An American Organist's Christmas #1350
…performers, composers, arrangers, and instrument builders join in providing music for the holiday celebration.
Hour 1
ROBERT POWELL: 4 Carols, fr A Medieval Carol Celebration –Edie Johnson (1998 Fisk/Furman University, Greenville, SC) Pipedreams Archive (r. 1/6/11)
RICHARD PURVIS: Noël Variations (Chartres) –James Welch (1934 Aeolian-Skinner/Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA) Pipedreams Archive (r. 10/6/13)
RAYMOND DAVELUY: Variations on Ça Bergers, assemblons-nous –Isabelle Demers (1948 Aeolian-Skinner/1st Presbyterian Church, Kilgore, TX) Pipedreams Archive (r. 11/11/13)
NORBERTO GUINALDO: O Little Town of Bethlehem. LEO SOWERBY: In dulci jubilo –Norberto Guinaldo (1966 Reuter/United Methodist Church, Garden Grove, CA) Guinaldo 2008
HUGH MacKINNON: Sleeps Judea fair –Trinity Church Choir/Brian Jones, director; Ross Wood (1960-62 Aeolian-Skinner/Trinity Church, Boston, MA) London 430.456
SAMUEL BARBER (reconstructed by Iain Quinn): Christmas Eve –Charlotte McKechnie, soprano; Emma Dowd, alto; Harvard University Choral Fellows/Edward Jones, conductor; Christian Lane (1930 Skinner/Memorial Church, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA) Pipedreams Archive (r. 11/19/13)
GEORGE WRIGHT: Variations on Jingle Bells –Jonas Nordwall (Wurlitzer/Berkeley Community Theater, Berkeley, CA) NCCATOS 2010
JERRY HERMAN: We need a little Christmas, fr Mame –Scott Foppiano (1928 Robert-Morton/Arlington Theatre, Santa Barbara, CA) SBTOS 2008
Hour 2
LEROY ANDERSON: Sleigh Ride. PIOTR TCHAIKOVSKY: 4 Dances, fr Nutcracker –David Harris, piano; Jelani Eddington (Morton/Van der Molen Studio, Wheaton, IL) RJE Productions 2003
ROBERT ELMORE: God rest ye merry, gentlemen –Norman Mackenzie (1927 Casavant-2001 Schantz/St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church, Mahtomedi, MN) Pipedreams Archive (r. 9/15/13)
SAMUEL METZGER (arr.): 3 Christmas Carols (Joy to the World; Come, thou long-expected Jesus; Angels from the realms of glory) –Samuel Metzger (1974 Ruffatti/Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, Fort Lauderdale, FL) Metzger Music 103
ALUN HODDIOTT: 3 Advent Carols (The coming of the Lord; Saviour of the world; The holy son of God) –Memphis Boychoir and Chamber Choir/John Ayer, director; David Kienzle (1956 Schantz/St. Mary’s Cathedral, Memphis, TN) Pro Organo 7073
ROBERT POWELL: What is this lovely fragrance? RUSSEL SCHULTZ-WIDMAR: Prelude on the Sussex Carol. AUSTIN LOVELACE: Pastorale on What is this lovely fragrance? –Robert Benjamin Dobey (2001 Schoenstein/Grace Episcopal Church, Sheboygan, WI) Pro Organo 7175
BERNARD WAYNE SANDERS: 3 Christmas Chorales (Es ist ein Ros; Adeste fidelis; Kommet ihr Hirten) –Julian Bewig (2002 Fischer & Krämer/St. Mary Church, Emsdetten, Germany) Classicophon 2009-010
JAMES BIERY: Fantasy on O Sanctissima –James Biery (1963 Aeolian-Skinner/Cathedral of Saint Paul, St. Paul, MN) Biery 2008
Check our archive for Christmas programs from past years with an American focus (there are more):
