Encore: Pipedreams Live! in Rochester (Part 1) #1320
…performances by students and faculty of the Eastman School of Music during a remarkably popular and successful weekend organ festival.
Hour 1
CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR: Finale, from Organ Symphony Number 6 in g, Opus 42, number 2 –Benton Blasingame
GASTON LITAIZE: Lied, from Douze Pieces –Lars Gjerde
J.S. BACH: Fugue in D, BWV 532 –Amanda Mole
STEPHEN KENNEDY: 3-3-33 –Hans Davidsson, David Higgs, and William Porter
STEVEN SEIGART: Improvisation March –Steven Seigart
JOHANN CHRISTIAN HEINRICH RINCK: Flute Concerto, 1st movement –Annie Laver
COLE PORTER: It’s d ’Lovely –Jonathan Ortloff, organ; Allan Ward, drums
Hour 2
JOHANNES BRAHMS: Prelude & Fugue in a –Thatcher Lyman
LOUIS VIERNE: Scherzo, from Organ Symphony Number 5 in A, Opus 47 –Brett Judson
LOUIS VIERNE: Final, from Symphony Number 6 in b, Opus 59 –David Baskeyfield
MAX REGER: Trios –Malcolm Matthews
FELIX MENDELSSOHN: Sonata in f, Opus 65, number 1, movements 3 & 4 –David Higgs
Several years ago, the Eastman-Rochester Organ Initiative (EROI), the Rochester Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, the Rochester Theatre Organ Society and public radio station WXXI-91.5FM collaborated in a three-day organ experience with Pipedreams host Michael Barone. Capacity audiences attended events featuring two new instruments, at Sacred Heart Cathedral (2008 Fritts organ) and Christ Church Episcopal (2008 GoART Casparini Project organ), and a very well-attended afternoon extravaganza featured a Wurlitzer at the Rochester Auditorium Theatre. This is the first of two programs derived from those weekend events. Mr. Ortloff's performances are available on CD from his website. This 'encore' program was broadcast originally in October 2009 as #0942.
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And while you're here, why not visit our Pipedreams tour log of Spain! We just got back and are excited to share with you pictures and stories. Such a beautiful country with an incredibly rich organ culture.
