Love & Lamentation Sunday, January 29, 2017, 3:00 PM

St. John’s Episcopal Church

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NEW LOCATION: 719 N Calhoun Street, #E Tallahassee, Florida 32303

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Program

Suite from The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, selections Henry Purcell Prelude (1659-1695) Hornpipe Rondeau First Act Tune: Jig Dance for the Followers of Night Dance for the Fairies Chaconne From Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626 Overture Recitative: Thy hand, Belinda Aria: When I am laid in earth Sonata in D major, Op. 2 no. 2 Dieterich Buxtehude Adagio, Allegro, Largo (1637-1707) Arietta (variations in ten parts) Largo, Vivace Jubilate Domino, BuxWV 64 Erbarme dich, “Have mercy” (from St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Lamento sopra la morte Ferdinandi III Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1623-1680) From Hercules, HWV 60 George Frideric Handel Act III, Sinfonia (1685-1759) Where shall I fly?

See translations for Bach and Buxtehude on p. 7

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The Tallahassee Bach Parley Board of Directors Lester Abberger, Chair Nancy Barfield Susan van Hoeij Erica Thaler, Vice Chair Charles E. Brewer Carla King Richardson Julie Leftheris, Treasurer Deborrah Brodsky Stephen Richardson Denise Williams, Secretary Michael Corzine Ava Prebys Jim Alves Rick Effinger Brian Schaper

Music is an integral part of St. John’s outreach to the Tallahassee community. All are welcome to experience the musical expressions that come to life in our sacred space.

2016-2017 Highlights• Three Choral Evensong services with pre-service organ recitals• Halloween Organ Spooktacular Concert• Four Concerts by The Tallahassee Bach Parley• Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra Holiday Magic Concert featuring

St. John’s Choirs• Advent Lessons and Carols Service• Weekly Sunday evening services sung by the Compline Choir of men

For more information and dates, please visit our website.

— Music at St. John’s —

Celebrating the Arts in the Heart of Tallahassee

St. John’s Episcopal Church 211 North Monroe Street • Tallahassee, Florida 32301

(850) 222-2636 • www.saint-john.org Betsy Calhoun, Director of Music

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This program sponsored in part by the City of Tallahassee/Leon County/Council on Culture & Arts (COCA); Tallahassee Downtown/Tallahassee CRA; State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture.

As always, the Tallahassee Bach Parley provides accommodations for persons with disabilities. Please notify the music director by calling 850-459-3195 or by email at musicdirector@tallahasseebachparley.org at least five working days prior to a concert if accommodation for disability or if a program in an alternative format is needed.

The Tallahassee Bach Parley thanks all of our donors and volunteers for support, especially St. John’s Episcopal Church, Betsy Calhoun, and Lindsay Hardy for hosting this concert. Thanks also to the Tallahassee Democrat, WFSU & WFSQ radio’s Tom Flanigan and Dan MacDonald, Loren Rice for graphic design, Erica Thaler for help with publicity, Patty Herrington for distributing posters, and First Presbyterian Church for housing our library and archives.

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The Tallahassee Bach Parley 2016-2017 Membership as of Jan. 18, 2017:

Bach Circle ($1000+) Michael & Kelly Beck Dr. Stephen & Elizabeth Richardson

Handel Circle ($500-999) Lester Abberger John & Nancy Barfield Bill Brubaker Fred & Linda Hester Tom & Lynda McCaleb Tom & Ava Prebys Dana M. Preu Dr. Ruth Sisson

Vivaldi Circle ($250-499) James Alves Melissa & Charles E. Brewer Tim & Sue Cross Glenn Hosken Mimi G. Jones Ronald A. Kanen Dennis G. King Esq. In loving memory of Curtis King, Sr. Jeanne & William Ryder Francis & Karen Skilling Mark, Susan, Max & Sujin van Hoeij David Watson

Telemann Circle ($100-249) Barbara & Hector Aguirre Nick Baldwin Karl & Melissa Barton Ernie Brock Deborrah Brodsky Michael Corzine & Betsy Calhoun Harriet R. Chase Jim & Mary Clark G. Kurt Piehler & Susan Contente Jim & Cindy Cosper Grace & Alan Dakan James C. & Rochelle Davis Woody & Charlotte Dudley Rick Effinger Jan & Larry Everett

Telemann Circle continued Nancy Fischer Patricia J. Flowers Sanford Safron & Penny Gilmer Mary Anne Gray Ken Hays John M. & Leigh Watson Healy Casey Hill Al & Laura Huff Barbara & Fred Jones Bob & Jane Kennedy John Knoblauch Bettina Krone J. Laurence Lama Gudrun Gaar & Robbie Laub Mary & Ben Lawson Barbara & John Mahoney Patricia Yancey Martin Jim & Susan Mau Mary McCormick Emoryette McDonald David & Rosa McNaughton Kate Muldoon & Bill Miller Walter & Marian Moore Nancy Oswalt Olds Ermine M. Owenby Talbot D'Alemberte & Patsy Palmer Doris Partridge Julian & Betty Proctor Joan H. Raley Amy & John Recht Elizabeth Serow Lynne Siegfried Jean Souter Diane L. Stuart Ralph V. Turner Susan & Stephen Turner Kent Putnam & Paula Walborsky John & Virginia Walker Tamara Alagova & Georges Weatherly John & Linda Williams Joan Wooten

Rameau Circle ($50-99) Mary Anne Koos & Will Abberger Paul Arons Karen & Bruce Bickley Peter & Browyn Bigelow Nancy Bivins Dr. Carlos S. Boueres The Brennan Family Susan Cerulean & Jeff Chanton Laura & Barnett Cook Linda D. Davey Karen Wendland Dix Christine E. Evans Stan & Carole Fiore Mrs. Lois Friedman Ben & Beth Fusaro Patricia Gosen Sue Gross Miriam Gurniak Karyn King Hebert Vladimir N. Kosmynin Joe Kraus Jim, Julie & Anne Leftheris Dianne & Ed Mellon Jennie C. Myers June L. Noel Roger Ponder Hank Rosen Tony & Janice Salinero Paula Saunders Danny & Mary Shuler Jeanette Sickel Dr. Patricia H. Stanley Barbara Stansell Lawrence & Robyn Stevenson Erica & Robert Thaler Barbara Mason White Mick & Trish Wilhoit

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Purcell Circle ($25-49) Patricia Applegate Ann L. Berlureau Tom & Cathy Bishop Fenn Cawthon Mary Lama Cordero Patricia A. Curtis Stephanie A. Daniels Virginia Dix Ginny Densmore Martha Fenner Janet Findling Mark & Lisa Foltz Prof. Paula Gerson

Stanley Gewanter Ruth Godfrey-Sigler Christine M. Hazelip Carla Connors & Timothy Hoekman Nancy & Louis Hubener Dwight Kingsbury Dr. Toni Fuss Kirkwood-Tucker Randolph Langley Chris Livaudais Daniel & Arlene MacDonald Marjorie Morgan

Russell Pfost Anne & David Powell Martha Quinn Jane Quinton Sue Scribner Wayne & Gerry Smith Joanne Taylor Katya Taylor Gunilla Trull Kayla Williams Ken Winker

Texts and Translations

Buxtehude: Jubilate Domino, omnis terra. Cantate et exultate et psallite, Psallite Domino in cithara, Cithara et voci psalmi, In buccinis et voce tubae. Jubilate in conspectus Regis Domini.

Rejoice in the Lord, all the earth! Sing, exult, and strike up! Strike up to the Lord with the lyre The lyre, and the sound of psalms, With horns and the sound of the sackbut! Rejoice before the King, the Lord!

Bach: Erbarme dich, erbarme dich, mein Gott, um meiner Zähren willen! Schaue hier, Herz und Auge Weint vor dir bitterlich. Erbarme dich, erbarme dich! um meiner Zähren willen!

Have mercy, have mercy, my God, for the sake of my tears! Look here, heart and eyes weep bitterly before You. Have mercy, have mercy, my God, for the sake of my tears!

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Give the gift of music lessons to enrich the life of a child! We believe in the power of music to nurture our souls, and everyone benefits by learning a musical instrument. We're raising money to offer need-based music scholarships to children in our community.

To donate to our scholarship fund, visit our website at

www.TallahasseeBachParley.org/StringAcademy

2016-2017 String Academy Scholarship Fund Donors as of January 18, 2017

Hector & Barbara Aguirre James Alves Patricia Applegate Phil & Betty Ashler Nick Baldwin John & Nancy Barfield Stanton Beazley Ann L. Berlureau Barbara Bewerse Tom & Cathy Bishop Charles E. & Melissa Brewer Michael Corzine & Betsy Calhoun Harriet R. Chase Jim & Mary Clark G. Kurt Piehler & Susan Contente Janice Dann Linda & Michael Dodson John & Dotty Eisenhour Stan & Carole Fiore Hilda Frazier Sanford Safron & Penny Gilmer

Miriam Gurniak Sue Hansen Linda Harkey Ken M. Hays Fred & LindaHester Nancy & Louis Hubener Ronald A Kanen Joe Kraus David & Rosa McNaughton Tom & Ava Prebys Julian & Betty Proctor Joan H Raley Karl Scheuerman Elizabeth Serow Danny & Mary Shuler Francis & Karen Skilling Wayne & Gerry Smith Erica & Robert Thaler Earl Bacon Ins. Agency Tallahassee Youth Orchestras

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Today’s Musicians

BRIAN ARSENAULT studied viola with Roberto Diaz and Burton Fine. He was selected to perform at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute for three years, earned a BM in viola performance from the New England Conservatory, and also earned an MLIS from the Florida State University. He has performed with the Tallahassee Community Chorus, the Tallahassee Symphony, the Southeastern Chamber Orchestra, and the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra. Brian works as a web developer for Florida Virtual Campus and sings bass in the St. John’s Episcopal Church choir.

VALERIE PREBYS ARSENAULT has two favorite musical activities: teaching the violin and playing baroque music. She is the President and Music Director of the Tallahassee Bach Parley. 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. At the Bach Parley String Academy, Arsenault uses a synthesis of Suzuki and traditional pedagogy, tailored to suit the strengths and learning styles of each student. Her approach is positive and compassionate, but also demanding, and she enjoys helping her students find creative solutions to technical and musical challenges.

CHARLES E. BREWER is Professor of Musicology in the College of Music at Florida State University. His research interests concerning the music of the Seventeenth Century has focused on the instrumental compositions from Central and East Central Europe and has been conducted at archives throughout the region. The results of his research have been presented at scholarly conferences, in publications, in concerts, and on recordings by Tafelmusik, Hesperion XXI, and Acronym. His book, The Instrumental Music of Schmeltzer, Biber, Muffat and Their Contemporaries, was published in the spring of 2011. He is a long time member of the Tallahassee Bach Parley and serves on the Board of Directors. He plays the harpsichord, clavichord, and organ, and has performed with the Bach Parley. He helps choose innovative, engaging programs for the Parley’s concerts, arranging and engraving new music parts when necessary.

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 FSU Baroque Ensemble, Baroque Southeast, the Apollo Ensemble, and is Principal Violist with the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra. She plays on a 1760 Locky Hill viola.

CAROLINE HOLDEN has played with many orchestras across the country, including the Grand Rapids Symphony, the Louisiana Philharmonic, the Mississippi Symphony, and the West Michigan Symphony. She currently serves as Assistant Concertmaster of the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, and is also a member of the Mobile Symphony Orchestra. She performs chamber music as a violinist in the Purple Martin String Quartet, and is a founding member of the Argot Trio with her husband, Dr. Jonathan Holden. Caroline is a native of Kalamazoo, Michigan, and earned degrees from Hope College in

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Holland, MI and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She resides in Tallahassee with her husband and two young children. Outside of music, she enjoys gardening and stained glass projects.

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 thirty students.

JOSH LEE’s viol playing has been called “a tour-de-force” (Vancouver Classical), and has garnered acclaim from audiences across five continents. Josh is sought after as a soloist and chamber artist, appearing with Portland Baroque Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Musica Pacifica, Orchester Wiener Akademie, Festival Casals, Les Délices, Pacific Music Works, American Bach Soloists, Boston Early Music Festival, Carmel Bach Festival, Four Nations, TENET, and the Seattle Symphony. Praised as “a master of the score’s wandering and acrobatic itinerary” (Cleveland Plain Dealer), Josh’s performances have been heard on Performance Today, FluxFM, Harmonia, and Österreichischen Rundfunk, and RAI. Josh collaborates and records with indie band Radical Face, whose songs have been featured in prime time tv, film, and ad campaigns across the globe. Josh splits his time between Los Angeles and Jacksonville, FL.

PHYLLIS PANCELLA recently returned from her Santa Fe Opera debut as the Marquise in Daughter of the Regiment. Her 2014- 2015 season began with performances of Mrs. Lovett in Virginia Opera's production of Sweeney Todd, and continued with a semi-staged Hansel & Gretel with the Alabama Symphony (Mother/Witch), and her first Alexander Nevsky with the Eugene Symphony. Her opera roles have ranged from Carmen to Lizzie Borden to Nero, with companies such as Houston Grand Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, San Francisco Opera, English National Opera, and the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Italy. In concert repertoire, she has appeared with the St. Louis Symphony and National Symphony under Leonard Slatkin, the Berlin Philharmonic and Chicago Symphony under Daniel Barenboim, the Cincinnati Symphony and the L.A. Opera Orchestra under James Conlon, and the New World Symphony and Ensemble Orchestral de Paris under John Nelson. A highly regarded interpreter of chamber music and art song, she has performed with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Chamber Music Northwest, OK Mozart, BargeMusic, and for the Prague New Music Festival.

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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Honors Recital

Saturday, February 18, 2017, 3:00pm Maguire Center, Westminster Oaks

Auditions Feb. 4, FSU College of Music

Kids Go for B’roque, now scheduled for its seventh consecutive year in 2017, is an annual competition and concert/honors recital that showcases the talented young musicians in our area performing music from the Baroque period, playing a variety of instruments appropriate to that period: strings (violin, viola, cello, bass), wind instruments, piano, guitar, along with vocalists and small chamber ensembles. Any child age 18 or younger may enter with the permission of his or her music teacher. Kids Go For B’roque participants prepare a Baroque music piece to high standards, receive feedback from highly qualified judges, and possibly perform for their peers and the community in a concert setting.

For more information and specific requirements, visit www.TallahasseeBachParley.org

Sunday Worship Schedule 8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist, Rite I 9:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist, Rite II with choirs 11:15 a.m. Holy Eucharist, Rite II with choirs 5:30 p.m. Holy Eucharist, Rite II (Carter Chapel) 8:00 p.m. Compline (September – April)

The Lively Café Join us under the umbrellas in our indoor/outdoor café! Monday – Friday, 11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

St. John’s Bookstore Monday – Friday, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Sunday, 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Telephone (850) 222-8814

The Rev. David C. Killeen, Rector

St. John’s Episcopal Church Loving and Serving Christ and Our Neighbors

in Tallahassee and the World

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2016-2017 Season:

Josh Lee, viola da gamba October 2, 2016

Autumn Colors November 13, 2016

Love and Lamentat ion January 29, 2017

Bach Parley String Academy Benefit April 2, 2017

Remembering & Annual Reception June 4, 2017

Sundays, 3pm, at St. John’s Episcopal Church $10 suggested donation, free childcare available _____________________________________

Bonus Concert Events Iain Quinn, FSU Organ Scholarship Benefit

June 11, 2017, Trinity United Methodist

Tallahassee Community Chorus St. John Passion April 30, 2017, 4:00pm, Ruby Diamond Concert Hall