…a time for celebration, reflection, and projection of new expectations for the new season ahead.
…special music from around the globe amplifies and illuminates the good tidings of Christmas.
…home-grown performers, composers, and instruments celebrate the Festival of the Nativity.
…a wrap up to this year’s bicentennial celebrations with a look at some of the composer’s best and least-known works for organ.
…a spirit of intimate reflection and anticipation is inherent in music for the weeks before Christmas.
…what better way to show appreciation for the bounties of life than through melodious outbursts of joy.
Imaginative composers and performers explore the varied opportunities of the King of Instruments.
…highlight performances from Montréal by winners of the 2008 Concours International d’Orgue du Canada, with commentary from CIOC artistic director John Grew.
…another go-round of compositional ‘sweets’ dedicated to the organ’s many moods and styles.
…some musical memories featuring artists and instruments enjoyed during the 2009 Pipedreams Tour.
…performances by students and faculty of the Eastman School of Music during a remarkably popular and successful weekend organ festival.
…music and conversation featuring internationally touring British recitalist Christopher Herrick, in celebration of his 40th anniversary as a recording artist.
…selections from recital recordings on the Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ [2006 Dobson] at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia.
…the collaborative efforts of performers and recording engineers, and the splendid sonorities of fine instruments in good rooms, work in accord to reveal unusual repertoire.
…a sample of some of the different ‘voices’ with which recently installed instruments in the United States speak.
Performances from inaugural season concerts featuring the University of Chicago’s recently renovated 1928 Skinner organ.
…selected performances recorded in conjunction with the 2006 National Biennial Convention of the American Guild of Organists.
…recitals, session recordings, and concerts collected from across the nation provide a superb display of the organist’s art in action.
…in solo, concerted music, and with huge choir and orchestra, England’s largest concert pipe organ always holds its own at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
…refreshing scores for organ plus other wind instruments, including trumpet, flute, saxophone, horn and pan-pipes.
…In swinging Bach arrangements, Fats Waller improvisations, and original new scores, the King of Instruments lets it all hang out.
…courtesy of the BBC, these performances come direct from this summer’s festival season at the Royal Albert Hall, London’s premier gathering place for classical music.
…works by J.S.B., variants on Bach themes, and music inspired by his example.
…back in the depths of history, the number ‘7’ was deemed lucky, or at least significant, and our music proves the point.
…performances featuring soloists, composers and instruments recorded in and around Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota.
…an international sampler and selective review of some of the latest organ music CD releases.
…the rich resource of our nation’s own compositional talent store gives our ears and hearts much for which to be thankful.
…revisiting old haunts with Joseph McCabe and friends of the Organ Historical Society.
…you can’t beat the sonorous supremacy of the famous Willis and Walker pipe organs in this famous-for-its-music city.
…in tribute to the Royal Canadian College of Organists, RCCO, in its centenary year, a program of Canadian composers, performers, and instruments.
…both the American Theatre Organ Society, July 1-5, and the Organ Historical Society, July 5-10, will hold their 2009 annual conventions in and around Cleveland, Ohio. After hearing these sounds, you’ll want to attend.
…in celebration of the ’founding‘ of the Christian Church, music on themes for Pentecost.
…a debut appearance of the William J. Gillespie Concert Organ (C.B. Fisk Opus 130) in the new arts center in Costa Mesa, CA.
…in the company of guest commentator and biographer Kerala Snyder, we explore the profoundly influential music of the “Great Dane” of the German Baroque organ scene.
…an ongoing tribute to some of our native composers who know how best to exploit the pipe organ’s colors and agility.
…tune in for a modest five-century survey of the history of organ music in Italy.
…in which we blend a huge romantic pipe organ into a full symphonic wind and percussion ensemble, with clearly audible results!
…concert performances and commentary make clear why audiences everywhere are beguiled by Hector Olivera’s irrepressible and personable virtuosity.
…celebrate the springtime festival of rebirth with anthems ancient and modern and sonorous solos old and new.
…musical portraits of the progressive pomp and impending peril which comprise the dramatic narration of Holy Week.
…the King of Instruments speaks clearly, whether in consort with a single additional instrument, or roaring in chorus with a full symphony orchestra.
…in recently discovered scores, unusual arrangements, or pieces forgotten in dark corners, the genius of Johann Sebastian Bach always delights, born March 21, 1685.
…from Gounod to Gershwin, we offer a collection of melodious, mobile music guaranteed to keep you on your toes.
…organists and their music are everywhere around us, as this program of live and lively performances demonstrates.
…one of the most popular and influential composer-performers of the Baroque era continues to inspire in the 21st century.
…a dramatic, romantic French organ symphony with some of its composer’s other thoughts regarding it included.
…finalists in the 2008 Miami International Organ Competition play the Ruffatti pipe organ at Church of the Epiphany.
…composers from four centuries create energetic musical manifestations of a timeless, singular song of praise.
…we celebrate composer, recitalist, promoter, and creator of the most important organ works after Bach, on the occasion of his bicentennial: Felix Mendelssohn [1809-1847].
…instrument, artist, and audience participate in music improvised, played and sung.
…a prelude to the upcoming spring Pipedreams Organ Tour in the land of Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms and Bruckner.
…begin a New Year with a multi-national survey of sonically beguiling recent organ recordings.
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