All Episodes

…“Spiritual” music with twist, in observance of All Hallows Eve.

…vibrant recital performances and revelatory conversation with an internationally-reverred virtuoso, one of the last living representatives of a grand playing tradition.

…A special program devoted to performances on theater organs large and small, featuring George Wright, Chris Elliott, Ashley Miller, Stan Kann, Lynn Larsen, Simon Gledhill, Jelani Eddington, Dan Bellomy, Jim Riggs, Walt Strony, and Ron Rhode on the “Mighty Wurlitzer”.

…This modest Indiana town, through the music of one venerable and three recent pipe organ installations, proves itself a gracious and hospitable residence for the King of Instruments.

…Sounds of glory and praise from the 5-manual, 74-stop Visser-Rowland organ in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, reputed to be the largest modern-built mechanical-action organ in the United States.

…Organ music in celebration of the 350th anniversary of the first Swedish settlement in the New World.

…Sonically splendid performances of music by Englishmen performed at the Cathedral of Saint Paul, Minnesota. Participating players include Paul Boehnke, E. Lyle Hagert, James Callahan and Helen Garvey Jensen. Choirs from the Colleges of St. Catherine and St. Thomas, the University of Wisconsin (River Falls), and Macalester College join with an audience of 1500 to make the rafters really ring. Feel free to sing along!

…from coast to coast, music of American composers and performers, including highlights from the 1986 San Anselmo Festival in California.

…continuing explorations of historic American instruments in the midwest, as documented by the Organ Historical Society.

…In search of some “lost chords”, this is an exploration of the varied art of transcription.

…roots organ music from the earliest times plus some modern reflections.

…A Summer quarter sampler of recent releases.

…Performances from special Summer concerts at the Church of the Cross in Lahti, Finland. Recordings from the 1992 Lahti Festival were made available by the Finnish Radio Service.

…A Summer Mecca and an American legend, the famous instrument of the Music Hall in Methuen, Massachusetts provides ample opportunity for resourceful players.

…a celebration of Canadian composers and performers of organ music.

…original music and transcriptions from the 19th and 20th centuries inspired by the spirit of J.S. Bach. Douglas L. Butler plays the 1932 Aeolian-Skinner concert organ at Northrop Auditorium, Minneapolis, and the 1980 Sipe organ at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church.

…a selective survey of the unique contributions to the organists' repertoire by the man who invented the organ concerto, George Frideric Handel.

…for June brides and others, a program of wedding music which includes some of what you'd expect and much than you wouldn't.