We will celebrate a traditional Evensong on All Saint’s Sunday, November 6, 2011 at 4 p.m.  Prayers will be offered in particular for those who have died in the Lord during the past year.  The Saint James choir will lead the congregation in singing hymns.  They will also sing settings of the Magnificat & Nunc dimittis by Ralph Vaughan Williams, as well as service music and the anthem “Open our Eyes” by the 19^th-century American composer Will C. Macfarlane.  The public is cordially invited to attend.

This is an invitation to join us for a:

Traditional Choral Evensong

at the historic Saint James Episcopal Church in Greenfield, Massachusetts – celebrating 200 years of ministry in 2012 – at the corner of Federal & Church Street.

For driving instructions see the Saint James website.

The concert will take place on

Sunday, November 6, 2011 at 4 p.m.

In celebration of All Saints’ Sunday.

Dr. Mary Murrell Faulkner, Organist

Dr. Quentin Faulkner, Choral Director

The Reverend Dr. Joh Cerrato, Officiant

Including Magnificat & Nunc dimittis by Ralph Vaughan Williams

The anthem “Open our Eyes” by Will C. Macfarlane

Organ: Cantabile by Franck, Fugue in E-flat by Saint Saëns

Choristers & singers of other churches are invited to sing!

THE PUBLIC IS CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND.

For more information: http://www.saintjamesgreenfield.org/

Quentin Faulkner, Larson Professor Emeritus of Organ and Music Theory/History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, holds the degrees B.Mus. cum laudefrom Westminster Choir College, M.S.M. and M.Th. from Southern Methodist University, and S.M.D. from Union Theological Seminary. He also holds the Associate Degree in the American Guild of Organists, and has done post-graduate study, first in Renaissance music in a 1977 NEH Summer Seminar at Columbia University, and then in Gregorian Chant in a 1982 NEH Summer Seminar at Catholic University.

In 1997 Union Seminary honored him with its Unitas (distinguished alumnus) award, and in 1998 Westminster Choir College conferred on him a Distinguished Alumnus award. During the winter semester 1998-9 he was Fulbright Guest Professor at the Evangelische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik, Halle/Saale, Germany. Before going to Nebraska in 1974, Dr. Faulkner served for three years as Assistant Organist of the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, New York City.

In addition to teaching organ at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, he developed a series of courses in church music, and served as co-founder and co-coordinator of the nationally acclaimed UN-L Organ Conference.  In 1992 the University honored him with an award for distinguished teaching.

Dr. Faulkner has presented numerous organ recitals throughout the U.S. and in Europe (in particular, on historically significant organs), and together with his wife, Mary Murrell Faulkner, has recorded Duetto – Early Music for Keyboard-Four Hands (Pro Organo CD 7049).

He has written articles on various aspects of church music that have appeared in The American Organist, The Diapason, The Christian Ministry and Liturgy.  From 1984-86 he served as National Councilor for Education in the American Guild of Organists.  Following a l986-87 sabbatical year in Munich, West Germany, he completed an annotated English translation of Jacob Adlung’s Musica mechanica organœdi, as well as a book, Wiser than Despair (Greenwood Press, 1996) on the history of ideas in church music.  A recent area of interest is the interrelationship of religion, culture, and the arts; an article on that topic, “Cult and Culture at the Millenium,” appeared in the Fall/Winter 1996 issue of the interdisciplinary journal Soundings.

Dr. Faulkner has done extensive research into the keyboard technique and organ registration of J.S. Bach, culminating in articles on these subjects in The Diapason, The American Organist, theNewsletter of the Westfield Center for Early Keyboard Studies, and the Bach-Jahrbuch.  He has published J.S. Bach’s Keyboard Technique:  A Historical Introduction (Concordia, 1984) and The Registration of J.S. Bach’s Organ Works (Wayne Leupold Editions, 2008), and is the editor of Basic Bach (Wayne Leupold Editions, 1997), a volume containing the Orgelbüchlein and three free works, all supplied with fingerings.  In 1980 he performed Bach’s Art of Fugue at the University of Kansas and at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California.  In 1982 he was invited to present a paper on early keyboard performance practices at the American Guild of Organists Seminar on Organ Pedagogy in Washington, D.C., and he served as a consultant to the Bach Tercentenary publishing project undertaken by Concordia Publishing House.  In 1990 he was invited to present a paper, “Jacob Adlung’s Musica mechanica organœdi and the ‘Bach Organ’” in conjunction with a Bach organ study tour of Thuringia and Saxony, Germany.

From 2000-6 Dr. Faulkner and his wife, Dr. Mary Murrell Faulkner, served together as musicians for Saint Mark’s-on-the-Campus Episcopal Church in Lincoln.  In the fall of 2006 they returned to Halle, Germany, where they served as Guest Professors at the Hochschule für Kirchenmusik during the academic year 2006-7.

In 2009, he and Mary Murrell became the Parish Musicians of Saint James Church. In the summer of 2010 they led a tour of the Bach organs in Germany.

Mary Murrell Faulkner holds the degree B.Mus. magna cum laude from Westminster Choir College, the M.M. and M.S.M. degrees from Southern Methodist University, and the D.M.A. degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  She also holds the Colleague Certificate from the American Guild of Organists and the Zertifikat Deutsch als Fremdsprache from the Goethe Institute.  She has done post-graduate study at Teachers College of Columbia University in New York City.

Before going to Nebraska in 1974, Dr. Faulkner served for three years as Music Assistant at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, New York City, where she was a frequent recitalist.

From 2000 to 2006, Dr. Faulkner was Organist and Director of Music at Saint Mark’s-on-the-Campus Episcopal Church, Lincoln, Nebraska, where she was responsible for all services and events that required music.  During the summer of 2001 she served, together with her husband, Dr. Quentin Faulkner, as organist and organ recitalist for the United Methodist Music and Liturgical Arts Week at Lake Junaluska, North Carolina.

From 1974-1990 she was Organist and Parish Musician at the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Risen Christ in Lincoln.  In 1989, while holding that position, she planned and directed the Cathedral choir’s pilgrimage to Rome and Assisi, during which the choir sang and she played the organ at Sunday High Mass at Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome.

Dr. Faulkner was Visiting Instructor in organ at Union College, Lincoln, Nebraska, from 1980-85, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Organ at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1977, 1980, and 1982; she also served as Instructor in the UNL Church Organist Training Program.  During the academic year 2006-7, she served as Guest Professor of Organ at the Protestant College of Church Music in Halle/Saale, Germany.

In the autumn of 2008, Mary Murrell served as a supply organist in Saint James Church. At the beginning of 2009, she and Quentin became our Parish Musicians.

The Faulkners live in Amherst and enjoy visiting their children and grandchildren in Massachusetts and Texas.