Jan Kraybill

This celebratory hymnfest will mark the 75th year of the vibrant and meaningful ministry of Village Presbyterian Church. I am pleased to help lead this festival featuring the Village on Mission and Village on Antioch choirs, plus brass, percussion, organ, piano, and YOU! Admission is free (a freewill offering will be gratefully received). Come be part of the congregation and sing with us!

The program includes:

The Church's One Foundation (Samuel J. Sone, Samuel S. Wesley's AURELIA, arr. Paul Manz) - hymn with congregation

Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (Joachim Neander, tr. Catherine Winkworth, LOBE DEN HERREN, arr. Mark Hayes) - anthem featuring choirs and congregation

Clouds of Witnesses Surround Us (Herman G. Stuempfle, Jr.; ST PAUL by Robert A. Hobby) - anthem featuring choirs and congregation

Lift Every Voice and Sing (James Weldon Johnson, J. Rosamond Johnson's LIFT EVERY VOICE, arr. Roland Carter) - anthem featuring choirs

God's Eternal Vow (Ron Witzke, VILLAGE by Anthony J. Maglione) - new hymn with congregation

I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord (Timothy Dwight, ST. THOMAS adapt. Aaron Williams) - hymn with congregation

When the Poor Ones (Cuando el pobre, EL CAMINO by José Antonio Olivar and Miguel Manzano, tr. George Lockwood, arr. James E. Bobb) - hymn with congregation

For the Beauty of the Earth (Folliot S. Pierpoint, Conrad Kocher's DIX, arr. Jan Kraybill and Cameron Carpenter) - solo

What Does the Lord Require of You? (Jim Strathdee) - hymn with congregation

God Has Work for Us to Do (Carl P. Daw, Jr.; John L. Bell, arr. Daniel Charles Damon) - hymn with congregation

The Promise of Living (Horace Everett, Aaron Copland) - anthem featuring choirs

God's Promised Day (Ron Witzke, tune VILLAGE and anthem by Anthony J. Maglione) - anthem featuring choirs and congregation

Draw the Circle Wide (Gordon Light, tune DRAW THE CIRCLE and arr. by Mark A. Miller) - hymn with congregation

I'm so pleased to return to Emmanuel Episcopal for the third season in a row! I love the people there and their warm and wonderfully welcoming environment they have created there. That inspired me to design a program called "A World of Wonders: a musical celebration of the fantastic world that surrounds us."

Admission is free (a freewill offering will be gratefully accepted). I hope you'll join me!

Planned repertoire includes:

GRAYSTON IVES (b. 1948): Intrada

FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847), transcr. Samuel P. Warren: Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream

FELA SOWANDE (1905-1987): Obangiji

GUNNAR IDENSTAM (b. 1961): Menuet nordique

PAUL HALLEY (b. 1952): Outer Hebrides: A Fantasia on Three Traditional Celtic Melodies

CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS (1835-1921), transcr. Ekaterina Melnikova: Le Carnaval des animaux (The Carnival of the Animals)

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750): Fugue in G Major, "à la Gigue," BWV 577

I'm pleased to present a solo concert sponsored by the Milwaukee chapter of the American Guild of Organists. Three times delayed by COVID concerns, this event has been a long time in planning! Come with me to explore the works of composers and poets through the ages, and share in song with the pipes and people who surround you. Inspired by the Holy Spirit (ruach, the Hebrew word meaning “air in motion”), we can breathe in new life, can con-spire (“breathe together”), and can create music that transforms ourselves and our world.

Planned repertoire includes:

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750): Fugue in E-flat Major, BWV 552b (“St. Anne”)

Congregational Hymn: O That I Had a Thousand Voices (text by Johann Mentzer; Tune, O DASS ICH TAUSEND ZUNGEN HÄTTE, by Johann König

GEOFFREY WILCKEN (b. 1972): The Love Amazing, Op. 74, No. 1 (2019)

Reading: Each Breath Is Borrowed Air (text by Thomas Troeger)

ELFRIDA ANDREÉ (1841-1929): Organ Symphony No. 1 in B minor

LEO SOWERBY (1895-1968): Prelude on MALEBAR (Strengthen for Service, Lord)

GUNNAR INDENSTAM (b. 1961): Menuet nordique from Katedralmusik

GUSTAV HOLST (1874-1934), transcr. by H.G. Lay: Chaconne, Op. 28, No. 1

Congregational Hymn: When In Our Music God Is Glorified (Text by Fred Pratt Green; Tune, ENGELBERG, by Charles Villiers Stanford

WILBUR HELD (1914-2015): When In Our Music God is Glorified (ENGLEBERG)

This concert, sponsored by St. Luke's Health System, will honor the 30th anniversary of the creation of St. Luke's Muriel I. Kauffman Women's Heart Center. The day before Mother's Day, take a musical adventure around the world, all from the comfort of Helzberg Hall! I'll guide the journey from the console of the beautiful Julia Irene Kauffman Casavant pipe organ, and via the magic of music, we'll be visiting different countries and regions in the U.S., the U.K., Europe, Africa, and more. You'll be able to watch hands and feet in action on a large screen on the stage. A young guest may get the chance to play a duet with me. Come and join the adventure!

Admission is free but tickets are required. Tickets will be available April 19, and last year, they were all spoken for within 24 hours! Visit the Kauffman Center box office at https://tickets.kauffmancenter.org/events or call 816-994-7222 to reserve yours.

Planned repertoire includes:

GRAYSTON IVES (b. 1948): Intrada

CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR (1844-1937): Intermezzo from Symphony No. 6 for Organ

FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847): Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream

FELA SOWANDE (1905-1987): Obangiji

PAUL HALLEY (b. 1952): Outer Hebrides: A Fantasia on Three Traditional Celtic Melodies

GUNNAR IDENSTAM (b. 1961): Menuet nordique

RAY WINKLER (1920-1998), John Hathcock (1919-2000), and Eddie McDuff (1935-1968): Welcome to My World

LEO SOWERBY (1895-1968): Pageant

I played the dedicatory concert for this gem of a Casavant pipe organ in this historic western Kansas church in 2019 and have been delighted to be invited to return for annual performances ever since. Learn more about this unique instrument at https://stcorneliuschurch.org/music.

The program, titled "A World of Wonders," is a musical celebration of the fantastic world that surrounds us. You'll hear music from the 1500s through 2022, from Italy, Germany, Nigeria, England, Sweden, and the U.S. Come celebrate a world of wonders with me!

Planned repertoire includes:

ANDREA GABRIELI (c.1533-1585): Canzon detta Qui la dira (Who Will Say?)

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750): "Fiddle" Fugue in D minor, BWV 539b

FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847), transcr. Samuel P. Warren: Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream

FELA SOWANDE (1905-1987): Obangiji

GUNNAR IDENSTAM (b. 1961): Menuet nordique

JOHANNES MATTHIAS MICHEL (b. 1962): Swing Five: ERHALT UNS, HERR (Keep us, Lord)

BENJAMIN CORNELIUS-BATES (b. 1978): Fantasia on "I Wonder..."

RAY WINKLER (1920-1998), John Hathcock (1919-2000), and Eddie McDuff (1935-1968): Welcome to My World

NOEL RAWSTHORNE (1929-2019): Dancing Feet

LIBBY LARSEN (b. 1950): Tambourines, from Aspects of Glory