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Music in the Chapel Series: 2015 - 2016 at The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer

Laura A. Hobson
Posted: Dec 21, 2015 - 11:31:23 AM in news_2015

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PICTURED ABOVE: Ted Gibboney (organist) and Dr. L. Brett Scott (director of music).

The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in Hyde Park offers a Music in the Chapel concert series every year.  The programs are free and open to the public.

Music Director L. Brett Scott met with a Music Committee to determine programs for the Music in the Chapel 2015 – 2016 series.  The committee decided they wanted a wide variety of music to present to the public and to the parish.  Opening program on October 11 was a jazz concert by University of Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music students.   

An upcoming concert in March 2016 will highlight both organs.  The committee decided to use different spaces within the church. 

The concerts in 2016 are as follows:

February 28, 2016
The Stations of the Cross (Le Chemin de la Croix) Opus 29 by Marcel Dupre.
Sanctuary of the Redeemer
2944 Erie Ave.
Cincinnati, OH  45208
3:00 p.m.

March 13, 2016
Chapel and Sanctuary
3:00 p.m.

April 17, 2016
Chapel
3:00 p.m.

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The Stations of the Cross (Le Chemin de la Croix) Opus 29 by Marcel Dupre.

February 28, 2016 
Sanctuary of the Redeemer
2944 Erie Ave.
Cincinnati, OH  45208
3:00 p.m.

Ted Gibboney, organist

This organ piece is a musical depiction of the Stations in Brussels as meditations on poems by French poet and diplomat Paul Claudel.  Throughout 14 movements, Dupre weaves a rich theological tapestry symbolizing religious themes of Christ’s passion.

Featured organist Ted Gibboney said Dupre’s music describes and responds to the ancient devotional practice of meditating on Christ’s last journey to the cross.  As part of the performance, Cincinnati baritone and publisher Thom Mariner will recite the poetry in English translation.

Dupre (1886-1971) is widely regarded as one of the greatest figures in the history of the pipe organ, according to Gibboney.  He played recitals on four continents and was known for his technique, memory and improvisation.  His works are central to the organists’ repertory.  Many are difficult pieces, but well-crafted. 

Dupre taught two generations of some of the world’s finest organists and prepared performance editions of many of the standard classical composers.  In 1931, he first used Claudel poetry about the Stations of the Cross as inspiration for a series of improvisations in a recital setting.  It was so well received that he transcribed the music into notation.  For many years, Dupre made it a tradition during Holy Week when he served as organist at the Church of St. Sulpice in Paris.

Gibboney holds academic degrees in music from DePauw, Yale and Indiana Universities.  A life-long church musician, he has served churches in four states.  As an organist, harpsichordist and pianist, he continues to perform and teach in the US and Europe.  Facing debilitating, career-threatening repetitive stress injuries, he found remarkable healing through the study of the Alexander Technique (AT).  Following a three-year study course, he was certified as an instructor in that discipline in June 2015.  He now teaches privately in Cincinnati in addition to serving as Redeemer’s organist.

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March Concert

March 13, 2016
Chapel and Sanctuary
3:00 p.m.

Organ concert presented by College-Conservatory of Music organ students.

This concert is a roving audience experience.  Patrons will start in the chapel to hear Redeemer’s 2006 Juget-Sinclair organ.  After intermission, audience members will move to the sanctuary to hear the 1964 Casavat organ.

Program to be determined.

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Spring Concert

April 17, 2016
Chapel
3:00 p.m.

Steven Rosen, viola, and Richard Goering, guitar, will perform.

Arrangement by Richard Goering of the Telemann Viola Concerto.
Sonata for the Arpeggione and Piano by Franz Schubert.
Music by twice Grammy nominated Cuban American musician Jose Manuel Lezcano
Arrangement of Jewish tunes.

Richard Goering decided to play the guitar after watching the Beatles’ television performances.  Two years later, after seeing Andres Segovia, he began to study classical guitar.  His passionate performance of music from the Renaissance to present day prompted one critic to write, “The guitar is for our time, but it is all for all time.”  (Louisville Courier Journal)  Goering performs both in the United States and internationally.

Steve Rosen joined the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in 1982.  He is also an active solo and chamber player, performing regularly with the CSO Chamber Players and the Taft Museum music series.  Rosen has played Kol Nidre, a prayer recited in the synagogue at the beginning of the evening service on the Day of Atonement, at Temple Beth Adam for the high holidays since the early 1980s.  He recently released a duo CD, A Pinch of Joy, A Dash of Ahh! A Bissel Krectser A Bissel Kveller, a playful nod to the content of Jewish music, with Goering on guitar.

For more information, contact Cheryl Meininger, Redeemer Director of Communications.
www.redeemer-cincy.org
(513) 321-6700