Dedicatory Recital
of the
West Parish Memorial Pipe Organ
by Kent Tritle, Concert Organist
Installed by Mander Organs Ltd in February 2005
Friday, June 24, 2005 at 7:30 p.m.
The historic 1717 West Parish Meetinghouse
2049 Meetinghouse Way (Route 149), West Barnstable, MA
Reception to follow in Jenkins Hall
Admission: FREE
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Kent Tritle is one of the leading choral conductors and organists in New York City today.
He is founder and music director of Sacred Music in a Sacred Space, the acclaimed series of choral/orchestral concerts and organ music now in its sixteenth season at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola.
In more than 100 concerts the series has presented the broadest imaginable scope of sacred music, from chant to masterworks to important premieres, performed by the acclaimed Choir and Orchestra of St. Ignatius Loyola.
Kent Tritle is Organist of the New York Philharmonic and the American Symphony Orchestra.
With The Philharmonic he has recorded Brahm's Ein Deutsches Requiem, Britten's War Requiem and Henze's Symphony No.9 conducted by Kurt Masur, as well as the Grammy-nominated Sweeney Todd conducted by Andrew Litton.
He has performed with most all the conductors on the Philharmonic's roster.
He is featured on the Cala label's "New York Legends" series with principal players of the New York Philharmonic, and on the AMDG, Epiphany, Gothic, VAI and Telarc labels.
He has produced "Glorious Pipes", a compendium of great organ music, for Universal Classics.
He is also a regular guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
He has performed as recitalist in Asia and Europe, most recently in France and Holland.
Recitals include those at the Leipzig Gewandthaus, the Zurich Tonhalle and at St. Sulpice in Paris.
Mr. Tritle's artistic collaborations include those with Susanne Mentzer, Susan Graham, Reneé Fleming (for BBC Wales), Jesse Norman, Sherrill Milnes, Marilyn Horne, Tony Randall and Hei-Kyung Hong, André Previn and Yo-Yo Ma..
At St. Ignatius Loyola, where Mr. Tritle is Director of Music Ministries, he oversees a program that annually produces more than 400 liturgies with music.
Since 1989 he has led the professional choir there to critical acclaim and developed the 70-voice volunteer Parish Community Choir.
He was artistic consultant on the design and installation in 1993 of the church's four-manual, 68-stop mechanical action organ.
He has graduate and undergraduate degrees from The Juilliard School in organ performance and choral conducting and has been on the faculty there since 1996, currently directing a graduate practicum on oratorio in collaboration with the Vocal Arts Department.
As a popular figure in the music world, Kent has been a featured personality on ABC World News Tonight, National Public Radio and Minnesota Public Radio, as well as in The New York Times and numerous other radio and print appearances and interviews.
Mr. Tritle was from 1996-2004 Music Director of the Emmy-nominated Dessoff Choirs, winners of the ASCAP/Chorus America award for adventurous programming of contemporary music.
Under his direction Dessoff sang with the Cleveland Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, American Symphony Orchestra, and the Czech Philharmonic.
They appeared regularly in Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, including the nationally telecast Live from Lincoln Center performance of Mozart's Requiem in 2001.
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Organ Recital by Stephen May, DMA
Sunday, July 17, 2005 at 7:30 p.m.
Reception to follow in Jenkins Hall
Admission: FREE
Organist Stephen May received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Cornell University, where he studied organ with Donald R. M. Paterson, and composition with Robert Palmer and Steven Stucky.
His training in composition led to a strong commitment to observing faithfully all of the markings in the score, especially tempo.
This has often resulted in unusual and lively interpretations departing significantly from traditional renditions.
These interpretations are further grounded in a scholarly understanding of the instruments and performance practices of the composer's time.
His publications include studies on early 16th-century French organ registration and on the organ chorales of Johannes Brahms.
Since 1997, Dr. May has been the organist and choirmaster for the Cathedral of Our Merciful Saviour (Faribault, MN), the first cathedral in the Episcopal Church .
He is an active recitalist, noted for programming unusual and seldom-heard works, both old and new.
In 2002 he provided the organ accompaniment for performances of the complete Nutcracker ballet, working from his own transcriptions.
His repertory ranges from western classical to jazz and works inspired by other world cultures.
He also performs regularly with Javanese gamelan.
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An Advent Organ Recital
with T. Joseph Marchio
Guest Artists: Sarah Elizabeth Bach, Soprano
and Sarah Ford Marchio, Bagpipes
Friday, December 2, 2005 at 7:30 p.m.
Holiday Reception to follow in Jenkins Hall
Suggested Donation: $10
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A Father's Day Organ Recital
by Lois Z. Toeppner
Guest Artist: Sarah Elizabeth Bach, Soprano
Sunday, June 18, 2006 at 4:00 p.m.
Reception to follow in Jenkins Hall
Suggested Donation: $10
Lois Toeppner, an Associate in Ministry in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, is the Minister of Music at St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church, Sudbury. Her undergraduate degree was from Central Michigan University. Additional musical studies were taken at Wayne State University, Carroll College, Alverno College, and Westminster Choir College. She recently received the Master of Music in Organ Performance degree from The Boston Conservatory.
Lois has been heard in solo organ recitals at Methuen Memorial Music Hall, Worcester's Mechanics Hall, Boston's Old South Church, and area churches throughout New England. She frequently accompanies choral groups, including Assabet Valley Mastersingers, Worcester Mastersingers, and the Central MA District Honors Chorus. She has performed as an accompanist and soloist with the Myron Heaton Chorale of Nevada on several European tours. She will again join with the Chorale in August 2006 for a European tour which includes performances in England, France, and Austria.
Ms. Toeppner is active in the American Guild of Organists and serves as Region Councillor for the New England states. She is a member of Worcester and Boston Chapters, American Guild of Organists, and holds memberships in the American Choral Directors Association, the American Guild of Handbell Ringers and Delta Omicron Professional Music Fraternity.
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Organ Recital
by Douglas Bruce
Guest Artist: Sarah Elizabeth Bach, Soprano
Friday, October 27, 2006 at 7:30 p.m.
Reception to follow in Jenkins Hall
Suggested Donation: $10
Douglas Bruce was born in Perth, Scotland, and educated in Edinburgh at George Watson’s College and later Fettes College (Tony Blair’s old school). After leaving school he received organ tuition from the Scottish organist John Walker and held appointments in Edinburgh as organist/choirmaster at Augustine United Church (1960-62) and Reid Memorial Church (1962-65).
In 1965 he moved to London, becoming assistant organist at St. Columba’s Church of Scotland, Pont Street.
Meanwhile he continued organ studies with Noel Rawsthorne, obtaining the ARCO, ARCM (with honours) and LRAM diplomas.
In 1969 he appeared at Kelvingrove Art Galleries, Glasgow, at the invitation of Glasgow Society of Organists, and gave the premiere in Germany of “Invocations” by William Mathias - which he played subsequently at an Edinburgh University recital.
Since 1974 Douglas has lived in Switzerland.
His concert activity on the continent has included recitals in the cathedrals of Geneva and Berne (broadcast live) as well as appearances in Spain and Italy. Currently organist at St Franz Xaver Church in Münchenstein, and at the City of Basel Cemetery, he is woken each day at six o’clock (and again at seven) by the bells of Arlesheim Cathedral, on whose world-famous Silbermann organ he has also played in public.
A return visit in 2002 to Edinburgh’s McEwan Hall marked Douglas’ first UK recital for over 30 years, and was followed in the summer of 2003 by appearances at Truro Cathedral, Cornwall, and at the cathedrals of St. Mary (Episcopal) and St Giles (Church of Scotland) in Edinburgh.
November 2003 marked his first tour in the USA with four recitals, including St Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco, and Harvard University’s Busch-Reisinger Museum, and he concluded the year with a return visit to the cathedral of Switzerland’s capital city, Berne.
After 20 years’ professional absence he marked his return to Germany last year with four recitals, including a programme of 18C English music on the newly-restored Silbermann organ at Villingen (Black Forest) and a programme of early 19C German organ music at the Marktkirche in Wiesbaden.
In May 2004 he gave a recital in St Columba’s Church of Scotland, London, to celebrate the rededication of the 1956 Walker organ, and in June paid a return visit to Truro Cathedral. During 2005 he has visited the cathedral of Ulm and the principal churches of Hannover and Karlsruhe, and will participate in the Prague Organ Festival later in the year.
A further tour in the USA in autumn 2004 included recitals at St. Luke’s Cathedral, Orlando; Westminster Presbyterian Church, Albany; Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York City, Christ Church Cathedral, Indianpolis and St James Cathedral, Toronto.
Upcoming visits will take Douglas to St Mary’s Cathedral, Memphis; Trinity Episcopal Church, Reno; the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles; St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco (return visit); St. Thomas’ Church, Fifth Avenue, New York;, and St. James United Church, Montreal.
Invitations to play are also outstanding from the National Cathedral in Washington DC, and Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago (which houses the city’s largest organ).
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An Advent Organ Recital
with T. Joseph Marchio
Guest Artists: Sarah Elizabeth Bach, Soprano
Sarah Ford Marchio, Bagpipes
West Parish Ringers (Handbell Choir)
under the direction of Babette F. Bach
Friday, December 1, 2006 at 7:30 p.m.
Holiday Reception to follow in Jenkins Hall
Suggested Donation: $10
West Barnstable Tree Lighting
and Community Carol Sing
with
Babette F. Bach,
Director of Music and Organist
The Brentwood Brass
T. Joseph Marchio, Guest Organist
West Parish Ringers (Handbell Choir)
Sunday, December 3, 2006 at 5:00 p.m.
Reception to follow in Jenkins Hall
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Organ Recital
with James Jordan, DMA
Sunday, May 6, 2007 at 3:00 p.m.
Reception to follow in Jenkins Hall
Suggested Donation: $10
James Jordan has performed as an organ accompanist and soloist throughout the United States, Eastern and Western Europe, and was one of the first American organists to concertize in Siberia.
Cited as performing both "authoritatively and sensitively" by the Boston Globe, and by the American Record Guide as a "superb performer," Jordan is currently Artist-in-Residence for the Gloriæ Dei Artes Foundation, and frequently performs and records with the choir, Gloriæ Dei Cantores as organ soloist, accompanist, and assistant conductor.
Jordan earned his Bachelor of Music Degree from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, studying with Robert Anderson and acting as accompanist for the University Choir.
As a student of David Craighead, he received his Masters Degree, Doctorate and Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.
While in Rochester, Dr. Jordan served as Choirmaster/Organist for Parkminster Presbyterian Church.
He also worked as a teaching assistant in the music theory department of the Eastman School, and accompanied the Eastman Chorale and Eastman-Rochester Chorus.
Jordan has published in the American Choral Review and was a contributing author to American Sacred Choral Music- An Overview and Handbook (Paraclete Press, 2001).
Jordan is a past Dean of The Cape Cod Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, and holds membership in the musical fraternities Pi Kappa Lambda (National Honorary Music Fraternity) and Mu Phi Epsilon (International Professional Music Fraternity).
Annual Christmas Organ Recital
with T. Joseph Marchio
Guest Artists: Sarah Elizabeth Bach, Soprano
The Carillon Handbell Choir
The West Parish Ringers (Handbell Choir)
under the direction of Babette F. Bach,
Director of Music and Organist
Friday, November 30, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.
Holiday Reception to follow in Jenkins Hall
Suggested Donation: $10
Charleston, West Virginia native, T. Joseph Marchio recently completed a Master of Divinity degree at Yale
University through the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.
Joseph is the Director of the Sandwich High School "Style" choir, an auditioned choir ensemble and the Sandwich Middle School Chorus.
He is also the Director of Music and Organist at the First Congregational Church in Chatham, Massachusetts, having served churches in Connecticut, Ohio, and West Virginia.
He has performed with choirs and as an organ soloist throughout the east coast
and Midwestern states. He and his wife, Sarah, reside in Harwich, Massachusetts with their son Thomas.
Joseph's organ studies at Yale were with Dr. Martin Jean and choral conducting
studies with Marguerite Brooks. He holds both a Bachelor of Arts degree in
Religious Studies and a Bachelor of Music degree in Organ Performance from
The College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. At Wooster, he was inducted into
Pi Kappa Lambda, a music honorary, awarded the Theodore Presser Scholarship,
and was twice the recipient of the Richard T. Gore Prize for organ students.
Organ studies at Wooster were with John Russell and Dr. Thomas Gouwens.
Joseph also studied organ with Todd Wilson at the Cleveland Institute of
Music during his last year at Wooster. Other organ teachers include E. Wayne Eich of Charleston, West Virginia and David Higgs of the Eastman School of Music in
Rochester, New York.
During his studies at Wooster, he was involved in singing with and conducting
the Wooster Chorus and the Wooster Choral Union. In 2002 and 2003, he conducted
Handel's Messiah and Faure's Requiem with orchestra in Connecticut. In the
coming year he will be performing concerts in Chatham, Falmouth, Harwich, Sandwich and West Barnstable, Massachusetts; Wallingford, Connecticut; Charleston, West Virginia; Chicago, Iillinois; New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Canada.
and Chicago, Illinois.
Soprano Sarah Elizabeth Bach has sung internationally appearing in Somerset, Hampshire, Salisbury, Kent and Oxfordshire, England as well as North Wales.
In the U.S., Sarah has performed for Music and Musings "At the Meetinghouse" at the historic 1717 West Parish Meetinghouse in West Barnstable, Massachusetts.
In addition, she has been a frequent guest artist of the West Parish Organ Recital Series appearing with national and international concert organists.
Other guest artist appearances include programs sponsored by Boston University's Seminar in the Arts, programs sponsored by Friends of the South Harwich Meetinghouse in Chatham and Harwich, Massachusetts and Christmas at Blithewold at the Blithewold Mansions, Gardens and Arboretum in Bristol, Rhode Island.
She continues to freelance as a soloist in concert and recital settings in New England and serves as a soloist for churches on Cape Cod.
On the Cape, she has served as concert soloist for both the Woods Hole Cantata Consort and The Cape Cod Chorale.
She also serves as a soprano soloist and section leader for the choir of the West Parish Congregational Church at the historic 1717 West Parish Meetinghouse in West Barnstable, Massachusetts.
Sarah has studied with Karyl Ryczek (Chair of Voice Department for the Longy School of Music, Cambridge, MA),
Celina Moore (Artistic Director for the Foliage Art Song Festival of the Vermont Opera Theater, Montpelier, VT),
Dr. Sherry Overholt,
Ruthann Ryan Hellfach (President of the Cape Cod Opera), and received coaching from
Melinda Crane, Robert Gartside, Brian Moll, Eda Mazo-Shlyam and Jane Struss.
She has also participated in masterclasses with Anna Gabrieli, Martin Katz, Sondra Kelly, composer Lori Laitman, Karl Paulnack and Lynn Torgrove.
Sarah is a candidate for the Master of Music degree in Voice at The Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
She holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Voice Performance from the
University of Massachusetts where she studied with Boston soprano, Karyl Ryczek.
She also received vocal and music education training from The Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford in West Hartford, CT and The Crane School of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam.
While at Hartt, Sarah was inducted into Sigma Alpha Iota International Professional Music Fraternity for Women.
She was also honored with a music award in performance during her studies at the College of the Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.
In 2007 and 2008, she will concertize in Boston, Cambridge, Harwich and West Barnstable, Massachusetts; Red Cloud, Nebraska; Charleston, West Virginia; New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Canada.
Babette F. Bach is the Director of Music and Organist for West Parish of Barnstable. She is a graduate of Brown University with a degree in music with piano and organ as her instrument. While at Brown, she studied organ with William Dinneen. She currently studies organ with concert organist, Dr. James Jordan. She has participated in masterclasses with Ken Cowan, Dr. James David Christie and Heinrich Christensen. She has previously served as an accompanist for Falmouth Chorale and Cape Cod Chorale. Mrs. Bach has 30 years experience as a music educator having worked as an elementary and classroom teacher as well as music teacher within the public school systems of (Providence) Rhode Island, (Westport and Saugatuck) Connecticut and Pennsylvania. In the same amount of time, she has worked as a church musician in other congregational churches and continues her ministry of music here at West Parish. In 2003, she served as Assistant Coordinator for the Region I Convention of the American Guild of Organists held on Cape Cod. Mrs. Bach is a past Dean of the Cape Cod and the Islands Chapter of the American Guild of Organists as well as being a member of the United Church of Christ Musicians Association and the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers.
The West Parish Ringers is a 5 octave handbell choir under the direction of Babette F. Bach. The majority of the ringers have rung together for eight years.
The group has concertized in the West Barnstable community as well as The New Church of the Yarmouth Historical Society, The First Congregational Church of Yarmouth, Christ the King Parish for the Cape Cod Council of Churches and the Friends Society of Sandwich.
The group is a member of the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers (AGEHR). The group also offers its services for weddings. Members of the choir include Sarah Bach, Patricia Beal, Cassie Haven, Ellie Held, Joyce Joakim, Kim Moberg, Susan Moeller, Mary Stepita, Stanley and Kathleen Warren
West Barnstable Tree Lighting
and Community Carol Sing
with
Babette F. Bach,
Director of Music and Organist
The Brentwood Brass
T. Joseph Marchio, Guest Organist
West Parish Ringers (Handbell Choir)
Sunday, December 2, 2007 at 5:00 p.m.
Reception to follow in Jenkins Hall
Babette F. Bach is the Director of Music and Organist for West Parish of Barnstable. She is a graduate of Brown University with a degree in music with piano and organ as her instrument. While at Brown, she studied organ with William Dinneen. She currently studies organ with concert organist, Dr. James Jordan. She has participated in masterclasses with Ken Cowan, Dr. James David Christie and Heinrich Christensen. She has previously served as an accompanist for Falmouth Chorale and Cape Cod Chorale. Mrs. Bach has 30 years experience as a music educator having worked as an elementary and classroom teacher as well as music teacher within the public school systems of (Providence) Rhode Island, (Westport and Saugatuck) Connecticut and Pennsylvania. In the same amount of time, she has worked as a church musician in other congregational churches and continues her ministry of music here at West Parish. In 2003, she served as Assistant Coordinator for the Region I Convention of the American Guild of Organists held on Cape Cod. Mrs. Bach is a past Dean of the Cape Cod and the Islands Chapter of the American Guild of Organists as well as being a member of the United Church of Christ Musicians Association and the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers.
The Brentwood Brass quintet is a Cape Cod based ensemble of professional musicians and academics who are dedicated to exploring the multifaceted literature of the brass quintet world and presenting this music to audiences in Southeastern Massachusetts.
The musicians strive for the highest level of musical performance and present concerts, recitals, music for weddings, church services and for ceremonies and special occasions throughout the area and occasionally beyond.
The group plays transcriptions and original compositions of music ranging from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries and from popular to classical genres.
The West Parish Ringers is a 5 octave handbell choir under the direction of Babette F. Bach. The majority of the ringers have rung together for eight years.
The group has concertized in the West Barnstable community as well as The New Church of the Yarmouth Historical Society, The First Congregational Church of Yarmouth, Christ the King Parish for the Cape Cod Council of Churches and the Friends Society of Sandwich.
The group is a member of the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers (AGEHR). The group also offers its services for weddings. Members of the choir include Sarah Bach, Patricia Beal, Cassie Haven, Ellie Held, Joyce Joakim, Kim Moberg, Susan Moeller, Mary Stepita, Stanley and Kathleen Warren
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Organ Recital
with Brittany Haskell
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
Reception to follow in Jenkins Hall
Suggested Donation: $10
Brittany Haskell will be starting a new position in August as Music Director at the Church of the Messiah, located in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. There she will be responsible for conducting both the adult and children’s choirs, as well as playing the organ for services. Ms. Haskell holds a Master’s degree in organ performance from Westminster Choir College in Princeton NJ, where she studied organ with Alan Morrison. She received her Bachelor’s degrees in Organ Performance and Music Education from the University of Southern Maine, studying organ with Ray Cornils. Prior to her organ studies, she took piano lessons with Robert Noyes. Until she moved back north this spring, Ms. Haskell served as music director at Grace Episcopal Church in Nutley NJ, where she directed the adult and children’s choirs and played the organ for services. Also during her time in New Jersey, she was the Graduate Assistant to the Organ Department at Westminster, and taught piano and organ lessons privately.
Ms. Haskell has performed various recitals in the northeast: her most recent recitals were at West Parish Meetinghouse in West Barnstable, MA, Grace Church in Nutley, and she appeared in Princeton University Chapel’s noon-time concert series last spring. Last summer, she performed in a noontime concert at the Jack Singer Concert Hall in Calgary, AB, as one of the organists selected from Mount Royal College’s International Summer School 2007. Ms. Haskell has won various awards including the Joan Lippincott Competition for Excellence in Organ Performance (2007) at WCC, the Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ Memorial Scholarship (2005 & 2006), and the organ award in The Maine Federation of Music Club’s Anne Gannett Scholarship Competition (2003).
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The West Parish Organ Recital Series is a series of organ recitals and concerts featuring the newly installed West Parish Memorial Pipe Organ.
This series is run by the West Parish Memorial Foundation Inc. The West Parish Organ Recital Series is part of the broader cultural programming,
Music and Musings "At the Meetinghouse" which offers a variety of musical and literary events to the West Barnstable community as well as Cape Cod and the Islands.
For more information about the West Parish Organ Project, please click here. To view the specifications of the Mander organ, please click here.
Contact information
General Inquiries: programs@westparishmemorialfoundation.org
Artist Inquiries: programs@westparishmemorialfoundation.org
Concert Series Information: pr@westparishmemorialfoundation.org
Music and Musings "At the Meetinghouse" or West Parish Organ Recital Series
If you are an artist that is interested in offering a concert or program, please send materials to the Chair of the Program Committee by sending an email to programs@westparishmemorialfoundation.org
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