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The Memorial Church harvard university This Issue From the Minister 2 Epps Fellow 4 Our Seminarian 4 McDonald Fellow 5 Music 6 Fall Concert Photos 7 Faith and Life Forum Photos 8 Wednesday Tea Photos 10 Donor Acknowledgements 12 Harvard Chaplains 21 Cover Photographs © Ariana Baurley ’13 CLERGY Peter J. Gomes Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister Dorothy A. Austin Sedgwick Associate Minister and Chaplain to the University Robert J. Mark McDonald Fellow Nathaniel P. Katz Epps Fellow Charles G. Adams Preacher in Residence Charles G. Adams, Sister Carolyn Darr, SSM Sarah B. Drummond, Mark D.W. Edington Preston B. Hannibal, Claudia A. Highbaugh David P. Illingworth, Wendel W. Meyer Diana W. Phillips, Robert M. Randolph Daniel A. Smith Affiliated Ministers Michael J. Nilon Seminarian MUSIC Edward E. Jones Gund University Organist and Choirmaster and Curator of the University Organs Christian Lane Assistant University Organist and Choirmaster Carson P. Cooman Research Associate in Music and Composer in Residence Avery Lindeman ’11, Ian Clark ’12 Choir Secretaries Frank Kelley, Shannon Larkin Vocal Teachers Phoebe Carrai Director of the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra Harry Lyn Huff Chapter Organist Nancy B. Granert Organist in Residence Isaiah Jackson Musician in Residence The Sounding Board is a publication of The Memorial Church at Harvard University. If you would like to be added to our mailing list or have an address change to report, please contact: The Memorial Church Harvard University One Harvard Yard Cambridge MA, 02138-6500 Phone: 617-495-5508 Fax: 617-496-9166 www.memorialchurch.harvard.edu ADMINISTRATION Nancy B. Granert Director of Finance Justin M. Mullane Director of Communications Janetta Cothran Randolph Executive Assistant to the Minister Richard D. Campbell Sexton Melissa K. Salo Graphics Assistant Elizabeth Montgomery, Christine Whiteside Staff Assistants Helen Bradshaw ’11 Director of the Church School Collin Rees ’12 Helen Maud Cam Head Usher Martin Wallner ’11 Helen Maud Cam Chief Verger Ariana Baurley ’13 Student Photographer
2 My Dear Friends, It seems only yesterday that I wrote this column in the Spring 2010 issue of The Sounding Board, and here we are at the beginning of a brand new academic year and Fall Term. All of us in The Memorial Church hope that you who are reading this enjoyed a pleasant, productive, and restorative summer, and are filled with renewed energy to once again take on the pleasures and challenges of the new year. To all freshmen in the Class of 2014 and their freshmen parents and guardians I offer a particularly hearty welcome: we hope you will be with us in the pews or celebrate with us from afar, wherever you might be. Our programs extend well beyond our Sunday services and daily services of Morning Prayer, as you will read in the following pages of this newsletter. Huge things have happened with our organ project during the course of the summer, including the removal from Appleton Chapel of our C.B. Fisk organ, Op. 46, which is on the way to its new home in Austin, Texas. At present we are using a small Holbrook organ as we await the installation of a three-manual 1929 Skinner organ, Op. 793, which will be in place in Appleton Chapel in time for the Christmas Carol services on December 12th and 13th, and featured in an official dedication recital by Professor Thomas Murray of Yale University on December 14th. As you remember, the new mechanical-action organ, Op. 139, currently being designed and built by C.B. Fisk of Gloucester, Massachusetts, will be installed in the rear balcony next summer and ready for the Easter Sunday service in 2012. The restoration of the beautiful Appleton Chapel Palladian window to its rightful role of illuminating the church, long anticipated and awaited, is now a wonderful reality and worthy of all of our hard work and of the architect’s original intention. The placing of the Fisk organ in front of it in 1967 was a necessity of the time; now I walk into the chapel and rejoice in the light bathing it while brightening the entire church. I am deeply moved by your generosity in contributing to the Appleton Chapel Restoration and Organs Fund, which, as you know, is also a celebration of my ministry to The Memorial Church as I look Fall 2010 From the Minister The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes to my 2012 retirement. This project is to be my legacy, and I am grateful to all who so kindly consider it both materially in their continuing generosity, and in their prayers. Music in this church continues to flourish under the direction of Edward Elwyn Jones, Gund University Organist and Choirmaster; Christian Lane, Assistant University Organist and Choirmaster; and Carson P. Cooman, Research Associate in Music and Composer in Residence. We are continually blessed with beautiful sound in our Sunday services and daily services of Morning Prayer, and beyond those in concerts given throughout the year. On Sunday, October 17th, the Harvard University Choir presented its Fall concert featuring American choral music, Randall Thompson’s Frostiana, and Alice Parker’s cantata, Melodious Accord; and on Halloween, Sunday, October 31st, the Choral Fellows of the Harvard University Choir joined the Boston Camerata, under the direction of Anne Azema, for a concert celebrating Music and Marriage in the Italian Renaissance. Also on Halloween, the annual Halloween recital was performed by members of the Harvard Organ Society at midnight in The First Congregational Church. The Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Phoebe Carrai, will present a concert, Le Gout Francais, of works in the French style on Sunday evening November 21st; and the Christmas Carol Services, this year the one hundred first, will be held on Sunday, December 12th, at five o’clock, and Monday, December 13th, at eight o’clock. The Thursday Midday Recital Series continues to be performed by outstanding organists on the Flentrop organ in Adophus Busch Hall on Thursdays at noon through the eighteenth of November. With the greatest happiness I look forward to preaching during the Sunday services, as does our resident clergy, and we welcome as well to our pulpit such preaching luminaries and friends as are listed elsewhere in The Sounding Board. Our preaching palette is rich with talent, and my hope is that you will come on Sunday mornings whenever you are able. Our speakers at the daily service of Morning Prayer are also both distinguished and diverse, and
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