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Episcopal Church of the Transfi guration Dallas, Texas

Anniversaries SeasonAnniversaries Season

Prelude~We are delighted to introduce to you this Anniversaries Season of Transfigured Nights! Through our offerings this year we will be celebrating three major anniversaries in the life of Transfi guration:

• the 10th anniversary of the dedication of Richards, Fowkes & Co.’s Opus 17 gallery organ;

• the 15th anniversary of the Transfigured Nights music series;

• the 50th anniversary of the dedication of the church building.

Our season includes three evensongs, beginning with our traditional opening service commemorating Transfi guration’s founding day. Our fi nal evensong will celebrate the dedication of the church building, which has served us so well in our worship since 1970.

The anniversary of the organ will be celebrated throughout the year with three recitals by world-renowned organists performing examples of the vast repertoire that our instrument plays so beautifully.

There will also be three concerts of music from the Baroque era which will be performed by a variety of ensembles. And we are looking forward to presenting another gala with great music, great food, and drink in Roper Hall on May 2nd. This Anniversaries Celebration will bring together the festivities of the year in a wonderful evening for parishioners, patrons, friends, and family.

Art Music Mondays returns for its ninth season with four concerts in the Performance Hall by area musicians and guests.

We hope that you will be able to join us often during the coming season to have your spirits lifted by some incredible live music. We are ever grateful to our patrons, musicians, and volunteers who have made these fi fteen years possible, and anticipate a wonderful season of music to come!

Joel Martinson ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

We offer the following events to the public free of admission charge,with the exception of the May 2nd Anniversaries Celebration.

Childcare is provided for all 5:00 p.m. services.

2019September 15 Sunday, 5:00 p.m. Evensong for Holy Cross Day Church

October 7 Monday, 7:30 p.m. Art Music Monday Performance Hall

21 Monday, 7:30 p.m. Recital – David Goode Church

November 3 Sunday, 5:00 p.m. Evensong for All Souls’ Day Church

17 Sunday, 7:00 p.m. Concert – Baroque Violin Church

December 8 Sunday, 5:00 p.m. Advent Lessons & Carols Church

16 Monday, 7:30 p.m. Art Music Monday Performance Hall

2020January 26 Sunday, 7:00 p.m. Concert – Baroque Voice & Oboe Church

February 23 Sunday, 7:00 p.m. Recital – Stefan Engels Church

March 9 Monday, 7:30 p.m. Art Music Monday Performance Hall

29 Sunday, 7:00 p.m. Concert – Lenten Baroque Church

April 19 Sunday, 7:00 p.m. Organ Anniversary Recital – Church

Nathan Laube

May 2 Saturday, 7:00 p.m. Anniversaries Celebration Roper Hall

Tickets required - $35 per person; $250 per table of 8

June 8 Monday, 7:30 p.m. Art Music Monday Performance Hall 14 Sunday, 5:00 p.m. Church Anniversary Evensong Church

Solemn Evensong for Holy Cross DaySeptember 15, Sunday, 5:00 p.m.

Transfigured Nights 2019-2020 opens with a celebration of the 63rd Anniversary of the founding day of the Episcopal Church of the Transfi guration – the Feast of the Holy Cross. The Transfi guration Choir will lead a Solemn Evensong featuring David Hogan’s “Washington” Magnifi cat and Nunc dimittis, as well as Gerre Hancock’s Preces and Responses. Owen Reed will serve as guest organist.

Incense will be used and a reception will follow in the Gathering Space.

Organ Recital – David GoodeOctober 21, Monday, 7:30 p.m.

The fi rst organ recital of the Anniversaries Season will feature English organist David Goode in recital on the Jerry D. Godwin Organ,Richards, Fowkes & Co.’s Opus 17. Mr. Goode is Organist and Head of Keyboard at Eton College, where he presides over a unique collection of historic instruments and teaches some of the UK’s most talented young organists. His debut program at Transfi guration will be a program composed primarily of English music, including works by Henry Purcell, Orlando Gibbons, and Herbert Howells, as well as four compositions by living composers – Philip Moore, Joanna Marsh, Francis Jackson, and himself. He will also play J. S. Bach’s trio Sonata No. 5 in C Major, BWV

529, a perfect fi t for Opus 17.

Please note that this recital is on a Monday evening.

Evensong for All Souls’ DayNovember 3, Sunday, 5:00 p.m.

Transfigured Nights commemorates All Souls’ Day with an Evensong service in remembrance of the faithful departed. The Transfi guration Choirwill sing Herbert Howell’s hauntingly beautiful Magnifi cat and Nunc dimittis “Collegium Regale,” composed for King’s College Choir, Cambridge, during the dark days of the Second World War. The Anthem will be Joel Martinson’s setting of Christina Rossetti’s poem “All Saints.”

Following the service, the congregation is invited to join the clergy and choir in the Memorial Garden for the reading of names of all those interred in Transfi guration’s Columbarium.

Concert – Lina Tur Bonet, Baroque ViolinNovember 17, Sunday, 7:00 p.m.

Regarded as “one of the most exciting violinists of her generation”, the Spanish violinist Lina Tur Bonet has worked together with a large number of the most remarkable performers of either Baroque, Romantic, or Contemporary music since her youth. Her uncommonly large repertoire covers up to 400 years of music, always using the proper instruments of every period. She has performed widely in Europe as recitalist, soloist and chamber musician. In her role as a representative of Spanish cultural promotion, she has also performed in a number of Latin American countries.

Lina Tur Bonet will be joined by Arash Noori, theorbo, and Brad Bennight, harpsichord, from the University of North Texas College of Music faculty.

Advent Procession of Lessons & CarolsDecember 8, Sunday, 5:00 p.m.

The Transfi guration Choir and congregation celebrate the Advent season through scripture and song. During the service the choir will move from place to place throughout the church as it sings carols and anthems. The congregation will join in singing hymns, chants, and carols accompanied by the two organs, handbells, and other instruments. A reception follows the service in Roper Hall.

Concert – Baroque Music forVoice, Oboe & ViolinJanuary 26, Sunday, 7:00 p.m.

Soprano Camille King makes her Transfigured Nights debut, joining series favorites, Willa Henigman, oboe, and Kristin Van Cleve, violin, in a program of music from the Baroque era. This acclaimed trio will perform compositions by Marcello, J. S. Bach, and Vivaldi, including Bach’s Double Concerto for Oboe & Violin, BWV

1060a, and Wedding Cantata, BWV 202.

Organ Recital – Stefan EngelsFebruary 23, Sunday, 7:00 p.m.

Transfi guration’s Artist-in-Residence Stefan Engels will perform a variety of organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach representing the different compositional periods of the composer. Professor Engels’ recent focus onJ. S. Bach is in anticipation of his performance cycle of the complete organ works of Bach in Dallas during 2020 and 2021.

Stefan Engels is Professor of Organ and Leah Fullinwider Centennial Chair in Music Performance at SMU. He maintains a vigorous concert schedule in the US and abroad, and has served on juries for a number of international organ competitions.

Concert – Lenten BaroqueMarch 29, Sunday, 7:00 p.m.

Transfigured Nights’ lenten offering will be a program of music for the season, including cantatas by Dieterich Buxtehude and Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as an organ concerto by George Frideric Handel.

The Transfi guration Choir, Gallery Chamber Choir, and soloists will be joined by Stefan Engels, organist, and members of Texas Camerata performing on period instruments.

Organ Anniversary Recital – Nathan Laube

April 19, Sunday, 7:00 p.m.

Transfigured Nights presents the world-renowned organist Nathan Laube in his recital debut on the Jerry D. Godwin Organ, Richards, Fowkes & Co.’s Opus 17 in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the dedication of the organ on April 18, 2010.

Nathan Laube holds a place among the world’s elite performers and pedagogues. He is Associate Professor of Organ on the faculty of theEastman School of Music in Rochester New York, and International Consultant in Organ Studies at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in the United Kingdom. His extensive international recital career takes him continually to major concert venues and festivals around the world. His brilliant playing and gracious demeanor have thrilled audiences and presenters across the United States and in Europe, and his creative programming of repertoire spanning fi ve centuries, including his own virtuoso transcriptions of orchestral works, have earned high praise from critics and peers alike.

Anniversaries CelebrationMay 2, Saturday, 7:00 p.m., Roper Hall

Transfigured Nights presents an evening of song, desserts, and drinks in Roper Hall. Musical theater and popular song selections will be performed by our splendid singers from the Transfi guration Choir. A delectable array of savories and desserts by Transfi guration’s best practitioners of the culinary arts will be accompanied by wine and non-alcoholic beverages. This event will last approximately two hours. Childcare will be provided.

As seating is limited, advance purchase of tickets is required: $35 per person, or $250 for a table of 8.

Solemn Evensong for the Anniversary of a ChurchJune 14, Sunday, 5:00 p.m.

The 2019-2020 Transfigured Nights season fi nale will be an Evensong service led by the Transfi guration Choir in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the dedication of the church building on June 14, 1970. The service will include music from each decade of the church’s existence, incense will be used, and a festive reception will follow in the Gathering Space.

Art Music MondaysTransfigured Nights’ chamber music series, under the direction of cellist Gayane Manasjan Fullford, provides an opportunity to hear well-known and newer classical music works performed by Dallas-Fort Worth’s fi nest musicians and guests from afar. Presented in the intimate environment of Transfi guration’s Performance Hall, Art Music programs are free and include coffee and light desserts. All performances are on Monday evenings and begin at 7:30 p.m.

October 7W. F. Bach – Duo No. 4 for Flute & Oboe Katherine Hoover – Kokopeli for Solo Flute Maurice Ravel – Trio for Flute, Cello & Harp Boris Pigovat – The Silent Music for Cello & Harp Heitor Villa-Lobos – The Black Swan Henry Cowell – Quartet for Flute, Oboe, Cello & Harp

Don Baily, fl uteWilla Henigman, oboeGayane Manasjan Fullford, celloLaura Logan Brandenburg, harp

December 16 Beethoven – Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69

Max Bruch – Pieces for Clarinet, Cello & Piano

Daryl Coad, clarinetGayane Manasjan Fullford, celloEdward Newman, piano

March 9 Joseph Haydn – String Quartet, Op. 76, No. 3, “The Emperor”Robert Schumann – Piano Quintet in E-fl at Major, Op. 44

Steven Li, violinAndrea Tullis, violinBarbara Sudweeks, violaGayane Manasjan Fullford, celloEdward Newman, piano

June 8W. A. Mozart – Violin Sonata No. 35 in A Major, K. 526

Antonin Dvorak – Piano Trio No. 2 in G minor, Op. 26

Theodore Arm, violinGayane Manasjan Fullford, celloEvan Mitchell, piano

Mission StatementTransfigured Nights continues in the Anglican tradition of enriching the lives of the people of God through art and music, whether in the liturgical rites of the church, in concerts, or other programs. Striving to create and host unique offerings of quality featuring the fi nest sacred and secular music, we utilize the talents of parish musicians and local artists, as well as present concerts by national and international performers. The series offers musical experiences to Transfi guration parishioners, and serves as an outreach to those in the broader community.

Contact InformationEpiscopal Church of the Transfi guration14115 Hillcrest Road Dallas, TX 75254972-233-1898 www.transfi gurednights.comEMAIL transfi gurednights@transfi guration.net

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Transfigured Nights Executive Committee

The Reverend R. Casey Shobe, RECTOR

Delynda Moravec, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Joel Martinson, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Paula Tiffi n, TREASURER

Scott DanielsLisa Green

Marge Montgomery

Barbara DeLizzaAnn Kimball

Mickey OwensCherie Young

Greg DillJonathan Maedche

Maria Steigenberger

Photo credits for Transfigured Nights & Art Music Mondays events: Robert Hacker & John Makowski.

Jerry D. Godwin OrganRichards, Fowkes & Co., Opus 17

2010

Transfigured Nights Anniversaries Season