The 2005

Stovall Memorial Lenten Recital Series

at

Calvary Episcopal Church

March 9 at 12:05 p.m.

MELVIN DICKINSON, ORGAN

Calvary Episcopal Church

821 South Fourth Street

Louisville, KY 40203

The Rev. J. Edward Morris, Rector

Melvin and Margaret Dickinson, Musicians

Telephone: 587-6011; Fax: 587-6012; email: calv821@aol.com;

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THE PROGRAM

Praeludium in g minor Nicholas Bruhns (1665-1697)

A student of Dietrich Buxtehude, Nicholas Bruhns was also an accomplished violinist. He frequently played violin recitals while seated at the organ, playing the bass part on the organ pedals! In 1689, he was awarded the coveted organ post in Husum, Germany, and worked there eight years before his untimely death at age 31.

Three settings of “Dies sind die heil’gen zehn Gebot”

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Clavieruebung III, BWV 697

Clavieruebung III, BWV 696

Orgelbuechlein, BWV 635

“These are the holy ten commands” by Martin Luther has ten verses, each depicting one of the ten commandments. Bach composed three settings of this hymn. True to Bach’s extraordinary word painting skills, the first setting played today employs the number TEN in the following ways: the length of the fugue subject is ten beats (the fugue subject is based on the hymn tune); the range of the subject is ten half steps; the subject enters ten times; all of the commandments that say THOU SHALT NOT are turned upside down (Inversion). The second setting is in 6/4 (add those together!), and the hymn has five phrases – the piece is in two-part canon, so that makes ten. Canon also means LAW! The third setting, while not as consumed with the number ten, finds the hymn tune in the soprano, with many fugal entries based on the first phrase of the hymn in the lower voices.

Praeludium in C Major Vincent Luebeck (1654-1740)

Vincent Luebeck was an important mid-Baroque composer who was active in the Hamburg, Germany area. He was an early influence on J. S. Bach.

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Professor Melvin Dickinson, a native of Trenton, Kentucky, holds music degrees from the University of Kentucky, and was a Fulbright scholar in Germany for two years. He is founder and conductor of the Louisville Bach Society, retired Professor of Organ and Church Music at the University of Louisville, and has been the volunteer Choir Director at Calvary Episcopal Church since 1979. Before that, he was Director of Music at the Church of the Ascension in Frankfort (1960-1966), and at St. Francis of the Fields, Louisville (1966-1979). He has concertized extensively in the United States and Europe, and is the recipient of many awards, including the 2001 Kentucky Artist Award bestowed by the Governor of Kentucky.

Welcome to the 19th Annual Recital Series at Calvary Episcopal Church. The series this year is dedicated to the memory of Owen and Zilpha Stovall, who were stalwart and talented helpers every year from the beginning of this series in 1987. In addition, Professor Dickinson is playing this particular recital in memory of Donald Wolfe, an ardent supporter of all of the 18 previous Calvary Lenten Series. Mr. Wolfe died recently. May they rest in peace, and may light perpetual shine upon them.

We hope that you will come to the Parish Hall for lunch after today's recital. Both the recital and lunch are free, but donations will gladly be accepted for Calvary Outreach, targeting specifically this year our inner city umbrella organization, The Help Ministries of Central Louisville. Calvary is the “food arm” of Help Ministries and the home of the Dorothy Jones Food Closet, from which we distribute food to feed the hungry in our neighborhood. In 2004, we fed almost 3,000 people.

We invite you to return next Wednesday at 12:05 for the final recital in the 2005 series. The harp recital will be played by Julia Richardson.

We also invite you to attend the weekly Thursday Holy Eucharist and Healing service at 12:05, and a Quiet Day from 10 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. on March 5. Palm Sunday services on March 20 will be at 8:00 and 11:00 a.m., with breakfast at 8:45 a.m.; the Maundy Thursday service on March 24 will be at 5:30 p.m. (choir rehearsal at 5:00); and the Good Friday service on March 25 will be at 12:05 p.m. Easter Day services on March 27 will be at 8:00 and 11:00, with breakfast at 8:45 a.m.