GREATMusicat st. bart‘s

The 2018-19 Great Music at St. Bart’s season offers a survey of centuries of great music from the world over, from one of the most compelling weekly series of early music in the US to cutting-edge new works from today’s highly innovative composers. In addition to featuring a stunning array of world-class performers, the series showcases two of New York’s most inspiring concert venues: St. Bart’s intimate and acoustically brilliant 150-seat chapel; and the majestic 900-seat church, an architectural marvel whose Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ is the largest in New York City and one of the finest examples of the American Classic Organ, suited to convincingly play the entire corpus of great organ literature. Great Music at St. Bart’s has truly established its place in the rich cultural tapestry of New York City.

Great Music is produced by the Mid-Manhattan Performing Arts Foundation, an independent 501(c)(3) corporation established to cultivate, promote, sponsor and develop the understanding and love of the performing arts as presented at St. Bartholomew’s Church, a treasured masterpiece of architecture on the east side of Manhattan’s midtown, now elegantly outfitted with comfortable cathedral chairs enabling the utmost variety in flexible seating. The corporation sponsors performances of music, dance, drama and other performing arts as well as the exhibition of works in the film and fine arts genre. Welcome to St. Bart’s and our 2018-2019 season of great music!

We invite you to become a member of the Great Friends of Music Guild, which plays a critical role in sustaining Great Music at St. Bart’s. These concerts are funded through ticket sales, by your generous contributions, and by corporations and foundations through the Mid-Manhattan Performing Arts Foundation, Inc.

MEMBERSHIP LEVELS

Supporter $60 Friend $100 Donor $250 Patron $500 Benefactor $1,000 Sponsor $1,500 Guarantor $2,500

Mail your payment (made out to the Mid-Manhattan Performing Arts Foundation) to: The Box Office St. Bartholomew’s Church, 325 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10022. You may also call the Box Office at 212-378-0248 or go online to www.mmpaf.org to begin your membership. All members of the Great Friends of Music Guild are listed in concert programs and are invited to special events throughout the year.

Be an AngelIn this brochure, look for special events with “Angel Club” seating. This ticket price category underwrites a portion of the cost of Great Music concerts and keeps ticket prices low. So, be an angel and help bring great music to all.

PLEASE CALL 212-378-0248 TO LEARN MORE

The Cornell Family Foundation Endowment

Through the generosity of the Cornell Family Foundation, we have successfully begun an endowment fund for Great Music at St. Bart’s. Please consider a gift to this fund to help us continue the heritage of Great Music, so that future generations of music lovers will also hear the finest music and programming in the splendor of St. Bartholomew’s Church.

TICKETSORDER ONLINE: MMPAF.ORG; BY PHONE: 212-378-0248; FAX: 212-378-0281

IN PERSON: VISIT THE CONCERT OFFICE AT 325 PARK AVENUE AT 51ST STREET

Tickets purchased more than two weeks before the event will be mailed for a nominal handling charge.Tickets purchased in the two weeks prior to an event will be held for pickup at the Will Call desk.

STUDENT RUSH: Courtesy of the Friends of Great Music and Angel Club patrons of Great Music at St. Bart’s, free tickets will be distrib uted at the door to students one hour before the concert, pending availability. No refunds or exchanges are available. One ticket per valid student ID. Programs and artists subject to change.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Kathryn McKenzie, ChairWilliam K. Trafka, Artistic Director

Brian H. BurnettPatrick CastilloMichel GulickRobin HenryBarry Phillips

Marshall Taylor

STORYTIME— CHORAL CHAMELEONVince Peterson, Artistic Director

The award-winning vocal ensemble, Choral Chameleon, a choir known for championing new music for voices, takes you on a whimsical journey through the magic of choral storytelling. Harnessing powerful commentary in the style of the Greek chorus combined with the beauty and empathy of human singing, this unique performance will narrate rich life stories through the lenses of composers across five centuries, including Mateo Flecha el Viejo, Josquin des Prez, Samuel Barber, Maurice Ravel, The Beatles, and more, featuring a world premiere by our 2018–2019 Composer-In-Residence, Dale Trumbore and an exciting concert opener by Artistic Director, Vince Peterson. Choral Chameleon was the 2017–2018 Group in Residence at National Sawdust in Brooklyn.

$25, $15 FOR STUDENTS AND SENIORS

ET IN TERRA PAX: A CONCERT FOR HOPESeton Hall University Chorus; Mid-Atlantic Symphony Chamber Orchestra

Ashley Bell, Soprano; Augusta Caso, Mezzo-Soprano; Victor Starsky, Tenor; Jeremy Galyon, Bass; Jason C. Tramm, Conductor

Haydn’s Missa in Angustiis (Mass for Troubled Times) was written in 1798, a time of great instability and turbulence in Europe. From the gripping and intense Kyrie, to the life affirming Dona Nobis Pacem, this work transcends its time and offers hope to us in our own time. Ola Gjeilo’s Song of the Universal is a setting of verses from Whitman’s great work. According to the composer, “I love the unabashed optimism, exuberance and his unwavering confidence in our deeper humanity.” Arvo Pärt’s Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten and John Tavener’s The Lamb complete this evening of powerful music. The concert will be conducted by Jason C. Tramm, hailed as a “conductor to watch” by Symphony Magazine.

$35, $25 STUDENTS AND SENIORS RECEIVE A $10 DISCOUNT FOR EACH PRICING CATEGORY

JASON ROBERTS ACCOMPANIES A SAILOR-MADE MANJason Roberts, Organ

Harold Lloyd, along with Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, was one of the most popular and influential comedians of the silent film era; and A Sailor-Made Man is his first full-length motion picture. Lloyd plays a wealthy, idle young man who joins the navy to win the hand of a girl. Lloyd was a champion of the organ: he would not allow his films to be accompanied by pianists! Jason Roberts will offer a live, improvised accompaniment to this film on St. Bart’s magnificent Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ: come experience the film as its first audiences might have.

$20, $10 FOR STUDENTS AND SENIORS

A JOYOUS CHRISTMAS CONCERTSt. Bartholomew’s Choir; Boy and Girl Choristers; Chamber Orchestra

St. Bartholomew’s Choir, Boy and Girl Choristers, New York City’s largest pipe organ and a chamber orchestra join forces for this concert of Christmas favorites. Works include The Christmas portion of Handel’s Messiah, Gustav Holst’s radiant Christmas Day and carol settings of Lauridsen, Chilcott, Willcocks and others. Experi ence the joy and warmth of the holidays with great choral works, sacred and secular, and the chance to sing the beloved carols of the season with organ and orchestra in the candlelit splendor of St. Bartholomew’s Church.

$40, $25STUDENTS AND SENIORS RECEIVE A $10 DISCOUNT FOR EACH PRICING CATEGORY

ANGEL CLUB SEATING: $100 INCLUDES A TAX-DEDUCTIBLE CONTRIBUTION OF $60 TO GREAT MUSIC

ADORATION OF THE MAGIJeff Morrissey, Baritone

Jeff Morrissey, Baritone, returns to St. Bartholomew’s intimate chapel this season with his popular Christmas program inspired by the elegant paintings found in the South Chapel of St. Bartholomew’s. In 1919 Ethel Parsons Paullin and her husband Telford created the beautiful Adoration of the Magi and the 13 medallions surrounding it depicting subjects connected with the Nativity of Christ. Morrissey, whose voice The New York Times calls “a ringing baritone and first rate,” will highlight the artwork weaving passages from the Bible with Polish carols, spirituals and ballads from his own Southern Appalachian Mountains to present a visual and musical telling of the Christmas story.

$25, $15 FOR STUDENTS AND SENIORS

A CONCERT TO USHER IN THE NEW YEARHear St. Bartholomew’s grand Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ with 168 stops and over 12,000 pipes, plus its recently restored Celestial division in St. Bart’s celebrated dome, one of New York’s greatest musical treasures. Festive works from the thrilling corpus of organ literature will be heard, all to magnify the evening’s celebration. A free champagne reception will follow the concert.

FREE

STRAVINSKY — L’HISTOIRE DU SOLDAT DEVIANT SEPTETBill Kalinkos, Clarinet; Mike Gurfield, Trumpet; Karen Kim, Violin; Brad Balliett, Bassoon; Doug Balliett, Double Bass; Mike Lormand, Trombone; Jared Soldiviero, Percussion

Acclaimed as “exciting” (The New York Times), and “exceedingly fun” (Time Out New York), Deviant Septet will perform Igor Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier’s Tale), a Faustian legend for seven instruments and a signature work for this ensemble. The evening will also include Histories, a collaborative work intended as a companion piece to L’Histoire, composed by Sleeping Giant, a consortium of six composers, praised by WQXR for “rapidly gaining notice for their daring innovations and acute attention to instrumental nuance.”

$25, $15 FOR STUDENTS AND SENIORS

THE APPLE HILL STRING QUARTET, NELSON, NHElise Kruder, Colleen Jennings, Violin; Mike Kelley, Viola;Rupert Thompson, Cello

Since its founding in 2007, the Apple Hill String Quartet has earned praise around the world for its concerts presenting interpretive mastery of traditional repertoire—including Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Beethoven, and Ravel—as well as for new and commissioned works by outstanding composers. Apple Hill’s innovative outreach program Playing for Peace focuses on social change and conflict resolution through music in areas where there is conflict, particularly the Middle East. Their concert will include Franz Schubert’s Quartet in A Minor (“The Rosamunde”) as well as quartets by Pulitzer Prize winning Caroline Shaw and Michael Kropf, collaborator with the Apple Hill String Quartet.

$25, $15 FOR STUDENTS AND SENIORS

AMERICAN VOICES OF THE EARLY 20TH CENTURYMarilyn Nonken, Pianist

This program pays tribute to Scott Joplin, the master of ragtime, and the modernist Charles Ives. Joplin’s Bethena (1904) livens the classical waltz with the spirit of ragtime, paying poignant tribute to his first love, Freddie, who died just ten weeks after their wedding. Ives’s Concord Sonata (1911) weaves together popular music from the Civil War, along with quotes from Beethoven, Wagner, and Debussy. “There is genuine majesty in the Concord Sonata, and nobody else, in my experience, has brought it out so convincingly as Nonken.” (Washington Post)

Marilyn Nonken, as “one of the greatest interpreters of new music” (American Record Guide) has been acclaimed for performances of the complete piano music of Schoenberg, Boulez, and Murail, as well as works by composers associated with ultramodernism, the New York School, the New Complexity, and spectral music.

$25, $15 FOR STUDENTS AND SENIORS

RESPLENDENT: A SILVER ANNIVERSARY CONCERTThe Empire City Men’s Chorus; Vince Peterson, Conductor

Empire City Men’s Chorus (ECMC) invites you to kick off the summer and World Pride 2019 in New York City by experiencing and celebrating excellence in men’s choral music programming. The Gala Concert will feature superlative men’s choral works by such esteemed composers as David Conte, Gwyneth Walker, George Gershwin, Orlando di Lasso, Ysaye Barnwell, and Elizabeth Alexander. The chorus will also present two world premieres, underscoring its mission to foster and cultivate artistic contributions to men’s choral music repertoire. To help launch ECMC into its next twenty-five years, join us immediatly following the concert for a Gala Reception, or, if you prefer, for a more intimate Gala Dinner. For tickets to ECMC’s Gala Concert, Gala Reception, or Gala Dinner, or for subscriptions and information on other ECMC Silver Season events, please visit www.ecmc.nyc.

$30, $20 FOR STUDENTS AND SENIORS (AT WWW.ECMC.NYC)

MIDTOWN CONCERTSGotham Early Music Scene (GEMS) in conjunction with The Mid-Manhattan Performing Arts Foundation (MMPAF) presents Midtown Concerts, a weekly series of 40-minute early music concerts in midtown Manhattan featuring soloists and ensembles from the U.S. and abroad.

FREE ADMISSION

LEARN MORE AT MIDTOWNCONCERTS.ORG OR CALL 212-378-0248

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9 AT 7:30 PM (CHAPEL)

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28 AT 7 PM (CHURCH)

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2 AT 7:30 PM (CHURCH)

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11 AT 7:30 PM (CHURCH)

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14 AT 7:30 PM (CHAPEL)

MONDAY, DECEMBER 31 AT 11 PM (CHURCH)

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28 AT 7:30 PM (CHAPEL)

SUNDAY, MARCH 31AT 2:30 PM (CHAPEL)

SUNDAY, MAY 5 AT 2:30 PM (CHAPEL)

SATURDAY, JUNE 1 AT 5 PM (CHURCH)

SEPTEMBER 6 – JUNE 27EVERY THURSDAYAT 1:15 PM (CHAPEL)

201 8–201 9 SEASON SCHEDULEGREATMusicat st. bart‘s

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