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A potpourri of popular selections presented by the organists and choir of the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah.

We savor a splendid and monumental new instrument, created in a trans-continental collaboration between two American organbuilding firms, C.B. Fisk of Gloucester, MA, and Manuel Rosales of Los Angeles, CA for Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music in Houston, Texas.

Turn-of-the-century instruments in the neighborhood of Louisville and across the Indiana border are featured at an Organ Historical Society convention.

Finalists in the 25th Anniversary Ruth and Clarence Mader Memorial Scholarship Competition perform, plus others.

Resident musicians James and Marilyn Biery perform at the Catholic Cathedral in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Three players explore the sonic resources of three instruments in one of North Carolina’s most prominent universities. Visit the extraordinary Duke Chapel web site.

Beginning the New Year with a sampler of recent recordings.

A summing up of the past year, with celebrations and memorial tributes, highlights of some exceptional recordings, and some glimpses into the future.

Celebratory anthems and organ solos, domestic and imported, for the holiday season.

A coast-to-coast collection of memorable and mesmerizing manipulations of seasonal songs.

From Provence to Poland and New York City to Norway, we offer a global tour of compositions on Christmas themes.

Musical meditations for Advent on themes of expectation and wonderment.

An extravagantly colorful autumn collection of recent recordings in review.

We take the psalmists directive, at least for few moments, and venture Beside Still Waters on our next Pipedreams program by listening to music by American composers. Douglas Cleveland plays Dan Locklair’s Windows of Comfort… a series of movements inspired by Tiffany stained glass window scenes. David Higgs presents the world premiere of Three Meditations, by Augusta Read Thomas, and Mary Preston joins the Colorado Symphony for a colorful and sizzling new Concerto for Organ and Orchestra by Gerald Near which might make you stand up and shout bravo. From alpha to omega, we explore the living art of colorful contemporary repertoire with Douglas Cleveland, David Higgs, and Mary Preston as our soloist guides. From an Organist’s Guild Convention in Denver, it’s the American Muse at work, this week on Pipedreams.

A first program of highlights from the 1998 National Biennial Convention of the American Guild of Organists.

Transcribed, transformed, and untraditional organ works by Bach, Beethoven and Brahms.

Celebrating a recent recorded summary of historic instruments and young performing talent in France.

Whether bullish or bearish, the musical environment in Washington, DC is enlivened by the sounds of instruments such as these.