Arts and Music at Redeemer

signs and portents announcement

Please join us for the artists’ reception on December 12th, 6:00-8:00PM.

Janeanne Houston, Soprano, with Organist Sheila Bristow

Janeanne is a wonderful artist who performs in opera and oratorio throughout the Northwest. Her repertoire will include Bach’s Cantata 84, English songs by Finzi and Holst, and a fiery aria from Mozart’s Davidde Penetente. Come celebrate the close of the church year, and invite your friends to experience the arts at Redeemer! Free-will donation to support the music program.

About Janeanne Houston:

American soprano Janeanne Houston is a versatile performer, and one of the Northwest region’s busiest artists. Her extensive repertoire spans the Baroque era to the present. She has worked under the batons of many fine conductors including Gerard Schwarz, JamesDePreist, Sidney Harth, Dean Williamson, Richard Sparks, Christophe Chagnard, and Miguel Harth-Bedoya. Concert works that she has performed many times include Carmina Burana, Messiah, Requiems of Brahms, Verdi, and Mozart, and Mozart’s Mass in C Minor. Also at home on the opera stage, she has sung the roles of Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Susanna and the Countessa Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Violetta in La Traviata, Blanche in Dialogues of the Carmelites and Micaela in Carmen.

She has recorded many of North Carolina composer Dan Locklair’s songs and vocal works, and in the fall of 2006 she recorded a work titled Lairs of Soundings with the Slovak Radio Orchestra under Kirk Trevor for the Naxos label. A recording of world premieres by living composers titled The Shining Place was also released in 2006, and scheduled for 2009, a Zimbel Records release titled Songs of the Cotton Grass featuring music of Welsh composer Hilary Tann. Ms. Houston gave the East Coast premiere of that cycle on a New York State recital tour in October of 2006. Also that October, she soloed in the premiere of Judith Lang Zaimont’s Remembrance with Portland Symphonic Choir. Other recordings include So Great a Joy (2001), Living Mysteries (2002), The Chamber Music of Dan Locklair (Albany 2004), and So Much Beauty (2004).

The Seattle Times has called her singing “radiant-voiced” and Gramophone, “unfailingly responsive and dedicated.” The Journal of Singing raves “a flawless sense of style.” Performances this year have included the role of the Contessa Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro with Helena Symphony, Brahms’ A German Requiem with Bremerton Symphony, Bach’s Passion According to St. Matthew with Peninsula Singers and the Port Angeles Symphony, and a return engagement to the Messiah Festival of Music and Art in Kansas. In the spring of 2010, she will sing the role of Queen Elisabetta in Verdi’s Don Carlo.

She is the managing and founding member of Northwest Artists and the recording label Elmgrove Productions, and she has been a member of the voice faculty at Pacific Lutheran University since 1989

The word “advent” is defined as, “the coming or arrival, especially of something important.” In the church year, the season of Advent is a time of looking forward to something greater. It is a season of preparation, a time of waiting and watching for signs and portents.

Some of these are signs of a beginning. The three kings saw and followed a star to Bethlehem. Mary and Joseph and the shepherds received visitations from angels. Other signs and portents of the season foretell that something is coming to an end: the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and other visions of John in the Book of Revelation.

But signs and portents aren’t limited to Biblical accounts or religious seasons. Astrologers read the stars and planets. Comets have been linked to life-changing historical events. Shamans seek the visions of the trance. Farmers scan the skies and consult almanacs for signs of rain or drought. Fortune tellers read cards, palms and auras. We all have dreams and visions. We see pictures in the clouds, and have favorite colors and lucky numbers.

Our gallery seeks artwork that expresses the theme “Signs & Portents” for a juried art exhibit that will be on view in our nave throughout the liturgical seasons of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany, with an artists’ reception planned for the evening of December 5th. All genres and media considered. Artwork needs to be two-dimensional – it can extend into the third dimension, but it must be able to be displayed on a wall.

Where: CR Gallery, Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, Kenmore, WA

When: December 2 – February 2, 2010

Artists’ Reception: Saturday, December 5, 6:00– 8:00pm

How: Submit up to 3 jpegs (72dpi, 600 pixels on the longest side) via e-mail to arts@redeemer-kenmore.org. In your e-mail, please include your name, contact information, and a few words about your work. Also include title, medium, framed dimensions, and retail price of each image submitted. Submission deadline is midnight, November 8th, 2009. The work will then be juried and acceptance notifications and delivery instructions will be sent out via e-mail by November 16th.

Entry fee: There is no entry fee for this exhibit.

Please take note of the following:
•Artwork must be ready to hang, preferably from a wire. Photographs and
artwork on paper must be framed with a wire attached for hanging. Canvases
do not need to be framed, but the sides should be painted, either a solid
color or as a continuation of the image, in order to give a neat,
professional appearance, and must have a wire attached to the stretchers
for hanging purposes.

•For work that is shipped, all shipping costs will be the responsibility
of the artist.

•Artwork can be for sale. The gallery will direct buyers directly to the
artist and takes no commission.

•The gallery will take care of advertising and publicity, and artists with
accepted work will receive postcard announcements to distribute
themselves.

•In addition to being displayed in the nave gallery, accepted artists will
also be featured on the church’s website.

•For ease of transport, and so we get to meet you, we are especially
seeking artists in the Puget Sound area, but this call is open to all
artists over 18.

•For more information, please visit our website at www.redeemer-kenmore.org/artsblog.
If you have any questions, please email Angela at arts@redeemer-kenmore.org.

Please feel free to pass this information along to other artists you think
might be interested.

Searching for the Light: an exhibit of recent work by Redeemer’s artist in residence Angela Wales Rockett. Paintings will be on view in the nave August 16th– October 16th, 2009, with an artist’s reception planned for the evening of October 10th. More information about that later.

For the next two weeks flutists are providing special music for the 10:30 liturgy:

• 8/23: Sharon Grabner and Jan Bleakney; duets by Mozart and Telemann
• 8/30: Pearl Alexander; solo music by J. S. Bach

On Wednesday 8/26 organist Sheila Bristow and trumpeter Judson Scott will perform a short recital of contemporary music by American composers. This is part of the Wednesdays at Noon series at Trinity Parish (in downtown Seattle, at 8th and James). Free-will donation.

This Sunday’s hymns:

“Mary heard the angel’s message” is from an alternative hymnal by Church Publishing, Voices Found, which features women writers and composers. “Hail, Holy Queen”, the Fraction Anthem, and “Hail blessed virgin” are all copyrighted by GIA Publications, and are reprinted under OneLicense.net#A-713521.

Peace,

Sheila

Last night we had our first Art and Music Tuesday and it was great! There was wonderful fellowship and much laughter. Sheila taught us part of a lovely Psalm to sing (we’ll learn more of it each Tuesday in July). And the Christmas altarpiece is well underway. I’m really looking forward to next Tuesday!

This is my sketch for the altarpiece. (on the left is what I hoped to get done by the end of the night - and we did!)

Color Sketch for Christmas 2009 Altarpiece

Here I start the art portion of the evening by explaining some of the materials we’ll be using.

Art portion of evening begins

And here is one shift of my minions painters. You can really get a sense for the size of this thing when you see people working on it.

Ginny, Sheila, Polly, Eric and Kathy painting

Hope you can join in the fun next week!

-Angela

Every Tuesday evening in July, the Redeemer community is meeting for music, art and Eucharist.

Here’s the schedule:

• 6:00pm — Bring your own dinner
• 6:30pm — Learn music to sing during the Eucharist
• 7:00pm — Eucharist
• 7:30pm to approximately 9:00pm — Art, and more music

We’ll be posting photos to the blog as we go, so stay tuned!

Ron and I have been making a new canvas for our Christmas altarpiece, which we’ll be working on for the “art” portion of the Art and Music Tuesdays which start next week! In the first photo the framework is getting muslin stretched over it, and in the second photo the muslin is drying after we soaked it so it would tighten up. It is now tight as a drum and ready for a coat of gesso.

Many, many heartfelt thanks to Ron who not only agreed to make this, but improved greatly upon the original design. It’s a beautiful thing.

The final size of the two panels hinged together is about 10 feet by 8 feet, and I can’t wait to cover it with rich colors! Check back to watch our progress.

-Angela

The Sunday of the Passion  choir and organ

Choral Psalm 22  anglican chant/Hopkins

Choral Anthem  Adoramus te Christe/Jacques Berthier

Maundy Thursday   women’s schola, soloists, and organ

Organ prelude  Variations on Pange lingua glorioso/Nicolas de Grigny

Choral Psalm 78  plainsong, after Hildegard of Bingen

Choral Anthem  Panis Angelicus/Giuseppe Baini

Duet   Tantum Ergo/Nicolas Gigault
Erica Row & Christina Siemens

Solo   A Song of Lamentation/John Karl Hirten

Stacey Porter

Good Friday    choir and organ

Choral Anthem  Behold, Before Our Wondering Eyes/ Walker & Berberick

The Great Paschal Vigil   choir, soloists, trumpet, and organ

Choral Canticle  Come, let us sing to the Lord!/Dorothy J. Papadakos

Solo   Alleluia, from Cantata 51/J. S. Bach
Erica Row

Trumpet Offertory Aria/Flor Peeters
Judson Scott

Choral Anthem  Be Still and Know/Ana Hernandez

Organ Postlude  Allegro vivace assai, from Sonata No. 1/Felix Mendelssohn

The Sunday of the Resurrection  choir, soloists, trumpet, and organ

Trumpet Prelude Largo & Allegro/J. F. Fasch
Judson Scott

Solo   Victoria, mein Jesus ist erstanden/G. P. Telemann
Glenn Guhr

Duet   Maria Magdelena et alter Maria/Sulpitia Cesis
Christina Siemens & Glenn Guhr

Choral Anthem  Jesu, Joy of Our Desiring/J. S. Bach

Trumpet Postlude Moderato & Allegro/Guiseppe Torelli

Judson Scott

II Pascha    soloist and flute duet

Solo   I know that my Redeemer liveth, from Messiah/G. F. Handel
Christina Siemens