CONCERTS AT ST. CHRYSOSTOM’S

MUSIC IN LENT

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RICHARD BARRICK HOSKINS

THOMAS COLAO ORGANISTS

SUNDAY , 14 MARCH 2021

7:00 P.M.

ST . CHRYSOSTOM ’S CHURCH

CHICAGO

MUSIC IN LENT

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Jesus Christus, unser Heiland Johann Sebastian Bach

Jesus Christ, our Saviour, turned away God’s wrath forever; As His pledge of love undying

He, this precious food supplying, Gives His body with the bread

And with the wine the blood He shed.

Contemplation Alec Rowley Prélude sur l’Attende Domine Jeanne Demessieux

“Hear us, O Lord, and have mercy upon us, for we have sinned against thee.”

O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig Johann Sebastian Bach

O Lamb of God, most stainless! Who on the Cross didst languish, Patient through all Thy sorrows.

Though mocked amid Thine anguish; Our sins Thou bearest for us, Else had despair reigned o'er us:

1. & 2. Have mercy upon us, O Jesu! 3. Grant us Thy peace today, O Jesu!

In Quiet Mood Florence Price

Psalm Prelude No. 1 Herbert Howells

I called in my affliction and the Lord heard me and saved me from all my troubles. Psalm 34:6

Litanies Jehan Alain

“When the Christian soul, in its distress, can no longer find new words to implore the mercy of God, it repeats without ceasing the same invocation with a profound faith. Reason has reached its limit. Only faith can go further.”

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J. S. Bach’s setting of the Communion chorale Jesus Christus, unser Heiland (Jesus Christ, our Saviour) sung during the Lutheran service, is from his great collection of chorale preludes written during his years at Weimar, later revised in Leipzig, and known as the Eighteen Great or Leipzig Chorales, the collection summing up the mature Bach’s most profound thoughts on faith and spirituality. Written in a rich and chromatic style, the work sets the chorale melody in an imitative and increasingly complex manner. The melody is heard in long notes played in the pedals under contrapuntal lines containing elements of each phrase of the chorale melody. It’s interesting to hear this great work played in contrast and comparison to the Brahms Fuge which follows: in its harmonically complex and rich texture it seems very modern, in a late 19th century, Brahmsian, manner. The text of the chorale:

Jesus Christ, our Saviour, turned away God’s wrath forever; As His pledge of love undying

He, this precious food supplying, Gives His body with the bread

And with the wine the blood He shed. Alec Rowley was a highly respected English musician and composer, also known as a Fellow and Professor of Trinity College, Cambridge, as well as a member of the management committee of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He composed a large number of works, among them orchestral works including two symphonies for organ. He was also an author and wrote educational works such as Extemporization: A Treatise for Organists. He held three organ positions in London, most notably St. Margaret’s, Westminster. Jeanne Dèmessieux (1921-1968), one the 20th century’s most acclaimed French virtuosos was Organiste Titulaire at the Madeleine, Paris. A student of Marcel Dupré, she had a brilliant performing and composing career, until her early death. Her music, influenced by the richness of styles current in the 1940-60’s, is marked by lush harmony and a willingness to explore unusual tonalities. beautiful line, and a willingness to explore unusual tonalities. In Attende Domine, one of 12 preludes written on Gregorian hymns, the melody of the plainchant is heard in the soprano voice, accompanied by rich and solemn chord progressions.

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O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig is the seventh chorale in Bach’s great collection of chorale preludes written during his years at Weimar, later revised in Leipzig, and known as the Eighteen Great or Leipzig Chorales. This marvelous collection, along with the Clavierübung (Third Part), sums up the mature Bach’s most profound thoughts on faith and spirituality. This beautiful chorale melody, to which the German text of the Agnus Dei is sung, is set in three sections. In the three verses of this glorious chorale prelude Bach invokes the Trinity by utilizing the same structure he employs in many of his tri-partite works: the chorale melody is placed in the Soprano voice for the first verse (God the Father), in the middle voice for the second verse (God the Son), and in the pedal for the final verse (God the Holy Spirit). Each verse is an extraordinary example of text-painting, most notably in the third section where the text speaks of the crucifixion: the harmony becomes quite dissonant and tortured. The ending coda, during which the text asks for peace, is a brilliant improvisatory toccata.

Florence B. Price (1887-1953), born in Little Rock, and a long-time resident of Chicago, was the first African-American composer to be recognized as an important symphonic composer and to have her work premiered by The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Frederick Stock conducting. After studies at the New England Conservatory of Music and her move to Chicago, she furthered her studies in composition, organ and orchestra at Chicago Musical College, the University of Chicago and American Conservatory with Leo Sowerby, Arthur Olaf Anderson and others. Her work was quickly recognized as important and she began winning important prizes and her work heard nationally. In a Quiet Mood is one of her many organ works, written in her rich and melodic style, setting a beautifully lyric melody over an undulating accompaniment.

Herbert Howells (1892-1983) remains one of the most individual and remarkable composers of 20th century English and Anglican music. His music is marked by a unique and modal harmonic language, brilliant text-painting, a strong element of drama, an orchestral sense of registration and a clear affinity towards the choirs, organs and setting for which his various works are composed. The Psalm Prelude No. 1 is one of six organ such settings. This dark work, full of brooding harmonies, builds to a full organ expression of triumph over despair, ending in quiet meditation.

Jehan Alain (1911-1940) was one of several outstanding French composers and organists active between World Wars I and II. At the Paris Conservatoire he studied organ with Marcel Dupré, and composition with Paul Dukas and Jean Roger-Ducasse. The combined influences of Charles Tournemire (Organist at St. Clotilde), his discovery of Eastern music, and the revelation of playing an 18th century organ, resulted in a colorful compositional turn from the 19th century French Symphonic Tradition. His works are marked by complex rhythms, exotic colorations and intense harmonies. The work eventually entitled Litainies began its life as a piano piece but he soon rewrote it for the organ. with its insistent theme, which we hear at the beginning. This insistent theme is repeated in more intense and rhythmic variations, portraying the soul’s unending supplication expressing the fervour of the Christian soul imploring God in times of great crisis. The work ends on an unresolved chord, signifying that faith continues to silently implore God when prayer is finished. Two weeks after the death of his sister Odile, Alain appended the brief and heartfelt text which we have printed with the title.

WELCOME TO ST. CHRYSOSTOM’S _____________________________________________________________

We are delighted to virtually welcome you online to St. Chrysostom’s Church as we continue our 2020-2021 season and our celebration of the 15th anniversary of the arrival of C. B. Fisk’s Opus 123. This concert is the twelfth this season celebrating this glorious instrument and the ninth of several concerts we are presenting online each month. Please see the announcement on Page 10 of upcoming concerts and information about this season’s concerts.

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Join us online each Sunday for our livestreams broadcast on YouTube. You can watch via the link on our Facebook page posted at 10 :45 A.M. each Sunday: https://www.facebook.com/StChrysChicago

or go directly to our YouTube Channel : St. Chrysostom’s https://bit.ly/stchrysyoutube 10:55 A.M. Organ Prelude 11:00 A.M. Holy Eucharist A carillon recital is played each Sunday at 12 :15 P.M. by Kimberly Schafer or Jim Fackenthal on our beautiful 43-bell Gillett & Johnston carillon. It is livestreamed from our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/StChrysChicago

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Richard Barrick Hoskins was appointed Director of Music, Organist

& Carillonneur of St. Chrysostom's Episcopal Church, Chicago, in 1984. He leads the music program which includes a 16-voice professional choir, a volunteer parish choir, and two children’s choirs, as well as Concerts at St. Chrysostom’s which presents international, national, and Chicago artists: organists, period instrument groups, choirs, and carillonneurs. The series prominently features the organ built in 2005 by C. B. Fisk, Inc., of Gloucester, Massachusetts.

He has an active career as a concert artist both here and Europe. He has appeared as organist with the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Lyric Opera Chorus, the Chicago Symphony Brass, Music of the Baroque, the Aestas Consort, the William Ferris Chorale, Chicago Choral Artists, St. James’ Chamber Orchestra, Gaudete Brass Quintet, Asbury Brass Quintet and the Millar Brass Ensemble. Notable recitals in Europe have included three recitals at St. Sulpice, Paris, and at York Minster, York, England. He has accompanied choirs for six week-long residencies in England at Wells Cathedral, Durham Cathedral, Lincoln Cathedral, Worcester Cathedral, and Salisbury Cathedral, as well as residencies at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, and The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City.

He was appointed Assistant Professor of Organ & Harpsichord at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb in 1995 where he taught until 2008. From 2007-2016 he was College Organist at Carthage College, Kenosha, Wisconsin, where he taught organ and church music.

He has been heard on Pipedreams, the nationally syndicated radio program produced by Minnesota Public Radio. His recordings include live concert recordings at St. Chrysostom’s, with the Music of Baroque, the Choir of the Lutheran Theological Seminary of Chicago, and with St. James Cathedral.  He is the Organist on the DVD of the 2007 Christmas Concert by Music of the Baroque, produced and broadcast by Channel 11 WTTW and national PBS stations. 

He is a regular contributor to The Diapson, the respected organ journal, writing reviews of choral music and other articles.

He received his Bachelor and Masters of Music degree from Northwestern University in 1976 and 1989 (William H. Barnes Scholar & Pi Kappa Lambda). In 1979 he was awarded two scholarships by the French government for organ study in France with Daniel Roth, then Organiste-Titulaire of the Basilica du Sacre-Couer, now Organiste-Titulaire of St. Sulpice, with whom he also studied at the Summer Academy for Organists in Haarlem, Holland, in 1977. During the summer of 1992, he studied at Clare College, Cambridge, at the Cambridge Choral Studies Seminar.

Thomas Colao enjoys a diverse musical career as an organist, conductor, and classical singer.

He was appointed the Associate Director of Music at St. Chrysostom’s Episcopal Church in Chicago in September 2019, where he helps to lead all aspects of the church’s renowned sacred music program, including overseeing the Children’s Chorister program, assisting in the direction of the professional Choir of St. Chrysostom’s Church, as well as the volunteer Parish Choir, and playing the church’s landmark organ, Fisk Op. 123, in worship services and recital programs.

Prior to this appointment, he served as Director of Music & Organist at All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Princeton, New Jersey, where he oversaw all aspects of the church’s active music ministry, including a re-built Children’s Chorister program as well as one of the premier Adult Choir programs in the Diocese of New Jersey. During this time, he also served as Associate Conductor of the Continuo Arts Foundation in Summit, NJ; as Music Director for then-Princeton based Opera MODO; and as accompanist for the Princeton Pro Musica symphonic chorus.

Since relocating to the Chicago area in August of 2018, he has been active as an organ recitalist and collaborative pianist, and also serves as Associate Conductor of the Northwest Choral Society. He held the post of Principal Organist & Choral Accompanist at Grace Church in Naperville, Illinois, from 2018 - 2019.

As a professional choral artist, he is currently on the roster of the Grammy®-nominated Kinnara Ensemble, based in Princeton and Atlanta (for which he has also served as accompanist), and the choral ensemble Brevitas, based in Salt Lake City. Colao attended the Mannes College of Music, where he studied choral conducting with Mark Shapiro and vocal performance with Beth Roberts, as well as Westminster Choir College, where he studied organ with Matthew Lewis, and was a member of the renowned Westminster Choir, serving as a singer and accompanist on two national tours, and appearing with the Choir at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC, where he made his professional operatic debut as ‘Le Chansonnier’ in Charpentier’s Louise.

He holds the certificate of Associate of the American Guild of Organists, which he received in 2016. In his spare time, he enjoys composing and arranging for choirs and instruments, and is also an avid outdoorsman.

THE FISK ORGAN _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The culmination of a 2-year project to rebuild or replace the 1979 M. P. Moeller organ, our glorious new organ, built by C. B. Fisk Organs of Gloucester, Massachusetts, was installed September 2004 and dedicated February 25, 2005.

On a bright, sunny day – September 12, 2004 – a huge semi-truck from Gloucester, Massachusetts pulled up to our curb at 10:58 A.M. and after the 11 :00 A.M. service, we all gathered in the courtyard to enjoy Ron Franklin’s BBQ. After lunch 112 of us began to carry the thousands of organ parts into the church. The truck was empty by 9:30 P.M. that evening, and early next morning the assembly of the organ began. About five weeks later we heard the first voiced stop (8’ Octave of the Great) at a service.

The organ is direct mechanical action with electric slider chests for certain large pipes. The handsome case, designed by Charles Nazarian, is African mahogany, the console is quarter-sawn white oak, the draw-knobs are Cocobollo wood, the keys are bone and ebony, the front pipes are polished and hammered lead.

There are 24 voices, 33 ranks, 1,729 pipes, the manuals are 58-notes, the pedalboard is 30-notes, straight and concave. The stop-action is electrically controlled solenoids. There are 262 levels of SSL memory.

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C. B. FISK , INC . – OPUS 123

GLOUCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS

Michael B. Kraft - President Steven A. Dieck – Chairman of the Board

David C. Pike – Senior Vice President & Tonal Director Gregory R. Bover – Vice President for Operations

Andrew X. Gingery – Vice President-Project Manager

Pedal Great Swell 16’ Contrebasse 16’ Prestant 8’ Viole de Gambe 16’ Prestant Great 8’ Octave 8’ Voix Céleste 16’ Soubasse 8’ Spire Flute 8’ Bourdon 8’ Octave 4’ Octave 8’ Flûte Traversiere 8’ Bourdon 4’ Open Flute 4’ Prestant 4’ Super Octave 2’ Fifteenth 4’ Flûte Octaviante 16’ Trombone IV-VI Mixture 1 1/3’ 2’ Octavin 8’ Trumpet 8’ Trompette IV Plein Jeu 2’ II Cornet 16’ Bombarde 8’ Trompette 8’ Hautbois

The Organ is maintained by Dean Christian, Inc. With special thanks to Dean Christian, Martin Hill, and Ray Davidson

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Concerts at St. Chrysostom’s Church are made possible by the generosity of parishioners and friends. We thank all those who have contributed to and supported Concerts at St. Chrysostom’s.

We are profoundly grateful to all.

DANIEL ROTH – 4 FEBRUARY 2020 We thank the following parishioners and friends

whose gracious support has made this concert possible

David E. McNeel Lindsay Roberts & Richard W. Shepro

Thomas C. & Pamela Sheffield Gretchen & Michael Zook A Faithful Parish Family

THE F ISK SOCIETY We acknowledge and thank the following who have supported Music at St. Chrysostom’s

with significant and sustained annual gifts

Anne Brinsmade Mark & Pamela Marks John Covell & Constance Frydenlund Leland & Karen Meader Caroline Cracraft Alice Moss Jean & Victor Elting Thomas C. & Pamela Sheffield Mark & Laura Fisher Richard W. Shepro & Lindsay Roberts Richard & Marilyn Helmholz Jason Williams A Parish Family Gretchen & Michael Zook David E. McNeel

Clara & Gordon Lang – for their gracious gift of a Mason & Hamlin grand piano

THE FRIENDS OF MUSIC AT ST. CHR YSOSTOM ’S

John Bankhurst & Ryan Kin Martha & Rick Gano The Luby Family Anne Brinsmade Ginger & Del Hall Tobin & Libbet Richter Jeffrey J. Chester Laurie Hammel Jane Nicholl Sahlins John Craib-Cox Diane & David Hartt Karen & Mary Seda Susanna Jane Craib-Cox The Heaton Family Judith Stockdale & Jonathan Boyer James & Marilynn Fredericksen Michel & Ann Kadinsky-Cade The Van Alyea Family Hollis Fromm Katherine & James Kenny Angela Yorath

FUND-A-SUNDAY 2020 Friends of Music who supported our Choral Music for the Summer

Jon & Barbara Brightman The Fershee Family Leland & Karen Meader Anne Brinsmade Mrs. Helen Fisher Alice Moss Alexander & Isabelle Carpenter Mark Fisher Thomas C. & Pamela Sheffield Macol & José Cerda Karen Hagberg Lindsay Roberts & Richard W. Shepro Victor & Jean Elting Barbara T. Jones Gretchen & Michael Zook Tom & Liz Kohlbeck

CONCERTS AT ST. CHRYSOSTOM’S

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- CONCERTS AT ST. CHRYSOSTOM’S -

PRESENTED ON YOUTUBE AT 7:00 P.M.

March 14 - Music for Lent Richard Hoskins & Thomas Colao

April 18 - Music for Easter Richard Hoskins & Thomas Colao

Music by Tournemire, Farnum, Howells, Widor, Dandrieu & Others

May 16 - Chicago Composers Richard Hoskins plays music by Edward Eicker, Keith Kalemba, Marianne Kim,

Morgan Simmons, Leo Sowerby & Florence Price

June 6, 13 & 20 – Summer Carillon Festival Chicago carillonneurs play festive afternoon recitals

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The Rev. Peihan Peggy Lo Assistant Priest Richard Barrick Hoskins Director of Music & Organist

Thomas Colao Associate Director of Music & Organist The Choir of St. Chrysostom’s Church

St. Chrysostom’s Singers

The Children’s Choirs

Kimberly Schafer Carillonneur

James Fackenthal Carillonneur Erica Schuller Voice Teacher