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Michael Diorio, Interim Organist/Director of Music


Current Events / News
 

Over the course of the next two months, the Music Discernment Committee (MDC) will be providing many insights into the music ministry of the church by means of printed reports. These are meant to give a clearer and more complete picture of the current and ongoing music programs. Throughout this time we would also like to hear from parishioners and gain your perceptions. Members of the MDC will be available every Sunday in the library, simply to listen to your hopes, your questions, your concerns. In early April, a survey will be distributed to the parish, and from this whole process, the MDC will provide the vestry a report with a view toward obtaining spiritual direction and understanding. Click on the link below to view a PDF copy of the reports.

Music Discernment Committee Reports
Issue #1 February 28, 2010
Why music in church
Issue #2 March 14, 2010
Long tradition of music at Redeemer


Anthems from worship services:

  God so loved the world: Stainer
sung Sunday, March 7, 2010
9am service
Children's Choir

  Lacrymosa: Mozart
sung Sunday, March 7, 2010
9am service
Choristers

  Sicut Cervus
sung Sunday, February 21, 2010
11:15 service
Chancel Choir

  Cantique de Jean Racine: Faure
sung Sunday, February 14, 2010
9am service
Schola Cantorum
 

  Super flumina Babylonis: O. diLassus
sung Sunday, January 24, 2010
9am service
Schola Cantorum
 

  I was glad: Parry
sung Sunday, January 17, 2010
at Rector's Installation & Church Rededication
Redeemer Choir and Schola Cantorum

    Lord, Thou hast been our refuge: Vaughan Williams
sung Sunday, January 17, 2010
at Rector's Installation & Church Rededication
Redeemer Choir and Schola Cantorum

  Hymn: Westminster Abbey Fanfare and Hymn
sung Sunday, January 17, 2010
at Rector's Installation & Church Rededication

  O Sacrum Convivium: Croce
sung Sunday, January 17, 2010 at 11:15am service
Chancel Choir


 

The Choirs toured the UK in July 2009
View photo galleries by clicking on each photo below


7/4, Philadelphia Int'l Airport
7/5 Cheltenham, includes visit
to Stratford-Upon-Avon

 
 

7/5, Cheltenham/Tewkesbury
7/7 Cheltenham/Tewkesbury,
includes visit to Bath


 
7/7, Cheltenham/Tewkesbury
7/12 Hereford, includes visits to Lincoln,
York, Great Malvern and Cawthorne

     
7/12, Hereford
7/16, London, includes Bryn Mawr, Wales; London;
Naval College Chapel, Greenwich; St. Paul's; Canterbury;
Westminster; London


    
7/16, London, Westminster
7/21Endfield, includes Endfield, St. Alban's
and St. George's, Windsor, farewell dinner

Auditions for new members of the Schola Cantorum  will be held during the last week of August and the first two weeks of September. Boys in Grades 1-4 and girls in grades 1-5 are welcome to contact Huw Williams to make an appointment. Candidates are asked to prepare a simple song such as a hymn or Christmas carol. The audition lasts about 10 minutes.

Adults can join one of two choirs. The Redeemer choir sings at the 9:00 am service every Sunday with rehearsals on Wednesday evenings at 7:30 pm. The Chancel choir sings at the 11:15 am Morning Prayer service each week with a rehearsal at 10:30 am. Anyone interested in auditioning to participate in any of the choirs may contact Interim Music Director, Michael Diorio, at 610-525-2486 ext. 22 or by emailing him at mdiorio@theredeemer.org

Excerpts from tour
June 25, 2008 Evensong at the National Cathedral
Combined Boy, Girl and Redeemer Choirs

    Heilig, Heilig, Heilig: Schubert
sung as an Introit from afar

    Magnificat in G: Stanford
Bailey Sperry, soloist

    Cantique de Jean Racine: Faure

 


Click here for larger images of these photos.
 

 

The Redeemer Organ

 

The core of this instrument is a 1949 Ζolian-Skinner voiced by G. Donald Harrison and dedicated by E. Power Biggs. When the roof of our bell tower gave way in 1991 and flooded the Great and Pedal divisions, we decided that the time was right to improve the way the organ speaks into the nave, so Reuter was selected to re-engineer the instrument and build some new ranks for us (replacing much of the previously muddy Great). A lot of the bass was replaced by Allen Organ digital sampling, as well as a new Solo division and an ancillary Great that addresses a dead spot acoustically midway down our nave. We are delighted with the results of this wedding of Ζolian-Skinner, Reuter, Allen and the Antiphonal division by Austin. M.Stairs

  Specifications of The Redeemer Organ

GREAT ORGAN (EXPOSED)

8’ Principal

8’ Bourdon

4’ Octave

4’ Open Flute

22/3’ Twelfth

2’ Fifteenth

13/5’ Seventeenth

IV Fourniture

8’ Trumpet

Midi to Great

 

GREAT ORGAN (ENCLOSED)

16’ Violone

8’ Principal

8’ Spitzflute

4’ Octave

2’ Super Octave

IV Mixture

16’ Contre Trumpet

Tremolo

 

CHOIR ORGAN

16’ Gemshorn

8’ Clarabella

8’ Gedeckt

8’ Viola

8’ Gemshorn

8’ Dolcan

8’ Dolcan Celeste

II Flute Celeste

4’ Spitz Principal

4’ Koppelflute

4’ Orchestral Flute

4’ Gemshorn

22/3 Gemshorn

2’ Principal

2’ Gemshorn

13/5 Gemshorn

11/3 Quint

IV Cymbale

8’ Tuba

8’ Orchestral Oboe

8’ English Horn

8’ Clarinet

4’ Clarion

Tremolo

Midi to Choir

SWELL ORGAN

16’ Rohrflute

8’ Geigen Principal

8’ Rohrflute

8’ Viola

8’ Viola Celeste

8’ Echo Viole

8’ Echo Viole Celeste

4’ Principal

4’ Hohlflute

22/3’ Nazard

2’ Blockflute

13/5’ Tierce

IV Plein Jeu

16’ Bombarde

8’ Trompette

8’ Oboe

8’ Vox Humana

4’ Clarion

Tremolo

Midi to Swell

 

SOLO ORGAN

8’ Diapason

8’ Flauto Mirabilis

8’ Gamba

8’ Gamba Celeste

4’ Octave

V Grand Fourniture

16’ Bombarde

8’ Trompette

Harmonique

8’ French Horn

8’ Corno di Bassetto

4’ Clarion

Tremolo

Midi to Solo

 

ANTIPHONAL ORGAN

8’ Bourdon

4’ Octave

4’ Spillflute

2’ Flute

III Mixture

8’ Trompette

PEDAL ORGAN

32’ Subbass

32’ Contra Violone

16’ Principal

16’ Subbass

16’ Violone (Gt)

16’ Rohrflute (Sw)

16’ Gemshorn (Ch)

16’ Bourdon (Ant)

8’ Principal

8’ Major Bass

8’ Violone (Gt)

8’ Rohrflute (Sw)

4’ Choral Bass

4’ Flute

IV Mixture

32’ Trombone

16’ Trombone

16’ Bombarde (Sw)

8’ Trombone

8’ Bombarde (Sw)

4’ Trombone

4’ Bombarde (Sw)

Midi to Pedal

 

 

Music Staff

Michael Diorio
Interim Organist/Director of Music

As an active recitalist, Dr. Diorio has performed extensively throughout the United States as well as in England, Germany, France, and Austria where he was presented with a citation by the Mayor of Innsbruck for an outstanding public performance at the Jesuiten Kirche. Recent playing engagements include the Strasbourg Cathedral in France, choir tours at Salisbury Cathedral, Wells Cathedral and Chichester Cathedral; other concerts with the American Boy Choir, and the National Convention of the Organ Historical Society.

A New Jersey native, Dr. Diorio received his Bachelor of Music degree in organ performance from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, while studying under Professor Eugene Roan. Upon completing his undergraduate study he entered the Institute of Sacred Music and the School of Music at Yale University, where he earned his Master of Music degree in organ with Dr. Martin Jean. While at Boston University Dr. Diorio was a pupil of organist James David Christie, where he received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in organ performance, summa cum laude. His edition of the Messa Hyemalis in A of Franz Xaver Richter (1709-1789) is published by the German publisher Carus-Verlag of Stuttgart. The edition received its American premier at St Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue by John Scott and the St Thomas Choir of Men & Boys and its European premier at the Strasbourg Cathedral in France, where Richter served as Kapellmeister from 1768-1789.

Presently, Dr. Diorio serves as adjunct faculty member of the music department at The Lawrenceville Prep School in New Jersey. He is also working as editor with Oxford University Press on the first edition of the Requiem by Richter. Dr. Diorio held his post at Washington Memorial Chapel, Valley Forge, as Organist and Choirmaster from 2005-2009 and currently serves Church of the Redeemer as the interim Organist and Director of Music.

Michael will accompany all our worship services and conduct the adult and Schola choirs. Hope Knight will serve as Interim Choir Director through December. She will conduct the Cherub and Children’s choirs.