INAUGURAL

ORGAN RECITAL given by

DAVID DRURY

International Concert Organist

Friday 2nd May 2014

7.30pm

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PROGRAMME ---

Prelude & Fugue in G major BWV 541 J. S. Bach (1685-1750) Air (from Orchestral Suite no 3 in D major) BWV 1068 Prelude on ‘In dulci jubilo’ BWV 751 Excerpts from ‘Water Music Suites’ G. F. Handel (1685-1759) arr. Osborne H. Peasgood (1902-1962)

Overture Air Bourrée Minuet Hornpipe Minuet I Minuet II Coro

Aria Charles Callahan (b. 1951) A Trumpet Minuet Alfred Hollins (1865-1942)

Prelude on ‘Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen’ Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Berceuse Louis Vierne (1870-1937) Toccata in G major Théodore Dubois (1837-1924)

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David Drury (b. 1961)

David Drury was educated at Trinity Grammar School, Sydney. He graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium with a degree in organ performance and as the recipient of the Vasanta scholarship for overseas study. In England he studied with the professor of organ of the Royal Academy of Music, David Sanger, gaining the Associate Diploma in organ, and the choir-master Diploma from the Royal College of Organists. In 1987 he became the first and only Australian to win the Tournemire prize for improvisation at the St Alban’s International Organ Competition. He has since given recitals in Westminster Abbey, St Paul’s and Westminster Cathedrals in London, and King’s College Cambridge. In Paris, he has performed four times at Notre Dame and twice at La Madeleine, and has played at the Toulon Festival.

He has toured North America and Canada as a recitalist, tutor, accompanist and choral director, and has given masterclasses and performed on American radio and television. In 1996 he gave a recital for the Organ Historical Society’s National convention in Philadelphia.

David Drury has appeared as a recitalist at the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart, Christchurch and Auckland Town Halls. He has performed at the Melbourne International Festival of Organ and Harpsichord, the Newcastle Festival, the Barossa Festival, the Ballarat Goldfields Festival, the Festival of Sydney and the New Zealand Organists’ Congress. He broadcasts regularly for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and other radio stations.

He has performed concertos with the Adelaide and West Australian Symphony Orchestras, the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria and the Hong Kong Philharmonic. He performed in the 2000 Olympic Games opening ceremony and in front of world leaders at the 2007 APEC Summit Concert.

David Drury has released four solo recordings as well as appearing on numerous recordings as a guest artist. He is also the keyboard player with the emerging progressive band ‘Resonaxis’. As a composer, David Drury has a large output of choral music, published by ‘Crescendo Music’. He is Director of Music at St Paul’s College, within the University of Sydney.

If you want to keep in touch with David’s career and forthcoming performances, go to his website at:

www.daviddrury.com.au

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Music Notes

J. S. Bach came from a large family of musicians and is considered by many to be the greatest of all composers and his works have achieved remarkable popularity in the last hundred years. However, at his death in 1750 Bach was seen by his contemporaries as an unfashionable provincial organist who wrote in archaic musical forms (especially fugues). Modern Bach-worship dates from the early nineteenth-century when Felix Mendelssohn championed his works in concerts in England. Bach spent his entire life in modern-day Germany working at various churches and aristocratic courts before being appointed Kantor at the Thomaskirke in Leipzig in 1723. His Fantasia and Fugue in G dates from his first years in Leipzig and has been claimed to demonstrate the inspiration Bach drew from the Italian style of composers such as Antonio Vivaldi. Bach’s famous Air is taken from the Orchestral Suite no. 3 in D dating from around 1730 and first performed in Leipzig. The arrangement of this work by the German violinist August Wilhelmj has become known to all as the ‘Air on a G string’. The authenticity of the Chorale Prelude on ‘In dulci jubilo’, based on the traditional Christmas carol ‘In sweet rejoicing’, has recently been questioned: it has been suggested that the composer of this charming trio is actually Johann Michael Bach, J. S.Bach’s father in law.

Handel’s Water Music Suites were written for the English King, George II, and were first performed on 17 July 1747 by an orchestra on a barge which accompanied the King down the Thames. The King was so enchanted with the suites that he ordered them to be repeated as he travelled back up the river. The Water Music is a collection of orchestral movements, often published as three separate suites. The movements performed this evening were arranged for organ by Osborne Peasgood, assistant organist at Westminster Abbey. Unlike Bach, Handel’s music has remained popular since its composition and the music from the Water Music Suites are some of his most popular work.

Charles Callahan is one of America’s leading organist-composers. He is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and the Catholic University of America. He is a well known and highly regarded composer who has published extensively. The Aria, a homage to Flor Peeters’ piece of the same name, is a good indication of his style. He is currently Director of Music at the Church of the Holy Family in New York and was awarded a Papal Knighthood in 1999.

The blind organist Alfred Hollins was born in Yorkshire in England, but spent most of his life in Edinburgh in Scotland where he was organist of Free St George’s Kirk. He was a prolific composer and was a noted recitalist, giving weekly Sunday evening recitals at the city’s Usher Hall. A Trumpet Minuet is a delightful miniature which demonstrates Hollins’ lyrical and tonal style. He was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Organists in 1904 and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Edinburgh in 1922.

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Johannes Brahms’ Chorale Prelude on ‘Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen’ is taken from the composer’s Eleven Chorale Preludes Op 122, composed in 1896 and published posthumously in 1902. The eleven preludes are based on selected verses of nine Lutheran Chorales. The works are considered to be a final statement on Brahms’ life and a reflection on his pending death. ‘Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen’ is a sixteenth-century Christmas Carol and Marian Hymn of German origin, commonly translated in English as ‘Lo, how a Rose e’er blooming’. This chorale prelude is a tender and harmonic reflection on the Nativity of Christ.

The French composer and organist Louis Vierne was born nearly blind due to congentital cataracts but at an early age was discovered to have an unusual gift for music. In 1892 Vierne became assistant to Charles-Marie Widor at Saint-Sulpice in Paris and in 1900 became principal organist at the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, a post he held until his death at the organ in 1937 at the conclusion of his 1750th recital in the cathedral. Vierne’s style as a composer is clean and elegant and utilises a rich harmonic language. The Berceuse is taken from 24 Piéces en style libre composed between 1913 and 1914 for organ or harmonium. The Berceuse is a gently lilting harmonisation of the French lullaby ‘Dodo, l’enfant do’.

The organist Théodore Dubois was a prolific composer of the generation before Vierne. His oeuvre include operas, ballets, vocal works, orchestral works and symphonies, and chamber music. In 1877 Dubois succeeded Camille Saint-Saens as organist of La Madeleine in Paris and combined his duties there with lecturing at the Paris Conservatoire, he became Director of the Conservatoire following the death of his teacher Ambroise Thomas in 1896. Much of his extensive output has almost entirely been dropped from the repertoire: his Toccata in G remains his best known work and is a regular staple of organ recitals across the world today.

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The Organs of St John’s, Dee Why

Although the current church building was opened in 1958 it was another ten years before an organ was installed by the Sydney builder Roger H. Pogson. The organ contained six ranks, which were then ‘extended’ to create twenty-three stops over two manuals.

Pipe Ranks Extended ranks

Sub- bass 16 Rohr Gedackt 8 Gemshorn 8 Prinicpal 4 Nazard 2 2/3 Tierce 1 3/5

Manual 1 Principal 8 Stopped Diapsaon 8 Gemshorn 8 Octave 4 Flute 4 Twelth 2 2/3 Fifteenth 2 Tierce 1 3/5

Manual 2 Rohr Gedackt 8 Spitz Flute 8 Gemshorn 4 Nazard 2 2/3 Block Flute 2 Terz 1 3/5 Nazard 1 1/3 Octave 1

Pedal Sub Bass 16 Bass Flute 8 Gedackt Flute 4 Quinte 2 2/3 Super Octave 2 Tierce 1 3/5

Specification of the 1968 Roger Pogson Extension Organ

The organ was dedicated at a service in July 1968 in the presence of Sir Roden Cutler, Governor of New South Wales. Despite the organ’s limited scope and potential it served the parish faithfully for nearly fifty years. The possibility of extending or replacing the organ has been considered several times, most recently last year when it was decided that with the advances in technology the Parish Council would investigate the possibility of augmenting the exsting pipework with the latest digital technology. The aim was to create the musically attractive and versatile instrument that the church had always lacked for services and concerts.

The contract for the augmentation of the organ was given to Ian Sell of Virtual Pipe Organs, Australia who has completed several similar commissions for churches and private homes across the East Coast, and who impressed us greatly with his craftsmanship, musicality and dedication to the instruments he builds.

It was decided to replace the existing console with a new hand-built console, consisting of seventy-two stops over three manuals and pedals. The organ was also to include playing aids, such as couplers and pistons which were absent from the original instrument. It was imperative that the new specification included the original pipework, as we had no wish to abandon the pipework already in use in the church. The organist of St John’s, Tom Edwards, in consultation with Ian Sell drew up a specification which included most of the real ranks on the Choir manual, with the 4 foot Principal forming part of the principal chorus on the Great. The new digital stops are produced using the latest digital technology created by the German company Hauptwerk who sample complete ranks of pipes from famous organs (our Tuba stop is from Hereford Cathedral in England!). The digital sounds are produced from speakers at the back of the organ chamber, and speak

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through the existing pipe work. Digital and real stops speak together in perfect unison and we would defy most people to tell the difference!

The Pogson organ was decommissioned following morning services on Sunday 6th April 2014; the last piece of music played on the organ was Intrada by the English composer, Grayston Ives. The installation of the new console and digital components began in the following week and was completed in time for the organ to be played for the first time on Palm Sunday 2014. The first voluntary played on the instrument on Easter Eve 2014 was Jean Langlais’ Incantation pour un jour Saint which contrasts the Tuba and En Chamade Trumpet with the full organ. It was quite a sound.

The new organ has made a great impact on music-making at St John’s, the instrument looks and sounds beautiful and is an inspiration to play. St John’s is very proud to be the custodian of this marvellous instrument and we have no doubt that it will contribute much to worship and to our ever-expanding concert series.

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Pedal Great Couplers and Playing Aids

1 Open Wood 32 2 Open Diapason 16 3 SUB-BASS 16 4 Bourdon 16 5 Principal 8 6 Flute 8 7 Fifteenth 4 8 Mixture IV 9 Bombarde 32 10 Contra Violone 16 11 Trombone 16 12 Horn 16 13 Trumpet 8

13 Double Open Diapason 16 14 Open Diapason no 1 8 15 Open Diapason no 2 8 16 Stopped Diapason 8 17 Claribel Flute 8 18 PRINCIPAL 4 19 Wald Flute 4 20 Twelfth 2 2/3 21 Fifteenth 2 22 Mixture IV 23 Cymbal II 24 Trumpet 8 25 Clarion 4 26 Double Trumpet 16

27 Great to Pedal 28 Swell to Pedal 29 Swell to Great 30 Swell to Choir 31 Swell Octave 32 Swell Sub-Octave 33 Swell Unison Off 34 Choir to Great 35 Choir to Pedal 36 Choir Octave 37 Choir Sub Octave

Choir solo to Great Swell solo to Great Great Octave coupler 15 general pistons 6 pistons to each division 32’ Open Wood on piston 32’ Bombarde on piston 15 levels of memory 6 organ settings: English Cathedral Organ (with pipes/digital) French Romantic Organ (with pipes/digital) German Baroque Organ (with pipes/digital)

Choir Swell

38 Stopped Diapason 8 39 Flute Celeste 8 40 Dulciana 8 41 ROHR GEDACKT 8 42 Principal 8 43 Chimney Flute 4 44 GEMSHORN 4 45 NAZARD 2 2/3 46 Fifteenth 2 47 Flute 2 48 TIERCE 1 3/5 49 Larigot 1 1/3 50 Sharp Mixture IV 51 Clarinet 8 52 Sesquieltra III 53 Orchestral Oboe 8 54 Tuba 8 55 Trumpet en Chemade 8

56 Contra Gamba 16 57 Open Diapason 8 58 Stopped Diapason 8 59 Salicional 8 60 Viola da Gamba 8 61 Lieblich Gedackt 8 62 Vox Celeste 8 63 Vox Humana 8 64 Principal 4 65 Flute 4 66 Flageolet 2 67 Mixture III 68 Double Trumpet 16 69 Cornopean 8 70 Oboe 8 71 Clarion 4 72 Tremulant

Specification of the 2014 organ by Ian Sell of Virtual Pipe Organs, Australia Pipes in red are the orginal Pogson ranks.

David Drury’s next performance will be as part of the

CELEBRITY ORGAN RECITAL SERIES

St Mary’s Cathedral, College Street, Sydney

FRIDAY 30th MAY, 2014, 7.00pm

Free admission. Retiring donation.

Music by Bach, Swayne, Duruflé, Franck, Vierne, and Dupré

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St John’s Anglican Church, Dee Why ‘A tradition of music’

St John’s is the home of the oldest liturgical robed choir on the Northern Beaches. The choir has existed since at least 1928 and has always played an important part in the life of the new church, opened in 1959.

In September 1960 the choir led the first televised broadcast of an Anglican Communion service in New South Wales, performing a setting especially composed for the choir by the then Rector of St John’s, Neville Chynoweth. In 1963 the choir led a second broadcast from St John’s. At the dedication of the Pogson organ in 1968 the choir sang Handel’s Zadok the Priest and an especially composed setting of the Magnificat written by the ABC’s Robert Rowling. From that period the choir of St John’s, consisting of a senior and junior section, gained a reputation for excellence. Under the direction of choirmaster, Ian Wharton, the choir travelled widely, and sang at the installation of archbishops in Newcastle and Bathurst Cathedrals. At that time the choir had a challenging and extensive repertoire including: Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Creation, Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, the choir also performed Haydn’s Missa In Tempore Belli in Parramatta Cathedral. Under the direction of Mervyn Olds who took over in 1976 the choir again sang Handel’s Messiah and Charpentier’s Messe pour la Minuit.

St John’s Anglican Church, Dee Why is delighted to advertise

FIVE CHORAL SCHOLARSHIPS WORTH $750 PER ANNUM

and

AN ORGAN SCHOLARSHIP WORTH $1,000 PER ANNUM

For more information contact the Director of Music on

music@stjohnsdeewhy.org.au 02 9971 8694

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Under the direction of David Coburn the choir recorded two CDs and continued to expand their repertoire and reputation.

A new Junior choir was founded in February 2014 for boys and girls aged 7-14, and the choristers performed with the adults for the first time on Easter Day 2014 singing Rawsthorne’s Festive Eucharist and the traditional carol This joyful Eastertide. St John’s has recently established a choral scholarship scheme for students aged 14-23 and it is hoped that in addition to being a centre for musical excellence, St John’s will become a centre for musical education.

On Sunday 4th May 2014 the choir will continue the tradition of performing new music: the choir will give the premiere of a new mass setting, Missa Sanctae Ceciliae, by Dr Colin Brumby, one of Australia’s leading classical composers.

The St John’s choir is dedicated to expressing the ‘beauty of holiness’ within liturgy and services and is open to everybody. The choir sings at the Family Eucharist at 10.00am each Sunday and rehearses on Tuesday evenings at 7.15pm. New members are always welcome and are encouraged to contact the Director of Music for further details.

St John’s has been extremely fortunate to have been served by many distinguished and dedicated musicians over the past fifty years and we wish to extend our gratitude to all who have served the parish in our musical ministry.

Organists since the opening of the new church building

c. 1960 Don Roberts

1976-1980 Mervyn Olds

1983-1991 David Slee

1991-2003 David Coburn

2003-2013 Tim Swales

2013-present Tom Edwards

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We are delighted to record those who have already generously donated towards the St John’s Organ Fund

A Adams, Brian and Pam Aganoor, Hazel Andersen, Pam Andrews, Heather Archer, Daphne Ashover, Mark and Valda B Bate, Joan Bennett, Helen Bingham, Henry and Bev Brownley, Margaret Brownley, Robert Brown, Lily Brunning, Barry Butler, Howard and Joan Butler, Shirley Brice, Kevin and Lyn Byrne, Neridah C Couch and Associates Pty Ltd Cocks, Marcia Cocks, Neralie Cornish, Beryl Cosgrove, Ray and Loraine Costley, Olivia Courtney, Robyn Culverson, Judith Cunningham, Peter and Diane D Dee Why RSL sub-branch Dryden, Diane E Edwards, Alan and Pat Edwards, Tom Eltham, Ken and Janet Emmett, John and Barbara F Fisher, Don and Pam Francis, Colin and Pamela G Greenhalgh, Dianne Greenidge, David and Stephanie Greenwood, Arthur

H Halford, Norma Hamilton, Liz Hansen, Lee Hartley, Verona Hastings, Eric and Helen Hoysted, Marj Hughes, Margaret I Ibbot, Vickie Irving, Pat J James, Margaret Jeffery, Stan Johnson, Tony and Lynette K Knight, Jean Knight, Margaret Knox, Jill L Laird, Norma Lang, John M Mackay, Grace Matthews, Edgar and Barbara McDougall, Allaster and Mary Monahan, John and Suzanne Mosedale, Peter Moulds, Margaret N Nicholas, Joan Nigli, Wayne and Joanne Notholt, Verna O O’Donell, Ken and Cecily P Parnell, Marie Peters, Bill and Karin Petersen, Bob and Roz Phelps, Ray Porter, Chester and Jean Pratt, Brian

R Rayward, Susie Rich, Elaine Ridgeway, Tom and Isabel Robinson, Peter and Lesley Rodgers, Nigel and Elaine Rodgers, Olwyn Rogers, Stewart and Mai-Do Romanis, Warwick and Fran S St John’s Dee Why, Play Time St John’s Dee Why, Sausage Sizzle St John’s Dee Why, Pins n’ Needles Salmon, Christopher Salmon, Fr. Steven and Rev Sandra Seddon, Anne Simpkins, Lena Staples, Ilma Stephens, Don and Marilyn Stovold, Barry Swales, Tim and Kathe T Terry, Georgina Thiel, Brian and Kay Thomas, Janette Turley, Phil and Margaret V Van der Veer, Margaret Vaughan, Audette W Ward, Katherine Warringah Council Watts, Cynthia Watts, Flo Wenning, Ted and Leonie Wheeler, Fr. Robert and Penny Willcox, Brian and Lorelei Wilson, Ann (Funerals) Wilson, Helen and Jason

OUR GRATEFUL THANKS TO THOSE WHO HAVE ALREADY GIVEN GENEROUSLY FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN’T, THERE IS STILL TIME TO CONTRIBUTE!

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FORTHCOMING MUSICAL EVENTS AT ST JOHN’S, DEE WHY

Saturday 3rd May, 5.00pm Dedicatory Mass for the new organ Sunday 4th May, 6.00pm Choral Evensong sung by the Cathedral Singers Sunday 8th June, 2.00pm Aeon Ensemble Chamber Music Recital Sunday 22nd June, 6.00pm Choral Evensong sung by the Cathedral Singers Saturday 9th August, 2.00pm Rising Stars of the Organ Saturday 20th September, 10.00am – 9.00pm St John’s Music Festival Sunday 21st September, 2.30pm Come and Sing Handel’s Messiah Monday 3rd November, 7.30pm Fauré’s Requiem for All Souls’ Day Sunday 23rd November, 10.00am Eucharist sung by the Cathedral Singers Sunday 30th November, 6.00pm Advent Carol Service Saturday 13th December, 2.00pm Organ Music for Advent and Christmas Sunday 21st December, 6.00pm Service of Nine Lessons and Carols

FREE ADMISSION TO ALL EVENTS