Pipedreams Live! at the Eastman School (IV) #2444

Hour 1

GEORG MUFFAT:  Toccata septima --Jiae Kwak

CÉSAR FRANCK:  Prelude, Fugue & Variation, Op. 18 --James Jeffery

J. S. BACH:  Piece d’Orgue/Fantasy in G, BWV 572 --Mitchell Miller, organist; Daniel Minnick, pumper

FELIX MENDELSSOHN:  Andante recitativo (iii.) & Allegro assai vivace (iv), fr Organ Sonata in f, Op. 65. No. 1 –David Higgs (Loft 1115)

Selections by Muffat and Bach (r. 11/12/23) and Mendelssohn in this hour were performed on the 2008 GOArt-1776 Casparini replica, and the Franck piece on the 1893 Hook & Hastings, both organs at Christ Church, Rochester, NY. 

Filler – MUFFAT (see above)

Hour 2

CÉSAR FRANCK:  Entrée in E.  JACQUES LEMMENS:  Laudate Dominum.  LOUIS JAMES ALFRED LEFÉBURE-WELY:  Sortie-March in G, fr Op. 148 –Zorica Pavlovic, mezzo-soprano; Christ Church Schola Cantorum/Stephen Kennedy; Joris Verdin (1885 Mustel harmonium) Loft 1126/7

FELIX MENDELSSOHN:  Allegro moderato (i.), fr Sonata in f, Op. 65, no. 1 –David Higgs, organist.  J. S. BACH:  Partita, Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig, BWV 768 –William Porter, organist. STEPHEN KENNEDY:  3-3-33 –Hans Davidsson, William Porter & David Higgs, joint soloists (Christ Church) Loft 1115

Filler – BACH (see above)

All pipe organ performances this hour feature the 2008 GOArt/Yokota organ at Christ Church, Rochester, NY.  This instrument is modelled after a 1776 Casparini instrument in Vilnius, Lithuania. 

Thanks again to engineers Andrew Croucher and Rob Braden for capturing the good sounds, to producer Ruth Phinney of WXXI for her organizational finesse, and to David Higgs and all of the Eastman School faculty for preparing their students and facilitating Michael Barone’s appearances in Rochester.

You will enjoy revisit some of Michael Barone’s previous outings at Eastman:

• Pipedreams Live! in Rochester (I) - #0942 (r. 2/13-14-15/09)

• Pipedreams Live! in Rochester (II) - #1014 (r. 2/13-14-15/09)

• The Eastman Kids at Christ Church (I) - #1742 (r. 4/22/16)

• The Eastman Kids at Christ Church (II) - #1743 (r. 4/22/16)

• The Eastman Kids at Sacred Heart Cathedral - #1806 (r. 4/23/16)

• Pipedreams Live! at Rochester’s Auditorium Theatre (r. 4/24/16)

Continuing support of PIPEDREAMS is provided in loving memory of Lucinda and Wesley Dudley by their family, with additional support from Walter McCarthy, Clara Ueland, and the Greystone Foundation, from Jan and Steve Kirchner, from the Art and Martha Kaemmer Fund of the HRK Foundation, and from listener-contributors to this public radio station.  Support also comes from the Andover Organ Company of Methuen, MA and the Bedient Pipe Organ Company of Roca, NE, members of APOBA, the Associated Pipe Organ Builders of America, a collaborative of designers, creators, and maintainers of pipe organs found in religious and educational institutions, concert halls, and residences throughout the United States and beyond.  An APOBA resource guide and member prospectus is available at APOBA.COM.