Been Back to Boston? #0032
Listen, my children, and you shall hear On this week’s Pipedreams program, soloists Leo Abbott, Tom Murray, Fred MacArthur, Catharine Crozier, and Brian Jones will take you on a tour of historic instruments in Beantown - from the immense Aeolian-Skinner organ at the Christian Science Mother Church, the E.M. Skinner instrument at Old South Church moved from Saint Paul, MN, and the historic Hooks in Jamaica Plain and the Immaculate Conception Church.
EUGÈNE GIGOUT: Grand Choeur Dialogué –Brian Jones (1863 E. & G.G. Hook/Immaculate Conception RCC, Boston, MA) AFKA SK-501
FELIX MENDELSSOHN: Sonata Number 4 in B-flat, Opus 65, movements 1, 2 & 4 –Thomas Murray (1854 E. & G.G. Hook/First Unitarian, Jamaica Plain, MA) Raven OAR-390
GEORGE WHITING: Etude in d –Leo Abbott (1875 E. & G.G. Hook & Hastings/Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Boston, MA) AFKA SK-519
GEORGE FAXON (arranged): The Star-Spangled Banner. NANCY PLUMMER FAXON: 3 Pieces: Fanfare Number 2; Adagio, from Miniature Suite for String Quartet; Toccata –Frederick MacArthur (1921 E.M. Skinner/Old South Church, Boston, MA) Pro Organo CD 7051
BENJAMIN BRITTEN: Festival Te Deum, Opus 32. ROBERT SIROTA: Gloria and Agnus Dei, from Mass [1990, premiere] –The Boston Cecilia Chorus, Donald Teeters, conductor; Barbara Bruns (1921 E.M. Skinner/Old South Church, Boston, MA) Pipedreams Archive recorded June 29, 1990
PATRICK HADLEY: My beloved spake. CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD: Te Deum Laudamus in B-flat –Trinity Choir, Brian Jones, conductor; H. Ross Wood (1962 Aeolian-Skinner/Trinity Church, Boston, MA) Gothic G49071
LEO SOWERBY: Passacaglia, from Symphony in G –Catharine Crozier (1949 Aeolian-Skinner/Boston’s First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, MA) Pipedreams Archive recorded June 26, 1990
This year’s annual convention of the Organ Historical Society will be held in Boston between August 16-23. These and several dozen other instruments will be featured. For more information, immediately contact the OHS. Several of the included recordings were made for PIPEDREAMS during the 1990 national convention of the American Guild of Organists. Others are available through the OHS.
