Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 and Cantata No. 150 Sunday, June 3, 2012, 3:00PM St. John’s Episcopal Church

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Program

Cantata BWV 150, Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich Sinfonia Chorus:

Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich (For you, Lord, is my longing)

Aria:

Doch bin un bleibe ich vergnügt (But I am and remain content)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

See complete translation on page 4.

Chorus:

Leite mich in deiner Wahrheit und lehre mich (Lead me in your truth and teach me)

Aria:

Zedern müssen von den Winden (Cedars must before the wind)

Chorus:

Meine Augen sehen stets zu dem Herrn (My eyes look always towards the Lord)

Chorus:

Meine Tage in dem Leide endet Gott dennoch zur Freude (My days in sorrow God ends nevertheless with joy)

On April 14th of this year, the Parley lost one of its own. Mark Wesley Brax, baritone, tragically perished in a car accident at the age of twenty-three. He was with us on this altar just last June, performing two of Bach's masterworks: Cantata 96, and the "Coffee Cantata." We were blessed to know him, however briefly, and we dedicate this afternoon's performance of Cantata #150 to his memory. Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris (The Bells of Saint Genevieve) Brandenburg Concerto No. 6, BWV 1051 [Allegro] Adagio ma non tanto Allegro

Marin Marais (1652-1728) J. S. Bach

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Translations Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich. Mein Gott, ich hoffe auf dich. Laß mich nicht zuschanden werden, daß sich meine Feinde nicht freuen über mich.

For you, Lord, is my longing. My God, I hope in you. Let me not be put to shame, so that my enemies may not rejoice over me.

Doch bin und bleibe ich vergnügt, Obgleich hier zeitlich toben Kreuz, Sturm und andre Proben, Tod, Höll und was sich fügt. Ob Unfall schlägt den treuen Knecht, Recht ist und bleibet ewig Recht.

But I am and remain content, although here in time rage, cross, storm and other trials, death, hell and what is ordained. Even if misfortune strikes your faithful servant, right is and always remains right.

Leite mich in deiner Wahrheit und lehre mich; denn du bist der Gott, der mir hilft, täglich harre ich dein.

Lead me in your truth and teach me: for you are the God, who helps me, everyday I wait on you.

Zedern müssen von den Winden Oft viel Ungemach empfinden, Oftmals werden sie verkehrt. Rat und Tat auf Gott gestellet, Achtet nicht, was widerbellet, Denn sein Wort ganz anders lehrt.

Cedars must before the wind, often feel much hardship, often they are overturned. Thought and action entrust to God, pay no attention to what howls against you, for his word teaches quite otherwise.

Meine Augen sehen stets zu dem Herrn; My eyes look always towards the Lord denn er wird meinen Fuß aus dem Netze ziehen. for he will pull my foot out of the net. Meine Tage in dem Leide Endet Gott dennoch zur Freude; Christen auf den Dornenwegen Führen Himmels Kraft und Segen. Bleibet Gott mein treuer Schutz, Achte ich nicht Menschentrutz. Christus, der uns steht zur Seiten, Hilft mir täglich sieghaft streiten.

My days in sorrow God ends nevertheless with joy; Christians on the thorny ways are led by heaven's strength and blessing. If God remains my faithful protection, I do not care for men's spite. Christ, who stands at our side, helps me everyday to strive victoriously. English Translation by Francis Browne http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Texts/BWV150-Eng3P.htm

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This program sponsored in part by the City of Tallahassee, Leon County, the Council on Culture & Arts, and the Tallahassee Community Redevelopment Agency.

The Tallahassee Bach Parley would like to thank all of our donors and volunteers for their support, especially St. John’s Episcopal Church, Betsy Calhoun and Lindsay Hardy for hosting this concert, Loren Rice for designing the posters, Erica Thaler for help with publicity, Patty Herrington for distributing posters, and First Presbyterian Church for housing our library and archives.

The Tallahassee Bach Parley provides accommodations for persons with disabilities. Please notify the music director at 850-224-8025 or [email protected] at least five working days prior to a concert if accommodation for disability or if this program in an alternative format is needed. 6

The Tallahassee Bach Parley Board of Directors: Erica Thaler, President Charles E. Brewer, Vice President Ava Prebys, Treasurer Julie Leftheris, Secretary

Lester Abberger Nancy Barfield Michael Corzine Stephen Richardson Kathleen Wright

Save these dates for the 2012-13 Season: November 11, 2012, Bach Parley February 24, 2013, Bach Parley with guest artist John Abberger, oboe

March 10, 2013, Kids Go for B’roque June 2, 2013, Bach Parley

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Today’s Musicians VALERIE PREBYS ARSENAULT has two favorite musical activities: teaching the violin and playing baroque music. Since 2002 she has maintained a thriving private violin studio of students of all ages at Cavatina Music Studios. 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. MIRIAM BARFIELD began studying the violin at the age of six with Melissa Brewer. She received her Bachelor of Music from Florida State University, where she studied with Pamela Ryan, and recently completed a Master of Music in Viola Performance at The Boston Conservatory under Patricia McCarty. She was a state winner for the ASTA National Solo Competition in 2010 (Massachusetts) and in 2008 (Florida). She has performed in master classes for Joseph Silverstein, Robert Spano, James Dunham, and Thomas Dumm. A former member of the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, Miriam currently performs with several orchestras around New England. This summer, Miriam is returning for her fifth year at the Meadowmount School of Music, where she is teaching and chamber music assistant and will perform with violinists Joseph Silverstein and James Ehnes. She is also attending the Lucerne Festival Academy in Switzerland, led by Pierre Boulez, which focuses on modern repertoire. MARY BIDDLECOMBE is the choral director at Tallahassee’s Lawton Chiles High School, where she directs a vocal program encompassing over 200 enrolled students. She directs five curricular ensembles including two sequential women’s choirs, a large men's chorus, two mixed ensembles, and the award-winning women's choir Belle Chantique. Mrs. Biddlecombe has taught music at every grade level, most recently as the choral director at Swift Creek Middle School. She holds degrees from the Crane School of Music in New York State, and Florida State University. Her choirs have performed for conventions of ACDA, as well as with the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra and Community Chorus under the direction of Miriam Burns and Dr. André Thomas, respectively. Mrs. Biddlecombe is an active member of NAfME, ACDA, FVA and FMEA, and is in-demand as an adjudicator and clinician in the state of Florida. A native of Syracuse, NY, Mary is excited to be making her new home in Nashville, TN this summer with her husband Tucker and their dog, Maggie. She has enjoyed her tenure with the Tallahassee Bach Parley and hopes to find/start an organization similar to it in Nashville. 8

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TUCKER BIDDLECOMBE has recently been appointed as Associate Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music. His duties will include conducting the undergraduate Symphonic and Chamber Choirs, teaching choral conducting, and serving as Artistic Director for the Blair Children’s Chorus program of six graded choirs. He recently received his PhD in Music Education and Choral Conducting from Florida State University, and also holds a BM in Music Education and Performance from the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam. Mr. Biddlecombe is a nine-year veteran teacher, having served most recently as choral director at Lawton Chiles High School. He also recently served as chorus master for Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra's recent performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. 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 F.S.U. Baroque Ensemble, Baroque Southeast, the Apollo Ensemble, and is Principal Violist with the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra. She plays on a 1760 Locky Hill viola. A native of Seoul, Korea, MINYOUNG CHO is in her third year of doctoral studies in Violin Performance at FSU. She has presented solo and chamber performances at Booam art hall, Dankook art hall in Korea and Dohnányi recital hall in Tallahassee. She played with many orchestras such as Korean-American Youth Orchestra, Gwacheon Youth Orchestra, Seoul National Symphony Orchestra, Korean Philharmonic Orchestra and Gangneung Philharmonic Orchestra in Korea. She has been a prizewinner in several competitions such as the Korea Music Competition and Choong-Bu Conservatory Competition. She received her BM in Dankook University in Korea and MM in Florida State University. She has studied with Corinne Stillwell, Karen Clarke and Daesik Kang. Currently, she is a player for the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra and Sinfonia Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra. She is an active substitute with the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra and Panama City Pops Orchestra. LISA FOLTZ holds Bachelors degrees in Political Science and Music (organ and voice) from Jacksonville University, and a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from The Florida State University. At FSU she studied conducting with Dr. André Thomas, Dr. Alexander Jiménez, and Edward Kawakami, and voice with Dr. Wanda Brister. A fourteen-season veteran of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus and Chamber Chorus, she has performed on sixteen recordings, toured to Carnegie Hall, Ojai, and Ravinia, and thrice traveled to Berlin for performances with the Berlin Philharmonic. She was hired by the ASO to appear in the opera chorus for Golijov’s Ainadamar (Grammy winner – Best Opera Recording), including performances with the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Birmingham and London, England. In 2007 and 10

2009 she was selected to participate in the Carnegie Hall Professional Choral Workshops under Helmuth Rilling. She has been a guest conductor for the Big Bend Community Orchestra and is the incoming conductor of the Rose City Band. EVAN JONES holds the D.M.A. in cello performance and the Ph.D. in music theory from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Steven Doane, Pamela Frame, and Alan Harris. He also studied with Antonio Lysy at McGill University and with Pierre Djokic and Shimon Walt at Dalhousie University. On faculty at the FSU College of Music since 2001, he previously served as cello instructor at Colgate University and as Pamela Frame's assistant at Eastman. He also instructed music theory at Eastman and at the University of Rochester, winning two prestigious teaching awards, and received the Florida State University Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2007. He has performed under the auspices of the Banff Centre for the Arts, Baroque SouthEast, the College Music Society, Electronic Music Midwest, Music on the Lake, Musique Royale, the Orford Arts Centre, the Scotia Festival of Music, the Spark Festival, and the Syracuse Society for New Music, as well as on faculty recital programs at FSU. He previously appeared as principal cellist of the Binghamton Philharmonic, the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, and the Montreal Chamber Players, and has given the world, North American, and NYC premieres of several new works for solo cello. 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 twenty students. KARYL LOUWENAAR LUECK joined the faculty of the Florida State University School of Music in 1972 as an Assistant Professor of Piano. Over time, harpsichord, fortepiano, basso continuo, Baroque Ensemble, and courses in keyboard literature and performance practice were added to her assignment; and during the last six years of her tenure she also served as Coordinator of the Keyboard Area. Since her retirement in 2007, she has continued as an Adjunct Professor at the College of Music. In 1981 The Tallahassee Bach Parley was founded by Karyl and friends Lillian and Clark Pearson; later she founded also the Jurow International Harpsichord Competition under the auspices of the Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society. She has appeared as soloist and ensemble harpsichordist in Germany, Costa Rica, and in many major cities and institutions of higher education in the U.S., especially in the eastern half of the country. 11

CHRISTOPHER PHILLPOTT is a PhD student in Musicology at The Florida State University, researching the role of Jesuit devotional aesthetics in the sacred music of seventeenth-century Liège. Other interests include the cello in eighteenth-century France and the music of Frank Zappa. Before coming to Tallahassee, Mr. Phillpott earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Texas Christian University, where he was awarded the Michael Winesanker Musicology Grant, which was applied toward archival research in Paris and Zürich for the completion of his thesis on the early French cello sonata. Equally at home as a performer, Mr. Phillpott plays viola da gamba (student of Pamela Andrews) and cello. His previous teachers include Jesús Castro-Balbi, Nathaniel Rosen, and Ko Iwasaki, and he has performed in residency programs at the Boston Early Music Festival, Viola da Gamba Society of New England, the Banff Centre, and the Piatigorsky Seminar at the University of Southern California. 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. RYAN TUCKER, baritone, from Savannah, Georgia, is currently pursuing a Masters in Music in Vocal Performance, from Florida State University. Prior to attending FSU, he received a Bachelor in Music from the University of Georgia. He is an aspiring and experienced young baritone on the operatic stage. Performance credits include Belcore in L’elisir d’amore, Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte, John Brooke in Little Women, and Boniface in Le jongleur de Notre-Dame, with the Florida State Opera; and Bob in The Old Maid and the Thief, and Count Gil in Il segreto di Susanna, with the University of Georgia Opera. Other stage credits include Calchas in La belle Helene with the FrancoAmerican Vocal Academy. He has also performed in several works for the concert stage, including the world premiere performance of Christopher Theofanidis’ The Here and Now, as the baritone soloist, with the University of Georgia Wind Ensemble, and the Monteverdi Verspers of 1610 with the University of Georgia Symphony Orchestra, as well as Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs and the Fauré Requiem. Mr. Tucker is currently studying voice with David Okerlund, and has worked with several distinguished coaches and teachers, such as George Darden, William Lewis, Stephanie Pierce, Carlisle Floyd, Douglas Fisher, and Valerie Trujillo. He has participated in master-classes with Warren Jones, Teresa Żylis-Gara, Gayletha Nichols, and Anne-Carolyn Bird. Ryan is a brother in Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.

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