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Messiah Lutheran Church Sunday April 9, 2017—3:00 pm
The
Seven
Last
Words
of
Christ
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Section One
Messiah Lutheran Church
Handbell Choir
Aria Arr. Michael Helman
You Raise Me Up Arr. Joel Raney
Will You Come and Follow Me Arr. Susan Nelson
On Eagle’s Wings Arr. Michael Helman
Offering A Free Will offering will be taken. Proceeds are used to benefit the
Messiah Lutheran Church Fine Arts Concert Series. We thank you for your generosity.
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Section Two
The Seven Last Words of Christ A Sacred Cantata for Soli, Chorus and Orchestra
Théodore Dubois
Introduction Soprano Solo
O ye who travel upon the highway, hearken to me, and behold me: was e’er sorrow like unto my sorrow? For the Lord Almighty hath dealt bitterly with me.
Call me now no more Naomi, from today call me Mara.
First Word Baritone and Tenor Soli, with Chorus
Father forgive them, for they know not what they do. And the people clamor’d: He is death-guilty, take him, take him, let us crucify him!
Be his blood on us, and on our children! Then they did crucify Jesus, and the two thieves, one at His right hand,
The other at His left hand.
Second Word Duet for Tenor and Baritone, with Chorus
Verily, thou shalt be in Paradise today with me. Amen, so I tell thee. Hear me, O Lord, and remember me, when Thou comest into Thy kingdom.
Third Word Soli for Soprano, Tenor, Baritone, with Chorus.
See, O woman! Here behold thy Son beloved. See yon mother, bow’d in anguish, Who beside the cross doth languish,
Where on high her son is borne; Is there mortal, who not feeleth to behold her where she kneeleth,
So woeful, and all forlorn?
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Fourth Word Baritone Solo
God my Father, why hast Thou forsaken me? All those who were my friends, all have now forsaken me, and they that hate me do now
prevail against me: and he whom I have cherished, he hath betrayed me. Even the vine that I have chosen, and that I have planted: wherefore art thou now so
strangely turned into bitterness, that I by thee am crucified?
Fifth Word Chorus, and Soli for Tenor and Baritone
I am athirst! And the Jews then passing by him, all did rail upon him,
and wagging their heads at him, they said unto him: Ah! Thou wouldst fain destroy the temple; if thou be Jesus,
Son of the Father, now from the cross descend thou, that we behold it, and believe on thee when we behold it.
If thou art king over Israel, save thyself then.
Sixth Word Tenor Solo, and Chorus
Father, into Thy hands I commend my soul. For Thou art my God and my Father; Thou art my Saviour.
Into Thy hands I commend my soul.
Seventh Word Solo for Soprano, Tenor and Baritone, with Chorus
And with a loud voice Jesus cried, exclaiming: It is finished!
And He did bow His head, and rendered up His spirit. And it was about the sixth hour; and the sun was darkened, and darkness covered the earth, until about the ninth hour: and the veil of the temple was rent, and all the earth did quake:
and the rocks were rent, and all the graves were opened wide.
Prayer Christ, we do all adore Thee, and we do praise Thee for ever; for on the holy cross hast thou the world from sin redeemed.
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Soloists
Jennifer Renfroe—Soprano
William Renfroe—Tenor
Dave Downer—Baritone
Soprano
Edith Anderson
Glorianne Babcock
Be Engler
Debra Goodall
Kathy Johnson
Margot Reigle
Gayle Wilbanks
Judy Young
Tenor
Roy Engler
Scott Van Baaren
Bass
John Lester
John Luddington
Bob Reider
Jim Slater
Wayne Tappon
Alto
Marie Dravland
Carolyn Fleck
Diane Harmer
Christine LaCroix
Jaycine Lester
Karen Tappon
Jini Wydler
Messiah Lutheran Church Chancel Choir
John Renfroe, Director
Chris Adams
Edith Anderson
Bobbee Burkhard
Merry Fuson
Debra Goodall
Judith King
Sara Malloy
Jane Schroeder
Jim Slater
Pearl Slusher
Mary Wagner
Sharon Williams
Messiah Lutheran Church Handbell Choir
Judith King, Director
Guest Harpist
Sophia Secrest
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Jennifer (Jen) Renfroe has enjoyed a lifetime of music making and learning. She graduated in May of 2012 with a Bachelor’s of Science in Music Education from the University of South Florida in Tampa and has work completed towards a Bachelor’s of Music in Voice Performance. While at USF she studied with voice professors Ms. Annetta Monroe and Dr. Brad Diamond. Her solo repertoire includes works by Bach, Handel, Mozart, Brahms, Fauré, and Copeland. Jen performed with a wide variety of vocal and instrumental musical ensembles at USF including The USF Chamber Singers, USF Opera, The Master Chorale of Tampa Bay, with whom she still sings, and The USF Herd of Thunder Marching Band. Since she was a teenager, she has performed as a soloist and cantor singing a variety of repertoire, both soloistic and liturgical, at many churches in the Tampa Bay Area, including Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Dunedin, Florida, where she currently is a cantor and has been a member of the Christmas and Easter Schola since 2007. She has sung and performed with her family's group The Renfroe Family Singers at Our Lady of Lourdes and on the road as close as Orlando, Florida and as far away as Eisenstadt, Austria. Since April, 2016, Jen has been teaching voice, piano, saxophone, violin, and music theory lessons at Westchase Music School in Tampa, Florida and enjoys jamming with her coworkers and practicing original compositions in her free time.
Mr. William Renfroe, a recently retired Pinellas County veteran teacher, has taught choral music for 40 years in Pinellas County, Florida with 30 years at Largo High School. During this tutelage, the choral program at Largo traveled four times to Europe, once winning the Bournmouth International Music Festival, performed in Washington D.C., and in New York’s Carnegie Hall with John Rutter, and the summer of 2013 Eisenstadt, Austria. LHS choirs have consistently been considered a choral benchmark for Pinellas County music education. Among his many solo performing credits, Mr. Renfroe has performed with Walt Disney World’s “Voices of Liberty”, The Florida Orchestra, The National Orchestra in D.C., has performed and recorded with The Atlanta Symphony Chorus, with Robert Shaw conducting, has sung in the joint Master Chorale/London Bach Choir with Sir David Willcocks and Sir Colin Davis. Mr. Renfroe has also performed with Rosemary Clooney, The Canadian Brass, Andy Williams, Richard Carpenter, and David Brubeck, and several others. Overseas, Mr. Renfroe has performed in England, France, Germany, Italy, Austria and Poland. Mr. Renfroe has performed as tenor soloist with the Classical Music Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria performing Haydn’s “Lord Nelson Mass” and Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis” and the “Harmonie Masse” of Haydn in the Esterhausy Palace , and surrounding communities. In addition, Mr. Renfroe has performed numerous oratorio tenor roles such as Haydn’s “Creation” Handel’s “Messiah”, Mendelssohn’s “Elijah”, Verdi’s “Requiem”, many Bach Cantatas as well as many other assorted solo selections with the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay, and solo recital works. As a charter member of The Master Chorale of Tampa Bay, William was assistant director, and tenor section leader to past directors Dr. Jo-Michael Schiebe and Dr. Richard Zielinski. Mr. Renfroe was a 2013 nominee for the Pinellas County “Teacher of the Year”, and is the past recipient of “Music Educator of the Year” for Pinellas County. Mr. Renfroe is listed multiple times in “Who’s Who Among Teachers”.
David Downer lives in Sarasota, Florida with his wife, three kids and their toy poodle and is quite active in the music and theater scene. Dave is a paid section leader for a local church there, has performed in praise bands and is a regular soloist. He is active in musical theater and was most recently seen in the Disney musical Beauty and the Beast at the Manatee Performing Arts Center performing as The Beast! Other favorite roles include Miles Gloriousus from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Sir Robin from Spamalot, Kerchak from Disney’s Tarzan and Jud Fry from Oklahoma! Dave has also been a featured soloist for classical music works such as The Seven Last Words of Christ, Verdi’s Requiem and other fine pieces
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John L. Renfroe is the director of music and organist at Messiah Lutheran Church in Cape Coral, where he
directs the Chancel Choir and a variety of vocal ensembles. He also supervises the Christian Education
programs, Youth Ministries, and Visitations to the homebound. John graduated from Stetson University with
a degree in organ performance as a church music major. He has given organ concerts and lectures
throughout Florida and has received thirteen piano awards, including second place in the Chopin
competition for two years. He is a member of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians (ALCM) and the
National Pastoral Musicians. Presently John is the Dean to the SW chapter of the American Guild of
Organists (AGO). A rostered Minister of Word and Service (Deacon) in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of
America (ELCA) in the area of music ministry, he has published articles in The Lutheran, the magazine of the
ELCA, and he has also served on the liturgy planning committee for the Florida-Bahamas Synod.
Judith King is in her 11th year serving as director of handbell music at Messiah Lutheran Church. Originally
from Vermont, Judith is a member of the American Guild of English Handbell Ringing, has rung handbells for
over 30 years and was a charter member of the Southwest Florida Handbell Ensemble. In 2013 Judith
attended the International Handbell Symposium in Liverpool, Great Britain. While in England she
participated in ringing at a tower bell rehearsal at St. Michael's Anglican Church in Garston. Earlier this year
Judith traveled throughout Ireland and Scotland visiting several cathedrals, some with handbell choirs and/
or tower bell choirs. She had the privilege of accompanying the bell ringers in the tower at St. Patrick's
Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland to toll the bells for Sunday services. While in central Scotland she participated in
a handbell rehearsal in Dunkeld and attended the Dunblane Cathedral ringers handbell concert featuring
their three versatile advanced choirs. Judith plays tenor drum for the Harp and Thistle Bagpipe Band from
Naples, Florida, which placed first in the state of Florida 2015 Highland Games. Judith also plays mountain
dulcimer and is a member of the Southwest Florida Dulcimer club. Judith enjoys reading, English Country
dancing, Contra dancing and has achieved the three levels of the Florida Master Naturalist program.
ABOUT THE COMPOSER: François-Clément Théodore Dubois (24 August 1837 – 11
June 1924) was born in Rosnay in north-eastern France. He showed great interest in
music at an early age, and studied harmony, fugue and the organ at the Paris
Conservatoire, where he won several prizes, culminating in the Grand Prix de Rome
in 1861. From 1855 to 1858 he was organist at the Chapelle des Invalides, but on his
return from Rome he took up an appointment as maître de chapelle at Sainte-
Clotilde. He then occupied the same post at the Madeleine before he succeeded
Camille Saint-Saëns as organist there in 1877. At the same time he taught harmony
and composition at the Conservatoire and became director there from 1896 to
1905. As well as his famous Traité d’harmonie (1921), long considered a definitive
work, he also wrote a variety of vocal works, both sacred and secular, and numerous
orchestral and instrumental pieces. Dubois was an conscientious musician, and
considered to be representative of the classical school. He died in Paris in 1924.
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Cypress Lake High School Center for the Arts
Full Symphony Orchestra
Students in the CLHS Center for the Arts Orchestra Program are among the most talented musicians in Lee County. Students in this program are treated as young professionals and held to high standards of excellence. They are given various opportunities for growth including, but not limited to, master classes, workshops, independent study, extra performances, concerts, field trip performances into the community, sectionals, class discussions, studio room rehearsals, and research. This program is structured to provide one of the most rewarding and enriching experiences for students by cultivating overall musicianship, life skills, versatility, friendships, and support that will last for a lifetime
Orchestra Director/Conductor: Kayla Lisa Kayla graduated from Radford University with a degree in music education and music therapy. She has
been the orchestra director at CLHS for 3 years and has doubled the strings program since accepting
the job. She has a passion for teaching music and hopes to continue to inspire other string students to
pursue music as well. If you would like to get in touch with her to inquire about the strings program,
please email her at kaylacl@leeschools.net.
Band Director: Marissa Kotzin
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Strings
Cat Arrigada—Violin
Ryan Anderson—Bass
Kylee Burger—Viola
Carly Fulcher—Cello
Ericka Gabrielli—Viola
Brant Harlacher—Cello
Larry Johnson—Cello
Skylar Key—Cello
Victoria O’Donnell—Violin
Megan Pearce—Violin
Christian Raimonde—Bass
Raphael Ruiz—Violin
Sophia Secrest—Harp
Woodwind
Abigail Lee—Oboe
Carter Popple—Flute
Ryan Sandru—Clarinet
Cypress Lake High School Center for the Arts
Orchestra
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Band Director, Marissa Kotzin: Marissa Kotzin holds a bachelor’s
degree in music education from The Florida State University. During her
tenure at Florida State, Ms. Kotzin served as President of the Florida
chapter of the National Association for Music Education, and served on
the Florida Music Educators Association executive board as the colle-
giate representative. Ms. Kotzin has taught both middle school and high
school across the state and is now excited to call Fort Myers home! This
is Ms. Kotzin’s first year at Cypress Lake High School Center for the Arts,
This concert brings to an end the 2016-2017 Messiah Lutheran Church
Fine Arts Concert Series, our 28th year of bringing music and the arts to North
Fort Myers and Cape Coral. How exciting it has been to scout far and wide to
bring to our concert audience another exciting variety of musical artistry and
inspiration.
The concert series has benefited greatly from the generous support of
benefactors, patrons, sponsors, and friends, as well as the love offerings
received at each concert. We thank you most sincerely and honor our
commitment to schedule concerts of the finest quality. Your continued support
of the concert series will be sincerely appreciated. Please use the enclosed
envelope for your convenience.
Each year a number of the concerts involve the choir, motet, handbell
ringers, and instrumentalists of Messiah as they present the spirit and ministry
of the host congregation. We thank each and every member of these
ensembles for their dedication throughout the year.
Thank You…. For Another Great Year of Music ! ! !
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Our thanks to the following people whose generous
contributions help to make this year’s Concert Series possible.
(Listing as of April 4, 2017)
Presto! Benefactors ($100+)
Elaine Alexander
Dennis and Edna Allen
Richard and Velma Bethel
Bea Botterbusch
Dorothy Bethel Conley
MJ Congilio
Ron and Janet Corliss
Cheryl Dempster
Wesley Drexler
Philip and Susan Fabry
The Florida-Bahamas Synod
Carlyle and Ruth Gilbertson
Warren and Susan Hillbish
Norm and Norma Klemz
Dr. Peter and Barbara Koch
Roy and LaVerne Koski
Rev. Gary and Christine LaCroix
Erv and Linda LaFave
John and Jaycine Lester
Sandra Lignell
Bill and Betty Mosgrove
Lois Newkirk
Joanne O’Brien
Bob Reider
Richard Reciniello
L. David Samuel
Carl and Jane Schroeder
Pearl Slusher
John and Darlene Renfroe
Rev. Richard and
Mary Ann Spengler
Tom and Stevie Walsh
Richard and Claudia Weiss
Doug and Carol Woodard
Buddy and Judy Young:
In memory of Penny Kaye
and Betty Palmatier
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Evelyn Brandt Evelyn Reciniello
Allegro! Patrons ($75-$99)
Largo! Friends ($25-$49)
Edith Anderson
Bak Family
John and Betsy Baskin
Colleen Biggs
Louis Conti
Betty Donlan
Carolyn Fleck
Tom and Diane Harmer
Kathy Johnson
Judith King
Lee Matson
Linda Morrison and
Norman Frick
Milan and Zel Tomaska
Virginia Wydler
Because of these generous contributions by people like you we can continue to
offer these fine programs. We invite you to join in supporting the Concert
Series by becoming a sponsor. A variety of sponsorship levels are available to
suit every budget. Concert Series envelopes can be found in the pew racks.
Andante! Sponsors ($50-$74)
Will and Jan Altman
Virginia Calaguas
Carl Hauser
Nancy Noren
Linda Siracusa
Keith and Joyce Stich
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Kid’s Connection Daycare Director, Carmen Orozco
Phone: 239-656-3536
Messiah Church Staff Members Disciples, all members of Messiah Lutheran Church
Interim Pastor, Rev. Gary LaCroix Director of Music/Organist, John Renfroe, ELCA Deacon
Office Support Staff, Scott Van Baaren Custodian, Bill Miller
Handbell Director, Judy King Dance Director, Dot Conley
Messiah Church Council Members President: Cheryl Dempster Vice President: Lee Matson
Secretary: Phil Fabry Treasurer: Susan Hillbish
Financial Secretary: Donna Kelley Council Members: Kenrick Goerz, Debra Goodall,
Milton Keene, Linda Siracusa
Messiah Lutheran Church Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
2691 NE Pine Island Road, Cape Coral, Florida 33909 Phone 239-995-0133 -- Fax 239-995-2720
Church Office Hours: Mon-Fri, 9AM-12N & 1PM-4PM Website: www.messiahnfm.org E-Mail: office@messiahnfm.org
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Maundy Thursday - April 13, 2017
11:00am and 6:30pm
Worship with Holy Communion and Stripping of the Altar
Good Friday - April 14, 2017
12:00 noon and 6:30pm
Good Friday Services
Easter Vigil - April 15, 2017
8:00pm Worship with Holy Communion
Blessing of Fire and Easter Candle and Vigil of the Word
Easter Sunday - April 16, 2017
Worship with Holy Communion
7:00am; 9:00am and 11:00am
Scouts Easter Breakfast
7:00am to 11:00am Joi
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