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Fine Arts/Concerts at Lord of Life
2011-2012
Lord of Life's Fine Arts
Concert Series is pleased to
be celebrating ten complete
seasons of providing
monthly, Saturday evening
concerts to the church and
community, always featuring
quality soloists or
ensembles. Local, national
and international musicians
have performed on the series
since its founding.
There are few concerts of
this same excellence
anywhere, and on most
occasions we ask only
for a door offering. For an
extra blessing, take the
opportunity to invite a
neighbor or co-worker to
enjoy the concert with you,
and give the gift of music
to someone else.
Volunteers are always
appreciated and needed to
help with facilities set up,
hosting performers, and
providing refreshments.
Click on
the names below for a
detailed description of the
concert or performers. To
add your name to the concert
mailing list, please
click
here.
Fine Arts/Concert Series,
2011-12
Unless noted, all concerts
begin at 7pm
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Friday, 16
September, 2011 |
Kevin
Hildebrand, Organ |
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Saturday, 8 October,
2011 |
Mood
Swings Saxophone
Quartet |
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Saturday, 12
November, 2011 |
Meridian
Chamber Players |
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Sunday, 11 December,
2011 |
Festival
Service of Lessons
and Carols |
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Saturday, 7 January,
2012 |
Epiphany
Vespers featuring
the Kantorei from
Concordia Seminary,
Fort Wayne |
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Sunday, 15 January,
2012 |
Silent
Movie: The Parson's
Widow |
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Sunday, 26 February,
2012 |
Tesoro
Trio |
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Saturday, 21 April,
2012 |
Denton
Bach Players |
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Saturday, 19 May,
2012 |
James
Hendricks, Pianist |
FRIDAY, 16
September, 2011
Kevin Hildebrand, Organist
- Kevin Hildebrand is
Associate Kantor at
Concordia Theological
Seminary, Ft. Wayne,
Indiana. His teaching
at the seminary includes
courses in vocal
development, music
fundamentals, and music for
worship, as well as choir
and organ responsibilities
for daily chapel and other
services. His service
to the Church also includes
teaching the annual organist
workshops at the seminary,
and assisting with the
seminary’s Good Shepherd
Institute, a resource for
pastoral theology and sacred
music. Hildebrand has
also founded and directs the
Seminary Children’s Choir,
composed of children from
the seminary community.
He also directs the Youth
Choir at St. Paul’s Lutheran
Church and School in Ft.
Wayne.
- Hildebrand is a graduate of
Concordia University, River
Forest, Illinois, and also
holds master’s degrees in
music and theology The
University of Michigan and
Concordia Theological
Seminary, respectively.
He has studied organ with
Steven Wente and Marilyn
Mason, and composition with
Richard Hillert, Robert
Lind, and James Aikman.
- Kantor Hildebrand is an
active composer and has
numerous compositions for
organ and choir
published with Concordia
Publishing House and
MorningStar Music
Publishers. His hymn
tune LORD OF LIFE (used with
the text, “O Christ, Who
Shared Our Mortal Life”) as
well as other hymn
harmonizations are
represented in Lutheran
Service Book (2006).
He has also been a workshop
leader and instructor for
the LCMS Commission on
Worship, as well as frequent
organ recitalist and hymn
festival presenter across
the United States and
Canada. He is a member
of the Indiana District
Board for Worship and
Spiritual Care.
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Release.
SATURDAY, 8 October,
2011
Dallas Saxophone
Quartet
- The Dallas Saxophone Quartet was formed to provide chamber music for wedding ceremonies, corporate events and public performances. We strive to entertain and educate audiences with a music library that spans from Bach to the Beatles. All our members are educated musicians and thoroughly enjoy making music together, and each performs and teaches on some professional level. DSQ is comprised of:
- Cody Schwartz, soprano and lead alto: Cody has a Bachelor of Music degree from Stephen F. Austin State University. Cody has written music for middle-school band, all-region sight-reading, and has arranged music for several organizations across Texas. He has taught private music instruction for 20 years and owns and operates Mood Swings Entertainment, a live music service business.
- Frank Wilbanks, alto saxophone: Frank holds a Bachelor of Music in Education from Stephen F. Austin State University. After several years of band directing, Frank chose a career in insurance. Frank keeps his love for music alive through the DSQ, Mood Swings, and other bands across the area.
- Roger Ashcraft, tenor saxophone: Roger holds the Bachelor of Music and Master of Arts degrees from Stephen F. Austin State University. Roger was a band director for 34 years, and after retiring from Bonham High School, now assists part-time with the band program in the Bells ISD, and also does some private teaching. He directs the choir and handbells at First Presbyterian Church in Bonham.
- Kevin Hamilton, baritone saxophone: Kevin holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Stephen F. Austin State University and a Masters of Science from Texas A&M Commerce. Kevin taught science for several years and is now a Middle School Principal. He plays professionally with Mood Swings and other top bands in the area and teaches private saxophone instruction.
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SATURDAY, 12 November, 2011
Meridian Chamber Players
The
Meridian Chamber Players are
committed to providing the
community with the highest
quality music and
repertoire. Comprised
of Krstan Blaylock and
Danielle Archer, flutes; Amy
Hammert and Ashley Howe,
oboes; Mibzar Vazquez and
David Kraft, clarinets;
Cheree Winston, saxophone;
Anna May Ghaly and Mathew
Swindle, bassoons; Blake
Yarbrough, Heather Anthony
and Michael Gale, horns;
Veronika Vassileva, violin;
Javier Betancourt and Brook
Neal, cellos; Carlos Gaviria,
string bass and Abdiel
Almodovar, conductor.
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release.
SUNDAY, 11 December, 2011
Festival of Lessons and
Carols
Lord of
Life's choir and musicians
are joined by professional
musicians from the community
as they lead in the beloved
music of Advent and
Christmas. This
service, with its origins at
Truro Cathedral in 1917,
intersperses scripture
readings with anthems,
solos, and carols
celebrating Christ's birth.
This year's service will
focus on the rich Christmas
heritage of the Alpine
countries, highlighting a
recently-discovered original
instrumental and choral
setting of "Silent Night"
composed later in life by
Joseph Mohr, the famous
Austrian composer of the
tune, STILLE NACHT. Swiss
alpenhorn players will also
participate in the music.
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release.
Saturday, 7 January, 2012,
4pm
Epiphany Vespers
featuring the Kantorei from
Concordia Seminary, Fort
Wayne
The Seminary Kantorei is a
sixteen-voice choir of
students studying for the
Office of the Holy Ministry
at Concordia Theological
Seminary. The Kantorei,
founded and directed by the
Rev. Kantor Richard C. Resch,
has toured annually
throughout the United States
and parts of Canada during
Epiphany and Eastertide. In
addition to the tours that
culminate with an on campus
Choral Vespers, the Kantorei
has traditionally sung for
the annual Confessions
Symposia, Spring Vicarage
Placement and Call Services.
The Kantorei will sing the
Choral Vespers for Epiphany.
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release.
SUNDAY, 15 January, 2012
Silent Movie: The Parson's
Widow (1920)
Directed
by Danish filmmaker Carl
Theodore Dreyer, this film
(entitled Prästäkan
in
Swedish)
is a rather simple story of
a very poor young man,
Sofren, who is selected over
two other applicants to
become the parson of a small
rural village. According to
the custom of the parish,
the elderly Dame Margaret,
widow of the previous
pastor, has the right to
marry the new parson. Sofren,
in order to obtain the
position as the parson and
all its fringe benefits,
agrees to marry Dame
Margaret who has been
widowed three prior times.
Sofren has been engaged for
many years to a young lady,
Mari, whose father will not
consent to their marriage
until Sofren is made a
parson. Sofren, who prefers
the comforts of the
parsonage but will not give
up Mari, brings Mari into
the parsonage by the ruse
that she is his sister.
Sofren and Mari seek
humorous ways to circumvent
Dame Margaret while they
await the elderly Dame
Margaret to die. . . only to
discover through their many
humorous adventures that
Dame Margaret is more of a
character than they had
anticipated! Filmed in
beautiful Lillehammer,
Norway, this entertaining
film offers a view of rural
Scandinavian life that is
both hauntingly ancient and
seemingly modern.
From
The New York Times,
April 8, 1929:
"A
somewhat ingenuous little
tale, laid in the Gudbrand
Valley of Norway some three
centuries ago is now on
exhibition at the Fifth
Avenue Playhouse. It is an
adaptation of
Christopher Janson's novel,
" The Parson's Widow."
Organist
Benjamin Kolodziej will
perform the accompaniment
for this moving picture,
crafting a score original in
parts and always
Scandinavian in character,
utilizing the music from
Norway's greatest and most
recognizable composer,
Edvard Grieg.
As a
classical organist, Benjamin
Kolodziej has performed
concerts in the UK, Norway,
Switzerland, Germany and
Austria as well as
throughout the USA,
including such venues as
Washington National
Cathedral; St Thomas Church,
Fifth Avenue; St Patrick's
Cathedral, NYC; and St
Philip's Cathedral, Atlanta.
As a theatre organist, he
has published in Theatre
Organ magazine and may
often be found performing on
the Wurlitzer at the
McKinney Performing Arts
Center. In June of 2010,
Benjamin performed The
Parson's Widow at the
Markus Kyrke in Oslo,
Norway, a successful event
which represented the first
time in many years a silent
movie had been shown in
Oslo, much less one of such
inimitably Norwegian
character.
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release.
Sunday, 26 February, 2012
Verlaine Trio
Jolyon Pegis, cellist, is a winner of the
Artists International Awards in New York City
and has appeared as soloist with the orchestras
of Kingsport, TN, Chautauqua, San Antonio, Maui,
Virginia, and Dallas. As a champion of new music
he has commissioned and premiered several works
and has worked with composers such as Gunther
Schuller, Lukas Foss, and Don Freund. Mr. Pegis
has served on the faculties of Southern
Methodist University, the Hartt School of Music,
and the D’Angelo School of Music at Mercyhurst
College. Currently, Jolyon is a member of the
Dallas Symphony and Assistant Principal Cello of
the Chautauqua Symphony. He is a member of the
Grammy nominated contemporary ensemble Voices of
Change and also plays as a substitute with the
Chicago Symphony.
Russian pianist Liudmilla Georgievskaya has
performed in Russia, the United States, and
throughout Europe. She has taken part in several
European piano and music festivals, and had her
performances broadcast on radio and television
programs in Russia. She won numerous awards in
nation and international piano competitions,
including top prizes at the JS Bach Piano
Competition in Kiev in 1987 and the 2009 SMU
Concerto Competition. She is on the faculty at
SMU and continues her intense concert career in
Europe and in the Americas. She also works on
her doctorate in piano performance with Dr
Pamela Mia Paul at UNT.
Violinist Maria Schleuning joined the Dallas
Symphony in 1994 and has been a featured soloist
with the orchestra on numerous occasions. Other
solo appearances include performances with the
Seattle Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Long Bay
Symphony (SC), Columbia Symphony (OR), and as
alumni soloist for the 75th Anniversary of the
Portland Youth Philharmonic (OR). In 2004 she
performed the Barber Violin Concerto with the
Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra on a tour of
Eastern Europe, which included concerts at the
Gewandhaus in Leipzig and the Rudolfinum in
Prague. As a chamber musician, Ms. Schleuning
has performed at Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully
Hall, Carnegie Recital Hall, the Summergarden
series at the Museum of Modern Art (NY), Merkin
Hall, and concerts with Villa Musica in Germany.
In Dallas, she is a member of the
Grammy-nominated Voices of Change, and from
2000-2006 was violinist of the Walden Piano
Quartet. She has recorded with both ensembles.
Since 1993 she has been a faculty member and
performer at the Bowdoin International Music
Festival in Maine, and has performed at Music in
the Mountains (CO), Idyllwild Arts (CA), and the
Skaneateles Festival (NY). She studied
violin with Josef Gingold at Indiana University
where she was awarded the prestigious
Performer's Certificate; with Yfrah Neaman in
London as a recipient of the Dame Myra Hess
Foundation Trust; and with Joel Smirnoff at the
Juilliard School where she received her Master's
degree.
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SATURDAY, 21 April,
2012
Denton Bach
Players
Founded in 2009, the Denton
Bach Players are an ensemble
of local musicians who
regularly perform both
together and in other
metroplex music
organizations. The core
members (Janelle West, Heidi
Klein, Eric Smith, Andrew
Justice, Lenora McCroskey,
and Jennifer Carpenter)
first began concertizing in
2007. Realizing there was a
need for a professional
early music ensemble based
in Denton, McCroskey and
Justice approached the
Denton Bach Society,
suggesting a creative
partnership whereby the
Players would serve as the
instrumental core for the
Society’s concert needs, and
in return benefit from
becoming an official
ensemble under the Denton
Bach umbrella.
In the past two seasons, the
Denton Bach Players (in
addition to supporting
choral concerts of Handel,
Haydn, seventeenth-century
German composers, and of
course Bach) presented
programs of early Italian
chamber music and works by
the sons of J.S. Bach, in
addition to fundraising
events at local
establishments featuring
Baroque music involving
coffee and other
nontraditional themes. More
information may be found at
www.dentonbach.com.
Saturday, 19 May, 2012
James Hendricks,
Pianist
Pianist
Jim Hendricks intrigued
musicians and family members
as a child with the uncanny
ability to play anything he
heard on records and
memorize any printed music
that came across the piano.
While still in grammar
school, Jim was able to
transcribe by ear complex
harmonies and melodies –
without the use of a piano.
He continued intensive
musical studies and was
considered a professional as
a teenager.
After
high school, Jim performed
with such legends as Dave
Brubeck, Della Reese, Rita
Moreno, Tito Puente, Maynard
Ferguson, Jack Jones, Louie
Bellson, Clark Terry, Arturo
Sandoval, Jon Faddis, and
many others. He also
competed in numerous
international piano
competitions and was a
featured orchestral soloist,
performing the piano music
of Rachmaninoff. By the age
of twenty-five, Jim had
accepted a professorship in
the piano department of
Chicago State University.
While on
tour with the Glenn Miller
Orchestra, Jim realized he
was not using his talents
for God's glory. Already
being a dedicated Christian
for many years, Jim knew it
was time to leave the
secular music world and
follow God's calling into
Christian ministry.
Since
then, Jim has performed well
over 1,000 Christian piano
concerts in churches all
across the land, including
three appearances at the
Crystal Cathedral. He has
made eleven piano
recordings, performed on
ABC, CBS, TBN and PAX,
authored the book
Contemporary Arrangements
for Today's Church Pianist,
and been featured in Clavier
piano journal. The Lord has
greatly blessed his decision
to bring glory to Christ
through music.
To view the 2010-2011 season,
click here.
To view the 2009-2010 season,
click here.
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