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I am attempting to edit Kent Tritle's page, with the help of Gerda Arendt. The following is offered for Gerda's editing and approval:


 * Thank you. We will keep it as a reference and keep in mind that Wikipedia is quite uncomfortable when it comes to copyright, therefore I think it is desirable to get the important facts but not the exact wording. Let's keep this version at the bottom as a reference and play above. You may not kow that you can see the history of any page by clicking on "View history" on top, if you do that for Kent Tritle you will see every change with the "edit notice - which would have told you why your changes were reverted, not only by me. (I should have guessed that you were new because of your red user/talk, but there are many others that way, for example from other language Wikipedias who don't bother to install a user page everywhere they edit. I do that in French, Norsk and Italian, not that I speak the languages, but I notice their mistakes in German.) Back to page history: you can see each version (third column from the left), and also the comparisons to the current version (cur) and to the previous version (prev). I suggest that we don't create a new article here, we go step by step, and the last thing to summarize it all is the lead (above the first heading).


 * You please take those statements first, which are wrong, along with a suggestion and a source.


 * 1) Sample he is ... (simple editing: the # sign at the beginning of a new line makes it a new line, the : makes an indent on top of that (common on talk pages), which can be multiple, * is a bullet.)


 * Ask questions!
 * I will go and sift "sources" (websites which supply information valid for the article) from "External links" (other related websites), and leave as references only inline citations. The one from the NYT reads, if you want to format another one, copy and fill accordingly. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:46, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
 * As soon as I wrote it the article which I saw yesterday is no longer accessable. I found another one, this is still a good sample. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:15, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Playground
REFERENCES:
 * Kent Tritle St John (is already in the article, found it today)
 * Kent Tritle


 * Thanks for those. His own website is external link already. I am surprised how much of his article reads like it's from his website. - Will be back in a several hours, choir rehearsal ... Jan Sandström! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:04, 28 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Back, I found Sandström ready for Christmas eve when we will sing it, nice. - Nothing new, I see. - European bios go from start to finish, most articles in Wikipedia that I know also, but American resumes seem to present the latest first, than go back to the studies, right? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:21, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

WQXR

 * WQXR 14 July 2011

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine has chosen WQXR host, conductor and organist Kent Tritle to become its Director of Cathedral Music and Organist. In taking on the appointment, he leaves St. Ignatius Loyola Church, where he has been Director of Music Ministries for 22 years.

Tritle will take over at St. John the Divine on Sept. 1, putting him at the helm of music at what is said to be the largest cathedral in the U.S. He succeeds former director Bruce Neswick, who is leaving to become an organ professor at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

A ubiquitous figure on New York's choral scene, Tritle has been Director of Music Ministries at St. Ignatius Loyola Church in Manhattan since 1989, where he oversaw a program of more than 400 services annually, led the church’s professional choir, and developed a 45-voice volunteer parish choir. With graduate and undergraduate degrees from The Juilliard School in organ performance and choral conducting, Tritle also directs the Oratorio Society of New York and Musica Sacra, and is Director of Choral Activities at the Manhattan School of Music and a member of the graduate faculty of The Juilliard School – capacities in which he will continue.

“It is with great joy that I accept the position of Director of Cathedral Music at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine,” said Tritle in a statement. “I have always loved the Cathedral; its place, its mission, and its musical legacy, and I am thrilled to embark with the Cathedral staff on an adventure to take the music program to even greater heights.”

The music program at the Cathedral, always a primary focus for the Cathedral and The Cathedral School, will be expanded under Tritle’s new leadership. Tritle said he will focus on developing the Cathedral choirs, in both liturgical and concert settings, and raising the profile of the concert series.

Tritle comes to the Cathedral three years after its post-fire rededication and the restoration of its Great Organ, one of the world's most renowned instruments. Built in 1911 by Ernest M. Skinner, and enlarged and rebuilt in 1954 by G. Donald Harrison of The Aeolian Skinner Organ Company, the Great Organ is forged from the genius of two of America's foremost organ-builders.

“I could not be more excited by this opportunity to bring Kent Tritle to the Cathedral –he's a gifted musician and a person of deep faith,” said Cathedral Dean, the Very Reverend Dr. James A. Kowalski in a statement.

As host of The Choral Mix with Kent Tritle, the conductor and organist tackles the vibrant and active world of choral music in New York and beyond. Recent shows have covered national choral styles (French, Italian), the choral world of Brahms, madrigals and the great Bach passions.

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Kent Tritle is the Director of Cathedral Music and Organist at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York City. In addition, the 2011-2012 season marks his seventh season as Music Director of the Oratorio Society of New York, the 200-voice volunteer chorus founded in 1863, and his fifth season as Music Director of Musica Sacra, the longest continuously performing professional chorus in New York City. Sacred Music in a Sacred Space, the concert series founded by Tritle in 1989 at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, is now entering its 23rd season. He leads his final concerts on that series in 2011-2012.

Mr. Tritle is Director of Choral Activities at Manhattan School of Music and is a member of the graduate faculty of The Juilliard School. He is the host of The Choral Mix with Kent Tritle, a weekly hour-long radio program on New York's Classical 105.9 WQXR and www.wqxr.org devoted to choral music.

From 1996 to 2004, Mr. Tritle was Music Director of the Emmy-nominated Dessoff Choirs, winners of the ASCAP/Chorus America award for adventurous programming of contemporary music. Under his direction the Dessoff Choirs performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and Czech Philharmonic, as well as a nationally telecast Live from Lincoln Center concert of Mozart's Requiem.

Mr. Tritle is the organist of the New York Philharmonic and the American Symphony Orchestra. He has often appeared as a guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. As an organ recitalist, Kent Tritle performs regularly in Europe and across the United States. Recital venues have included the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Zurich Tonhalle, the Church of St. Sulpice in Paris, Dresden's Hofkirche, King's College at Cambridge, and Westminster Abbey.

Mr. Tritle has prepared choruses for such esteemed conductors as Philippe Entremont, Christoph von Dohnányi, Leonard Slatkin, Michael Tilson Thomas, Robert Spano, Leon Botstein and Dennis Russell Davies. Among the soloists with whom he has collaborated are singers Renée Fleming, Jessye Norman, Marilyn Horne, Susan Graham, and Sherrill Milnes; cellist Yo-Yo Ma; pianist André Previn; and actor Tony Randall.

Mr. Tritle holds graduate and undergraduate degrees from The Juilliard School in organ performance and choral conducting and has been on the Juilliard faculty since 1996; he is currently directing a graduate practicum on oratorio in collaboration with the school’s Vocal Arts Department and teaching choral conducting. He has been featured in The New York Times and on ABC World News Tonight, National Public Radio, and Minnesota Public Radio.