…In tribute to the patron saint of music, concert performances on the recently installed, multi-faceted pipe organ at the Cathedral of Saint Cecilia in Omaha, Nebraska.
…a solo appearance by one of America’s most prominent young recitalists, featuring the Fred J. Cooper Memorial Pipe Organ [2006 Dobson] at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia.
…American organist Frederick Swann plays the first public recital on the unique 109-rank Glatter-Götz-Rosales organ in Los Angeles…and Samuel S. Soria offers a side trip to the nearby Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, too.
…performances from the 2002 National Convention of the American Guild of Organists.
…in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Minnesota Statehood, May 11, 1858, we share varied works by Minnesota composers of today.
…a preview of some of the performers to be featured in this summer’s national convention of the American Guild of Organists.
…we trace a trail from before Bach to Bingham and beyond, with a collection of music ‘in the manner Baroque’.
…the king of instruments enjoys a comfortable visit to these residences of the rich and sometimes famous, including a music teacher, an organ builder, an industrialist, a dentist and a duke!
…these gifted youthful performers have earned awards during the last four National Young Artist Competitions in Organ Performance sponsored by the American Guild of Organists.
…instruments historic and modern in rooms where royalty communed and consorted.
…a visit with world-travelling New-Zealand-born British recitalist and teacher Dame Gillian Weir.
…celebratory music for choirs and instruments in observance of the springtime Christian Easter.
…music beyond the standard repertoire, some of it recently discovered, some of questionable authenticity, but all sounding splendid on an international collection of ‘Bach’s Royal Instruments’.
…a further foray into some home-grown repertoire from the 20th century for the ‘king of instruments’.
…birds and bees, squirrels and wolves bring smile as we listen to the sounds of this fanciful bestiary.
…history accords the ‘invention’ of the organ concerto to Handel, whose example inspired many more composers in his adopted homeland.
…these talented musicians, all in their twenties, demonstrate again that the future of the pipe organ is in good hands.
…we’ve circled the globe to bring you this collection of concert performances featuring the pipe organ in solo, in ensemble, with piano, and with choir.
