St. Alban’s Concert schedule 2018–2019
For St. Alban’s-sponsored concerts, admission is $15; $10 seniors (60+) and St. Alban’s members; $5 students.
St. Alban’s also hosts concerts sponsored by other organizations such as True Concord, Arizona Repertory Singers, and Sonoran Bells. For information about these events, contact the sponsoring organizations.
St. Alban’s also hosts concerts sponsored by other organizations such as True Concord, Arizona Repertory Singers, and Sonoran Bells. For information about these events, contact the sponsoring organizations.
Stephen Keyl, organ
Faith Made Audible: Music from Counter-Reformation Europe
Friday, September 28, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
A year after the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, organist Stephen Keyl will perform music by Frescobaldi, Froberger, Correa, Cabanilles, De Grigny, Buxtehude, and others in a concert highlighting the emotional intensity and captivating instrumental color of the Counter-Reformation organ repertory. This music had strong appeal even for Protestant organists—Buxtehude and others built on Frescobaldi’s achievements, using his forms and expressive devices on a massive scale suited to the enormous instruments of northern Germany.
Stephen Keyl is Director of Music at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in Tucson. He has performed as singer or organist for Arizona Repertory Singers, Musica Sonora, and the Arizona Early Music Society’s Hausmusik concerts. He holds a Ph.D. in musicology from Duke University and studied organ at Duke with Fenner Douglass. He taught for eleven years at the Fred Fox School of Music at the University of Arizona.
Faith Made Audible: Music from Counter-Reformation Europe
Friday, September 28, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
A year after the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, organist Stephen Keyl will perform music by Frescobaldi, Froberger, Correa, Cabanilles, De Grigny, Buxtehude, and others in a concert highlighting the emotional intensity and captivating instrumental color of the Counter-Reformation organ repertory. This music had strong appeal even for Protestant organists—Buxtehude and others built on Frescobaldi’s achievements, using his forms and expressive devices on a massive scale suited to the enormous instruments of northern Germany.
Stephen Keyl is Director of Music at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in Tucson. He has performed as singer or organist for Arizona Repertory Singers, Musica Sonora, and the Arizona Early Music Society’s Hausmusik concerts. He holds a Ph.D. in musicology from Duke University and studied organ at Duke with Fenner Douglass. He taught for eleven years at the Fred Fox School of Music at the University of Arizona.
Christa Rakich, organ
Friday, December 7, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Concert and recording artist Christa Rakich currently directs the music program at St. Mark the Evangelist Church in West Hartford, CT, in addition to her appointment as Artist-in-Residence at First Congregational Church in Somers, CT. Rakich’s performing career has taken her throughout North America and Europe. Of her featured concert at the Year 2000 National AGO Convention in Seattle, critics said, “Rakich’s wonderfully natural ebb and flow went right to the music’s heart. The urbane charm and wit certainly came across, as did just the right bit of wildness…”
Christa Rakich website
Friday, December 7, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Concert and recording artist Christa Rakich currently directs the music program at St. Mark the Evangelist Church in West Hartford, CT, in addition to her appointment as Artist-in-Residence at First Congregational Church in Somers, CT. Rakich’s performing career has taken her throughout North America and Europe. Of her featured concert at the Year 2000 National AGO Convention in Seattle, critics said, “Rakich’s wonderfully natural ebb and flow went right to the music’s heart. The urbane charm and wit certainly came across, as did just the right bit of wildness…”
Christa Rakich website
Douglas Leightenheimer, organ
Friday, March 8, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Douglas Leightenheimer is Director of Music at St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church in Tucson. He holds the degrees of M.M. in organ from Westminster Choir College, where he studied with Joan Lippincott, and D.M.A. in choral conducting from the University of Arizona. He is past dean of the Southern Arizona Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.
Friday, March 8, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Douglas Leightenheimer is Director of Music at St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church in Tucson. He holds the degrees of M.M. in organ from Westminster Choir College, where he studied with Joan Lippincott, and D.M.A. in choral conducting from the University of Arizona. He is past dean of the Southern Arizona Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.