Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 Plus music by Handel and Telemann

Sunday, November 13, 2012, 3:00PM St. John’s Episcopal Church

Program

From Chandos Anthem No. 4, HWV 249b George Frideric Handel Symphony: Grave, Allegro (1685-1759) Duet: O Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness Quartet No. 6 in E minor, “Paris Quartet” Georg Philipp Telemann Prélude: A discretion [with discretion], trè vite [very quickly] (1681-1767) Gai [cheerful] Vite [quickly] Gracieusement [graciously] Distrait [preoccupied, anxious] Modéré [moderate] Excerpts from the Arcadian Duets, HWV 182a Georg Friedrich Händel Caro autor di mia doglia [Dear author of my pain] Nò, nò che d'altrui che di te mai non sarò [No, what is another's can never be yours.] (See p. 6 for complete translation)

Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, BWV 1049 Johann Sebastian Bach Allegro (1685-1750) Andante Presto

Please join the Parley for a post-concert get together just up the street at Level 8 Lounge at Hotel Duval. Happy Hour specials on food and beverages will be extended while we're there!

The Tallahassee Bach Parley 2011-2012 Membership As of November 1, 2011:

Bach Circle ($1000+) Dr. Stephen & Elizabeth Richardson

Handel Circle ($500–999) Mimi Jones & Bill Brubaker William P. & Karyl Louwenaar Lueck

Vivaldi Circle ($250–499) John & Nancy Barfield Melissa & Charles Brewer Dr. Armand & Suzanne Cognetta Ronald A. Kanen Dennis G. King Esq. Dr. Gordon & Jenny Low Nora K. Loyd Tom & Ava Prebys William & Jeanne Ryder

Telemann Circle $100–249) Wendy & Lester Abberger Nancy E. Bivins Dr Kathleen Butler Betsy Calhoun & Michael Corzine Grace & Alan Dakan Jon & Beverly Dalton Barbara Jorgenson & Robert Dempsey Woody & Charlotte Dudley Tanja L. Jones & Todd D. Engelhardt Jan & Larry Everett Gary & Ellen Fournier Linda & Fred Hester Jim, Julie & Anne Leftheris Denis & Bobbie Markiewicz Mr. & Mrs. E.K. Mellon Kate Muldoon & Bill Miller Adonica Gieger & Dana Preu Thomas & Jean Souter Mary Helen Sukhia Ralph V. Turner John & Virginia Walker

Rameau Circle ($50–99) Fred Boska Marie E. Cowart Karen W. Dix Stan & Carol Fiore John Fraser Ben & Beth Fusaro Patricia Gosen Gayle Muenchow & Richard Hopkins Dr. Tann H. Hunt John A. Knoblauch Kyunghee Lee Betsy & Stephen Masterson Caroline Mathews Charles E. Milsted Walter & Marian Moore June L. Noel Barbara Petersen John, Gloria, Lori & AJ Pullen Penny Gilmer & Sanford Safron Nella Schomburger Sean Singleton Francis & Karen Skilling Dr. Patricia H. Stanley Diane L. Stuart Erica & Robert Thaler In memory of Helen Walker Theresa D. Westerfield Michael & Patricia Wilhoit Ken Winker

Purcell Circle $25–49 Bill & Patty Applegate Betty Boop Michael Buchler Fenn Cawthon Tom & Norene Chase Marcie Praetorius & Parker Collins Mary Lama Cordero

(Purcell Circle cont.) Pamela & Donald Crosby Patricia Curtis Janice S. Dann Ellie Dann Peter & Gloria DeAngelis Virginia Dix Laura A. Dunaway Janine C. Edwards Martha A. Fenner Mark & Lisa Foltz Paula Gerson Mary Anne Gray Judith Greaves Sue Gross Roy Silverman & Nina Hatton Christine M. Hazelip Leslie Johnson Barbara & Fred Jones Dr. Toni Fuss Kirkwood-Tucker Von A. Klink Gudrun Gaar & Robbie Laub Peggy Lentz Dr. Jean Marani Tom & Lynda McCaleb David and Rosa McNaughton Marjorie Morgan Jennie Myers Joyce Pugh Joan H. Raley Michael Buchler & Nancy Rogers Sue Scribner Renee LaPointe & Michael Smith Lawrence & Robyn Stevenson Katya & Tom Taylor Joann Taylor Larry & Sandy Updike

The Tallahassee Bach Parley Board of Directors:

Erica Thaler, President Nancy Barfield Charles E. Brewer, Vice President Michael Corzine Ava Prebys, Treasurer Stephen Richardson Julie Leftheris, Secretary Kathleen Wright

For Bach Parley Members: Your vote is needed to approve the re-election of board members Charlie Brewer, Vice President, and Michael Corzine who have completed a three-year term on our board. Our nominating committee has also approved Bach Parley member Lester Abberger as a new nominee for our board of directors. Will you kindly pick up a ballot near one of the donation tables and indicate your response? Thank you.

Today’s Musicians

EVA AMSLER is the Professor of Flute at Florida State University. As a soloist/chamber musician, recording artist, and masterclass teacher she tours in Europe, USA, South America, and the Far East, and is the founder of SYRINX, an association for flute teachers in Austria. For 20 years she was a member of St. Gallen Symphony Orchestra in Switzerland and Professor at the Conservatory Feldkirch in Austria. Her teachers include A. Nicolet and G. Rumpel. She is a member of the Florida Flute Association board and of various National Flute Association committees, and Chair of the Myrna Brown Society. BRIAN ARSENAULT studied viola with Roberto Diaz and Burton Fine and earned a BM in viola performance from the New England Conservatory. He has performed with the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra and the Tallahassee Symphony, and in addition to classical music he enjoys playing Irish Traditional Music on fiddle and anglo concertina. He earned an MLIS from FSU and works as a web programmer for the Center for Information Management and Educational Services at FSU. 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. KARL BARTON is Professor of Music and Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences at Thomas University in Thomasville, Georgia. A native of Pittsburgh, PA, he earned his Doctorate in flute performance, a Master's in Historical Musicology and certificates in early music and world music at Florida State University, where he studied flute with Charles DeLaney, early music with Jeffery Kite-Powell and Karyl Louwenaar, and ethnic flute traditions with Dale Olsen and Ming Li. He also earned a Master of Music degree in flute performance at the University of Akron and a Bachelor of Music degree in jazz performance at Duquesne University. 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 MENC, ACDA, FVA and FMEA, and is in-demand as an adjudicator and clinician in the state of Florida. A native of Syracuse, NY, Mary makes her home in Tallahassee with her husband Tucker and two dogs. TUCKER BIDDLECOMBE, a native of Buffalo, New York, is currently a candidate for the PhD in Music Education at Florida State University. As a graduate assistant he has served as the assistant conductor to the Tallahassee Community Chorus, the Men’s Glee Club, and the Florida State Opera. In 2010 Mr. Biddlecombe conducted Florida State Opera’s production of Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, as well as a performance of Bernstein's Chichester Psalms and Mozart's Veni Sancte Spiritus with the Tallahassee Community Chorus and Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Biddlecombe is a ten-year veteran educator, and is a National Board Certified Teacher. He most recently served as the choral director at Lawton Chiles High School in Tallahassee, where he was honored as 'Teacher of the Year' in 2008. Ensembles under his direction have performed at conventions of the American Choral Directors Association at the state and division level, and have been enthusiastically received at state and national choral festivals. Mr. Biddlecombe is a sought-after clinician and adjudicator, and has conducted honor choirs throughout the state of Florida. An accomplished vocalist specializing in a wide variety of repertoire and musical styles, Mr. Biddlecombe has performed as a soloist for Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Creation, and the Duruflé Requiem. He is also a published composer and arranger, with choral works printed by Alliance and Walton Music. Tucker and his wife, Mary, continue to serve as co-music directors at the Episcopal Church of the Advent in Tallahassee. 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.

ROBERT FLEISCHMANN is an Assistant Professor of Music and Humanities at Tallahassee Community College where he instructs courses in the history of jazz and popular music in America and general humanities. Currently, he is heading a task force to adapt the existing curriculum at Raa Performing Arts Magnet Middle School to reflect an interdisciplinary, historical approach in all subjects. As part of this community outreach, the task force provides seminars in the humanities and concerts of period music. As a graduate student at FSU, Rob served as the assistant director for the FSU Early Music Ensembles. 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. CHRISTOPHER PHILLPOTT is currently pursuing a PhD in Musicology at The Florida State University, focusing his research on the early development of the grand motet in seventeenth-century France. Other research interests include the cello in eighteenth-century France and the music of Frank Zappa. While studying at FSU, he also teaches music history in the undergraduate program. Before coming to Tallahassee, Mr. Phillpott earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Texas Christian University. While there, he was awarded the Michael Winesanker Musicology Grant, which was applied toward archival research in Paris and Zürich for the completion of his master’s 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 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. BAILEY SALINERO is a native of Tallahassee, beginning her violin studies at the age of 5 with Melissa Brewer. Spending 7 years in Connecticut and Massachusetts, Bailey was able to study at the Hart School of Music and Worcester Performing Arts School. In 2004, she returned to Tallahassee where she would study privately with Dr. Valerie Arsenault through her senior year of high school. Bailey has performed with the Florida All State Orchestra and attended summer music programs including Florida State Orchestra Camp, Cannon Music Camp at Appalachian State, and Brevard Music Festival. She was awarded 1st place in the Big Bend Young Artist Competition, as well as receiving the Manley Thaler Crescendo Award, a summer music festival scholarship. Bailey currently studies Violin Performance at Florida State University with Corinne Stillwell. As a sophomore, she plays in the University Symphony Orchestra, Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, and Baroque Ensemble.

Translations

Handel Duet:

Caro autor di mia doglia, Dear author of my pain, dolce pena del core, sweet sorrow of the heart, mio respiro, mia pace. my breath, my peace. Nò, nò che d'altrui che di te mai non sarò. No, what is another's can never be yours. O lumi! O volto! O luci! O labbra! Oh light! Oh face! Oh light! Oh lips!

March 4, 2012, 3:00PM

Dohnányi Recital Hall, FSU College of Music

Guest Artist Concert:

Echoing Air with Steven Rickards March 11, 2012, 3:00PM, St. John’s Episcopal

Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 with Melissa Brewer and Miriam Barfield, violas

plus Bach Cantata 150 with Tucker & Mary Biddlecombe and friends

June 3, 2012, 3:00PM, St. John’s Episcopal

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 its donors and volunteers for their support, especially St. John’s Episcopal Church, Betsy Calhoun and Lindsay Hardy for hosting this concert, 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 musicdirector@tallahasseebachparley.com at least five working days prior to a concert if accommodation for disability or if this program in an alternative format is needed.