The

Sarasota-Manatee

Chapter

of the

American Guild of

Organists

presents

A Festival of Sacred Music

Sunday, January 26, 2020 at 4pm

First United Methodist Church

104 South Pineapple Avenue

Sarasota, Florida 34236

We welcome nationally acclaimed clinician

Tom Trenney

Please learn more about Tom at his website. http://tomtrenney.com/

Tom Trenney shares his passion as pastoral musician, composer, and teacher in

worship with his home congregation, in the college classroom, and in performances,

hymn festivals, choral and organ workshops and master classes all around the

country. Since 2009, he has been blessed to serve as Minister of Music to First-

Plymouth Church (United Church of Christ) in Lincoln, Nebraska, where he

shepherds three adult choirs, accompanies the congregation on the Schoenstein organ,

preaches sermons, and guides the Abendmusik at First-Plymouth Concert Series.

In 2015-16, three of First-Plymouth’s choirs were honored to perform at conventions

of the Nebraska Choral Directors Association, the Nebraska Music Educators

Association, and the North Central American Choral Directors Association

(ACDA). In March 2017, First-Plymouth’s chamber choir, Cantorei, sang two

worship services at the national ACDA convention in Minneapolis.

In Fall 2018, Tom served as visiting conductor of the Wartburg Choir and Ritterchor

Men’s Chorus at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa. His semester in residence

included leadership of the annual Christmas With Wartburg festival. In Spring 2019,

Tom will serve as visiting conductor of the Doane Choir at Doane University in

Crete, Nebraska, preparing the choir to sing in a performance of Brahms’ A German

Requiem which he will conduct with the Abendmusik Chorus and Nebraska Wesleyan

University Choir in April 2019.

In addition to his ministry at First-Plymouth, Tom is Music Director of sounding light

— a chamber choir which he founded in southeastern Michigan in 2003. sounding

light was honored with the invitation to perform at the national convention of the

ACDA in March 2017. In spring 2019, sounding light will offer the Michigan and

Ohio premieres of John Muehleisen’s

moving and meaningful Pietà.

Tom’s choral compositions have been published by Augsburg Fortress, Beckenhorst

Press, E.C. Schirmer/Galaxy, Morningstar, MusicSpoke, Pavane, and G.

Schirmer. His music has been sung in churches and colleges around the

country. Tom’s CD recordings with First-Plymouth and sounding light have been

featured on national public radio’s Pipedreams, With Heart and Voice, and Sing for

Joy.

Most notably, Tom has been blessed to perform and teach at regional and national

gatherings of the American Guild of Organists (AGO), the ACDA, the Organ

Historical Society, the Presbyterian Association of Musicians (PAM), the National

Association of Pastoral Musicians, the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians,

Choristers Guild, Fellowship of United Methodists in Music and Worship Arts, the

Sewanee Church Music Conference, and the Calvin Institute of Worship. In 2019-20,

he will be clinician for sacred music conferences for PAM at Mo Ranch, Texas, for

AGO national convention in Atlanta, for Association of Disciples Musicians, for

Virginia Wesleyan University in Virginia Beach, and for the national Conference on

Sacred Music in Charleston, SC. In summer 2020, he will lead his first international

choral and spiritual retreat with Perform International on the Isle of Iona, Scotland.

A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School of Music,

Tom is grateful for the inspiration of his teachers and mentors – especially Anton

Armstrong, David Davidson, Craig Hella Johnson, (Mister) Fred Rogers, William

Weinert, Anne Wilson and Todd Wilson.

Sarasota-Manatee Chapter History

The Sarasota-Manatee Chapter of the American Guild of Organists had an interesting

beginning. The Manatee chapter was first to be chartered in 1952 with the Sarasota

chapter receiving a charter from National AGO Headquarters in 1957. Both chapters

were then active for the next ten years until Manatee was merged into the Sarasota

one in 1967. Finally, in 1971, we became who we are now, the Sarasota-Manatee

chapter, a membership of 90+ members who identify as organists, music directors,

and vocalists who are affiliated with 52 different churches in a geographic area from

Fort Myers and Engelwood to Venice, Sarasota, Bradenton, and north to Parrish,

Palmetto and St. Petersburg. Please check out our website at www.agosm.org

Since 1967 we have co-sponsored or sponsored an array of organ and choral concerts,

participated in various organ, choral and handbell events, and in January of 2010, we

hosted the AGO Region IV Midwinter Conference which brought recitalists Balint

Karosi, Laura Ellis, Felix Hell, Janet Fishell and Ahreum Han to play concerts and

featured Daniel Moe and organist John Fenstermaker in the Opening Convocation.

The Richard Zielinski Singers presented a concert, and the Sarasota Camerata

performed the Memorial Requiem composed by our own Cynthia Roberts-Greene.

Organist Tom Trenney, who is leading this Festival, closed the conference by

accompanying two silent films.

In just the past three years we have co-sponsored the following internationally known

organists: Craig Cramer, Katelyn Emerson, Stephen Hamilton, Gail Archer, Nathan

Laube, Andrew Kotylo, Marilyn Keiser, Bradley Welch, David Cherwien, Tom

Murray, Jeremy Filsell, Ken Cowan and Vincent DuBois.

Our members strive to be the very foundation of our national organization, The

American Guild of Organists. We are the bedrock on which the whole is built, and

our chapter is at the heart of our musical life through which we endeavor to foster a

thriving community of musicians who share their knowledge and passion for the

organ, and engage, support and uplift musicians while enriching our community life

together. We are looking forward to an exciting year in 2020-21 as we join together

for fellowship, inspiration, education and world-class musical presentations. Check

on our website for individual events at agosm.org/events.

Program

Flourishes Carlyle Sharpe

Tom Trenney, organ and Sarasota Symphony Brass

Welcome and Opening Prayer The Rev. Charleston Wilson The Church of the Redeemer

Introit: Creation's Hymn Ludwig van Beethoven

Hymn: O God, Our Help in Ages Past arr. Jeremy Bankson

Anthem: Pilgrim's Hymn Stephen Paulus

Anthem: Christ the Lord is Risen Again Philip Stopford

Hymn: How Firm a Foundation Foundation

Hymn-Anthem: Will You Come and Follow Me arr. Tom Trenney

Community Sing Tom Trenney leads the congregation

Hymn: O God, Beyond All Praising (THAXTED)

Organ: Variations on "THAXTED" Tom Trenney

Anthem: O Love Elaine Hagenberg

Organ improvisation by Tom Trenney

We hope that you have been lifted up by this experience of choral and organ music

and by participating in the singing this afternoon. While this program is a gift to the

community by the Sarasota-Manatee Chapter, it has been an expensive endeavor. We

invite you join with us to help defray the costs of today’s program by placing a

contribution in the collection plate as you leave.

Participants:

Tom Trenney, Festival Clinician

Michael Stuart, accompanist, Director of Music/Organist, First Church

The Rev. Charleston Wilson, Associate Rector, Church of the Redeemer, Sarasota

Sarasota Symphony Brass

Daniel Kassteen, trumpet

Anthony Limoncelli, trumpet

Laurence Solowey, horn

Steven Osborne, trombone

Aaron Tindall, tuba

Tomasz Kowalczyk, timpani

James Walton, Festival Coordinator

Sarasota-Manatee Chapter, American Guild of Organists leadership Nancy Siebecker – Dean, Amy Cerniglia – Sub Dean, Susan Crumpler –Treasurer, Cynthia Roberts-Greene – Secretary, The Rev. Charleston Wilson –Chaplain, Dan Crumpler - Webmaster

Festival Planning Committee

Richard Benedum, Greg Chestnut, Jim Hawkinson, Nancy Siebecker, James Walton

Program Committee Amy Cerniglia, Nancy Siebecker, Richard Benedum, Jim Hawkinson, Greg Chestnut, James Guyer

Acknowledgements

We are grateful for the significant financial support of this program by the Music

Ministry of Church of the Redeemer and Ann Stephenson-Moe, Organist-

Choirmaster.

We are grateful for the generous use of the facilities of First Church for the rehearsal

on Saturday and the program today, and for the attentive support by staff for sound

and light and for setup and breakdown of risers and chairs. We are also grateful to

Michael Stuart, Director of Music for serving as accompanist for today’s program.

We are grateful to Christ Church, Bradenton, Epiphany Cathedral, Venice, First

Presbyterian Church, Sarasota and First Congregational Church of Sarasota for

granting space for regional rehearsals of the Festival Choir. Many thanks to Nancy

Siebecker, John Behnke and James Walton for serving as regional rehearsal directors.

Many thanks to Nancy Siebecker, Greg Chestnut, Richard Benedum and Julane

Rogers for serving as hosts and chauffeurs to Mr. Trenney over this weekend.

Festival Choir

Soprano

Paula Bitzer First UMC Sarasota Rebecca Carlstad First Presbyterian Church-Sarasota Michelle Caulkins First UMC Sarasota Ruth Danielle Unitarian Church, Sarasota Janice Docking St. Boniface Episcopal Church Faye Doll Siesta Key Chapel Carol DuBravec St. Boniface Episcopal Church Elizabeth Ellis Church of the Redeemer Susan Emery Siesta Key Chapel Carol Fields First Congregational UCC Shelby Fullerton Trinity UMC Karen Hastings Siesta Key Chapel Joan Hayward Christ Church (Bradenton) Jane Hunder First Congregational UCC Linda Jo Beckers Church of the Redeemer Eunice Johnson Trinity Lutheran, Bradenton Jennifer Kreisel Christ Church (Bradenton) Marlo Lane First United Methodist Bradenton Jeanne Larranaga First United Methodist Bradenton Virginia Lee Harrod First Presbyterian Church-Sarasota Phyllis Leonard First United Methodist Bradenton Allison Lubas Church of the Redeemer Lisa M. Fudge-Schustik Church of the Redeemer Alex McCarty First Congregational UCC Marti McConnell First United Methodist Bradenton Sarah Melcher First Congregational UCC Lynne Meskey First UMC Sarasota Carrie Metzger First Congregational UCC Wendy Miller First Presbyterian Church-Sarasota Ann Moe Church of the Redeemer Nancy Morris First Congregational UCC Lorraine Murphy Church of the Redeemer Gina Novotne First Presbyterian Church-Sarasota

Karen Olson First Presbyterian Church-Sarasota Lauren Patsos First Congregational UCC Edith Phillips First Presbyterian Church-Sarasota Cynthia Roberts-Greene Siesta Key Chapel Sue Shepard First Congregational UCC Mildred Shoop Siesta Key Chapel Nancy Siebecker Sarasota-Manatee AGO chapter Melissa Simmons St. Boniface Episcopal Church Barbara Smith-Bacon First Congregational UCC Suann Southwick Christ Church (Bradenton) Laura Stanley St. Boniface Episcopal Church Laura Stecher New Horizons Karen Taylor First United Methodist Bradenton Nancy Taylor Faith Lutheran Sarasota Rebecca Taysi Church of the Redeemer Susan Tjarks First Congregational UCC Maggie Veeneman Siesta Key Chapel Angela Ward Church of the Redeemer Lori White First Congregational UCC Lily Wohl Church of the Redeemer Mardi Woodarek Christ Church (Bradenton)

Alto

Mary Baldridge First UMC Sarasota Betsy Bartz Wiener Concordia Lutheran Church Lois Bowen First Presbyterian Church-Sarasota Doriel Boyce St. Boniface Episcopal Church Amy Cerniglia Peace Presbyterian Church Nancy Coleman Christ Church (Bradenton) Janet Davis First UMC Sarasota Mae Davis Church of the Redeemer Elizabeth Deibert Peace Presbyterian Church Sandy Dowty First Congregational UCC Lea Ellwood-Filkins St. Boniface Episcopal Church Judith Falconer Christ Church (Bradenton) Emily Finnegan Church of the Redeemer Kathleen Fisher Christ Church (Bradenton) Ruth Fortney First United Methodist Bradenton Marion Frederick First UMC Sarasota Joyce Giberti Peace Presbyterian Church Sharon Guerin Epiphany Cathedral, Venice Patricia Handy Christ Church (Bradenton) Linda Heaton Gaines First United Methodist Bradenton Christine Hoffman First Congregational UCC Judith Hutchison First UMC Sarasota Barbara Imes First United Methodist Bradenton Lynn Jones First Congregational UCC Joan Lauren Campbell Church of the Redeemer Carmen Letelier Christ Church (Bradenton) Thea Lobo Church of the Redeemer

Susan McDonald First Presbyterian Church-Sarasota Cecilia McEnaney Christ Church (Bradenton) Sybil Moore Peace Presbyterian Church Sue Morgan First UMC Sarasota Barbara Noto Peace Presbyterian Church Janet Olshewsky First Presbyterian Church-Sarasota Jenifer Parker St. Boniface Episcopal Church Marilyn Parry Christ Church (Bradenton) Margene Pressler First United Methodist Bradenton Susan Raines First Congregational UCC Robin Reich First Congregational UCC Carol Rescigno First Congregational UCC Carolyn Reynolds Trinity UMC Julane Rodgers Christ Church (Bradenton) Kristine Ryan First UMC Sarasota Barbara Serafino First UMC Sarasota Terry Stocker Church of the Redeemer Nadine Thomas First UMC Sarasota Jennifer Weinstein St. Boniface Episcopal Church Lynne Woodman First Congregational UCC Cynthia Zamikoff First United Methodist Bradenton

Tenor Russell Andrade First UMC Sarasota John Behnke Sarasota-Manatee AGO chapter Richard Byrum Christ Church (Bradenton) Jeremiah Clay First Presbyterian Church-Sarasota Rob Davis Church of the Redeemer Richard Deibert Peace Presbyterian Church Steve Graham St. Boniface Episcopal Church Suzie Hatatah First UMC Sarasota James Hawkinson Christ Church (Bradenton) Roger Hayward Christ Church (Bradenton) William Holt Christ Church (Bradenton) Paul Hutchinson First UMC Sarasota Reginald Irvine St. Boniface Episcopal Church Jim James First United Methodist Bradenton Mark Lubas Church of the Redeemer Marvin Miller First Presbyterian Church-Sarasota Sam Nelson Church of the Redeemer Jack O'Neill First Presbyterian Church-Sarasota Steven Phillips First Presbyterian Church-Sarasota Rob Quarles First Congregational UCC Barbara Ralph First Congregational UCC Jeffrey Smith First Congregational UCC John Sorbo Siesta Key Chapel Robert Sult First United Methodist Bradenton

Bass Ray Baker First Congregational UCC Ronald Baldridge First UMC Sarasota

Allen Batchelder Church of the Redeemer Richard Benedum Christ Church (Bradenton) Eric Berry St. Boniface Episcopal Church Brian Bowen First Presbyterian Church-Sarasota George Brosseau Christ Church (Bradenton) Phil Butler First UMC Sarasota Dan Cartlidge Church of the Redeemer Greg Chestnut First Congregational UCC Russell Copeman First UMC Sarasota Mark Crews First UMC Sarasota Jim Cross First Congregational UCC John Dickie St. Boniface Episcopal Church Gary Dowty First Congregational UCC George Drummond Siesta Key Chapel Scott Duink Siesta Key Chapel Harold Falconer, M.D. Christ Church (Bradenton) William Feigley Emmanuel Lutheran Church Doug Fields First Congregational UCC Jim Frederick First UMC Sarasota Paul Goedecke First UMC Sarasota Paul Greene Siesta Key Chapel James Guyer St. Boniface Episcopal Church Daniel Hoffman First UMC Sarasota Jim Hunder First Congregational UCC Bob Leonard First United Methodist Bradenton Richard Lilley Christ Church (Bradenton) James Millikan First Presbyterian Church-Sarasota Larry Monson First Congregational UCC Gerald Moore Peace Presbyterian Church Thomas Olshewsky First Presbyterian Church-Sarasota Robert Reeves St. Boniface Episcopal Church Frank Roxby First Congregational UCC Kendall Taylor First United Methodist Bradenton James Walton Faith Lutheran Sarasota Christoffer Woodard St. Andrews, Boca Grande