2010-2011 Program

WQLN's Sunday Night Jazz host, Al Lubiejewski, knows what James Madden is all about. Al says,

"everything Madden touches turns into either prose, poetry, rhythm, , laughter, or a pile of sawdust, but usually all of the above. Fortunately, whatever he touches also frequently turns into a work

of art."

Enjoy a two one-hour sets of jazz favorites on the YAMAHA concert grand in the cozy, inviting space of Luther Memorial's Parlor. This event is the opening event of Luther Memorial's 150th anniversary and is presented in cooperation with the congregations' Congregational Life committee.

THE GLORIA CONSORT was formed in 1994 to explore the solo and small chamber ensemble music literature of the European late Renaissance and Baroque eras. Cornettist and recorder soloist Orum Stringer, viola da gambist Amy Warren, and harpsichordist Ernest Meyer comprise the basic ensemble. For specific programs, distinguished artists are asked to join in to perform larger works for up to seven players. This concert presents a program of French music from the time of Louis XIV. Join us to hear sounds that evoke the splendor and brilliance of the Grand Court at Versailles at the height of its glory.

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS
ERNEST MEYER holds degrees from Temple and New York University. He has performed extensively in the Philadelphia area as an oboist with such ensembles as the Concerto Soloists, Pennsylvania Pro Musica and the Delaware Symphony Orchestra. He joined The Gloria Consort as a harpsichordist in 1999. He was an instrumental music teacher in the Philadelphia public schools for many years.

ORUM STRINGER studied Baroque recorder technique with Prof. M. S. Rubin in New York. After coming to Philadelphia in 1973, he extended his studies to include music of Medieval and Renaissance Europe. He mastered the Renaissance cornetto and kortholt and has sung with the Bryn Mawr-Haverford Renaissance choir under the direction of Edward Handy since 1975. He teaches recorder and cornetto and directs large ensembles in meetings of the American Recorder Society, and in workshops of the Historic Brass Society. He founded The Gloria Consort in 1994 and serves as its director. He sat on the board of the Lower Makefield Society for the Performing Arts (Bucks County, PA) for eight years and, for twelve years, was the artistic director for the Lake Afton Concert Series sponsored by St. Andrew’s Church, Yardley, PA.

AMY WARREN received her degree in music from Amherst College in 1993, and has studied and performed early music in Massachusetts, Alaska, Washington, California, and Dublin, Ireland. She has studied the viola da gamba with Alice Robbins, Robert Eisenstein, Margriet Tindemans, John Dornenberg, Mary Springfels and Rosamund Morley. Ms. Warren is a former member of the Five-College Early Music Collegium, the University of Washington Early Music Ensemble, and Anchorage Vocal Ensemble. In addition to The Gloria Consort, she currently performs with La Spirita and The Orbis Ensemble, and free-lances as a viola da gambist in the Princeton area.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 23, 2011
7:00 PM
THE HOPE COLLEGE CHAPEL CHOIR, HOLLAND MI

The Hope Chapel Choir, founded in 1938, has toured extensively throughout the United States and Canada, and has traveled abroad on seven occasions.  The choir performs with the Hope College Symphonette and College Chorus in the annual Hope College Christmas Vespers program, broadcast throughout the United States on PBS Television and National Public Radio.  The choir has appeared on the televised Hour of Power from the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, and has sung for the Easterdawn services at Radio City Music Hall, New York.  In March of 2003, the Chapel Choir was invited to sing at the National Cathedral and the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.

The 42 members of this year’s choir come from a cross-section of academic disciplines.  While many are music majors, others specialize in biology, business administration, computer science, religion, theatre, chemistry, English literature, and mathematics.  Regardless of discipline, each member is highly dedicated to carrying on the fine tradition of choral artistry that has been the Chapel Choir’s for many years.

The choir wears distinctive robes designed by the world-famous architect Charles Eames and his wife, Ray Eames, a designer of the fabrics related to her husband's works. The robes were first worn by choir in 1960. The basic white of the robe, cut in circular pattern, denotes purity of tone and faith. The horizontal black bars represent the musical staff, and the occasional bars, grace notes. The light blue lining symbolizes unity. Tonal gradations of color deepen as the voices deepen: yellow for sopranos; orange for altos; red for tenors;and purple for basses.