Concert Program - Tallahassee Bach Parley

Concert Program - Tallahassee Bach Parley

Guest Artist Concert
John Abberger, oboe
Sunday, February 24, 2013, 3:00PM
St. John’s Episcopal Church
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Program
Concerto in E-flat major, after BWV 1053
Allegro
Siciliano
Allegro
Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750)
reconstruction by Joshua Rifkin
Chorale Preludes:
Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland, after BWV 659
J. S. Bach
arranged by John Abberger
(“Now come, Savior of the gentiles”)
Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, after BWV 639
(“I call to you, Lord Jesus Christ”)
Allein Gott in der Höh’ sei Ehr’, after BWV 662
(“To God alone on high be glory”)
Cantata BWV 55, Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht
Aria: Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht
Recitativo: Ich habe wider Gott gehandelt
Aria: Erbarme dich!
Recitativo: Erbarme dich!
Chorale: Bin ich gleich von dir gewichen
J. S. Bach
See complete translation
starting on page 6.
Christian Crocker, tenor
Orchestral Suite No. 2 (Overture) in A Minor, after BWV 1067
J. S. Bach
Ouverture
reconstruction by John Abberger
Rondeau
Sarabande
Bourrée I and II
Polonaise
Menuet
Badinerie
See the program insert sponsored by the Tallahassee Downtown Improvement Authority:
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The Tallahassee Bach Parley 2012-2013 Membership as of Feb. 18, 2013:
Bach Circle ($1000+)
Wendy & Lester Abberger
Dr. Stephen & Elizabeth Richardson
Handel Circle ($500–999)
Mimi Jones & Bill Brubaker
Dr. Armand & Suzanne Cognetta
Fran Dwyer
William P. & Karyl Louwenaar Lueck
Vivaldi Circle ($250–499)
John & Nancy Barfield
Melissa & Charles Brewer
Dana Preu & Adonica Gieger
Ronald A. Kanen
Dennis G. King Esq.
Dr. Meredith McKinney
Tom & Ava Prebys
William & Jeanne Ryder
Telemann Circle $100–249)
Anonymous
Barbara & Hector Aguirre
Nick Baldwin
Greg & Karen Boebinger
Betsy Calhoun & Michael Corzine
Robert Critchlow
Grace & Alan Dakan
Jon & Beverly Dalton
Barbara Jorgenson & Robert Dempsey
Woody & Charlotte Dudley
Kyle & Marion Dunn
Jan & Larry Everett
Gary & Ellen Fournier
Sanford Safron & Penny Gilmer
Miriam Gurniak
Fred & Linda Hester
In memory of NHA & HPW
Trudi King
In memory of Curtis King, Sr.
John Knoblauch
Dr. Gordon & Jenny Low
Nora K. Loyd
John & Barbara Mahoney
Kate Muldoon & Bill Miller
Charles Milsted
Dale & Diane Olsen
Carla King Richardson
Dean & Kellie Ridings
Francis & Karen Skilling
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(Telemann Circle cont.)
Thomas & Jean Souter
Dr. Patricia H. Stanley
Mary Helen Sukhia
Dr. Ralph V. Turner
John & Virginia Walker
Dr. Jessica & Mr. Michael Yoon
Rameau Circle ($50–99)
Anonymous
Karl & Melissa Barton
Dr. Bruce Bickley
Betty Boop
Fred Boska
Tara Boyter
Tom & Norene Chase
Barnett & Laura Cook
Marie E. Cowart
Pamela & Donald Crosby
James C. & Rochelle Davis
Karen Wendland Dix
Stan & Carole Fiore
John Fraser
Lois K. Friedman
Ben & Beth Fusaro
Jaime Garcia-Bolao
& KeyNotes Piano Studio
Patricia Gosen
Judith Greaves
Dr. Tann H. Hunt
Bob & Jane Kennedy
Gudrun Gaar & Robbie Laub
Jim, Julie & Anne Leftheris
Dr. Jean Marani
Denis & Bobbie Markiewicz
Dawn & Louis Martz
Stephen & Betsy Masterson
Tom & Lynda McCaleb
David and Rosa McNaughton
Ed & Dianne Mellon
Walter & Marian Moore
Pullen Family
Joan H. Raley, Realtor
Ettore Aldrovandi & Laura Reina
Sue Scribner
Elizabeth Serow
Ben & Mary Sterner Lawson
Lawrence & Robyn Stevenson
Erica & Robert Thaler
Purcell Circle $25–49
Anonymous
Bill & Patty Applegate
Paul Arons
Tom & Cathy Bishop
Bill & Paige Brey
Fenn Cawthon
Harriet Chase
Marcelle R. Praetorius
& Parker Collins
Mary Lama Cordero
Patricia Curtis
Paul & Irma Daleen
Janice Smith Dann
Ellie Dann
Peter & Gloria DeAngelis
Roy & Maryellen Delp
Ginny Densmore
Janine C. Edwards
Martha Ann Fenner
Jonathan C. Field
Marguerite Foxon
Peter Garretson
Paula Gerson
Mary Anne Gray
J. Robert & Lois D. Griffin
Sue Gross
Christine M. Hazelip
Karyn King Hebert
Carla Connors & Timothy Hoekman
Laura Innes Jennings
Leslie Johnson
Barbara & Fred Jones
Dr. Toni F. Kirkwood-Tucker
Eric & Anna Klassen
Von A. Klink
Joseph Kraus
Peggy Lentz
Bruno & Cecelia Linder
Ruben Malan
Marjorie Morgan
Jennie C. Myers
June L. Noel
Ermine M. Owenby
Ruth Pryor
Jane Quinton
Michael Buchler & Nancy Rogers
Ms. Kathleen Rose
Nella Schomburger
Diane L. Stuart
Katya & Tom Taylor
Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda
Stephen & Susan Waltz
Tamara Alagova & Georges Weatherly
Kayla, Kalon, & Kennedy Williams
Cindy & Woody Wise
The Tallahassee Bach Parley Board of Directors:
Erica Thaler, President
Charles E. Brewer, Vice President
Ava Prebys, Treasurer
Julie Leftheris, Secretary
Lester Abberger
Nancy Barfield
Michael Corzine
Stephen Richardson
Kathleen Wright
Save these dates for the rest of the 2012-13 Parley Season:
March 10, 2013, Kids Go for B’roque
3:00PM, Longmire Recital Hall, FSU College of Music
June 2, 2013, J. S. Bach “Peasant Cantata”
Plus Telemann “Don Quixote” Suite &
Boccherini “Night Music from the Streets of Madrid”
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Texts and Translations
Aria
Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht,
Ich geh vor Gottes Angesichte
Mit Furcht und Zittern zum Gerichte.
Er ist gerecht, ich ungerecht.
Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht!
I, wretched man, I, slave to sin,
I go before God's very presence
With fear and trembling unto judgment.
E'er just is he, unjust am I,
I, wretched man, I, slave to sin.
Recitativo
Ich habe wider Gott gehandelt
Und bin demselben Pfad,
Den er mir vorgeschrieben hat,
Nicht nachgewandelt.
Wohin? soll ich der Morgenröte Flügel
Zu meiner Flucht erkiesen,
Die mich zum letzten Meere wiesen,
So wird mich doch die Hand
des Allerhöchsten finden
Und mir die Sündenrute binden.
Ach ja!
Wenn gleich die Höll ein Bette
Vor mich und meine Sünden hätte,
So wäre doch der Grimm des Höchsten da.
Die Erde schützt mich nicht,
Sie droht mich Scheusal zu verschlingen;
Und will ich mich zum Himmel schwingen,
Da wohnet Gott, der mir das Urteil spricht.
I have against my God offended
And have upon the path
Which he did once prescribe for me
Not steadfast traveled.
Where now? Should I the rosy morning's pinions
For this my flight elect now,
To take me to the ocean's limits,
Yet would e'en still the hand
of God Almighty find me
And with the rods of sin chastise me.
Ah yes!
If even hell a bed could
For me and all my sins make ready,
Yet would indeed the wrath of God be there.
The earth protects me not,
It threatens wicked me to swallow;
And I would lift myself to heaven,
Where God doth dwell, who shall my judgment tell.
Aria
Erbarme dich!
Laß die Tränen dich erweichen,
Laß sie dir zu Herzen reichen;
Laß um Jesu Christi willen
Deinen Zorn des Eifers stillen!
Erbarme dich!
Have mercy, Lord!
Let my tears now make thee soften,
Let them reach into thy bosom;
Let for Jesus Christ's own glory
All thy zealous wrath grow calm now!
Have mercy, Lord!
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Recitativo
Erbarme dich!
Jedoch nun
Tröst ich mich,
Ich will nicht für Gerichte stehen
Und lieber vor dem Gnadenthron
Zu meinem frommen Vater gehen.
Ich halt ihm seinen Sohn,
Sein Leiden, sein Erlösen für,
Wie er für meine Schuld
Bezahlet und genug getan,
Und bitt ihn um Geduld,
Hinfüro will ich's nicht mehr tun.
So nimmt mich Gott zu Gnaden wieder an.
Have mercy, Lord!
However,
I now hope
That I'll not stand before his judgment,
But rather to the throne of grace
Of this my righteous Father venture.
I'll offer him his Son,
His passion, his redemption then,
And how he for my sin
Hath all repaid sufficiently,
And beg him to forbear,
Henceforth will I my sin forswear.
Thus take me God into thy grace again.
Chorale
Bin ich gleich von dir gewichen,
Stell ich mich doch wieder ein;
Hat uns doch dein Sohn verglichen
Durch sein Angst und Todespein.
Ich verleugne nicht die Schuld,
Aber deine Gnad und Huld
Ist viel größer als die Sünde,
Die ich stets bei mir befinde.
Though I now from thee have fallen,
I will come again to thee;
For now hath thy Son redeemed us
Through his fear and pain of death.
I do not deny my guilt,
But thy mercy and thy grace
Are much greater than my sins are,
Which I ever find within me.
© Copyright Z. Philip Ambrose
http://www.uvm.edu/~classics/faculty/bach/BWV55.html#1
This program sponsored in part by the City of Tallahassee, Leon County,
the Council on Culture & Arts, and the Tallahassee Community Redevelopment Agency.
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The Tallahassee Bach Parley would like to thank all of our donors and
volunteers for their support, especially St. John’s Episcopal Church, Betsy
Calhoun and Lindsay Hardy for hosting this concert, Loren Rice for graphic
design, Erica Thaler for help with publicity, Patty Herrington for
distributing posters, Aaron King Vaughn for help moving the harpsichord,
and First Presbyterian Church for housing our library and archives.
Enjoy fine dining in Downtown Tallahassee after today's concert. See the program insert for a
15% discount today only. Special thanks to the participating restaurants and our friends at the
Tallahassee Downtown Improvement Authority for their support of this promotion.
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the music director at 850-224-8025 or [email protected] at least five
working days prior to a concert if accommodation for disability or if this program in an
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Today’s Musicians
JOHN ABBERGER, one of North America’s leading performers on historical oboes, is principal
oboist with Tafelmusik (Toronto) and the American Bach Soloists (San Francisco). He has
performed extensively in North America, Europe and the Far East with these ensembles, and
appears regularly with other prominent period-instrument ensembles, including the Philharmonia
Baroque Orchestra, the Washington Bach Consort, the Portland Baroque Orchestra, Ensemble
Voltaire, the Handel and Haydn Society, and Boston Baroque. He is also director of the Bach
Project for the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, a program dedicated to performing the music of
J.S. Bach with historically accurate performing forces.
His recording of the Concerto for Oboe by Alessandro Marcello with Tafelmusik was glowingly
reviewed by Gramophone Magazine as “one of the best there is” and “alone worth the price of
the disc, even if you have other versions.” In addition to many recordings with Tafelmusik and
other period instrument ensembles, he has directed, recorded, and produced two discs for the
ANALEKTA label, both devoted to the instrumental music of J.S. Bach.
Mr. Abberger serves on the faculty at the University of Toronto, the University of Western
Ontario, and the Royal Conservatory in Toronto. A native of Orlando, Florida, he received his
training at the Juilliard School, and Louisiana State University. In addition, he holds a Performers
Certificate in Early Music from New York University.
EVA AMSLER is the Professor of Flute at Florida State University. As a soloist/chamber
musician, recording artist, and masterclass teacher she tours in Europe, USA, South America,
and the Far East, and is the founder of SYRINX, an association for flute teachers in Austria. For
20 years she was a member of St. Gallen Symphony Orchestra in Switzerland and Professor at
the Conservatory Feldkirch in Austria. Her teachers include A. Nicolet and G. Rumpel. She is a
member of the Florida Flute Association board and of various National Flute Association
committees, and Chair of the Myrna Brown Society.
VALERIE PREBYS ARSENAULT has two favorite musical activities: teaching the violin and
playing baroque music. Since 2002 she has maintained a thriving private violin studio of students
of all ages at Cavatina Music Studios. As Visiting Assistant Professor at Florida State University
she directs the Baroque Ensemble (on period instruments) and has taught violin and directed the
Irish Ensemble. She is a member of the Tallahassee Symphony, a principal player and soloist
with the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, and has performed and recorded with the Apollo Ensemble
(NY) and Apollo's Fire. She studied violin at the New England Conservatory (BM), violin
pedagogy and baroque violin at the Indiana University School of Music (MM, Early Music), and
earned her doctorate from the Florida State University College of Music.
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MIRIAM BARFIELD began studying the violin at age six with Melissa Brewer. She received
her Bachelor of Music from Florida State University, where she studied with Dr. Pamela Ryan,
and recently completed a Master of Music in Viola Performance at The Boston Conservatory
under Patricia McCarty. She was a state winner for the ASTA National Solo Competition in
2010 (Massachusetts) and in 2008 (Florida) and has performed in master classes for Joseph
Silverstein, Robert Spano, James Dunham, and Thomas Dumm. She has been a member of
many orchestras, including the Tallahassee Symphony, Sinfonia Gulf Coast, and the Cape Ann
Symphony. Miriam has attended the Lucerne Festival Academy in Switzerland, Brevard Music
Festival, Schlern International Music Festival in Italy, and the Meadowmount School of Music,
where she is a teaching assistant and has performed with violinists Joseph Silverstein and James
Ehnes.
MELISSA BREWER began her professional studies in violin and viola at the University of
Miami, studying with George Zazofsky and Victor Stern and with David Becker at the University
of Wisconsin Madison. She has performed with groups as diverse as the Florida
Philharmonic, Miami Chamber Orchestra, West Palm Beach Opera Company, Tallahassee Bach
Parley, and the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra. The breadth of her repertoire stretches from
symphonic to chamber, opera to popular, and she has performed with artists as varied as Perlman
and Sinatra. On period instruments, she has performed with the F.S.U. Baroque Ensemble,
Baroque Southeast, the Apollo Ensemble, and is Principal Violist with the Atlanta Baroque
Orchestra. She plays on a 1760 Locky Hill viola.
CHRISTIAN CROCKER from Spartanburg, SC, is the Organ and Choral Scholar at St.
John’s Episcopal Church. He is a senior in the College of Music, FSU, majoring in organ
performance; he studied voice with Larry Gerber, and sings in the FSU Chamber Choir. In 2009
he won the Southeastern Regional NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing) First
Year Men's category, was selected for the honors recital in 2010, and was awarded the Janice
Harsanyi Scholarship from the Tallahassee Music Guild in 2009. In 2011 he was an RSCM
Organ Scholar at the Charlotte course. Christian is currently Dean of the Tallahassee Chapter,
American Guild of Organists, and has been a member of the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus since
the summer of 2012.
MARNIE KIM JONES, violoncellist, holds a Bachelors in Music degree and an Artist Diploma
from McGill University (studio of Antonio Lysy) and a Masters in Music degree from the Eastman
School of Music (studio of Steven Doane). While at Eastman she also studied string pedagogy
with Louis Bergonzi and Baroque performance practice with Paul O'Dette and Christel
Thielmann. Kim is originally from Calgary, Alberta, where she studied with John Kadz; she has
also performed in masterclasses for Anner Bylsma, Bernard Greenhouse, Franz Helmerson,
Desmond Hoebig, Steven Isserlis, Laurence Lesser, Siegfried Palm, Aldo Parisot, Fred Sherry,
Janos Starker, and Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi. Previously a tenured member of the Rochester
Philharmonic Orchestra, she now serves as associate principal cellist with the Tallahassee
Symphony Orchestra and maintains a private studio of over twenty students.
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ELIZABETH LAJEUNESSE is a native of Tallahassee and graduate of FSU. She holds a BME
in Choral Music Education, and an MM in organ. She serves as organist at St. John's Episcopal
Church, and is active locally as an organist and accompanist. Elizabeth has accompanied for the
Tallahassee Music Guild's Sing-Along Messiah and FVA's All-State Choruses, and played with
FSU's University Singers, the Tallahassee Civic Chorale, and the Tallahassee Symphony. She
made her Bach Parley debut while a student at Leon High School. Currently, Elizabeth
accompanies the FSU Chamber Choir and Leon High School Capital Singers, and is on the
board of the Tallahassee Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.
KARYL LOUWENAAR LUECK joined the faculty of the Florida State University School of
Music in 1972 as an Assistant Professor of Piano. Over time, harpsichord, fortepiano, basso
continuo, Baroque Ensemble, and courses in keyboard literature and performance practice were
added to her assignment; and during the last six years of her tenure she also served as
Coordinator of the Keyboard Area. Since her retirement in 2007, she has continued as an
Adjunct Professor at the College of Music. In 1981 The Tallahassee Bach Parley was founded by
Karyl and friends Lillian and Clark Pearson; later she founded also the Jurow International
Harpsichord Competition under the auspices of the Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society.
She has appeared as soloist and ensemble harpsichordist in Germany, Costa Rica, and in many
major cities and institutions of higher education in the U.S., especially in the eastern half of the
country.
MELANIE PUNTER is Associate Professor of Double Bass at Florida State University. As a
member of the Juilliard Music Advancement Program faculty, she coached chamber music and
bass ensembles and taught double bass. She is a member of New York's prestigious Orchestra of
St. Luke's performing at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center and is principal bassist of the
Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra. She has performed with the American Symphony Orchestra,
the Opera Orchestra of New York, Joffrey Ballet, New York City Ballet and the American Ballet
Theatre. She performs regularly at the Caramoor International Music and has participated in
Festival of Two Worlds in Charleston, SC and in Spoleto, Italy. An active chamber musician, she
is a member of the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra performing on period instruments.
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