1727 König organ at Steinfeld Basilica, Germany

To know this instrument is to celebrate the totality of its wide-ranging repertoire, and one of today’s most broad-minded organists is Professor Craig Cramer from Notre Dame University in Indiana. He takes equal pleasure in contemporary compositions and historic music played on period instruments. We’ll hear him perform Bach in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Steinfeld, Germany. We also hear him in recital on the 19th-century Johnson organ at a convent in Mankato, Minnesota and on the new installation at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma. Craig shares his insights and experiences gained during his international recital tours.

…music by offspring, pupils, and later enthusiasts for whom the music of Johann Sebastian Bach was both beacon and benediction.

…you might think them an odd couple, but Anton Heiller from 20th century Austria and Gottfried August Homilius from 18th century Saxony both knew a thing or two about writing for the organ.

…Historic monastic churches in Europe have provided fertile beds for organ music over many centuries.

…Probing and poetical musical impressions for Holy Week.

…Advent Awaiting ... music in anticipation of the Christmas festival.

…from triumphal entry through trial and tribulation to redemption, a collection of liturgical and other music of ceremony and spirituality.

An international collection of arrangements for instruments and voices.

Collecting belligerent and beatific samples from a sonorous universe of contrasted musics old and new.

Performances by and conversations with American organist Susan Carol Woodson, a Memphis native who lives in Belgium.

A collection of composed and improvised settings of Gregorian chants, traditional hymns and chorales for organ, choirs and other instruments.