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Final Concert Program 2002

Posted on January 16, 2007 | Filed Under 2002, Clinicians, Music

April 20, 2002

Grace Lutheran Church – Fred Gramann, clinician

Program:

America the Beautiful – Arnold B. Sherman
Brother James Air (Stacey Murray, flute) – Anna Laura Page
Lumiere – Fred Gramann
Christ is Alive! All Christians Sing – Janet Linker/Jane McFadden
Morningdance – Cathy Moklebust
Cantad al SeÃ±or (Kenton Kidd, accordian) – Sondra Tucker
Osse Shalom (Tony Cooper, clarinet) – Susan T. Nelson
Marche Triumphale – Michael Helman

Brass:

Warren Clark and Patrick Winter – trumpet
Les Dix – trombone
Joy Roy – horn
Donnie Pickle – tuba
Joe Black – percussion

Fred Gramann, a native of Washington state, began his early organ studies with Dr. Edward Hansen of Seattle, winning the student organ competition sponsored by the Seattle Chapter of the American Guild of Organists while still in high school. While earning a Bachelor’s degree in organ performance at Syracuse University, he won first prize in the 1972 Ft. Wayne National Organ Competition and was awarded the Arthur Poister Prize for outstanding organist in the Syracuse University School of Music for four consecutive years. From 1972-1975 Fred studied organ in Paris, France, with Marie-Claire Alain, also spending one year working with organist and composer Maurice DuruflÃ©. Fred earned a Masters Degree in organ performance at the University of Michigan during the 1975-1976 school year. He returned to Paris in 1976 as Director of Music at the American Church in Paris, the oldest non-governmental American institution abroad. He started a handbell program at the American Church in 1981 thanks to a gift of two octaves of handbells. The program has since grown to include four handbell choirs performing on five octaves of Schulmerich handbells, four and a half octaves of Malmark handbells, four octaves of Petit & Fritsen handbells, five octaves of Choirchimes and a growing set of Whitechapel handbells. Fred has had numerous choral anthems and handbell works published in the U.S. and is Honorary Associate Director of the Raleigh Ringers.

Committee Members:

Rebecca Kidd, chair
Ashley Burrell
Allan Hoke
Tim Lett
Barbara Schmitt
Tim Ward

Scanned copy of the 2002 program (pdf)

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Final Concert Program 2000

Posted on January 15, 2007 | Filed Under 2000, Clinicians, Music

April 1, 4:00 pm

Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church – Arnold B. Sherman, Conductor and Clinician

Procession of Praise – Arnold B. Sherman
Halle, Halle, Halle – arr. Bock/Lamb
For As the Rain Come Down – Lee J. Afdahl
I’m Just a Poor Wayfaring Stranger – arr. Hart Morris
Mississippi Mud – arr. Valerie Stephenson
Soliloquy for Bells – Karen Buckwalter
Meditation on “Beautiful Savior” – Cathy Moklebust
Make Me an Instrument of Thy Peace – Kevin McChesney
Praise to the Lord the Almighty – Linker/McFadden

Arnold B. Sherman, currently living in Tyler, Texas, is a free-lance composer, co-founder of Red River Music, and Music and Arts Director at First United Methodist Church in Henderson, Texas. His undergraduate work in Music Education was done at Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland, and Baylor University, Waco, Texas. Arnold is the founder and Director of the East Texas Handbell Ensemble, a community handbell choir located in the Tyler area. In frequent demand as clinician and guest conductor, he has led numerous choral and handbell workshops, festivals and reading sessions throughout the United States, Canada, England, Japan and the Bahamas. Arnold has numerous choral and handbell pieces in print, and has been the recipient of an ASCAP Standard Award each of the last seven years. An active member of the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers, he is Past Chairman of Area IX.

Our thanks to:

Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church for the use of their facilities and for preparation of “Coffee Hour.”
Messiah Lutheran Church for the programs
Diane Farris, saxophone, on Poor Wayfaring Stranger
Brass Ensemble and Percussion on Praise the the Lord, Procession of Praise, and Lord, Make Me an Instrument of Thy Peace.

Festival Committee:

Becky Kidd, Chair
Ashley Burrell
Allan Hoke
Tim Lett

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1999 Final Concert Program

Posted on January 9, 2007 | Filed Under 1999, Clinicians, Music

Knox Area Handbell Festival Concert
March 19-20, 1999
First Presbyterian Church

Fantasia on “Forest Green” – arr. Lloyd Larson
Prayer – Arnold Sherman
Celebrate – Hart Morris
Just a Closer Walk with Thee – arr. Bruce Greer (Kathy Sullivan, clarinet)
With Joy and Gladness – Douglas Wagner
Be Thou My Vision – David Schwoebel (Joan Whiteside, flute)
Requiem – William Payn (Joan Whiteside, flute)
Fanfare and Alleluia – Margaret Tucker (Brass and Percussion)

Phyllis Kirk, festival clinician and conductor, completed her undergraduate degree at Oklahoma Baptist University and did graduate studies at Oklahoma University. She has served on the National Board of the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers, Inc., as Area Chair and as Activities Chair.

Phyllis serves as Director of Music at Shades Valley Presbyterian Church, Birmingham, Alabama, directing a nine-choir program of music ministry which includes three handbell choirs, four choral choirs, and two recorder consorts.

She has served as handbell clinician and conductor for State, (including 39 states) Area, and National Festivals. She has also served as an instructor for Directors’ seminars throughout the United States and also in Canada and Australia, having taught classes which include: Bells and Chimes in Motion; Bells in Worship; Working with Adults; Bells and Recorders; Beginning Directors; and Instant Composing.

Scanned archive of the program (pdf) 1999 Final Concert Program

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1998 Final Concert Program

Posted on January 8, 2007 | Filed Under 1998, Clinicians, Music

Greater Knoxville Area Handbell Festival
May 1-2, 1998
Second Presbyterian Church

Intrada – Michael Helman
Elegy – William Payn
Promised Land – LITTLETON
In the Bleak Midwinter – Karen Buckwalter
Sing Unto the Lord – Hart Morris
The River – Anna Laura Page
Music of the Spheres – Kevin McChesney

Brass Ensemble
Rick Carl, trumpet
Warren Clark, trumpet
Mitzi Hall, French horn
Eric Samsell, trombone
Patrick Sullivan, bass trombone
Jeff Mulvihill, timpani

Guest Clinician: Anna Laura Page

Anna Laura Page received a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Music Education with a concentration in piano and Master of Music in Music Theory with a concentration in organ from the University of Kentucky. Active as a composer, clinician, and organist, she served on the Music Committee of the Southern Baptist 1991 Hymnal Committee and has received the ASCAP Standards Award for the past several years. She has taught organ as an adjunct faculty member at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, and theory/organ as an adjunct faculty member at Lander University in Greenwood, South Carolina. She served as director of the Austin Peay Community Children’s Chorus in Clarksville, Tennessee for three years. Mrs. Page currently serves as Handbell Music Editor for Alfred Publishing Co., Inc. Her publications include choral works for children, youth, and adults, and compositions for handbells, organ, and piano. She is married to Dr. Oscar C. Page, president of Austin College in Sherman, Texas.

Scanned archive of the program (pdf) 1998 Final Concert Program

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1997 Final Concert Program

Posted on January 7, 2007 | Filed Under 1997, Clinicians, Music

Program:

Entrata Esultante – Morris
My Redeemer Lives – arr. Wagner
Do Lord – arr. Ingram
Song of Triumph (choir chimes and harp) – Sherman
Holy, Holy, Holy – (Vicki Everbach, trumpet) – arr. Larson
Let All Things Now Living – arr. Moklebust
America the Beautiful (brass ensemble) – arr. Sherman

Brass Ensemble:

Vicki Everbach, trumpet
Tracy Wilson, trumpet
Ed Bilbrey, trombone
Les Dix, trombone
Mike Norman, french horn
Lee Huffaker, timpani
Lynn Wells, harp

Guest Clinician: Dr. Larry Smith

Carillon’s founder and director is Larry D. Smith, lyric-baritone and Professor of Music, who is in his thirteenth year as voice teacher and ensemble director at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is also Director of Music at the First Presbyterian Church of Hattiesburg. Smith earned the bachelors and master’s degrees from the University of Mississippi and the Doctor of Musical Arts from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. An active member of MENC, ACDA, NATS, and the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers, Smith serves as an adjudicator and clinician throughout the southeastern United States. He is past chairman of the Mississippi Chapter of AGEHR. He also performs as a vocal soloist in recital and oratorio.

1997 Program (scanned pdf)

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