music and Organist at: zhemenway@stpaulschestnuthill.org or 215-242-2055 x35.
Saint Paul’s Music Staff The Reverend E. Clifford Cutler, Rector of Saint Paul’s Zachary Fritsch-Hemenway, Director of Music and Organist zhemenway@stpaulschestnuthill.org 215-242-2055, ext. 35 Joseph Russell, Organ Scholar jrussell@stpaulschestnuthill.org Karen Richter, Cherub Choir Leader and 9 am Cantor krichter@stpaulschestnuthill.org Barbie Kimberly Choir Librarian Diana Moro Choir Dinners and Chorister Vestments Lorraine Knudson Adult Vestments Kate MacArdle, Lorraine Knudson, Hildy Montaigne, & Alix Jones Chorister & Liturgy Training
Saint Paul’s Music Guild Dale Lower, Chair Jim Bondelid Cynthia Clowery Jeanette Cord Janice Fiore Zach Fritsch-Hemenway Joyce Hyde Tim Kiser Lorraine Knudson Anne Martinez Diana Moro Stephen Pearson Kristen Poole Arabella Pope Karen Richter