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Upcoming Events
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Choirs
and Instrumental Ensembles
Parish Choir – The Saint Barnabas Choir contributes choral music ranging from Gregorian chant to newly composed anthems at our Sunday morning services.
The choir also performs major choral works at concerts during the year. Ty Woodward conducts the Adult Choir.
Choir performing Handel's Messiah April 2, 2007
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Organist & Choirmaster Ty Woodward rehearsing with the choir. |
The choir rehearsing between the 2 Sunday morning services.
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Youth Choir – The St. Barnabas Youth Choir - sings monthly at the Sunday morning service and leads the music for children’s chapel. Children also perform in the annual St. Barnabas Youth Spring Musical. This year's program was on May 20, 2007 and featured an original script by Holly Richardson and Marshall Taylor.
Handbells - The
Saint Barnabas Intergenerational Handbell Choir is
open to the members of St. Barnabas parish and to the community. Members
of this ensemble range from 12 to 80 years of age. The
handbell choir adds significantly to the worship services
of the parish as well as creating a strong sense of community
within the members of the group. It is helpful if
those who are interested in this program, have some music
reading skills. Individual classes are available for those
who would like to be a part of this program. Kay Cook
directs the handbell ensembles.
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Foundation
Concert Series
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Young Musicians Showcase -
The
Barnabas Society and Arizona Musicfest are Collaborating this
season to present fine young musicians in a series of four
Friday evening concerts to be held at St. Barnabas.
The
four-concert series, "Young Musicians Showcase",
will feature gifted young musiciansfrom throughout the Valley.
Many of them have demonstrated their considerable talents in
performances at Musicfest's Young Artists Concert and Young
Musicians Competition.
Scheduled
for 7:00pm in Lincoln Hall, the concerts are open to the public
and are free of charge. Each concert will last from 45 minutes
to an hour, and will be followed by a Meet the Musicians reception.
At the first Showcase concert
on September 29, the audience was clearly impressed by exciting
performances from clarinetist Caitlin Poupard; the Phantasie
Piano Quartet and pianist/guitarist Roman Rojas.
All Young Musicians Showcase concerts are open to the public, FREE of charge.
Each concert starts at 7 p.m. and lasts an hour, followed by a Meet the Musicians
reception with light refreshments. The concerts are held in Lincoln Hall at St.
Barnabas on the Desert Episcopal Church, 6715 N. Mockingbird Lane,
Scottsdale 85253.
For more information, contact Arizona Musicfest at 480-488-0806,
www.azmusicfest.org; or St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, 480-948-5560,
www.saintbarnabas.org .
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Musical Instruments
The organs of St. Barnabas Church are the
generous gifts of John and Mary Dell Pritzlaff.
The church organ was given in memory of the Prizlaff’s
grandparents, and the chapel organ was dedicated as a memorial
to the Pritzlaff’s parents.
The Church Organ
 The
Church Organ was built by Casavant Frers of St. Hyacinthe,
Canada, and was installed in 1961.
3 manuals/37 ranks
Electro-pneumatic chest action
61 note keyboards
32 note pedalboard (concave and radiating)
Great |
Swell (expressive) |
Choir (expressive) |
8 Principal
8 Bourdon
8 Erzähler
4 Octave
4 ChimneyFlute
2 Super Octave
IV Mixture (1-1/3)
V Cornet (tc) +
Chimes |
16 Flûte Conique
8 Geigen Diapason
8 Nachthorn
8 Salicional
8 Voix Celeste (GG)
4 Spitz Principal
4 Flauto Traverso
2 OctavinIII
3 Fourniture
8 Trumpet*
Tremulant |
8 Rohrflöte
8 Quintadena
4 Gemshorn
4 Koppelflöte
2-2/3 Nazard
2 Blockflöte
8 Krummhorn*
Tremulant |
| Pedal |
Console Accessories |
Notes |
32 Resultant
16 Violone
16 Bourdon
16 Flûte Conique (sw.)
8 Octave (ext.)
8 Gedeckt (ext.)
4 Choralbass (ext.)
16 Posaune* |
4 General Toe Studs
4 Thumb Pistons for each division
Tutti Reversible Toe Stud
Great to Pedal Reversible Toe Stud
Crescendo pedal |
* = pipework replaced in 1990
+ = pipework
added in 1993 |
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The Chapel Organ
 The
Chapel Organ was built in 2000 by Jan van Daalen of Prescott, Arizona.
2 manuals/11 ranks
Mechanical Key action
Mechanical Stop action
56 note keyboards
30 note pedalboard (flat)
| Manual I |
Manual II |
Pedal |
8 Rohrflute
4 Prestant
2 Octave
II Mixture (1-1/3)
Tremolo |
8 Gedeckt
4 Spillflute
2-2/3 Quint
2 Waldflute
1-3/5 Terts |
16 Subbass
8 Gedeckt (ext.) |
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The Carillon
The 25-bell carillon was dedicated October 7, 2006 with a concert by one of America’s foremost carillonneurs, James Welch. The 4,074 pounds of bells, forged by a Dutch foundry, now play electronically on the hour from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., but there are plans for manually performed carillon recitals from time to time.
Inscriptions on the bells note they were given “in appreciation for the ministry of The Right Reverend John and Jan Thornton.” John Thornton is a retired Episcopal bishop for the Diocese of Idaho who served as interim rector of St. Barnabas from December 2002 through March 2004. The Thorntons were on hand for the dedication and services that featured two concerts by Welch.
 Carillons are distinct in that their bells are stationary and their strikers are pulled against them. More commonly, bells suspended in towers are rocked back and forth so that they hit stationary strikers.
St. Barnabas’ set features a dozen bells distributed on four levels facing the northwest and 13 bells on four levels facing the southwest. Cables lead down to the tower’s tiny room where the carillonneur performs at the console. For automatic or programmed music, a computerized system uses pneumatics to force air through tubes to move the batons so they pull the cables.
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