Mission Dolores Basilica3321 - 16th St.San Francisco, CA 94114

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P R E S E N T S

Mission Dolores BasilicaThe Second Sunday Organ Recital SeriesEighth Season 2019 - 2020Series inaugurated in 2013 to commemorate the Centennial of the Basilica Church

Emil Miland, Cello

Jerome Lenk, Organ & Piano

Annual Mother’s Day Concertin-person performance

and livestream via Facebook:www.facebook.com/missiondoloressf

Sunday 9 May 2021 - 4:00 PM (PST)

I. Feldeinsamkeit (Alone in Fields), Op. 86 No. 2

PROGRAM

Toccata in D Minor, the Dorian, BWV 538 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Adagio from Toccata, Adagio & Fugue, BWV 564 J. S. Bachtranscr. by Alexander Siloti (1863-1945)

cello part rev. by Pablo Casals (1876-1973)

Petite Fleur Blanche (Little White Flower) Iyad Kanaan (b. 1971) from Meditations for Cello and Piano

Adagio from the Pathetique Sonata, Op. 13 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)arr. by Charles Vogel (1808-1892)

& Henri Guérout (1822-1913)

Six Songs for Cello & Piano Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)arr. by Norbert Salter (1868-1935)

I rest at peace in tall green grassAnd gaze steadily aloft,Surrounded by unceasing crickets,Wondrously interwoven with blue sky.The lovely white clouds go drifting byThrough the deep blue, like lovely silent dreams;I feel as if I have long been dead,Drifting happily with them through eternal space. – poetry by Herman Allmers, trans. by Richard Stokes

II. Wie Melodien (Like Melodies), Op. 105 No. 1

Thoughts, like melodies, steal softly through my mind,Like spring flowers they blossom and drift away like fragrance.Yet when words come and capture them and bring them before my eyes,They turn pale like grey mist and vanish like a breath.Yet surely in rhyme a fragrance lies hidden,Summoned by moist eyes from the silent seed. – poetry by Klaus Groth, trans. by Richard Stokes

Missing You Candace Forest (b. 1945)

III. Sapphische Ode (Sapphic Ode), Op. 94 No. 4

I gathered roses from the dark hedge by night,The fragrance they breathed was sweeter than by day;But when I moved the branches, they showered me with dew.And the fragrant kisses thrilled me as never before,When I gathered them from your rose-bush lips by night;But you too, moved in your heart like those roses,Shed the dew of tears. – poetry by Hans Schmidt, trans. by Richard Stokes

IV. Wiegenlied (Lullaby), Op. 49 No. 4

Good evening, good night, canopied with roses,Bedecked with carnations,slip beneath the coverlet.Tomorrow morning, if God wills, you shall be woken again.Good evening, good night,watched over by angels!In your dreams they’ll show you the Christmas Tree:Sleep sweetly now and blissfully, behold Paradise in your dreams. – poetry by Georg Scherer, trans. by Richard Stokes

V. Liebestreu (True Love), Op. 3 No. 1

‘Oh drown, oh drown your grief, my child, in the sea, the fathomless sea!’ –A stone may stay on the ocean bed, my grief will always surface. –‘And the love you bear in your heart, pluck it out, pluck it out, my child!’ –Though a flower will die when it is plucked: faithful love will not fade so fast. –‘Faithful, faithful – is but a word, away with it to the winds!’ –Though a rock, O mother, will split in the wind, my faithful love will withstand it. – – poetry by Robert Reinick, trans. by Richard Stokes

VI. Minnelied (Love Song), Op. 71 No. 5

Birdsong sounds more beautiful when the pure angelWho has won my young heart wanders through the woods.Valley and meadow bloom redder, the grass grows greener,Where my lady’s fingers gathered Maytime flowers.Without her all is dead, flowers and herbs are withered,And the spring sunset seems neither radiant nor fair.Gentle, charming lady, do not ever leave me;That my heart, like this meadow, might bloom in bliss! – poetry by Christoph Hölty, trans. by Richard Stokes

Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child arr. for cello & organ by Claus-Erhard Heinrich (b. 1960)

A RT I S T S ’ B I O S

A member of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra since 1988, cellist EMIL MILAND is an acclaimed solo-ist, chamber and orchestral musician. He made his solo debut with the San Francisco Symphony at age 16, the same year he was selected to perform in Rostropovich Master Classes held at the University of California at Berkeley. A graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, he has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Chamber Music America. His many recital collaborations include performances with Jamie Barton, Joyce DiDonato, Susan Graham, Marilyn Horne, Frederica von Stade, and the late Zheng Cao and Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson. In 2010, von Stade invited Miland to accompany her at her Carnegie Hall farewell recital. Miland served as Principal Cellist of the New Century Chamber Orchestra for a decade, during which he introduced concerti by David Carlson and Lou Harrison, both written for him. Many composers have written and dedicated new works for him including Ernst Bacon, Eric Cho-ate, David Conte, Shinji Eshima, Candace Forest, John Grimmett, Jake Heggie, Richard Hervig Andrew Imbrie, James Meredith and Dwight Okamura. He can be heard on many premiere recordings from Avie, Americas, BMG/RCA Victor, New World, MSR and Albany Records. Most recently he is featured on Pen-tatone’s 2021 release, “ The Violins of Hope “ performing on a cello that survived the Nazi death camps. Miland concertizes on a cello made by Giovanni Grancino in Milan, Italy, 1718.

JEROME LENK currently serves as Director of Music and Liturgy, as well as Principal Organist for Mis-sion Dolores Basilica in San Francisco. His duties include administration of a music program of two choirs, providing musical support for regular weekend liturgies and all major feasts, coordinating and developing cantors, and conducting the Basilica Choir in major concerts each year, as well as coordinating the Basilica organ recitals and guest concert series. Mr. Lenk conducts the Basilica Choir is their ever-popular annual Candlelight Christmas Concerts Mr. Lenk has also served on the San Francisco Archdiocesan Music Com-mission. He is active as a recitalist and accompanist and maintains a private coaching studio. He has per-formed recitals and conducted the outstanding Basilica Choir in California, Mexico, and Italy. His extensive experience as an accompanist includes appearances with the San Francisco Opera Merola Program, West-ern Opera Theatre, San Francisco Symphony Chorus, CappellaSF, San Mateo Masterworks Chorale, San Jose Symphony, Golden Gate Men’s Chorus, San Francisco Concert Chorale, San Francisco Lyric Chorus, The Choral Project of San Jose, and the Valley Concert Chorale. He has also collaborated with Robert Shaw, Eugene Butler and Jörg Demus.

Mr. Lenk began his musical studies on piano at the age of seven and on the organ at age nine. He holds the Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance with an organ minor from Central Methodist University, Fay-ette, Missouri, and the Master of Fine Arts degree in performance from the University of Iowa. His principal teachers have included Groff Bittner, Thomas Yancey, John Ditto, John Simms and Delores Bruch.

Mr. Lenk is also experienced as a vocal coach and conductor. His credits include Opera on Tap, the San Francisco Opera Merola Program, Opera San Jose, the Bay Area Summer Opera Theatre Institute, San Jose State University Opera Workshop, and The University of Iowa.

Mr. Lenk has performed solo recitals at the Oakland Cathedral as well as San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral, and has been a recitalist at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor. In 2017 he was the featured organ-ist for the Lou Harrison centennial concerts with the Other Minds Festival of New Music, performing two of Harrison’s solo organ works.

Thank you for your attendance this afternoon. Please refer to the parish website for future events:

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