The Sounds of Summer Suspended? #2022
…we highlight a few of the famous pipe organs for which the summer season usually is particularly active.
Hour 1
RICHARD WAGNER: Parsifal Fanfares –Monty Maxwell (Midmer-Losh/Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, NJ) PD Archive (r. 7/3/19)
ARTHUR SULLIVAN: The Yeoman of the Guard Overture –Peter Richard Conte (Wanamaker organ/Macy’s Center City Store, Philadelphia, PA) PD Archive (r. 6/2/18)
J. S. BACH: Toccata in F, BWV 540 –Michael Murray (1947 Aeolian-Skinner/Memorial Music Hall, Methuen, MA) Telarc 80049
EDWIN H. LEMARE: Finale, fr Organ Symphony in g, Op. 35 –Frederick Hohman (1912-1926 Austin/Kotzschmar Memorial Organ, Merrill Auditorium, Portland, ME) Pro Organo 7117
HUMPHREY STEWART: Spanish Military March –Carole Williams (1915 Austin/Spreckels Organ Pavilion, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA) SOS 8
GIACOMO PUCCINI (trans. Ennis-Conte): Nessun dorma, fr Turandot –Andrew Ennis, flugelhorn; Peter Richard Conte (1915 Austin/Spreckels Organ Pavilion, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA) PD Archive (r. 7/22/19)
LOUIS JAMES ALFRED LEFEBURE-WELY: 2 Pieces (Pastorale in G; Sortie in E-flat) –Gordon Turk (Hope-Jones, expanded/Ocean Grove Auditorium, Ocean Grove, NJ) Dorian 90267
Filler – BACH (see above)
Hour 2
G. F. HANDEL: Air & Hornpipe, fr Water Music. JOHN KNOWLES PAINE: Variations on the Austrian Hymn –Richard Erickson (1932 Barton-1976 Berschdorf/Hibbing High School Auditorium, Hibbing, MN) PD Archive (r. 6/21/79)
ROBERT CUNDICK: Divertimento –Carlton Russell (1860 Hook/St. John's Church, Bangor, ME) St. John’s Concerts 101-97
JAMES BECKEL: Voluntary in C. FELIX MENDELSSOHN: Fugue in C, fr Sonata No. 2, Op. 65, no. 2 –Thomas Dressler (1847 Ferris/Auditorium, Round Lake, NY) Round Lake 2001
DANIEL PINKHAM: Pastorale for Harp & Organ –Sandra Bittermann, harp; Susan Armstrong (1947 Aeolian-Skinner/Memorial Music Hall, Methuen, MA) AFKA 542
HERBERT HOWELLS: Prelude Sine Nomine. SIGFRID KARG-ELERT: Inferno, fr Symphonic Chorale, Op. 87. no. 2 –Christopher Johnson (Aeolian-Skinner/Riverside Church, New York, NY) JAV 168
Filler – LEFEBURE-WELY Sortie in E-flat
For the latest information regarding performances at these venues, check their websites.
• Boardwalk Hall Historic Organ Restoration Committee
• Friends of the Wanamaker Organ
• Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ
• Ocean Grove Auditorium Organ
