Feb. 26, 2003 – One-stop mall visits were never envisioned to cover as much as the Health/Cultural Exposition 2003 planned for Saturday, March 8, at Tutu Park Mall.
From 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. there's an opportunity for a number of free health tests: pediatrics, prostate, eyesight and glaucoma, hypertension, breast examination and pap smear, HIV, cholesterol, and diabetes.
While you wait your turn for service at the St. Thomas East End Medical Center area in the mall, there are massages and facials offered in the center court. And live cultural entertainment will be provided by E. Benjamin Oliver Elementary School steel band, pantomime and quadrille dance groups from Lockhart Elementary School, and maybe even a mocko jumbi or two.
The day of so much more than mall shopping is offered by the Lions and Rotary clubs of St. Thomas, the St. Thomas East End Medical Center, and Tutu Park Mall.
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DISABILITY RIGHTS ACTIVIST TO VISIT ST. CROIX
Feb. 25, 2003 – The executive director of the National Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems, Curt Decker, will visit St. Croix on Friday.
Decker, a lawyer, is a nationally known civil rights activist in the area of disability law, according to the executive director of V.I. Advocacy Inc., Amelia Headley LaMont.
"He is a prominent figure in national politics and disability rights advocacy," LaMont said. "He is very familiar with issues of concern to disability groups and a very effective lobbyist."
Decker will meet with the staff and board of V.I. Advocacy to learn about issues of concern to the disability community in the territory. He is to hold a press conference at noon Saturday at the V.I. Advocacy office in Frederiksted. For more information, call 772-1200.
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Decker, a lawyer, is a nationally known civil rights activist in the area of disability law, according to the executive director of V.I. Advocacy Inc., Amelia Headley LaMont.
"He is a prominent figure in national politics and disability rights advocacy," LaMont said. "He is very familiar with issues of concern to disability groups and a very effective lobbyist."
Decker will meet with the staff and board of V.I. Advocacy to learn about issues of concern to the disability community in the territory. He is to hold a press conference at noon Saturday at the V.I. Advocacy office in Frederiksted. For more information, call 772-1200.
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SESSIONS SET ON HOSTING SUMMER CAMPS
Feb. 26, 2003 – Summer Camp Mass Consultations will be held in March for persons expecting to host summer camps.
Presented annually by the office of child care, regulatory and volunteer services of the V.I. Human Services Department, the sessions will present the necessary requirements for operating summer camp programs.
A St. Croix consultation is set for Wednesday, March 12, at the District Court Building in Christiansted. A St. Thomas session will take place Thursday, March 13, at the Curriculum Center in Anna's Retreat. The hours of both sessions are 8:30 a.m. to noon.
As a means of insuring that summer camp programs are run safely, said a release, the following topics are being covered: fire safety, sanitation, nutrition, immunization requirements for attendees, water safety, first aid and CPR, emergency procedures, and the general qualifications for directors and staff.
Representatives from the Planning and Natural Resources Department, the Fire Department and the Sanitation Division, all of whom will inspect any potential site, will address requirements of a building and premises that would house a summer camp.
For further information, contact the Human Services Department on St. Croix at 773-2323 Ext. 2013 or 2027; on St. Thomas, call 774-0930 Ext. 4182 or 4183.
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Presented annually by the office of child care, regulatory and volunteer services of the V.I. Human Services Department, the sessions will present the necessary requirements for operating summer camp programs.
A St. Croix consultation is set for Wednesday, March 12, at the District Court Building in Christiansted. A St. Thomas session will take place Thursday, March 13, at the Curriculum Center in Anna's Retreat. The hours of both sessions are 8:30 a.m. to noon.
As a means of insuring that summer camp programs are run safely, said a release, the following topics are being covered: fire safety, sanitation, nutrition, immunization requirements for attendees, water safety, first aid and CPR, emergency procedures, and the general qualifications for directors and staff.
Representatives from the Planning and Natural Resources Department, the Fire Department and the Sanitation Division, all of whom will inspect any potential site, will address requirements of a building and premises that would house a summer camp.
For further information, contact the Human Services Department on St. Croix at 773-2323 Ext. 2013 or 2027; on St. Thomas, call 774-0930 Ext. 4182 or 4183.
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SESSIONS SET ON HOSTING SUMMER CAMPS
Feb. 26, 2003 – Summer Camp Mass Consultations will be held in March for persons expecting to host summer camps.
Presented annually by the office of child care, regulatory and volunteer services of the V.I. Human Services Department, the sessions will present the necessary requirements for operating summer camp programs.
A St. Croix consultation is set for Wednesday, March 12, at the District Court Building in Christiansted. A St. Thomas session will take place Thursday, March 13, at the Curriculum Center in Anna's Retreat. The hours of both sessions are 8:30 a.m. to noon.
As a means of insuring that summer camp programs are run safely, said a release, the following topics are being covered: fire safety, sanitation, nutrition, immunization requirements for attendees, water safety, first aid and CPR, emergency procedures, and the general qualifications for directors and staff.
Representatives from the Planning and Natural Resources Department, the Fire Department and the Sanitation Division, all of whom will inspect any potential site, will address requirements of a building and premises that would house a summer camp.
For further information, contact the Human Services Department on St. Croix at 773-2323 Ext. 2013 or 2027; on St. Thomas, call 774-0930 Ext. 4182 or 4183.
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Presented annually by the office of child care, regulatory and volunteer services of the V.I. Human Services Department, the sessions will present the necessary requirements for operating summer camp programs.
A St. Croix consultation is set for Wednesday, March 12, at the District Court Building in Christiansted. A St. Thomas session will take place Thursday, March 13, at the Curriculum Center in Anna's Retreat. The hours of both sessions are 8:30 a.m. to noon.
As a means of insuring that summer camp programs are run safely, said a release, the following topics are being covered: fire safety, sanitation, nutrition, immunization requirements for attendees, water safety, first aid and CPR, emergency procedures, and the general qualifications for directors and staff.
Representatives from the Planning and Natural Resources Department, the Fire Department and the Sanitation Division, all of whom will inspect any potential site, will address requirements of a building and premises that would house a summer camp.
For further information, contact the Human Services Department on St. Croix at 773-2323 Ext. 2013 or 2027; on St. Thomas, call 774-0930 Ext. 4182 or 4183.
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SESSIONS SET ON HOSTING SUMMER CAMPS
Feb. 26, 2003 – Summer Camp Mass Consultations will be held in March for persons expecting to host summer camps.
Presented annually by the office of child care, regulatory and volunteer services of the V.I. Human Services Department, the sessions will present the necessary requirements for operating summer camp programs.
A St. Croix consultation is set for Wednesday, March 12, at the District Court Building in Christiansted. A St. Thomas session will take place Thursday, March 13, at the Curriculum Center in Anna's Retreat. The hours of both sessions are 8:30 a.m. to noon.
As a means of insuring that summer camp programs are run safely, said a release, the following topics are being covered: fire safety, sanitation, nutrition, immunization requirements for attendees, water safety, first aid and CPR, emergency procedures, and the general qualifications for directors and staff.
Representatives from the Planning and Natural Resources Department, the Fire Department and the Sanitation Division, all of whom will inspect any potential site, will address requirements of a building and premises that would house a summer camp.
For further information, contact the Human Services Department on St. Croix at 773-2323 Ext. 2013 or 2027; on St. Thomas, call 774-0930 Ext. 4182 or 4183.
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Presented annually by the office of child care, regulatory and volunteer services of the V.I. Human Services Department, the sessions will present the necessary requirements for operating summer camp programs.
A St. Croix consultation is set for Wednesday, March 12, at the District Court Building in Christiansted. A St. Thomas session will take place Thursday, March 13, at the Curriculum Center in Anna's Retreat. The hours of both sessions are 8:30 a.m. to noon.
As a means of insuring that summer camp programs are run safely, said a release, the following topics are being covered: fire safety, sanitation, nutrition, immunization requirements for attendees, water safety, first aid and CPR, emergency procedures, and the general qualifications for directors and staff.
Representatives from the Planning and Natural Resources Department, the Fire Department and the Sanitation Division, all of whom will inspect any potential site, will address requirements of a building and premises that would house a summer camp.
For further information, contact the Human Services Department on St. Croix at 773-2323 Ext. 2013 or 2027; on St. Thomas, call 774-0930 Ext. 4182 or 4183.
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V.I. TO HAVE PRESENCE AT SEATRADE CONVENTION
Feb. 26, 3002 – Booth No. 485 at the 19th annual Seatrade Cruise Shipping Convention in Miami Beach, Fla., will promote the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Three groups — the V.I. Port Authority, the V.I. Tourism Department and the West Indian Company, Ltd. — are co-sponsoring the booth at the March 4-6 convention.
More than 1,000 companies from 100 countries will be participating and exhibiting this year, said a release from the Port Authority. It's an opportunity for tourism and port officials to network with leaders in the cruise and shipping industry, and for promotion of the islands to an international audience.
Attendance at the 2002 convention topped 10,000, according to the 2003 convention's Web site.
The booth this year, a redesign based on last year's creation, is again the work of Denise Humphrey, assistant technical director at the Reichhold Center for the Arts, and a crew. On Wednesday, Humphrey said she was leaving shortly to assemble the booth on site in Miami. For details on the creation of the original booth, see last year's St. Thomas Source article, How the V.I. Seatrade show booth got built.
Local businesses and individuals who have contributed products and services to this effort include: Big America Gift Shop, Carabana at Havensight, Caribbean Rum Balls, Jacquel Dawson, Humphrey, Louis Ible Jr., Cathy O'Gara, Pink Papaya, Allan Richardson, Scenic Publishers and Distributors (doing business as TOPS), V.I. Rum Industries and the Viking Corporation.
Inquiries about the convention may be made to the Port Authority's public relations office at 774-1629, ext. 640.
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Three groups — the V.I. Port Authority, the V.I. Tourism Department and the West Indian Company, Ltd. — are co-sponsoring the booth at the March 4-6 convention.
More than 1,000 companies from 100 countries will be participating and exhibiting this year, said a release from the Port Authority. It's an opportunity for tourism and port officials to network with leaders in the cruise and shipping industry, and for promotion of the islands to an international audience.
Attendance at the 2002 convention topped 10,000, according to the 2003 convention's Web site.
The booth this year, a redesign based on last year's creation, is again the work of Denise Humphrey, assistant technical director at the Reichhold Center for the Arts, and a crew. On Wednesday, Humphrey said she was leaving shortly to assemble the booth on site in Miami. For details on the creation of the original booth, see last year's St. Thomas Source article, How the V.I. Seatrade show booth got built.
Local businesses and individuals who have contributed products and services to this effort include: Big America Gift Shop, Carabana at Havensight, Caribbean Rum Balls, Jacquel Dawson, Humphrey, Louis Ible Jr., Cathy O'Gara, Pink Papaya, Allan Richardson, Scenic Publishers and Distributors (doing business as TOPS), V.I. Rum Industries and the Viking Corporation.
Inquiries about the convention may be made to the Port Authority's public relations office at 774-1629, ext. 640.
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V.I. TO HAVE PRESENCE AT SEATRADE CONVENTION
Feb. 26, 3002 – Booth No. 485 at the 19th annual Seatrade Cruise Shipping Convention in Miami Beach, Fla., will promote the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Three groups — the V.I. Port Authority, the V.I. Tourism Department and the West Indian Company, Ltd. — are co-sponsoring the booth at the March 4-6 convention.
More than 1,000 companies from 100 countries will be participating and exhibiting this year, said a release from the Port Authority. It's an opportunity for tourism and port officials to network with leaders in the cruise and shipping industry, and for promotion of the islands to an international audience.
Attendance at the 2002 convention topped 10,000, according to the 2003 convention's Web site.
The booth this year, a redesign based on last year's creation, is again the work of Denise Humphrey, assistant technical director at the Reichhold Center for the Arts, and a crew. On Wednesday, Humphrey said she was leaving shortly to assemble the booth on site in Miami. For details on the creation of the original booth, see last year's St. Thomas Source article, How the V.I. Seatrade show booth got built.
Local businesses and individuals who have contributed products and services to this effort include: Big America Gift Shop, Carabana at Havensight, Caribbean Rum Balls, Jacquel Dawson, Humphrey, Louis Ible Jr., Cathy O'Gara, Pink Papaya, Allan Richardson, Scenic Publishers and Distributors (doing business as TOPS), V.I. Rum Industries and the Viking Corporation.
Inquiries about the convention may be made to the Port Authority's public relations office at 774-1629, ext. 640.
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Three groups — the V.I. Port Authority, the V.I. Tourism Department and the West Indian Company, Ltd. — are co-sponsoring the booth at the March 4-6 convention.
More than 1,000 companies from 100 countries will be participating and exhibiting this year, said a release from the Port Authority. It's an opportunity for tourism and port officials to network with leaders in the cruise and shipping industry, and for promotion of the islands to an international audience.
Attendance at the 2002 convention topped 10,000, according to the 2003 convention's Web site.
The booth this year, a redesign based on last year's creation, is again the work of Denise Humphrey, assistant technical director at the Reichhold Center for the Arts, and a crew. On Wednesday, Humphrey said she was leaving shortly to assemble the booth on site in Miami. For details on the creation of the original booth, see last year's St. Thomas Source article, How the V.I. Seatrade show booth got built.
Local businesses and individuals who have contributed products and services to this effort include: Big America Gift Shop, Carabana at Havensight, Caribbean Rum Balls, Jacquel Dawson, Humphrey, Louis Ible Jr., Cathy O'Gara, Pink Papaya, Allan Richardson, Scenic Publishers and Distributors (doing business as TOPS), V.I. Rum Industries and the Viking Corporation.
Inquiries about the convention may be made to the Port Authority's public relations office at 774-1629, ext. 640.
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V.I. TO HAVE PRESENCE AT SEATRADE CONVENTION
Feb. 26, 3002 – Booth No. 485 at the 19th annual Seatrade Cruise Shipping Convention in Miami Beach, Fla., will promote the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Three groups — the V.I. Port Authority, the V.I. Tourism Department and the West Indian Company, Ltd. — are co-sponsoring the booth at the March 4-6 convention.
More than 1,000 companies from 100 countries will be participating and exhibiting this year, said a release from the Port Authority. It's an opportunity for tourism and port officials to network with leaders in the cruise and shipping industry, and for promotion of the islands to an international audience.
Attendance at the 2002 convention topped 10,000, according to the 2003 convention's Web site.
The booth this year, a redesign based on last year's creation, is again the work of Denise Humphrey, assistant technical director at the Reichhold Center for the Arts, and a crew. On Wednesday, Humphrey said she was leaving shortly to assemble the booth on site in Miami. For details on the creation of the original booth, see last year's St. Thomas Source article, How the V.I. Seatrade show booth got built.
Local businesses and individuals who have contributed products and services to this effort include: Big America Gift Shop, Carabana at Havensight, Caribbean Rum Balls, Jacquel Dawson, Humphrey, Louis Ible Jr., Cathy O'Gara, Pink Papaya, Allan Richardson, Scenic Publishers and Distributors (doing business as TOPS), V.I. Rum Industries and the Viking Corporation.
Inquiries about the convention may be made to the Port Authority's public relations office at 774-1629, ext. 640.
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Three groups — the V.I. Port Authority, the V.I. Tourism Department and the West Indian Company, Ltd. — are co-sponsoring the booth at the March 4-6 convention.
More than 1,000 companies from 100 countries will be participating and exhibiting this year, said a release from the Port Authority. It's an opportunity for tourism and port officials to network with leaders in the cruise and shipping industry, and for promotion of the islands to an international audience.
Attendance at the 2002 convention topped 10,000, according to the 2003 convention's Web site.
The booth this year, a redesign based on last year's creation, is again the work of Denise Humphrey, assistant technical director at the Reichhold Center for the Arts, and a crew. On Wednesday, Humphrey said she was leaving shortly to assemble the booth on site in Miami. For details on the creation of the original booth, see last year's St. Thomas Source article, How the V.I. Seatrade show booth got built.
Local businesses and individuals who have contributed products and services to this effort include: Big America Gift Shop, Carabana at Havensight, Caribbean Rum Balls, Jacquel Dawson, Humphrey, Louis Ible Jr., Cathy O'Gara, Pink Papaya, Allan Richardson, Scenic Publishers and Distributors (doing business as TOPS), V.I. Rum Industries and the Viking Corporation.
Inquiries about the convention may be made to the Port Authority's public relations office at 774-1629, ext. 640.
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CHURCH TO HOST ORGAN, CELLO PERFORMANCES
Feb. 26, 2003 – New York organist Kent Tritle, who played to a full church when he visited St. Thomas last year, will be returning in the first week of March and bringing a friend.
The St. Thomas Reformed Church will host Tritle in an organ recital on March 6 and cellist Arthur Fiacco in recital accompanied by Tritle on March 8. Both programs begin at 8 p.m. Admission is free, but a freewill offering will be taken.
Organist Kent Tritle
Tritle is one of the leading organists and choral conductors in New York City today. Since 1989 he has been director of music ministries at St. Ignatius Loyola Church. Under his direction the church's music program has grown dramatically, both liturgically and in hosting the Sacred Music in a Sacred Space concert series that he founded. The broad liturgical music program explores the musical traditions of the Roman Catholic heritage, from the Gregorian chant, choral and organ music of the solemn mass to the best of contemporary idioms.
In 1991-93 Tritle was artistic consultant on the design and installation of the church's renowned four-manual, 68-stop mechanical action pipe organ by N.P. Mander. In March 1990 he began the Sacred Music in a Sacred Space series of choral/orchestral concerts and organ music. Tritle also is music director of The Dessoff Choirs, winners of the ASCAP/Chorus America award for adventurous programming of contemporary music. In his six years with Dessoff, the choir has sung with the Cleveland Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony and American Symphony Orchestra, as well as regularly with Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival.
And he is organist of both the New York Philharmonic and the American Symphony Orchestra. With the Philharmonic he has recorded Brahms's "Ein Deutsches Requiem" and Britten's "War Requiem" conducted by Kurt Masur and, most recently, the Grammy-nominated "Sweeney Todd" conducted by Andrew Litton.
Tritle holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from The Juilliard School in organ performance and choral conducting and has been on the Juilliard faculty since 1996.
As an organ recitalist, he has performed widely in the United States and Europe. Next fall, he will return for performances as a guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
He has been profiled in The New York Times and was the subject of a full program on Minnesota Public Radio's "Pipe Dreams," broadcast nationally. Audiophile Audition called his "Romantic Organ" album on the Epiphany label the "best recording of the year" in 1996.
For his St. Thomas recital, he will perform major works of Bach, Cesar Franck, Francois Couperin and American composer Daniel Pinkham. A particular treat for the audience will be his performance of the "Fantasie and Fugue on B-A-C-H" by the legendary 19th century virtuoso Franz Liszt. The work is a monumental tour de force calling for the resources of a big instrument and a performer with big technique.
Cellist Arthur Fiacco
Fiacco has appeared as soloist with the Mark Morris Dance Company, the performance artist Meredith Monk, and Broadway's Patti LuPone at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater. He performed the world premiere of Paul Moravec's Pulitzer-nominated cello concerto "Montserrat" as part of the Sacred Music in a Sacred Space concert series. For several seasons he has been a featured chamber soloist at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival.
The New York Times hailed as "definitive" his recording of Mozart's Haffner Symphony in Hummel’s chamber transcription on the Boston Skyline label. His most recent recording, Couperin's "Les Nations" with the Hanoverian Ensemble, is to be released this month.
Fiacco is an active participant in the Lincoln Center, Ravinia, Caramoor, Wolf Trap and Music Mountain Festivals. On baroque cello he has performed with the Boston and Connecticut Early Music Festivals and with the Helicon Foundation. He performs regularly with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and is a featured soloist with the Choir of St. Ignatius Loyola on its recording of the Duruflé Requiem.
His St. Thomas program will feature two excerpts from the cello suites of J.S. Bach and a transcription of a slow movement from the fifth organ symphony of Charles Marie Widor. He also will perform works by Benedetto Marcello, Antonio Vivaldi, Johannes Brahms and Tchaikovsky.
Fiacco also will play for the 7 p.m. Ash Wednesday service at the church on March 5.
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The St. Thomas Reformed Church will host Tritle in an organ recital on March 6 and cellist Arthur Fiacco in recital accompanied by Tritle on March 8. Both programs begin at 8 p.m. Admission is free, but a freewill offering will be taken.
Organist Kent Tritle
Tritle is one of the leading organists and choral conductors in New York City today. Since 1989 he has been director of music ministries at St. Ignatius Loyola Church. Under his direction the church's music program has grown dramatically, both liturgically and in hosting the Sacred Music in a Sacred Space concert series that he founded. The broad liturgical music program explores the musical traditions of the Roman Catholic heritage, from the Gregorian chant, choral and organ music of the solemn mass to the best of contemporary idioms.
In 1991-93 Tritle was artistic consultant on the design and installation of the church's renowned four-manual, 68-stop mechanical action pipe organ by N.P. Mander. In March 1990 he began the Sacred Music in a Sacred Space series of choral/orchestral concerts and organ music. Tritle also is music director of The Dessoff Choirs, winners of the ASCAP/Chorus America award for adventurous programming of contemporary music. In his six years with Dessoff, the choir has sung with the Cleveland Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony and American Symphony Orchestra, as well as regularly with Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival.
And he is organist of both the New York Philharmonic and the American Symphony Orchestra. With the Philharmonic he has recorded Brahms's "Ein Deutsches Requiem" and Britten's "War Requiem" conducted by Kurt Masur and, most recently, the Grammy-nominated "Sweeney Todd" conducted by Andrew Litton.
Tritle holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from The Juilliard School in organ performance and choral conducting and has been on the Juilliard faculty since 1996.
As an organ recitalist, he has performed widely in the United States and Europe. Next fall, he will return for performances as a guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
He has been profiled in The New York Times and was the subject of a full program on Minnesota Public Radio's "Pipe Dreams," broadcast nationally. Audiophile Audition called his "Romantic Organ" album on the Epiphany label the "best recording of the year" in 1996.
For his St. Thomas recital, he will perform major works of Bach, Cesar Franck, Francois Couperin and American composer Daniel Pinkham. A particular treat for the audience will be his performance of the "Fantasie and Fugue on B-A-C-H" by the legendary 19th century virtuoso Franz Liszt. The work is a monumental tour de force calling for the resources of a big instrument and a performer with big technique.
Cellist Arthur Fiacco
Fiacco has appeared as soloist with the Mark Morris Dance Company, the performance artist Meredith Monk, and Broadway's Patti LuPone at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater. He performed the world premiere of Paul Moravec's Pulitzer-nominated cello concerto "Montserrat" as part of the Sacred Music in a Sacred Space concert series. For several seasons he has been a featured chamber soloist at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival.
The New York Times hailed as "definitive" his recording of Mozart's Haffner Symphony in Hummel’s chamber transcription on the Boston Skyline label. His most recent recording, Couperin's "Les Nations" with the Hanoverian Ensemble, is to be released this month.
Fiacco is an active participant in the Lincoln Center, Ravinia, Caramoor, Wolf Trap and Music Mountain Festivals. On baroque cello he has performed with the Boston and Connecticut Early Music Festivals and with the Helicon Foundation. He performs regularly with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and is a featured soloist with the Choir of St. Ignatius Loyola on its recording of the Duruflé Requiem.
His St. Thomas program will feature two excerpts from the cello suites of J.S. Bach and a transcription of a slow movement from the fifth organ symphony of Charles Marie Widor. He also will perform works by Benedetto Marcello, Antonio Vivaldi, Johannes Brahms and Tchaikovsky.
Fiacco also will play for the 7 p.m. Ash Wednesday service at the church on March 5.
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CHURCH TO HOST ORGAN, CELLO PERFORMANCES
Feb. 26, 2003 – New York organist Kent Tritle, who played to a full church when he visited St. Thomas last year, will be returning in the first week of March and bringing a friend.
The St. Thomas Reformed Church will host Tritle in an organ recital on March 6 and cellist Arthur Fiacco in recital accompanied by Tritle on March 8. Both programs begin at 8 p.m. Admission is free, but a freewill offering will be taken.
Organist Kent Tritle
Tritle is one of the leading organists and choral conductors in New York City today. Since 1989 he has been director of music ministries at St. Ignatius Loyola Church. Under his direction the church's music program has grown dramatically, both liturgically and in hosting the Sacred Music in a Sacred Space concert series that he founded. The broad liturgical music program explores the musical traditions of the Roman Catholic heritage, from the Gregorian chant, choral and organ music of the solemn mass to the best of contemporary idioms.
In 1991-93 Tritle was artistic consultant on the design and installation of the church's renowned four-manual, 68-stop mechanical action pipe organ by N.P. Mander. In March 1990 he began the Sacred Music in a Sacred Space series of choral/orchestral concerts and organ music. Tritle also is music director of The Dessoff Choirs, winners of the ASCAP/Chorus America award for adventurous programming of contemporary music. In his six years with Dessoff, the choir has sung with the Cleveland Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony and American Symphony Orchestra, as well as regularly with Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival.
And he is organist of both the New York Philharmonic and the American Symphony Orchestra. With the Philharmonic he has recorded Brahms's "Ein Deutsches Requiem" and Britten's "War Requiem" conducted by Kurt Masur and, most recently, the Grammy-nominated "Sweeney Todd" conducted by Andrew Litton.
Tritle holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from The Juilliard School in organ performance and choral conducting and has been on the Juilliard faculty since 1996.
As an organ recitalist, he has performed widely in the United States and Europe. Next fall, he will return for performances as a guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
He has been profiled in The New York Times and was the subject of a full program on Minnesota Public Radio's "Pipe Dreams," broadcast nationally. Audiophile Audition called his "Romantic Organ" album on the Epiphany label the "best recording of the year" in 1996.
For his St. Thomas recital, he will perform major works of Bach, Cesar Franck, Francois Couperin and American composer Daniel Pinkham. A particular treat for the audience will be his performance of the "Fantasie and Fugue on B-A-C-H" by the legendary 19th century virtuoso Franz Liszt. The work is a monumental tour de force calling for the resources of a big instrument and a performer with big technique.
Cellist Arthur Fiacco
Fiacco has appeared as soloist with the Mark Morris Dance Company, the performance artist Meredith Monk, and Broadway's Patti LuPone at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater. He performed the world premiere of Paul Moravec's Pulitzer-nominated cello concerto "Montserrat" as part of the Sacred Music in a Sacred Space concert series. For several seasons he has been a featured chamber soloist at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival.
The New York Times hailed as "definitive" his recording of Mozart's Haffner Symphony in Hummel’s chamber transcription on the Boston Skyline label. His most recent recording, Couperin's "Les Nations" with the Hanoverian Ensemble, is to be released this month.
Fiacco is an active participant in the Lincoln Center, Ravinia, Caramoor, Wolf Trap and Music Mountain Festivals. On baroque cello he has performed with the Boston and Connecticut Early Music Festivals and with the Helicon Foundation. He performs regularly with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and is a featured soloist with the Choir of St. Ignatius Loyola on its recording of the Duruflé Requiem.
His St. Thomas program will feature two excerpts from the cello suites of J.S. Bach and a transcription of a slow movement from the fifth organ symphony of Charles Marie Widor. He also will perform works by Benedetto Marcello, Antonio Vivaldi, Johannes Brahms and Tchaikovsky.
Fiacco also will play for the 7 p.m. Ash Wednesday service at the church on March 5.
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The St. Thomas Reformed Church will host Tritle in an organ recital on March 6 and cellist Arthur Fiacco in recital accompanied by Tritle on March 8. Both programs begin at 8 p.m. Admission is free, but a freewill offering will be taken.
Organist Kent Tritle
Tritle is one of the leading organists and choral conductors in New York City today. Since 1989 he has been director of music ministries at St. Ignatius Loyola Church. Under his direction the church's music program has grown dramatically, both liturgically and in hosting the Sacred Music in a Sacred Space concert series that he founded. The broad liturgical music program explores the musical traditions of the Roman Catholic heritage, from the Gregorian chant, choral and organ music of the solemn mass to the best of contemporary idioms.
In 1991-93 Tritle was artistic consultant on the design and installation of the church's renowned four-manual, 68-stop mechanical action pipe organ by N.P. Mander. In March 1990 he began the Sacred Music in a Sacred Space series of choral/orchestral concerts and organ music. Tritle also is music director of The Dessoff Choirs, winners of the ASCAP/Chorus America award for adventurous programming of contemporary music. In his six years with Dessoff, the choir has sung with the Cleveland Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony and American Symphony Orchestra, as well as regularly with Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival.
And he is organist of both the New York Philharmonic and the American Symphony Orchestra. With the Philharmonic he has recorded Brahms's "Ein Deutsches Requiem" and Britten's "War Requiem" conducted by Kurt Masur and, most recently, the Grammy-nominated "Sweeney Todd" conducted by Andrew Litton.
Tritle holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from The Juilliard School in organ performance and choral conducting and has been on the Juilliard faculty since 1996.
As an organ recitalist, he has performed widely in the United States and Europe. Next fall, he will return for performances as a guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
He has been profiled in The New York Times and was the subject of a full program on Minnesota Public Radio's "Pipe Dreams," broadcast nationally. Audiophile Audition called his "Romantic Organ" album on the Epiphany label the "best recording of the year" in 1996.
For his St. Thomas recital, he will perform major works of Bach, Cesar Franck, Francois Couperin and American composer Daniel Pinkham. A particular treat for the audience will be his performance of the "Fantasie and Fugue on B-A-C-H" by the legendary 19th century virtuoso Franz Liszt. The work is a monumental tour de force calling for the resources of a big instrument and a performer with big technique.
Cellist Arthur Fiacco
Fiacco has appeared as soloist with the Mark Morris Dance Company, the performance artist Meredith Monk, and Broadway's Patti LuPone at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater. He performed the world premiere of Paul Moravec's Pulitzer-nominated cello concerto "Montserrat" as part of the Sacred Music in a Sacred Space concert series. For several seasons he has been a featured chamber soloist at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival.
The New York Times hailed as "definitive" his recording of Mozart's Haffner Symphony in Hummel’s chamber transcription on the Boston Skyline label. His most recent recording, Couperin's "Les Nations" with the Hanoverian Ensemble, is to be released this month.
Fiacco is an active participant in the Lincoln Center, Ravinia, Caramoor, Wolf Trap and Music Mountain Festivals. On baroque cello he has performed with the Boston and Connecticut Early Music Festivals and with the Helicon Foundation. He performs regularly with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and is a featured soloist with the Choir of St. Ignatius Loyola on its recording of the Duruflé Requiem.
His St. Thomas program will feature two excerpts from the cello suites of J.S. Bach and a transcription of a slow movement from the fifth organ symphony of Charles Marie Widor. He also will perform works by Benedetto Marcello, Antonio Vivaldi, Johannes Brahms and Tchaikovsky.
Fiacco also will play for the 7 p.m. Ash Wednesday service at the church on March 5.
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