Wednesday

March 11

2:00 pm

Omni Hotel

Conference check-in begins

4:00

United Church on the Green

Welcome and introduction – Martin Jean

Keynote Address

Martin E. Marty: Teaching Organ at the Sacred/Secular Mixture Stop

Response by Quentin Faulkner

5:30

Dinner on your own

8:00

United Church on the Green, Battell Chapel, Woolsey Hall

A Moveable Feast: Two Yale organists perform on three New Haven instruments

Thomas Murray and Martin Jean, organists

10:00

Presidents Room in Woolsey Hall

Reception and open console

Thursday

March 12

Breakfast on your own

9:00

United Church on the Green

Morning Prayer

Thomas Troeger, preaching / David Heller, organ

10:00

Coffee Break

10:30

Plenary Session

Quentin Faulkner: Training Organists: A Historical Perspective

Response by Martin E. Marty

12noon

Lunch on your own

1:30 – 3:00 pm

Church Music Curricula

• Group A Sudler Hall: Brugh/Bauer/DuBois
• Group B Battell Chapel: Cramer/Fishell/Jean

3:00-3:30

Break

3:30-4:30

Masterclass session I

• David Heller Dwight Chapel (hymn playing)
• Thomas Murray Battell Chapel (choral accompaniment)
• Bruce Neswick United Church on the Green (improvisation for church musicians)

4:30-4:45

Travel time between masterclasses

4:45-5:45

Masterclass session II (repeat of I)

• David Heller Dwight Chapel (hymn playing)
• Thomas Murray Battell Chapel (choral accompaniment)

• Bruce Neswick United Church on the Green (improvisation for church musicians)

5:45

Dinner on your own

8:00

Sprague Memorial Hall

The Mitchell-Ruff Duo Big Rhythms with Carmen de Lavallade's danced version of James Weldon Johnson's The Creation.

Friday

March 13

Breakfast on your own

8:15 am

Shuttle bus from downtown to Sterling Divinity Quadrangle

8:45

Marquand Chapel

Morning Prayer

Jaime Lara, preaching / Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra, organ

10:00

Coffee Break – Common Room

10:30

Plenary Session

Don Saliers: Liturgical Theology in a New Key: Artistry and Relevance in Church Music Today

Response by Marva Dawn

12noon

Lunch Break - Box lunches provided in Common Room

Foundry Music display

Divinity Bookstore open

1:30 – 3:00 pm

Church Music Curricula

• Group A Niebuhr Hall: Cramer/Fishell/Jean
• Group B Great Hall: Brugh/Bauer/DuBois

3:00-3:30

Coffee Break – Sarah Smith Gallery

3:30-4:30

Masterclass session III

• Lorraine Brugh Great Hall (global music)
• Mark Miller Bethesda Lutheran Church (Gospel accompaniment)
• Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra Marquand Chapel (improvisation for church musicians)

4:30-4:45

Travel time between masterclasses

4:45-5:45

Masterclass session IV (repeat of III)

• Lorraine Brugh Great Hall (global music)
• Mark Miller Bethesda Lutheran Church (Gospel accompaniment)

• Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra Marquand Chapel (improvisation for church musicians)

5:50

Shuttle bus departs from Sterling Divinity Quandrangle for banquet & downtown locations. Stops at Bethedsa Church to pick up masterclass participants there.

6:00

Banquet –  Omni Hotel

Banquet address

Robert Rimbo: They Call Me Mystagogue: Church Music in the 21st Century

Saturday

March 14

Breakfast on your own 

8:45am

St. Thomas More Chapel and Catholic Center at Yale

Plenary Session and Panel Discussion

Marva Dawn: Post-, Inter-, and Pre-ludo

10:15

Coffee Break

11:00

Christ Church Episcopal

Closing Worship

Joy Rogers, preaching / Thomas Murray, organ

12noon

Conference ends