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Musical Score

Music at FPCY includes:


Some Musical Samples

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 The Choir

 
 




 Offertory on March 8, 2009: Agnus Dei by Schubert.
The Adult Choir, with Katharine Frase and Christie Herman, soloists,
and Carol Jensen, flute 









 

Music Director - Simona Frenkel

Simona Frenkel has been the musical director of the First Presbyterian Church of Yorktown since 2000, and is also an internationally acclaimed musician.  A native of Kiev, Ukraine, she holds an M.M. degree in Performance from Juilliard School of Music in New York, and a Ph.D. in musicology from the Kiev Conservatory.  In 1994, she became the youngest organist ever to receive the national award "Honored Artist of the Ukraine".  Ms. Frenkel is heard frequently in recitals in the United States, Europe, and the former Soviet Union.  She has made numerous television and radio recordings.

FPCY Spring 2010 Concert

(excerpts)
 

Click at right to see Simona playing the Mozart Adagio from Sonata in F, K 332, at FPCY





   
FPCY  --  Vivaldi's  Gloria ,    2009



The Underground Quartet

Love at Home

The Underground Quartet






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Concert Series

Spring Concert

Sunday Evening, April 25th  at 7:30 pm 

      The final concert in the 20009-10 Sunday Concert Series will be performed on April 25th at 7:30 p.m. The concert will begin in candlelight and will feature Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with orchestra and guest soloist Elizabeth Mondrago, and conducted by Simona Frenkel. The work was written for two-part choir,  stringed orchestra and organ, and was written shortly before Pergolesi’s death at the age of 26. The work is based on a medieval poem to Jesus’ mother Mary as she stands next to the cross during Christ’s crucifixion, and is a musical work of great beauty, tenderness and passion. This performance will also feature projections of images inspired by the music and the poem.

       The second half of the concert features several choral works by Rachmaninoff and A Little Jazz Mass by Bob Chilcott.  Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor, and one of the finest pianists of his time. His compositions are considered by some to the last great representation of Russian romanticism and are filled with sweeping melodies and harmonies. Simona Frenkel , a native of Kiev in the Ukraine, brings a special understanding to the music of Rachmaninoff, and the choir will perform some of the works in Russian. Bob Chilcott’s bluesy “A Little Jazz Mass” was commissioned for the New Orleans Children’s Chorus, and first performed in the St Louis Cathedral in New Orleans in 2004. This 12-minutes long piece represents a fusion of Jazz and Classical music and blends the Blues and Swing into a traditional mass frame. The Kyrie has real groove,the Gloria swings, the Sanctus sits right back, the Benedictus hums along, and the Agnus Dei draws inspiration from the Blues.

Please join us for this moving, romantic and jazzy evening of music. There will be a reception following the performance in Fellowship Hall, and arrangements will be made to provide transportation for those who don’t like to drive at night.


ConcertSeries

The Concert Series was initiated in the Winter of 2001 as a musical outreach to the community, to provide high quality musical concerts at little or no cost. (Previously, an Organ Concert Series was held in 1995-1996). The Concert Series is organized and facilitated by the Concert Series Task force under the auspices of the Worship Commission. The funds to support the series are provided by annual donations of music patrons; the concert series is entirely self-supporting.

The concerts held over the years include:

2009 - 2010

2008 - 2009


2007 – 2008

2006 – 2007

2005 – 2006

2004 – 2005

2003 - 2004

2002 – 2003

2001 - 2002

Notes from the Music Program--by Carol Jensen

Our music programs provide ways for youth to participate in the life of the church.  Simona Frenkel organized a youth handbell choir in 2002, and about 40 young people have been involved in it since then.  They learn general musical skills as well as the specific skills needed to play handbells.  Some of them have also contributed to the adult handbell choir or the adult choir.

Simona also encourages vocal development of talented youth.  Two outstanding examples are Sean McAuliffe and Amy Savino, who have amazed and moved us with their singing. Both of them had some prior experience with music, but Simona has encouraged and coached them.  They assert that they couldn’t be where they are without her teaching skills her support and caring.  Sean is taking voice lessons and sings in two choirs at the college he attends.  Amy will soon be competing in the finals of a classical singing competition for high school students in Chicago, and has been accepted into a summer program at the Eastman School of Music.
 
All of us (and especially Simona!) are very proud of all these young musicians.   Simona invites more teenagers to join the handbell and choir programs.
 

Thanks for your help!

Many thanks for the scrumptious refreshments provided by members of the congregation and friends for the Concert Series Receptions.  The treats were an extra special way to end the concerts and provided us all with a chance to share the fellowship of our Church with members of the congregation and community.

Thanks again to:  Rose Johnson, Carol Cornish, Aloha Hicks, Jocelyn Ramage, Dorrit Nelson, Christine Lazarus, Sue Mintzer, Ann Everinham, Debbie Farrell, Sally Martin, Gordon Braudaway, Nancy Caswell, Deanna Collins, Liam McAullife, Marilyn Dreher, Mable Seymour, Judy Chessa, Claire Damon, Ann Timmons, Cathy  Anderson, Karen La Bonte, Jean Mulcahy and the Dineen Family.
    Louise Fang


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