Variations on America #1626
…music by our resident composers always makes a good impression.
Hour 1
CHARLES IVES: Variations on America –E. Power Biggs (1875 Hutchings, Plaisted & Co./North Universalist Chapel Society, Woodstock, VT) Columbia Masterworks MS-6161
GORDON YOUNG: Variations on an American Hymn –Robert Scoggin (1958 Möller+Sipe rebuild/Christ UMC, Rochester, MN) Pipedreams Archive recorded May 5, 1992
HAROLD FRIEDELL: Cantabile, from Symphony for Organ –William Trafka (1971 Aeolian-Skinner/St. Bartholomew Episcopal, New York, NY) Pro Organo 7084
DUDLEY BUCK: Rondo-Caprice, Op. 35 –James Hammann (1866 E.& G.G. Hook; 1923 Hook & Hastings; 2006 Quimby/St. John Episcopal, Quincy, IL) Raven OAR-916
SAMUEL LONG: Voluntary in A –Christina Harmon (1874 Garret House/Lake Linden Heritage Center, MI) Raven OAR-928
EVERETT TITCOMB: Regina Coeli –Christina Harmon (1913 Austin/Trinity Episcopal Church, Houghton, MI) Raven OAR-928
POWELL WEAVER: Passacaglia, from Copper Country Sketches –Christina Harmon (1905 Kilgen/St. Paul the Apostle, Calumet, MI) Raven OAR-928
Filler – YOUNG (see above)
Hour 2
STEPHEN PAULUS: Three Temperaments –James Higdon (1996 Wolff/Bales Recital Hall, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS) DCD Records 2001
SAMUEL BARBER: Variations on Wondrous Love, Op. 34 –Iain Quinn (1962 Harrison & Harrison/Coventry Cathedral, England, UK) Chandos 10489
SCOTT JOPLIN: The Entertainer –Gabriel Dessauer (1985 Mayer/St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden, Germany) Dessauer 2001
DANIEL PINKHAM: Solemnities for Trombone and Organ [2000] –Bron Wright, trombone; Abbey Hallberg Siegfried (1969 Noack/Trinity Lutheran, Worcester, MA) Arsis 143
JOHN BEHNKE: Partita on Ebenezer –John Behnke (1989 Steiner-Reck/Concordia University Chapel, Mequon, WI) Behnke 12001
Filler – IVES Variations (see above)
This ‘encore’ broadcast aired originally in June 2012 as Program #1225.
