The Dallas Competition (Part 2)

Finalists of the 1997 Dallas International Organ Competition play at the Meyerson Symphony Center.

Program Broadcast dates:

• February 23, 1998

Links and Resources

For specific information concerning the competition itself (and its future), contact:

Dallas International Organ Competition
c/o Dallas Symphony Association
Meyerson Symphony Center
2301 Flora Street (Suite 300)
Dallas, TX 75201-2413

Music played in the program

BACH: Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C, S. 564 –Yuichiro Shiina (Japan)

BACH: Fantasy & Fugue in g, S. 542 –Holger Gehring (Germany)

BACH: Prelude & Fugue in e, S. 548 –S. Wayne Foster (USA)

The first prize award of $25,000 makes the Dallas Competition the best-paid such event for organists in the entire world. Recordings featuring the Dallas Meyerson Symphony Center Fisk pipe organ are available in a number of different offerings (NONE of them featuring any of the competitors in the event). These may be had through Gothic Records (800-735-4720, two albums featuring Mary Preston, Meyerson organ resident-artist, exceptional talent). Other discs have been produced on the Dorian (Jongen Symphonie Concertante for Organ and Orchestra, with soloist Jean Guillou and the Dallas Symphony) and Reference Recordings (Dallas Wind Symphony conducted by Frederick Fennell, Pomp and Pipes, with organist Paul Riedo) labels.