Tuesday, October 14
Wednesday, October 1
Recital at S. Stephen’s Church in Providence
This came from Fr. John Alexander. Looks like a great program! SG+
Look forward to an exceptional musical evening when James Busby gives the annual Memorial Recital at S. Stephen’s Church in Providence, along with Soprano Cheryl Medeiros-Nancarrow, violinist Peter Stickel, and cellist John Brumstead, on Sunday 19 October at 5:30 pm.
James Busby, an alumnus of The New England Conservatory, studied piano with Julius Chaloff and Kyriena Siloti and organ with George Faxon and Max Miller. He later studied with noted vocal coaches Felix Wolfes and Olga Averino, and conductor John Moriarty. While yet a student he had the unique opportunity of playing for master classes and lessons with such luminaries as Jennie Tourel and Eleanor Steber. He has worked with many conductors including Sarah Caldwell, Thomas Dunn, Erich Leinsdorf and Arthur Fiedler. Mr. Busby has been Organist and Choirmaster at S. Stephen’s Church since 1993. He is also organist for Emmanuel College, Boston.
Ms. Medeiros-Nancarrow will sing the atmospheric The Black River by British composer Gavin Bryars. The text is part of the prologue of Twenty-thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne with colorful use of the organ. Ms. Medeiros-Nancarrow is an alumnus of Eastman School and New England Conservatory, sings with the Boston Lyric Opera, and is a founder of Intermezzo Chamber Opera. She hails originally from Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
Suite für Orgel, Violine und Violoncello, Op. 149 will feature Mr. Stickel on violin and Mr. Brumstead on cello. The Josef Rheinberger suite is a finely crafted work for the two strings and organ and Busby says that he “thinks of it as the organ trio Johannes Brahms didn't write.” Busby will also play Concerto IV in F by G. F. Handel, arranged by W. T. Best.
S. Stephen’s Church is located at 114 George Street, Providence, in the midst of the Brown University campus. For directions or other information please call 421-6702 or visit www.sstephens.org.
Look forward to an exceptional musical evening when James Busby gives the annual Memorial Recital at S. Stephen’s Church in Providence, along with Soprano Cheryl Medeiros-Nancarrow, violinist Peter Stickel, and cellist John Brumstead, on Sunday 19 October at 5:30 pm.
James Busby, an alumnus of The New England Conservatory, studied piano with Julius Chaloff and Kyriena Siloti and organ with George Faxon and Max Miller. He later studied with noted vocal coaches Felix Wolfes and Olga Averino, and conductor John Moriarty. While yet a student he had the unique opportunity of playing for master classes and lessons with such luminaries as Jennie Tourel and Eleanor Steber. He has worked with many conductors including Sarah Caldwell, Thomas Dunn, Erich Leinsdorf and Arthur Fiedler. Mr. Busby has been Organist and Choirmaster at S. Stephen’s Church since 1993. He is also organist for Emmanuel College, Boston.
Ms. Medeiros-Nancarrow will sing the atmospheric The Black River by British composer Gavin Bryars. The text is part of the prologue of Twenty-thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne with colorful use of the organ. Ms. Medeiros-Nancarrow is an alumnus of Eastman School and New England Conservatory, sings with the Boston Lyric Opera, and is a founder of Intermezzo Chamber Opera. She hails originally from Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
Suite für Orgel, Violine und Violoncello, Op. 149 will feature Mr. Stickel on violin and Mr. Brumstead on cello. The Josef Rheinberger suite is a finely crafted work for the two strings and organ and Busby says that he “thinks of it as the organ trio Johannes Brahms didn't write.” Busby will also play Concerto IV in F by G. F. Handel, arranged by W. T. Best.S. Stephen’s Church is located at 114 George Street, Providence, in the midst of the Brown University campus. For directions or other information please call 421-6702 or visit www.sstephens.org.
Monday, September 22
Organ Spectacular at The Cathedral of St. John to Celebrate the International Year of the Organ
For More Information, please contact: Rev. Barbara Mays-Stock, Cathedral of St. John (401)331-4622, BMaysStock@cox.net
Organist’s Spectacular will be held on Sunday, October 19th at 7:00 PM at The Cathedral of St. John, 271 North Main Street, Providence. Featured organists will include Brink Bush, Director of Music at The Cathedral of St. John, Peter Krasinski of Boston and Diana Norton-Jackson of Kingston. There will be a reception in Synod Hall following the program. Please plan to join us for this celebration. Donations given will go to the maintenance of the organ at the Cathedral.
Organist’s Spectacular is a celebration of the International Year of the Organ. Throughout the United States and Canada this year, there will be an organ recital in every major city on October 19th. Organ works performed will include pieces by J. S. Bach, Edward Elgar, Charles Marie Widor and Louis Vierne as well as women composers, Roberta Bittgood, Martha Sobaje, Diana Norton-Jackson and Lani Smith.
About the Performers
Brink Bush has been Director of Music and Choirmaster at The Cathedral of St. John since 2007. He is one of the leading interpreters of German Romantic organ music in the world today. He has performed through out the United States and Germany and made his German debut at the Berliner Dom in August, 2001. His Pipedreams debut entitle "Bach Bush and Middelschulte" aired September 2005 on National Public Radio and his New York debut took place at Trinity Church Wall St. for the "Virgil Fox Legacy Twenty-fifth Anniversary Concert Weekend," October 2005.
Brink Bush studied organ at Peabody Institute, the Juilliard School, and the Eastman School of Music. His principle teachers include McNeil Robinson, Robert Elmore, Rosalyn Tureck, David Craighead, and Russell Saunders. He specializes in the German Romantic repertoire, especially the works of Gerard Bunk, Felix Mendelssohn, Wilhelm Middelschulte, Max Reger, Gerard Strecke and Ludwig Thiele. He has been sponsored by the Middelschulte family for three consecutive trips to Germany for his research on Wilhelm Middelschulte. In February 2000 and November 2002, Mr. Bush was invited to Yale University to give a lecture on the "Life and Works of Wilhelm Middelschulte." His first compact disc Volume 1 of the Complete Works of Wilhelm Middelschulte was released in October of 1999. His article on Wilhelm Middelschulte has been published by the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 2000. He is the editor of "The Innermost Secrets" by T. Ernest Nichols, 2005, a book about the Virgil Fox technique, and is the primary contributor to the new Complete Organ Works of Middelschulte published by Barenreiter, 2007.
Peter Edwin Krasinski is a conductor, organist, and music educator that has consistently led meaningful worship services throughout his church music career. Mr. Krasinski’s imaginative performances elevate and inform diverse audiences. Well respected in both the secular and sacred genres of his field, he has taught the enchantment of music to both public and private institutions in the greater Boston area for over twenty years. His Bach playing has been hailed in print as "sublimely spiritual" and his improvisations have been critically acclaimed in the press as "stunning", "seamless", and “brilliant”.
In 2002 he won first prize in Improvisation in the American Guild of Organists National Competition in Philadelphia. and was subsequently named as a judge for the competition and featured improvisure for the 2004 AGO national convention in Los Angels. He is currently Director of Choral Arts at Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill and Artistic Director of Youth pro Musica, the Greater Boston Youth Chorus. He is organist at First Church of Christ, Scientist in Providence Rhode Island and Beth El Temple Center Synagogue in Belmont Massachusetts. He holds both a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education and Organ Performance, and the Master of Sacred Music degree from Boston University
Diana Norton-Jackson has a Bachelor's degree in organ from Stetson University, where she studied with Paul Jenkins, and a Master's degree in conducting from the University of Georgia. She did a further year of graduate work at the Institute of Sacred Music at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where she studied with Leonard Raver, organist of the New York Philharmonic. As a recitalist, she has performed extensively in New York, New Jersey, Georgia, Florida, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. She is a former Dean of the RI Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. In Rhode Island she has been organist/choirmaster at the First Baptist Church of East Greenwich, Saint Mary's Episcopal Church in Warwick, the Kingston Congregational Church, and Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Newport, as well as an instructor-accompanist at the University of Rhode Island. Most recently, she was the interim organist/choirmaster of Trinity Church, Newport. She has given several recent recitals in Rhode Island and also at the First Reformed Episcopal Church in New York City, Christ Church Episcopal Cathedral, Houston, Texas, and the Church of Christ at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
Organist’s Spectacular will be held on Sunday, October 19th at 7:00 PM at The Cathedral of St. John, 271 North Main Street, Providence. Featured organists will include Brink Bush, Director of Music at The Cathedral of St. John, Peter Krasinski of Boston and Diana Norton-Jackson of Kingston. There will be a reception in Synod Hall following the program. Please plan to join us for this celebration. Donations given will go to the maintenance of the organ at the Cathedral.
Organist’s Spectacular is a celebration of the International Year of the Organ. Throughout the United States and Canada this year, there will be an organ recital in every major city on October 19th. Organ works performed will include pieces by J. S. Bach, Edward Elgar, Charles Marie Widor and Louis Vierne as well as women composers, Roberta Bittgood, Martha Sobaje, Diana Norton-Jackson and Lani Smith.
About the Performers
Brink Bush has been Director of Music and Choirmaster at The Cathedral of St. John since 2007. He is one of the leading interpreters of German Romantic organ music in the world today. He has performed through out the United States and Germany and made his German debut at the Berliner Dom in August, 2001. His Pipedreams debut entitle "Bach Bush and Middelschulte" aired September 2005 on National Public Radio and his New York debut took place at Trinity Church Wall St. for the "Virgil Fox Legacy Twenty-fifth Anniversary Concert Weekend," October 2005.Brink Bush studied organ at Peabody Institute, the Juilliard School, and the Eastman School of Music. His principle teachers include McNeil Robinson, Robert Elmore, Rosalyn Tureck, David Craighead, and Russell Saunders. He specializes in the German Romantic repertoire, especially the works of Gerard Bunk, Felix Mendelssohn, Wilhelm Middelschulte, Max Reger, Gerard Strecke and Ludwig Thiele. He has been sponsored by the Middelschulte family for three consecutive trips to Germany for his research on Wilhelm Middelschulte. In February 2000 and November 2002, Mr. Bush was invited to Yale University to give a lecture on the "Life and Works of Wilhelm Middelschulte." His first compact disc Volume 1 of the Complete Works of Wilhelm Middelschulte was released in October of 1999. His article on Wilhelm Middelschulte has been published by the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 2000. He is the editor of "The Innermost Secrets" by T. Ernest Nichols, 2005, a book about the Virgil Fox technique, and is the primary contributor to the new Complete Organ Works of Middelschulte published by Barenreiter, 2007.
Peter Edwin Krasinski is a conductor, organist, and music educator that has consistently led meaningful worship services throughout his church music career. Mr. Krasinski’s imaginative performances elevate and inform diverse audiences. Well respected in both the secular and sacred genres of his field, he has taught the enchantment of music to both public and private institutions in the greater Boston area for over twenty years. His Bach playing has been hailed in print as "sublimely spiritual" and his improvisations have been critically acclaimed in the press as "stunning", "seamless", and “brilliant”.In 2002 he won first prize in Improvisation in the American Guild of Organists National Competition in Philadelphia. and was subsequently named as a judge for the competition and featured improvisure for the 2004 AGO national convention in Los Angels. He is currently Director of Choral Arts at Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill and Artistic Director of Youth pro Musica, the Greater Boston Youth Chorus. He is organist at First Church of Christ, Scientist in Providence Rhode Island and Beth El Temple Center Synagogue in Belmont Massachusetts. He holds both a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education and Organ Performance, and the Master of Sacred Music degree from Boston University
Diana Norton-Jackson has a Bachelor's degree in organ from Stetson University, where she studied with Paul Jenkins, and a Master's degree in conducting from the University of Georgia. She did a further year of graduate work at the Institute of Sacred Music at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where she studied with Leonard Raver, organist of the New York Philharmonic. As a recitalist, she has performed extensively in New York, New Jersey, Georgia, Florida, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. She is a former Dean of the RI Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. In Rhode Island she has been organist/choirmaster at the First Baptist Church of East Greenwich, Saint Mary's Episcopal Church in Warwick, the Kingston Congregational Church, and Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Newport, as well as an instructor-accompanist at the University of Rhode Island. Most recently, she was the interim organist/choirmaster of Trinity Church, Newport. She has given several recent recitals in Rhode Island and also at the First Reformed Episcopal Church in New York City, Christ Church Episcopal Cathedral, Houston, Texas, and the Church of Christ at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
House of Bishops adjourns Salt Lake City meeting with 'spirit of commitment
Theological education, hurricane relief top closing agenda
By Pat McCaughan
[Episcopal News Service, Salt Lake City] The House of Bishops wrapped up its meeting in Salt Lake City September 19, with discussions about the future of theological education and mission opportunities in the hurricane-ravaged Diocese of Texas.
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said the September 16-19 meeting began "by reminding our members of our connections across the church ... including responses to and the painful realities of people affected by hurricanes in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Texas and Louisiana."
Bishop Nathan Baxter of Central Pennsylvania (http://www.diocesecpa.org) said "mission has been a primary focus of our concerns" at the meeting. The bishops talked about ongoing relief efforts in Texas and how to address that devastation and "help mission continue in that place," he told reporters during a media conference call after the meeting's conclusion. Bishops also discussed theological education and nurturing future leadership of the church, he added.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_100935_ENG_HTM.htm
More Top Stories: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife
By Pat McCaughan
[Episcopal News Service, Salt Lake City] The House of Bishops wrapped up its meeting in Salt Lake City September 19, with discussions about the future of theological education and mission opportunities in the hurricane-ravaged Diocese of Texas.
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said the September 16-19 meeting began "by reminding our members of our connections across the church ... including responses to and the painful realities of people affected by hurricanes in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Texas and Louisiana."
Bishop Nathan Baxter of Central Pennsylvania (http://www.diocesecpa.org) said "mission has been a primary focus of our concerns" at the meeting. The bishops talked about ongoing relief efforts in Texas and how to address that devastation and "help mission continue in that place," he told reporters during a media conference call after the meeting's conclusion. Bishops also discussed theological education and nurturing future leadership of the church, he added.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_100935_ENG_HTM.htm
More Top Stories: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife
Tuesday, September 16
Interfaith call for justice in Gulf Coast
Presiding Bishop, other Episcopalians join interfaith call for justice in Gulf Coast
The statement, issued by the Gulf Coast Civic Works Campaign, notes that "while the nation has learned to better prepare for this latest hurricane, whether by inaction or injustice, we have still failed to protect the wellbeing of Gulf Coast survivors, new residents and their families, especially the children, the poor, the sick, and the vulnerable through just long-term rebuilding policies which fully support human rights."
The signers called for three specific actions, including passing policy based on the Gulf Coast Civic Works Act; increasing funding for federal, state, and local partnerships in the Gulf Coast to create more affordable housing and promote home-ownership; and supporting federal funding to restore the coastal wetlands and barrier islands.
Other Episcopalians who signed the statement include the Ven. Michael S. Kendall, president, Episcopal Network for Economic Justice; Diocese of North Carolina Bishop A.C. "Chip" Marble Jr.; the Rev. Carl W. Rehling, director, Diocese of Maryland liaison for justice and peace; Vicky Partin, lay missioner, Chattahoochee Valley Episcopal Ministry; Robert S. Runkle, Diocese of Spokane Social Justice and Outreach Ministries Commission; and the Rev. Dr. C. David Williams, president, Union of Black Episcopalians
Wednesday, September 10
Giving To The Mission
In buzzing up tomorrow's Clergy Association program on Disaster Chaplaincy (10:00 AM at Synod Hall, Cathedral of St. John's in Providence, lunch provided!), one local cleric complained about the topic. He/she said something along the lines of "does it count as a disaster if our pledges reach an all-time low this year on account of heating and electric costs"? Well, that's not the kind of disaster we're talking about, but let me talk about it now.
We all know wallets will be tighter this fall in Rhode Island, as if that's actually possible. How will this affect your stewardship campaign? What campaign works the best? How can we survive? Forgive me, Dead Horse, but here comes the beatdown: it's about your mission.
I subscribe to an e-newsletter called Leading Ideas, from Church Leadership out of Wesley Seminary in Washington, DC. This week's copy talks about the reasons people give: guilt, involvement, habit, taxes, etc. But what's the number one reason people give? Mission.
From the article:
The best way to raise money for your church is simply to DO YOUR JOB! I get frustrated reading newsletters of church after church that tell me how the men's group is going to have a breakfast on Saturday and the women are going to have a bazaar next Thursday and the youth will have a dance next Friday after the ball game. Then, over in the corner, usually separated by a bold line so that it stands out, I see financial statistics, which usually indicate that a certain amount was needed and a lesser amount was received, with a quote underneath, "God loves a cheerful giver."
When I see that I want to say, "What have I got to be cheerful about?" Did you show me one life story in this newsletter about how the church has been making our world better? Is there one life-changing story in the entire document? Do you really just exist so that men can have breakfast, women a bazaar, and youth can dance? What is it exactly that you want me to support?
Does your church have a mission to make the world a better place? Is that mission rooted in the Gospel of Jesus Christ? How are you carrying out that mission? I think the more we can let that be known, the more the money will take care of itself.
Tuesday, September 9
National Addiction Recovery Month
[Episcopal Life Weekly] September has been designated "National Addiction Recovery Month" by the U.S. Government's Department of Health and Human Services. Episcopal Life Weekly bulletin inserts for September 14 focus on the work of Episcopal Recovery Ministries, an organization of congregations, dioceses, institutions and individuals who work with those addicted to alcohol or other drugs.
Bulletin inserts are available at
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/95270_ENG_HTM.htm
Bulletin inserts are available at
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/95270_ENG_HTM.htm
Annual Convention 2008
The 218th Convention is a one-day event to be held on Saturday, October 25th, 2008 at the Marriott Hotel, Orms Street, Providence.
All Nominations and Resolutions must be submitted on or before, but
no later than SEPTEMBER 25th!
All Nominations and Resolutions must be submitted on or before, but
no later than SEPTEMBER 25th!
Wednesday, August 13
Purpose, Mission and Message
We all know that God goes on vacation during the summer. I think God goes to Pt. Judith. But bloggers? Never. Unless you're a blogger for the Diocese of RI, in which case you have lives to live instead of lives to blog about. I just couldn't stand looking at Bishop Wolf getting grilled by that reporter any longer. So I'm going to let you know about an article in the latest Atlantic Monthly concerning the implosion and ultimate failure of Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign. You can read it here. Also check out the full Clinton memos, which are linked. Some language is NSFW.
To a point, the church is and should be always campaigning. Our organization is up against many opponents far more appealing than Barack Obama. To learn the lessons of Clinton's campaign would have us focus on our purpose, our mission and our message, in that order. We don't have to wait for summer to end to get started.
To a point, the church is and should be always campaigning. Our organization is up against many opponents far more appealing than Barack Obama. To learn the lessons of Clinton's campaign would have us focus on our purpose, our mission and our message, in that order. We don't have to wait for summer to end to get started.
Thursday, July 17
Lambeth Conference update
Your intrepid blogger is reporting live from Canterbury, where 650 bishops and many spouses have gathered for the decennial Lambeth Conference. Our own Bishop Wolf is attending for the second time, having gone in 1998. Here's a photo that I grabbed of her today, as she was giving an interview to the new editor of Episcopal Life, Solange de Santis.
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