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Trinity Episcopal Church 44 East Market St. Bethlehem PA  18018-5989 610-867-4741

Music and The Arts at Trinity Church
Concert Series
2003-2004
The Music and Arts Committee at Trinity Church is pleased to announce the church's 2003-2004 concert season.  Please plan to join us for what promises to be an exciting year.

Click here for 2004-2005 Series Click here for Completed Concerts - 2002-2003 Series


Satori

Saturday
September 20, 2003 - 7:30 p.m.
Satori
Chamber music ensemble
featuring flute, strings, and clarinet

SATORI is a professional chamber music ensemble performing regularly throughout the Eastern United States. Its mission is to explore traditional and contemporary repertoires, to present chamber music in an accessible fashion, maintaining a high standard of musical excellence, and to foster growth in chamber music appreciation through a regular series of public performances, special projects, and educational programs. The group was formed as a conductorless, musician-managed chamber ensemble in 1996, after its component musicians had performed together over a number of years. Since its inception, SATORI has performed full concert series, with appearances at colleges, museums, and major music festivals. The group's schedule includes in-school educational programming and multidisciplinary performance projects, as well as formal concerts and appearances by small, "cameo" ensembles. SATORI is a mixed ensemble of winds, strings, and piano. The group's repertoire ranges from baroque to 20th century selections, often intertwined in a single performance. SATORI's name is taken from a Zen term suggesting the coming together of separate parts to form a whole.

Marilyn Keiser

Sunday October 12, 2003 - 5:00 p.m. Second annual "Beinema Concert" to honor the distinguished career of Trinity's Organist-Emeritus, Marvin Beinema, and his wife, Polly. Marilyn Keiser, organist in Concert

Marvin and Polly Beinema with Marilyn Keiser October 12, 2003

Marilyn Keiser is Chancellor's Professor of Music at Indiana University, Bloomington, where she teaches courses in sacred music as well as applied organ. Prior to her appointment at Indiana University, Dr. Keiser was Organist and Director of Music at All Souls Parish in Asheville, North Carolina and Music Consultant for the Episcopal Diocese of Western North Carolina, holding both positions from 1970-1983. A native of Springfield, Illinois, Keiser began her organ study with Franklin Perkins, then attended Illinois Wesleyan University where she studied organ with Lillian McCord, graduating with a Bachelor of Sacred Music degree. Dr. Keiser entered the School of Sacred Music at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where she studied organ with Alec Wyton and graduated summa cum laude in 1965 with a Master of Sacred Music degree. Her Doctor of Sacred Music from Union Theological Seminary was awarded in 1977. Upon graduation from Union Seminary, Marilyn Keiser became Assistant Organist of The Riverside Church in New York City and one year later was appointed Associate Organist/Choirmaster of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, a position she held from 1966-1970. In constant demand as an organ recitalist and workshop leader, Dr. Keiser has appeared throughout the United States in concerts sponsored by churches, colleges and chapters of The American Guild of Organists. She has been a featured artist for regional conventions of the AGO as well as for national conventions in Dallas and Washington DC, where she played with orchestra at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and in Detroit, where she appeared with the Detroit Symphony. In addition, she has appeared as featured artist for the International Congress of Organists in Cambridge, England; in concert at the Royal Victoria Hall with the Singapore Symphony; at the American Cathedral in Paris, the Southern Cathedrals Festival in Winchester, England and the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. A virtuoso concert organist, Marilyn Keiser has performed across the United States. In addition she has given lectures and workshops in church music for all of the major denominations, specializing in music for small churches. She has been president of the Association of Anglican Musicians, a contributing editor to the hymnal, Ecumenical Praise, has served on the Episcopal Church's Standing Commission on Church Music and was a consultant to the Hymn Music Committee for the Episcopal Hymnal 1982. Dr. Keiser is past-Chairman of the Worship and Music Commission for the Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis and is Director of Music at Trinity Episcopal Church in Bloomington. She is also the author of a publication in the Church Hymnal Teaching Series entitled "Teaching Music in Small Churches."

Monday November 3, 2003 - 7:30 p.m. Requiem by Gabriel Faure with joint choirs of Trinity Episcopal Church and Church of the Mediator Linda Laubach and Steven Derstine, soloists Charles Callahan, conductor   Lorenz Maycher, organist

Sunday February 8, 2004 - 5:00 p.m. Evensong and Organ Recital Trinity Choir Lorenz Maycher, Organist and recitalist Lorenz Maycher Lorenz Maycher is organist-choirmaster at Trinity Episcopal Church in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He teaches organ and piano at Lafayette College, and is assistant director of music at DeSales University. He was formerly organist at the historic First Church of Christ, Scientist, New York City, for ten years. A native of Oklahoma, he has studied organ with Margaret Lindsay, Thomas Matthews, Clyde Holloway, and William Watkins, and is a graduate of Rice University. While a student at Rice, Lorenz won the Gibbons Prize in organ, placed first in the San Antonio Pipe Organ Competition, and won the Houston AGO's Mary Ellen Bond Award. In 1989, Lorenz was a featured recitalist at the Organ Historical Society national convention held in New Orleans. He has since been invited to play for seven OHS national conventions, and was recipient of an OHS E.Power Biggs Fellowship in 1990. He has played over fifty recitals on the 1830 Appleton organ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and has appeared in recital in such places as Wichita State University, Rollins College, Irvine Auditorium (University of Pennsylvania), and Philadelphia's Lord and Taylor Department Store (on the Wanamaker Grand Court Organ). In recent years, Lorenz has participated in several projects devoted to the music of Leo Sowerby. In 1994 he recorded an all-Sowerby disk on the 1949 Aeolian-Skinner organ at First Presbyterian Church, Kilgore, Texas, for Raven Records. The following year he was invited by the Leo Sowerby Foundation to give the world premiere performances of Sowerby's recently discovered 1958 Nostalgic Poem and Heroic Poem in a Washington, D.C. concert honoring organist William Watkins. He later gave the New York premiere at St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University, and the Chicago premiere at Fourth Presbyterian Church. He has played three of Sowerby's five works for organ and orchestra, including the first performance in over forty years of Concert Piece in a concert with the Richmond Symphony and a performance of Classic Concerto with the Buffalo Philharmonic. In 1998, he performed Sowerby's seldom heard Sinfonia Brevis in a Baltimore AGO memorial concert to organist Rodney Hansen, to whom the work is dedicated. He has participated in Sowerby festivals in Chicago, New York, Richmond, and Worcester, Mass. Marilyn Mason Palm Sunday April 4, 2004 - 8:00 p.m. Marcel Dupre - The Stations of the Cross with poetry by Paul Claudel Marilyn Mason, organist Jack Vickrey, reader This event is co-sponsored by the Lehigh Valley Chapter of The American Guild of Organists Click here for photos taken at reception following the Concert. Marilyn Mason in Dresden    Among the important influences on the American organ scene in the second half of the 20th century, Marilyn Mason certainly has made a lasting impact in her distinguished career as concert organist, lecturer, adjudicator, teacher, organ consultant, recording artist, and by the nearly 75 organ works she has commissioned. Her name commands immediate recognition among organists today, confirming her impact more than 50 years after she made her debut. Dr. Mason is University Organist, Professor of Music, and Chairman of the Organ Department of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Her affiliation with Michigan began in 1944 as she began her undergraduate studies there under Palmer Christian, later completing her M.Mus degree. And, except for a year spent in France, where she studied under Nadia Boulanger (analysis) and Maurice Durufle (organ), and time studying for her Doctor of Sacred Music degree at Union Theological Seminary in New York, she has spent her entire career in Ann Arbor. Dr. Mason has been consistently recognized by the faculty, first, as an undergraduate, she was awarded the Stanley Medal, the highest award given to any music major. Later, in her teaching career, her colleagues presented her with the Distinguished Faculty Award and music alumni awarded her the first Citation of Merit. During her time at Michigan, annual summer and fall organ music conferences have become regular highlights, organ tours abroad to see and hear historic organs, and the installation of the Marilyn Mason organ in a specifically built recital hall. This organ, built by C. B. Fisk, is a replica in the spirit of the instruments of the 18th century organ builder, Gottfried Silbermann, whose organs Bach knew well. Dr. Mason has performed on every continent, save Antarctica. She was the first American woman to play in Westminster Abbey, the first woman organist to play in Latin America, and the first American to play in Egypt. She has served as judge at nearly every major organ competition in the world. Her dedication to modern organ music is evidenced by the names of influential composers who have written for her: Albright, Bolcom, Cook, Cowell, Creston, Diemer, Haines, Jackson, David Johnson, Jordan, Krenek, Langlais, Lockwood, Near, Persichetti, Sowerby, Wyton, and Young. Dr. Mason recently completed a recording of the complete works of Johann Pachelbel for the Musical Heritage Society. In 1987, Dr. Mason was awarded the degree Doctor of Music honoris causa from the University of Nebraska. She was honored as the "1988 Performer of the Year" by the New York Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.    Jack Vickrey was born in Chicago, Illinois, but was raised in Riverside, a Chicago suburb, where he attended public schools (and also the local Episcopal church, St. Paul's).   He was in the U.S. Army from June '43 to February '46; overseas in Belgium and Germany from Nov. '44 to August '45.   His collegiate education: a year at the University of Michigan (1942-43), and later at the University of Chicago (Ph.B. 1949, M.A. 1952) and Indiana University (Ph.D. 1960).   He taught in the English departments of Rutgers University (1957-1961) and Lehigh University (1961-95).   His academic specialties at Lehigh were 1) Anglo-Saxon Language and Literature and 2) History of the English Language.  He has published about thirty articles, mostly on Old English poems (principally Genesis, Exodus, The Seafarer, and Beowulf), and continues work on other papers.   For many years Jack has given poetry readings to academic and other audiences, sometimes with, sometimes without, the accompaniment of music.  He has collaborated with Carol Thompson, harpist, in many presentations of poems, ranging from Anglo-Saxon to modern English; several years ago they made a CD "Wild Swans" with poems of G. M. Hopkins, Tennyson, (Dylan) Thomas, and W. B. Yeats. Season Finale Sunday May 9, 2004 - 5:00 p.m. Evensong and organ recital James Lynn Culp, Organist James Lynn Culp Click here to hear James Lynn Culp playing "Christos Patterakis" by Roy Perry (from the CD recording "In a Monastery Garden", recorded on the 1949 Aeolian-Skinner organ in First Presbyterian Church, Kilgore, TX. This recording is available from the Organ Historical Society, Richmond, VA.) Click on logo for free download of QuickTime media player. James Lynn Culp was born in Kilgore, Texas, May 6, 1944, and he has been a resident of Henderson, Texas, his entire life. Currently, Jimmy Culp is Organist-Choirmaster for the First Presbyterian Church, Kilgore, Texas, where he has served since 1981, playing the famed 1949 Aeolian-Skinner Organ, Op. 1173. Prior to that, Mr. Culp was Organist-Choirmaster for St. Luke's United Methodist Church in Kilgore from 1966 to 1981 where he played Aeolian-Skinner Organ, Op. 1175. Mr. Culp's teachers have included Carol Hamilton, William Teague, Carolyn Miller, Dr. David McCormick, and Dr. Robert Mann. Culp attended Kilgore College where he was named Who's Who in Music in 1964, and he was elected a member of Phi Theta Kappa. He attended Centenary College of Louisiana where he was pianist for the famed Centenary College Choir, and he was organist for the choir when recordings were made for "The Protestant Hour," a radio series heard throughout the world. In 1967, he graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University with a Bachelor of Music degree with a major in organ performance. While a student at SFA, Mr. Culp was elected to membership in Alpha Chi. Mr. Culp has concertized extensively as organist and pianist. He has appeared frequently as pianist with numerous vocalists as well as appearing as organ soloist. He has performed often as pianist with Lorenz Maycher, organist, in recitals of music for organ and piano. In 1993, Mr. Maycher and Mr. Culp performed the closing recital for the Organ Historical Society convention in Lexington, Kentucky. Writing in The Diapason, Ronald Dean of Centenary College reported that the recital by Maycher and Culp "provided a real treat." Dean continued by praising the duo's "musicality and rapport." Reporters for The American Organist said that both Maycher and Culp "performed admirably at all times, and the convention ended on an extremely high note." In September, 2001, Mr. Culp played the organ parts of the Saint-Saens Symphony No. 3 in C minor and the Sinfonia from Bach's Cantata No. 29 with the Longview Symphony Orchestra on Aeolian-Skinner's Opus 1174 at First Baptist Church, Longview, Texas. Late in May, 2002, Mr. Culp served as organist for the Kilgore College Choir for their tour of England. Jimmy Culp was included in the 1970 edition of Outstanding Young Men of America, and he was one of the featured organists on the 1980 album In Memoriam: Roy Perry. Mr. Culp has recorded a compact disc, In a Monastery Garden (GMCD 7212), at First Presbyterian Church, Kilgore, which has been released on the Guild Music label. Selections from this recording have been heard on Minnesota Public Radio's "Pipedreams" and BBC 3 in England. Lorenz Maycher recorded in Kilgore a compact disc of the organ music of Leo Sowerby. As pianist, Jimmy Culp joined Mr. Maycher in recording Leo Sowerby's "Dialog" for piano and organ. This CD is on the Raven label (OAR-310), and it is available, as is In a Monastery Garden, from the Organ Historical Society. The recording of "Dialog" has been heard on Minnesota Public Radio's "Pipedreams," and American Record Guide has said that "Dialog" is "given a splendid performance." All concerts are free and open to the public. For more information on the concert series and other musical activities at Trinity Episcopal Church, please contact Lorenz Maycher, director of music, at 610-867-4741, or by e-mail at Lorenz@trinitybeth.org