Arts and Music at Redeemer

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

When: Saturday, May 10, 7:30 pm

Where: The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, 6211 NE 182nd St., Kenmore (map)

Cost: Free-will donation

Episcopal Church of the Redeemer will host a recital by Organist Sheila Bristow with soprano Linda Tsatsanis. “Music for the Season of Pentecost” will feature the music of J. S. Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, and Bob Chilcott.

The Concerto Baroque performance was just great. We are truly privileged to have such wonderfully talented musicians perform in our space. I’ve posted photos from the event on the Redeemer Flickr account.

- Wade

Organ Plus Concert
Sunday, January 27, 2:00 PM
St. Mark’s Cathedral
www.saintmarks.org
Admission: $10

Dear friends,

I wanted to let you know that I will be performing an eclectic solo organ program and accompanying my favorite baritone, Glenn Guhr, on a couple of solo cantatas at St. Mark’s in January. I hope you’ll come!
Opera fans, FYI: Glenn is making his directing debut with Bellevue Opera’s production of “The Magic Flute”.

Concerto Baroque will present their first performance on Saturday, November 24, 7:30 PM at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer. The ensemble brings together five busy early music performers of the Pacific Northwest to present chamber works featuring trumpet, violin and soprano by Baroque masters.

Concerto Baroque is Linda Tsatsanis, soprano; Stephen Cresswell, violin; Judson Scott, trumpet; Nathan Whitaker, cello; and Sheila Bristow, continuo. Individually they have performed through out North America for established ensembles such as Portland Baroque, Seattle Baroque, Northwest Baroque, Seattle Pro Musica, Tafel Music and St. Mary’s Chamber Orchestra.

The ensemble performs on the instruments current when the music was written and in the styles the composers would have assumed. For example, the trumpet is a valveless instrument and the violin and cello are strung with gut strings, creating the warm tonal colors called for in the music.

This first program includes vocal and instrumental music of Italy and Germany including works by Telemann, Fantini, Caccini and Corbett which broadly sketch the bounderies of the Baroque style.

The music selected for this program spans the range of the Baroque period. The earliest music on the program, a few short sonatas by Fantini, are the first examples of the trumpet leaving the parade ground and stepping into the concert hall (ca 1630); similarly the vocal works by Caccini were groundbreaking in establishing the Baroque vocal style. The works by Handel and Telemann define the most refined acheivements at the close of the Baroque era. Bridging the these extremes is a sonata by Corbett.

Concerto Baroque, the Northwest’s newest Baroque ensemble, presents a concert of music by Telemann, Fantini, Caccini and Corbett on November 24, the Eve of Christ the King. Selections will be played on musical instruments current to the period in which they were composed.

When: Saturday, November 24 at 7:30 PM

Where: Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, Kenmore

Admission: A free-will donation will be accepted.

Performers:

• Judson Jay Scott, trumpet
• Linda Tsatsanis, soprano
• Stephen Cresswell, violin
• Nathan Whittaker, cello
• Sheila Bristow, continuo

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We’ve posted photos of the opening on Flickr. It was a great opening - a lot of people came, the music was fantastic, and everyone had a good time.

There were some really intriguing discussions going on about the role that art could play in the spiritual life of the entire diocese of Olympia. We’ll post more about that as things develop, but it sounds as if there will be some exciting times ahead.

- Wade

When J.P. and Gwyn’s wedding was over on Saturday, Angela, Debi, and I crept back into the nave and hung the artwork for Speaking in Tongues: The Spirit Unleashed.

The pieces look great together. I think this is a really strong show.

Don’t forget, the opening reception is Thursday evening from 6 PM to 8 PM. Music’s from 7 to 7:30.

- Wade

Over the next couple of weeks I’ll be posting about each of the artists whose work has been accepted into our upcoming art exhibition, Speaking in Tongues: The Spirit Unleashed, so check back often, then come to our artists’ reception on July 12th to meet some of them.

-Angela

“Unleashed” by Angela Wales Rockett 

Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in Kenmore celebrates the opening of its new art exhibit “Speaking in Tongues: The Spirit Unleashed” with an artist reception. The reception will feature a musical performance by organist and choirmaster Sheila Bristow and special guests.

The reception is from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM on Thursday, July 12th. Come for wine, cheese, music, and a chance to meet the artists!

“Speaking in Tongues” will be on display in the nave of the church from July 8th through September 7th.

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