An American Organist’s Christmas #0751
…from Ann Arbor to Atlanta, whether on campus or at home, in church or theater, organ music for the season resounds with glad tidings!
Part 1
PAUL MANZ: Variations on Vom Himmel hoch –Paul Manz (1965 Schlicker/Mount Olive Lutheran, Minneapolis, MN) Manz Music CD-933
ROBERT EDWARD SMITH: Three Christmas Hymn-preludes: Puer nobis; O come, little children; Joy to the world –Robert Edward Smith (1995 Lively-Fulcher/Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, Washington, DC) World Library CD-3027
LARRY VISSER: Verses on Silent Night –James Kibbie (2000 Letourneau/Kibbie-Christensen Residence, Ann Arbor, MI) Private issue
PAUL LINDSLEY THOMAS: Christmas Prelude, Unto us a boy is born –Elizabeth and Raymond Chenault (1992 Ruffatti/Spivey Hall, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA) Gothic G49084
Part 2
SAMMY CAHN & JULE STYNE: The Christmas Waltz. FELIX BERNARD: Winter Wonderland –David Harris, piano; Jelani Eddington (Van der Molen Studio/Wheaton, IL) RJE Productions 2003
RICHARD PURVIS: Greensleeves –Tom Hazleton (1928 Kimball/Dickinson High School Auditorium, Wilmington, DE) DTOS CD-302
JOHNNY MARKS: Rudolf, the Red-nosed Reindeer. JAY LIVINGSTON & RAY EVANS: Silver Bells. WALTER ROLLINS & STEVE NELSON: Frosty the Snowman –Larry Kass (1928 Wurlitzer/Kass Residence, Hinckley, OH) Razzmatazz 1998
DANIEL GAWTHROP: Christmas Cantata, This Child, This King, selections –Utah State University Chamber Singers, Will Kesling, conductor; Tamara Bischoff-Oswald, harp; Rebecca Parkinson (1977 Holtkamp/Chase Fine Arts Center, Logan, UT) Integra Classic CD-951
Part 3
ROBERT J. POWELL: He is born. ROBERT BENJAMIN DOBEY: Meditation on Silent Night. RICHARD LEIBERT: Under the Christmas Mistletoe –Robert Benjamin Dobey (2003 Schoenstein/Grace Episcopal, Sheboygan, WI) Pro Organo CD 7175
GERRE HANCOCK: Improvisations on In dulci jubilo, SI saw three ships come sailing in, and Divinum mysterium –Gerre Hancock (1956 Aeolian-Skinner/St. Thomas Episcopal, New York, NY) Gothic G49109
Filler –PAUL MANZ (see above)
