Jeffrey H. Rickard

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  Jeffrey Rickard, recently retired director of choral activities at the University of Redlands, plans to stay activeRetired instructor still part of Inland music scene | Things To Do | PE.com | Southern California News | News for Inland Southern California
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  Jeffrey Rickard retired in June after a long career at the University of Redlands, but he won't be disappearing from the Inland music scene.
  
  "I was born in Sierra Madre, in the Pasadena area, and I started school here in 1960 and I haven't really been out of the area except for four years in the Air Force.I consider myself something of a native of the Inland Empire, particularly Redlands," he said.
  
  He started teaching music at the University of Redlands in 1970 and had been director of choral activities there since 1980.He has been music minister at Trinity Episcopal Church in Redlands since 1971 and plans to continue in that position.In addition to conducting, he plays organ and piano.
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  Jeffrey Rickard retired from the University of Redlands but he'll still play part in the local music scene.
  
  "I've outlasted four clergy," Rickard, 66, said."I'm on my fifth priest right now."
  
  He will also continue as music director of the Community Chorus of Redlands, which he started in 1979, and he is planning to form a smaller group out of that chorus.
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  Which, you know ... Martin Bernheimer never gave a good review to much of anything," Rickard said.
  
  From London to Mission Inn
  
  St. Paul's Cathedral in London, where he led the university's Chapel Singers, is the most famous venue he has performed in, he said.
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  Over the summer, Rickard traveled with his wife, Margaret, to the Tanglewood Music Festival in Lennox, Mass., where they saw Margaret's son Michael play French horn with principals of the Boston Symphony."So it was quite a thrill to be back there for concert after concert in the shed to watch him play with these guys," Rickard said.
  
  With more time on his hands, he plans to enjoy some of the other musical attractions in the Inland region such as the Riverside County Philharmonic and the San Bernardino Symphony.
  
  "I've been so cloistered at the University of Redlands, I'm going to find out more about that," he said.
  
  He also plans to pursue some more physical activities."I like to play golf.I've just rediscovered my clubs," he said.
  
  And he joined a health club "so I can get my body in some sort of shape to be able to do that.And I hope to be able to go sailing.So it isn't going to be all sitting behind a piano or an organ -- get out there and get some exercise," he said.

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  Jeffrey Rickard, director.

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  University of Redlands Chapel Singers present the office of compline, directed by Jeffrey H. Rickard, director of choral activities at the university, 7:30 p.m. in the university's Memorial Chapel.
  
  Final performance of LifeHouse Theater's production of "To Kill a Mockingbird," 2:15 p.m. at the theater at 1135 N. Church St., Redlands.

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  Rickard to take a bow with Brahms next weekend
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  if(requestedWidth > 0){ document.getElementById('articleViewerGroup').style.width = requestedWidth + "px"; document.getElementById('articleViewerGroup').style.margin = "0px 0px 10px 10px"; } REDLANDS - The Redlands Symphony Orchestra will present Johannes Brahms' magnificent "Ein Deutsches Requiem" with guest conductor Jeffrey Rickard in a program titled "Beloved Brahms" at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 12, and 3 p.m. Sunday, April 13.
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  Conductor, organist and composer Jeffrey Rickard is retiring from the University of Redlands at the end of the 2007-2008 season.Rickard has taught at the University of Redlands, his alma mater, since 1970 and has served as director of choral activities since 1980.He is best known a director of the Feast of Lights.As a composer, his works have been recorded by the St. Olaf Choir and the Camerata Singers.
  
  Throughout his career, Rickard has prepared many choirs for the Redlands Symphony Orchestra.As a retirement gift, the symphony has asked him lead the orchestra.
  
  "When Jeff announced his plans to retire, we asked him what special things he wanted to accomplish before retiring," said Andrew Glendening, director of the University of Redlands School of Music.
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  Jeff Rickard, conductor

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  They will be accompanied by Jeffrey H. Rickard, music director of the Bowl's "The Music Man" and 36-year artistic director of the University of Redlands Feast of Lights and founding director of the Community Chorus of Redlands.
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  Also starring are five of Redlands' top longtime accompanists: Kim Hoeptner, Lorene Forsyth, Judith Johansen, Jeffrey Rickard and Harriet Talbert, known for her piano medley arrangements (turn-of-the-century melodies will precede the program as Museum Association members are seated).

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  REDLANDS - The Kevin R. Blandford Memorial Pipe Band will present an afternoon of bagpipes and drums, with special guest organist Jeffrey H. Rickard and uilleann piper Richard Cook, 4 p.m. Sunday, March 29, in the University of Redlands Memorial Chapel.
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  Organist Jeffrey H. Rickard, known for both his musical arrangements and choral conducting at the University of Redlands, will play the chapel's Casavant organ.

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  Retired University of Redlands professor Jeff Rickard will lead the Community Chorus of Redlands in a medley of Civil War-era music.

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  Jeff Rickard has said the last word of his "long goodbye" to a 38-year career at the University of Redlands.
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  You also know that Jeff Rickard has conducted the university's annual Christmas service, the Feast of Lights, ever since 1970, that he retired from his teaching and choral conducting at the university at the end of this school year and that he received an honorary doctor of sacred music degree at commencement May 24.
  
  He also was the speaker for the College of Arts and Sciences commencement, and with that speech said his last official goodbye.
  
  The year of goodbyes began with the Feast of Lights in December, the last he would direct.
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  I'm not sure I have the words to describe the joy of singing in the midst of that group of about 150 Chapel Singers, from those who sang with Jeff when he was a student at Redlands in the 1960s, to his first students from the 1970s and on through the '80s and '90s and this year's students.
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  After we had sung the last notes of "God be with you till we meet again," many of us with tears in our eyes, Jeff said quietly to the choir, "Thanks be to God for you and these wonderful 38 years."
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  After every name was called and every student walked across the stage to receive a diploma, after the closing of commencement with the singing of the "Alma Mater," Jeff stepped forward and led one more chant.Not anything medieval or monastic but a spirited yell of "Och Tamale gazolly gazump, dayump dayadee yahoo" and on to the last "Rah, Rah, Redlands!"of the university's 1920s chant.
  
  And now that the long goodbye is over, what comes next?
  
  The first thing that came next was the Community Chorus' annual Family Music Festival of folksongs, spirituals and Americana, the day after commencement.
  
  Among other things, Jeff will continue to direct the Community Chorus, which he founded in 1979, and now that he's retired, he is making plans to take the Community Chorus in new directions.

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  Jeffrey Rickard - Community Leader

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  Jeffrey Rickard, a UR professor and alum, served as the commencement speaker.
  
  Rickard, who earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from UR, has taught at the university since 1971.Since then, he has been a driving force behind the Feast of Lights Christmas concert, which marked its 60th year in 2007.He also has been director of choral activities since 1980.
  
  Rickard also serves as minister of music at Trinity Episcopal Church and as musical director for a number of summer musical theater presentations.
  
  border='0'Prior to his commencement speech, Rickard was given Graduates Lindsey Neilson and Bryan Plummer perform a duet of When You Believe as a musical interlude during the commencement ceremony Saturday. (Jesse B. Gill/Redlands Daily Facts)
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  Amidst a collection of anecdotes describing his time as a student at UR, Rickard encouraged the graduates with allegories, most of them musical in nature.He encouraged the graduates to continue the habits of artistry and repetition in their lives away from the university.
  
  "Through our artistry, our repetitions, our teaching, we have had a wonderful, wonderful ride," Rickard said.

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