Auchenbach Organ Dedication Recital

Saturday September 11, 2021

4:00 PM

Ethelmae Auchenbach McSparren (1934-2017) was a mother, educator, clinical therapist and child advocate. She was a tireless volunteer in education and the arts in Lancaster and, for over 40 years, served in many leadership roles at Saint James. She was married to her beloved husband, Clark, for over 60 years. A singer, pianist and harpsichordist, Ethelmae found great joy in music throughout her life. It is with this same joy and gratitude for her remarkable life that the Auchenbach Organ is given to Saint James by her family in memory of Ethelmae and her father, Alton Auchenbach (1910-1992).

The Auchenbach Organ

Given for the greater glory of God and in thanksgiving for the life of Ethelmae Auchenbach McSparren

1934-2017 by her devoted husband

and loving children

Welcome and Dedication Prayer The Rev. David Peck, Rector

They sing to the tambourine and the lyre, and rejoice to the sound of the pipes.

Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: Praise him with lyre and harp. Let us pray. (Silence)

O Lord, before whose throne trumpets sound, and saints and angels sing the songs of Moses and the Lamb: Accept this organ for the worship of your temple, that with the voice of music we may proclaim your praise and tell it abroad; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Michael Good

Largo, from Xerxes George F. Handel Played in memory of Ethelmae Auchenbach McSparren (1685-1759)

Fanfare C. S. Lang (1891-1971)

All Glory Be to God on High Frederick W. Zachau (1663-1712)

All Glory Be to God on High Andreas Nicholas Vetter (1666-1710)

“Dix” (Hymn tune name) Craig Phillips For the Beauty of the Earth (b. 1961)

William Wright Demonstration of the organ’s GeniSys Voices

English Change Ringing (chimes)

Abide with Me (string quartet)

Invention No. 8 in F Major (harpsichord) J. S. Bach (1685-1750)

Fanfare for the Common Man (brass and timpani) Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

Christopher Prestia

Five Short Pieces for Organ Percy Whitlock (1903-1946)

Allegretto

Folk tune

Andante tranquillo

Scherzo

Pæan

Edward Landin Senn

Minuetto from Dix Pièces (1889) Eugène Gigout (1844-1925)

Praeludium (2015) Pamela Decker Commissioned by and dedicated to Edward Landin Senn (b. 1955)

Eric Riley

Prelude and Fugue in C Minor (BWV 537) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Sonata in B-flat Major (Op. 65, No. 4) Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy III. Allegretto (1809-1847)

Symphony No. 1 (Op. 14) Louis Vierne VI. Final (1870-1937)

Reflection and prayer The Rev. David Peck, Rector

Hymn 719 America, the Beautiful

O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea. O beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife, who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life! America! America! God mend thine every flaw, confirm thy soul in self-control, thy liberty in law. O beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond the years thine alabaster cities gleam, undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed his grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea.

BIOGRAPHIES

MICHAEL GOOD is the organist at Saint James Episcopal Church in downtown Lancaster. He studied music at Eastern Mennonite University and more recently has studied with Mark Laubach, Sandor Kadar, and Wesley Parrott. Previous church positions include organist at All Saints Episcopal Church, Hanover and Saint Edward’s Episcopal Church, Lancaster; interim organist and choir director at Saint John’s Episcopal Church, Lancaster.

DR. WILLIAM WRIGHT performs as both conductor and keyboardist and has been heard in twenty-seven countries of the world. In addition to serving as Director of Music and Arts at Saint James Church, he is Director of Choral Music and Senior Teaching Professor at Franklin & Marshall College, and Chorusmaster for the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra. Bill is a native and long-time resident of Boston. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst College where he received the Lincoln Lowell Russell Prize for music performance and the Edward Poole Lay Fellowship for graduate study in music. He earned a Master of Music degree in piano performance from The New

England Conservatory and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral conducting from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro where he was awarded the Charles Hayes Fellowship.

Committed to using music for the benefit of the community, Bill has performed five benefit concerts for Tabor Community Services of Lancaster. Perhaps the most unique period of his life was the year he spent in Islamabad, Pakistan, where he taught at The International School of Islamabad, played for services at the Protestant International Church of Islamabad, and performed benefit concerts which raised significant funds for The Rawalpindi Leprosy Hospital, Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Islamabad, and the people of the Kalash Valley.

CHRISTOPHER PRESTIA currently serves as Cantor (director of music) at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Lancaster, and organist at Temple Ohev Sholom in Harrisburg. Recently he has endeavored to open a music school in Columbia, PA, which is scheduled to open in January 2022 (www.csmusic.school for more information). Additionally, he maintains an active studio of piano and organ students, plays in a Dixieland Jazz band based in York, and performs regularly as an organ and cello soloist. Christopher has lived many places, having spent his

childhood years in Garland, Texas, high school years in Wantage, New Jersey, his undergraduate years at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania under Mark Laubach, and graduate school years at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana under Janette Fishell. Since then his musical endeavors have taken him from Mechanicsburg to Manhattan to Carlisle, and now Lancaster and Columbia where he has enjoyed making his musical home.

EDWARD LANDIN SENN began his intensive musical training at the St. Thomas Choir School under the direction of Gerre Hancock. Upon his graduation from St. Thomas, he entered Interlochen Arts Academy where he began his organ studies as a student of Thomas Bara. After high school, he attended the Eastman School of Music for two years; he then transferred to Westminster Choir College where he completed his BM in organ performance as a student of Ken Cowan. While at Westminster, he also studied harpsichord with Kathleen Scheide. Further organ studies and coachings have been

with Roberta Gary, David Higgs, Susan Landale, Marie-Louise Langlais, Matthew Lewis, Kimberly Marshall, Paula Pugh Romanaux, Kathleen Scheide, and Carole Terry. Currently Assistant Director of Music at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, Edward directs numerous children's and handbell choirs and serves as principal accompanist for the 65 member Sanctuary Choir. Edward has previously held positions in New York City (Christ Church, Methodist), Morristown, NJ (St. Peter's Episcopal Church) and in the Mt. Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia (Grace Epiphany Episcopal Church). Recital engagements have been at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, and at St. Thomas Church in New York City, and Old West Church, Boston; he has also performed in the Czech Republic, France,

Germany, and Wales. Edward’s achievements as a church musician and performer were most recently recognized when he was named as a member of the “Class of 2017” by The Diapason magazine’s program, “20 under 30,” which lifts up young professionals in the world of organ, harpsichord, carillon, and church music. A major interest in contemporary organ music, particularly by American composers, led Edward to commission numerous works by Carson Cooman, Pamela Decker, Craig Phillips, and Kathleen Scheide. He recently recorded Decker's "Praeludium," his first major commission, on the magnificent Flentrop organ of St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral in Seattle, WA, which has been released on the Gothic label. For more information, please visit Edward's website: www.edwardlandin.com.

ERIC R. RILEY is a retired church musician and active concert organist and choral conductor. Riley has served churches in New York State, Virginia, Tennessee and Ohio. His most notable church positions were as Director of Music and Organist at First United Methodist Church in Cleveland, OH (14 years) and as Director of Music and Organist at Market Square Presbyterian Church in Harrisburg, PA (9 years). Riley’s most recent church post was as Artist-in-Residence at St. Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church in York, PA. As a concert organist Riley has performed throughout the northeast and southern United States, for the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra with Stuart Malina and for numerous European music festivals. His festival performances include The Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds, The Ravenna

International Organ Festival, The Assisi Music Festival, The Festival of World Music in Perugia and Voci e Organi nell’Appenino, all in Italy. Eric Riley remains Artistic Director of the Wheatland Chorale in Lancaster, PA, a position he has held since 2012. Riley holds the Bachelor of Music degree from Syracuse University in organ performance and the Master of Church Music degree in choral conducting and organ from Scarritt Graduate School of Vanderbilt University. Eric Riley lives in Hummelstown, PA with his wife Christine. An avid golfer, Riley plays to a four handicap. A constant student of language, Riley speaks Italian, German and French. Future organ performances include a concert for Music Gettysburg and a third appearance at the Ravenna International Organ Festival (Italy).

The Auchenbach Organ

Built by The Allen Organ Company Installed by Susquehanna Organ

Three Manuals | Four Divisions 91 Draw Knobs, 17 Rocker Tabs, 28 Speakers

GeniSys Voices

GREAT Double Diapason 16’ First Diapason 8’

Second Diapason 8’ Harmonic Flute 8’ Stopped Diapason 8’ Gamba 8’ Octave 4’ Flute 4’ Twelfth 2 2/3’ Fifteenth 2’ Seventeenth 1 3/5’ IV Mixture 2’ Trombone 16’ Tromba 8’ Tromba Clarion 4’ Chimes

CHOIR Double Dulciana 16’ Geigen Diapason 8’ Lieblich Gedeckt 8’ Concert Flute 8’ Viole d’Orchestre 8’ Viole Celeste 8’ Dulciana Unda Maris 8’ Gemshorn Principal 8’ Flute d’Amour 8’ Octave Dulciana 8’ Nazard 2 2/3’ Piccolo 2’ Tierce 1 3/5’ III Cymbal 1 1/3’ Bassoon 16’ Trumpet 8’ Clarion 4’ Tremolo

SWELL Double Diapason 16’ Lieblich Bourdon 16’ Diapason 8’ Chimney Flute 8’ Gamba Voix Celeste 8’ Klein Erzahler II 8’ Octave 8’ Flauto Traverso 4’ Flautino 2’ Chorus Mixture 2’ Double Trumpet 16’ Cornopean 8’ Oboe 8’ Vox Humana 8’ Clarion 4’ Tremolo

SOLO Violoncello 8’ Cello Celeste 8’ Doppel Flute 8’ Orchestral Flute 4’ Contra Tuba 16’ Tuba Mirabilis 8’ Orchestral Oboe 8’ French Horn 8’ Clarinet 8’ Tremolo Chimes

PEDAL Open Bass 32’ Contra Bourdon 32’ Contra Violone 32’ Open Wood 16’ Bourdon 16’ First Diapason 16’ Second Diapason 16’ Third Diapason 16’ Violone 16’ Lieblich Bourdon 16’ Dulciana 16’

Octave 8’ Bourdon 8’ Violone 8’ Orchestral Flute 4’ IV Mixture 2 2/3’ Contra Bombarde 32’ Bombarde 16’ Trombone 16’ Trumpet 16’ Bassoon Clarion 4’ Clarinet 4’