1987 Casavant organ at the Jack Singer Concert Hall, Canada
1987 Casavant organ at the Jack Singer Concert Hall, Canada
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The Road to Calgary #9102

…Highlights from the recent and auspicious Calgary International Organ Festival celebrating a new Canadian concert hall and instrument, outstanding talent, and an enterprising community.

CHARLES IVES: Variations on "America"  Simon Preston

CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR: "Allegro vivace", from Organ Symphony No. 5  Gillian Weir

PETR EBEN: Finale, from "Sunday Music"  Heidi Emmert

NICOLAS de GRIGNY: Piece, from "Livre d'orgue". MAURICE DURUFLÉ: Scherzo, Op. 2  Matthew Dirst

LOUIS VIERNE: Finale, from Organ Symphony No. 6  Kevin Bowyer

MICHAEL COLGRASS: "Snow Walker" (premiere)  Jonathan Biggers; Calgary Philharmonic/Mario Bernardi, conductor

These excerpts, presented through the cooperation of the CBC, were taped during the week-long event in November 1990. Two judges and the four prize-winners are heard playing the 110-rank Casavant organ.