Americana Revisited, Part 1: Americana Visited and Revisited #9129 (Encore of #8454)
…another in an occasional but continuing series of programs featuring recordings from the archives of the Organ Historical Society and comments from the former OHS executive director William VanPelt. Among the historic instruments in this broadcast are several by the excellent but little known St. Louis builder John George Pfeffer.
J.S. BACH: Prelude and Fugue in D, S. 532 -Robert F. Bates (1861 E. & G. G. Hook/Holy Cross Catholic Church, Marine, City, MI)
GERARDUS SCRONX: Echo Fantasy -Lois Regenstein (1872 E & G. G. Hook & Hastings/St. Charles Boromeo, Woburn, MA)
ALBERT ALAIN: Scherzo -John Courtier (1892 Jardine/Trinity Episcopal Church, Detroit, MI)
CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR: Allegro, fr Symphonie Gothique, Op. 70 -Thomas M. Kuras (1873 Odell-1973 Worden/St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Detroit, MI)
J.S. BACH: Prelude in A, S. 536 -John Ditto (1890 Pfeffer/St. Patrick’s Church, Catawissa, MO)
GABRIEL MENALT: Tiento de dos manos -Richard Haas (1865 Pfeffer/St. Salvadore Lutheran Church, Venedy, IL)
CLARENCE EDDY: Prelude in a minor -Rosalind Mohnsen (1879 Pfeffer/St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Fort Madison, IA)
MATTHEW CAMIDGE: 2 Gavottes (1862 Pfeffer/St Mary’s Church, Moselle, MO). EARL MILLER: Improvisation. (1879 Pfeffer, St. Mary’s Church, Fort Madison, IA)
DUDLEY BUCK: On the Coast -Samuel Walter (1870 E. & G. G. Hook/1st Unitarian Church, Woburn, MA)
ANONYMOUS: 16th Century Dances -John Skelton (1847 Stevens/First Parish Meeting House, Shirley Center, MA)
LOUIS MEYER: The Open Diapason March -Earl Miller (1862 Pfeffer/St Mary’s Church, Moselle, MO)
Recordings on the Pfeffer organs were issued by the Organ Historical Society on a 2-disc LP album, The Pfeffer Odyssey (OHS 200). Others were derived from tapes of various OHS conventions.
