A great American showplace with a phenomenal and historic theatre organ. Sample sounds from the new CD release. Georgia’s foremost showroom plays host to recitalist Hector Olivera, with historical insights concerning the resident Mighty Möller organ provided by Joe Patten and Bob Van Camp.
Olivera’s performance was recorded during a national convention of the American Guild of Organists A CD release, Vantage CD-6306, featuring Olivera at the Atlanta Fox includes similar repertoire and is available from the Organ Historical Society. The Albright piece, premiered on that occasion, is also sampled via its premiere CD release by Ms. Decker from a very different venue. Our talk with Joe Patten, the energy behind the Fox’s historic Mighty Möller pipe organ, was recorded in his nifty penthouse apartment above the theater.
An intrepid Scandinavian virtuoso and a world-acclaimed singer show us a thing or two about things we thought we knew.
A surprising gift of organ music from a still largely uncharted territory.
Highlighting activities at San Diego’s Balboa Park, the Methuen Music Hall in Massachusetts, and the Wanamaker Grand Court at Macy’s Center City Department Store in Philadelphia.
Enjoying organs and choirs on down the line from Nashville to Memphis to Little Rock.
With superb - read really hot - performances of American music recorded in Texas and Minnesota.
Proving that even if you cannot teach an old dog new tricks, you can play old music on new organs.
A spring survey of recent organ recordings.
A continuing exploration of the unusual compositions of one of the 20th century’s most acclaimed and influential recitalists and teachers, Marcel Dupré.
Words and music from Englishman Simon Preston, one of the world’s most articulate and virtuosic ambassadors for the King of Instruments.
A Minnesota meander to selected Twin Cities area organ sites.
Recital highlights from Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Minnesota.
A collection of composed and improvised settings of Gregorian chants, traditional hymns and chorales for organ, choirs and other instruments.
Profound and soulful meditations, songs of sadness and shipwreck on themes of Titanic import.
Superb and sublime, this master-composer’s music never fails to take the organ to its expressive limits.
Performances by the top three prizewinners in recital at Jack Singer Concert Hall.
Today’s performers were winners of the Concerto Award and Recital Award, $25,000 each, plus the Bach Prize, $5,000; the Improvisation Prize, $5,000; and the Encore Prize, $3,000. Also, each of the ten finalists received a $1,500 award for participating in this last cycle of the Competition. The next Calgary Competition will be held in 2002. A third broadcast of 1998 competitors will air later in this series.
View some images from the competition: Image 1 | Image 2 | Image 3
Performances by and commentary from finalists in the world’s most munificent contest for organists, in recital at Jack Singer Concert Hall.
Every four years during a 10-day festival event, a select group of the world’s top young musicians vies for prizes and awards valued at more than $80,000. These performances, recorded by the CBC, all feature the Carthy Organ, a 1987 Casavant at Jack Singer Concert Hall. Two additional programs from the Calgary Competition will be broadcast, the second one next week.
View some images from the competition: Image 1 | Image 2 | Image 3
Inaugural-series recital performances on the new Casavant organ at Central Michigan University.
