Music Notes - July 17

The Spiritual sung by Chris Thompson at the 10:45 am prelude is a setting by Roland Hayes, one of America’s first African American concerts artists. A tenor and composer, Roland was raised in rural Georgia but ascended to international fame in the 1930s securing professional management with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Boston where he worked as a voice teacher and composer. The spiritual that Chris sings was published in a collection of spirituals in 1948 entitled, My Songs: Aframerican Religious Folk Songs Arranged and Interpreted. They are enriched by his harmonic depth and finding and prolonging the musical high points in phrases.

In July, beautiful special music at the prelude, anthems and communion will be offered by our talented parish musicians: Katy and Rich Williams, Bryan Sable, our Music Assistant, Sam Viggiano (who sang so beautifully at his sister’s June Ordination to the Deaconate), Kathleen Hendricks with choir in Vivaldi’s “Domine deus” from Gloria, Susan Vines and Cathie Buschek in works for Piano-four hands, Alice Lee in an aria from Bach’s St. John Passion, Chris Thompson singing an American Spiritual, and Ginnie Schaap in voice and on piccolo!

Performance Jazz Camp

Our annual Jazz camp led by Saxophone Jazz artist, Lee Robinson begins next week!

Performance Jazz Camp (PJC) 2016
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Monday July 18 through Friday July 22
Concert Tuesday, July 26^st at 7:00 pm

Performance Jazz Camp is an exciting and innovative jazz camp program. Its focus is small groups, quartets, trios and quintets quartets. The student range is elementary, middle school and high school. Individual instrumentalists and vocalists are welcome to apply.

Individuals and groups may register for PJC. The individuals who are accepted will be assigned to a jazz group to participate in the camp and closing performance.

Performance Jazz Camp focus includes performing, a great amount of playing, group interaction, performance coaching, programming, guest jazz artists (TBA) for Master Class demonstrations and having fun while learning! The PJC concludes with a student concert.

Applicants may be individuals or a existing small jazz combo or contemporary music ensemble. Please call Pattie O’Donnell about the Performance Jazz Camp and how to register. Call (412)-851-8482