This album is dedicated to the glory of God and in memory of Adam’s grandfather, Robert Conrad. Two of the tracks feature Robert’s mandolin.

Fierce Was the Wild Billow was one of the hymns Robert most enjoyed.

“Fierce was the wild billow, dark was the night,
oars labored heavily, foam glimmered white;
trembled the mariners, peril was nigh;
then said the God of God, Peace! It is I.”

Full Track List

1. The Savior’s Blood and Righteousness (22 A) :44
2. Hail to the Lord’s Anointed (151 R) 1:05
3. Ellacombe (*151 R) :58
4. The Birthday Hymn (185 A) 1:23
5. Coronation (*14 R) :56
6. All Hail the Power of Jesus Name (14 R) 1:11
7. Judgment (585 A) :47
8. What Brought Us Together (39 A) :48
9. Little Girls (*82 D) 1:14
10. Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (61 A) :54
11. Breathe on Me, Breath of God (Trentham) :49
12. I Love Your Kingdom, Lord (582 P) :33
13. Break Now The Bread of Life 1:15
14. Loaves Beside the Sea (*Bread of Life) :58
15. God is Our Strong Salvation (151 G) 1:02
16. Ye Who Called (56 A) :59
17. In the Hour of Trial (141 E) 1:36
18. Christ, the Life of All the Living (*168 A) 1:09
19. O God, Our Help in Ages Past (14 H) :35
20. God of Grace and God of Glory (CWM Rhondda) :56
21. Crown Him with Many Crowns (595 C) 1:07
22. Diademata (*595 C) :59
23. Join We All With One Accord (Gaudeamus Pariter) :45
24. Thy Majesty, How Vast It Is (172 A) 1:08
25. They Who Jesus’ Followers Are (11 A) :34
26. The Church’s One Foundation (151 L) 1:14
27. Aurelia (*151 L) 1:00
28. When I Survey the Wondrous Cross (22 P) 1:14
29. Son of God, O Hear My Cry (581 G) :50
30. When Jesus Into Salem Rode (14 Manoah) :56
31. Jesus, Still Lead On (68 A) :50
32. Go to Dark Gethsemane (581 A) 1:11
33. O Sacred Head, Now Wounded (151 A) 1:31
34. Abide with Me (32 K) 1:28
35. For the Beauty of the Earth (581 H) :52
36. Be Present at Our Table, Lord (22 H) :45
37. Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand (151 Eastham) 1:00
38. Bechler (*159 D) 1:00
39. Sing Hallelujah, Praise the Lord (159 D) 1:15
40. Now Thank We All Our God (146 A) :59
41. We Covenant with Hand and Heart (159 A) 1:09
42. Worship (*159 A) 1:00
43. Be Still, My Soul (Finlandia) 1:05
44. Christian Hearts, in Love United (167 A) 1:05
45. Praise the Lord! You Heav’ns, Adore Him (Hyfrydol) 1:26
46. Hus (22 F) :38
47. Church Rejoice! (225 A) 1:11
48. Church, Go Forth (*225 A) 1:11
49. Highly Favored Congregation (16 A) 0:43
50. Beneath the Cross of Jesus (St. Christopher) 1:29
51. Sleep Thy Last Sleep (602 A Requiem) 1:03
52. Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken (Austrian Hymn) 1:24
53. We Are Called to Be God’s People (*Austrian Hymn) 1:02
54. Angels from the Realms of Glory (585 D) :52
55. Fierce Was the Wild Billow 1:37
56. Jesus Makes My Heart Rejoice (*82 D) 1:06

A wonderful introduction into the world of Moravian music and our wide selection of recordings.

This is a sampler with tracks from 12 other CDs, including:

“It Is a Precious Thing”  J. F. Peter

“Bethany, O Peaceful Habitation”  J. Sorensen

a solo by Christian Gregor

a solo by Johannes Herbst

My Dear One’s Waltz by Amy Van Vleck

Two tracks from Tanzania on the CD Tumfuate

a movement from the Peter String Quintet #1

a movement from the Antes String Trio #1

some brass chorales and 2 tracks of instrumental Parthia from The Water Journey, D. M. Michael

2003 Lehigh University

CD: LU11903
9 tracks
69 minutes

Tycoon March by Thomas Coates

Variations on America by Charles Ives

The Voice of a Departing Soul by Patrick Gilmore

6th Regiment Quickstep by Claudio Grafulla

Echoes of Glory by David Diggs
4 movements

The Stars and Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa

Bach Festival Society
of Winter Park

Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra
John V. Sinclair, Music Director
Caitlin Mohr, soprano
Mary Wilson, soprano
Chris Olivent, organ

CD Recording – © 2022 Moravian Music Foundation

Christmas
22 tracks –

1              Throw Wide the Door    Michael, David Moritz

2              What Good News the Angels Bring          Hagen, Francis Florentine

3              Hosanna              Gregor, Christian

4              Once He Came in Blessing            Wolle, J. Fred.

5              All Silent Was the Night Clemens, Theodor Liley

6              Christ the Lord  Leinbach, Edward W.

7              Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates  Hagen, Francis Florentine

8              Morning Star in Darkest Night    Hellström, Georg Friedrich von

9              Jesus, Call Thou Me        Drese, Adam

10           Hail, Infant Newborn      Michael, David Moritz

11           Sing, O Ye Heavens         Peter, Johann Friedrich

12           O Dearest Jesus, Holy Child         Hellström, Georg Friedrich von

13           Morning Star in Darkest Night    Otto, Julius

14           Loveliest Immanuel        Antes, John

15           Christmas Anthem          Erbe, Ernst Immanuel

16           O Blessed Night, Without Compare on Earth (2 verses)  12th century folksong; arr. J. Walter (1524)

17           People, Arise     K. Reissiger

18           Morning Star, O Cheering Sight  Hagen, Francis Florentine

19           O Most Gracious, Welcome Child              Loewe, Karl Gottfried

20           Thou Child Divine             Schulz, Johann A. P.

21           How Beautiful Upon the Mountains        Antes, John

22           Glory to God in the Highest         Gregor, Christian

a Moravian Music Foundation production

Copyright (c) 2022 Moravian Music Foundation

CD  MMFR2101                   Sample Excerpts
© 2021 Moravian Music Foundation

Barbara Lister-Sink, piano

Warwick Lister, violin

Uniquely evocative, impressionistic, and enjoyable American music!

Charles Vardell (1893-1962) was a nationally celebrated composer, an accomplished organist, a beloved teacher, an able and respected administrator, and an arts visionary.

Dean of the School of Music, Salem College (Winston-Salem, NC, USA) from 1928 to 1951.

Dean of the School of Music, Flora MacDonald College (Laurinburg, NC, USA) as it became St. Andrew’s College.  1952 – 1962

THE MUSIC

From a Mountain Walk, six sketches for piano

The Cherry Grove Suite

Nocturne for piano

Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major

Recorded in Shirley Recital Hall, Salem College

Some recordings were completed in 2019, others, during the pandemic in 2020, as witnessed by these photos, with the producer connected remotely.

Aeolian-Skinner, opus 1340 (1959)
3 manual, pedal, 43 stops

1 CD (2015, Home Moravian Church)
Susan Keck Foster: Retired Organist of Home Church (2005 – 2022), Susan was previously on the keyboard faculty of the Shenandoah Conservatory of Music and Executive Director of the Shenandoah Conservatory Arts Academy.

Prelude and Fugue in Eb Major  J. S. Bach

Fugue in C Major   Dietrich Buxtehude

Chorale No. 3 A minor       Cesar Franck

Jesus Makes My Heart Rejoice
Springs of Salvation    Margaret Vardell Sandresky

Prelude on Covenant     Wayne Wold

Cantilena in G     Arthur Foote

Meditation from Trois Improvisations    Louis Vierne

Cortege et Litanie     Marcel Dupré

and more.

1 CD  (2020, Rebecca Lepore Music)
Rebecca K. Lepore, solo piano
(formerly, Rebecca Kleintop Owens)

29 hymn arrangements
by Rebecca Lepore

All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name
Amazing Grace
Be Still My Soul
Be Thou My Vision
Blessed Assurance
Great Is Thy Faithfulness
I Need Thee Every Hour
Jesus Shall Reign
Jesus, Still Lead On
O, Master, Let Me Walk with Thee
Were You There?
What Wondrous Love is This?
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
When Peace Like a River

… and many more of your favorites!

Cassette Tape

In the Moravian community of Bethlehem, PA, in the early nineteenth century, Whitmonday (the Monday following Pentecost) came to be celebrated as a general music festival and informal anniversary of the Philharmonic Society of Bethlehem. The inhabitants of the town would gather outdoors, on the banks of the Lehigh River, and enjoy the spring weather, conversation, and music.

David Moritz Michael (1751-1827), who initiated the use of the wind ensemble for the Whitmonday celebration, wrote two suites specifically for this day: Die Wasserfahrt, or “Water Journey,” in 1809, and Suiten Bey einer Quelle zu blasen, or “Suites to Play by a Spring,” presumably in 1810.

This recording of The Water Journey was recorded by Pacific Classical Winds in 1994 and 1995.

Listen to No. 11 Rondo Vivace

Tracks:

The Water Journey

1. No. 1 March
2. No. 2 Andantino
3. No. 3 Menuett
4. No. 4 Allegro
5. No. 5 Adagio
6. No. 6 Presto
7. No. 7 Echo: Allegretto
8. No. 8 Menuett: Allegretto
9. Grave (Zusammenruf)
10. No. 9 Vivace (Retour March)
11. No. 10 Polonese
12. No. 11 Rondo: Vivace
13. No. 12 Adagio
14. Allegretto
15. No. 13 Menuett: Allegreto
16. No. 14 Andante/Allegro/Presto
17. No. 15. Finale: Choral-mässig

a Moravian Music Foundation production

1. Chorale and Fugue on “Sing Alleluia, Christ Doth Live” (LINDSEY HOUSE), Margaret V. Sandresky (HH)
2. Lamm Gottes unschuldig, Ernst I. Erbe (1800)
3. Jesus Makes My Heart Rejoice (HAYN), Margaret V. Sandresky (1800)
4. Come Faithful Shepherd, Bind Me (REJOICE), Margaret V. Sandresky (AS)
5. Shepherd of Souls (DUNDEE), Erik J. Salzwedel (AS)
6. How Great the Bliss to Be a Sheep of Jesus (AGNUS CHRISTI), Margaret V. Sandresky (AS)
7. Mediation: O There’s a Sight That Rends My Heart (O ANBLICK), Margaret V. Sandresky (AS)
8. Jesu Christus nostra salus, Károly Köpe (1800)
9. Come, Let Us All with Gladness Raise (FREUEN WIR UNS), Károly Köpe (1800)
10. Variation IV from Six Christmas Variations on “All My Heart This Night Rejoices” (BRIESEN), Margaret V. Sandresky (1800)
11. Lo, a Fair Rose, Charles G. Vardell, Jr. (1800)
12. Once He Came in Blessing, Rebecca Kleintop Lepore (1800)
13. Jesus, Call Thou Me (JESU, RUFE MICH), setting 1, Brian Henkelmann (AS)
14. Jesus, Call Thou Me (JESU, RUFE MICH), setting 2, Brian Henkelmann (AS)
15. Three Variations on “Morning Star” (HAGEN), variation 1, Wade Peeples (1800)
16. Three Variations on “Morning Star” (HAGEN), variation 2, Wade Peeples (1800)
17. Three Variations on “Morning Star” (HAGEN), variation 3, Wade Peeples (1800)
18. Theme, from Six Variations on a Moravian Theme (SERVICE), Margaret V. Sandresky (E)
19. Variation I: Andante, from Six Variations on a Moravian Theme (SERVICE), Margaret V. Sandresky (E)
20. Variation II: Pastorale, from Six Variations on a Moravian Theme (SERVICE), Margaret V. Sandresky (E)
21. Variation V: Scherzo (The Sisters’ Haus Maus), from Six Variations on a Moravian Theme (SERVICE), Margaret V. Sandresky (E)
22. Variation VI: Presto, and Epilogue, from Six Variations on a Moravian Theme (SERVICE)
23. Eternal Source, Whence All Did Spring (PILGRIMAGE), Brian Henkelmann (1800)
24. Prelude #1 in C major, Christian I. Latrobe (1798)
25. Prelude #3 in G major, Christian I. Latrobe (1798)
26. Prelude #6 in Eb major, Christian I. Latrobe (1798)
27. Christian Hearts in Love United (CASSEL), Wade Peeples (1798)
28. Introduction and Chorale, “Fahre fort” (HOLY LORD), Ernst I. Erbe (1798)
29. Trumpet Tune on “Holy Lord” Wade Peeples (HH)
30. What Brought Us Together (CONFESSION), Ryan Morrow (AS)
31. Prelude, from Partita on HUS, Nola Reed Knouse (AS)
32. Pastorale (I), from Partita on HUS, Nola Reed Knouse (AS)
33. Trio, from Partita on HUS, Nola Reed Knouse (AS)
34. Pastorale (II), from Partita on HUS, Nola Reed Knouse (AS)
35. Finale, from Partita on HUS, Nola Reed Knouse (AS)
36. Jesus, Still Lead On (SEELENBRÄUTIGAM), Margaret V. Sandresky (HH)
37. Allein Gott in der Hoh’ sei Ehr’, Ernst I. Erbe (AS)
38. The Springs of Salvation, Margaret V. Sandresky (HH)
39. Three Settings on COVENANT, no. 1, Stewart McElroy (AS)
40. Fugue on “Sing Hallelujah, Praise the Lord”, from A Moravian Celebration, Wade Peeples (AS)

Since the 18^th century on, the organ has played a vital role in Moravian music. Moravian organ-builder David Tannenberg crafted many instruments for Moravian and other churches in America. Those he built for the Moravians were at lower pitch and had far fewer solo stops than those built for other churches; within the Moravian tradition, the organ was part of the instrumental ensemble accompanying anthems, and also supported congregational singing; it was not seen as a solo instrument until the later 19^th century. Thus most of the works on this recording date from the 20^th and 21^st centuries. The works by Christian Latrobe are among the few exceptions to this lack of Moravian organ music from the 18^th or early 19^th centuries, but these were most likely written for use in the Anglican Church.

While a number of composers are now writing solo works for the organ based on Moravian tunes, these retain the more modest characteristics of their Moravian ethos. Few are virtuosic, and all seek to communicate the character of the underlying chorale with the unspoken expectation that the hearers will, like their forebears, reflect upon the texts associated with these tunes.

About the Performer

The daughter of a Moravian minister, Mary Lou Kapp Peeples began organ study at age twelve and in the same year assumed her first post as a church organist. Well-known conductor Thor Johnson soon became aware of her extraordinary talent and asked her to accompany Moravian Music Festivals. She played for seven of these festivals from local to international level with Johnson and Ewald Nolte, and returned in 1984 as organ clinician for the international festival.

Mrs. Kapp Peeples earned music performance degrees from Salem College and the Eastman School of Music. Her major teachers were Margaret and John Mueller and Russell Saunders. She also performed in master classes with Arthur Poister, Hans Wunderlich, Vernon de Tar, and Catherine Crozier Gleason.

For over twenty years she and her husband Wade were professors of music at Judson College, where they received several awards for teaching excellence. They now live in Winston-Salem, where she serves as organist at Calvary Moravian Church and accompanist for the Moramus Chorale.

The Composers

Ernst Immanuel Erbe (1854-1927)

Brian Henkelmann (b. 1956) currently serves as Organist-Accompanist at First United Methodist Church in Jonesboro, Arkansas. He is active as a composer, piano teacher, and free-lance accompanist.

Nola Reed Knouse is Director of the Moravian Music Foundation, a position she has held since 1994. She served as music editor for the 1995 Moravian Book of Worship, and Moravian Chorales and Music, Volume 2, for band. She is author and editor of The Music of the Moravian Church in America.

Károly Demetrius Joseph Köpe (1926-2002) is a former Director of the Moravian Music Foundation.

Christian Ignatius Latrobe (1758-1836)

Rebecca Kleintop Lepore has been the Director of Music and Organist of Central Moravian Church since September of 2002; formerly, Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church.

Stewart McElroy, a native of Wisconsin, has played piano and organ in a variety of Protestant churches over the past 30+ years.

Ryan Morrow has been the Director of Music and Organist of Schoeneck Moravian Church since September of 2011.

Wade Peeples studied composition with William Penn and Samuel Adler at the Eastman School, and his music includes works for organ and piano solo, choral anthems, art songs, and a variety of chamber music.

Erik Salzwedel is a trombonist with the Winston-Salem and Greensboro symphonies and is Business Manager for the Moravian Music Foundation.

Margaret Vardell Sandresky (b. 1921) is an organist, composer, and teacher. She has held teaching positions at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the University of Texas at Austin, the North Carolina School of the Arts, and at Salem College.

Charles G. Vardell, Jr. (1893-1962) Salem College and Flora MacDonald College.

The Organs on This Recording

Winston-Salem has a rich pipe organ history going back to the arrival of the first little one-stop instrument in Bethabara in 1762 (possibly a Klemm), the locally built 1772/73 Bulitschek organs of Salem and Bethania, and the 1798 and 1800 Salem Tannenberg organs.

Organs used: Tannenberg 1798, Single Brothers House (T1798); Tannenberg 1800, Old Salem Visitors Center (T1800); 1830 Henry Erben, Single Sisters House (E); 1926 Hook and Hastings, Calvary Moravian Church (E); 1959 Aeolian-Skinner, Home Moravian Church (AS)

Notes by Nola Reed Knouse, Director, Moravian Music Foundation. Engineer: Frank Martin, Media Production Associates, Winston-Salem, NC. Producer: Gwyneth A. Michel. Project Manager: Nola Reed Knouse. Recorded in Gray Auditorium, Old Salem Visitors Center; Saal, Single Brothers House, Old Salem Museums and Gardens; Home Moravian Church; the Single Sisters House, Salem College; and Calvary Moravian Church, all in Winston-Salem, NC.

Nain Brass Band

1. How Great Thou Art
2. Jesus Be Our Chief Delight
3. Jesus, Saviour! Come to Me
4. Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
5. What a Friend We Have in Jesus
6. Yet There is Room
7. Jesus Lead the Way
8. Just As I Am
9. A Mighty Fortress is Our God
10. Whate’er My God Ordains is Right
11. O Come Little Children
12. Silent Night
13. Nearer, My God, To Thee
14. God Be With You ’til We Meet Again

4 trumpets, 2 trombones, 3 euphoniums

Produced by Mark David Turner and Tom Gordon

Tradition and Transition Research Partnership
funded by
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Memorial University School of Music
Nunatsiavut Government
International Grenfell Assoc.
Air Labrador
katingavik inuit arts festival
Inuit Studies Conference 2016