Hooked on Boston #1424
…on the eve of the 2014 American Guild of Organists convention, we enjoy historic instruments by the Boston builders Elias and George Hook, recorded in and around Boston during an Organ Historical Society Convention.
Hour 1
FELIX MENDELSSOHN: Sonata in B-flat, Op. 65, no. 4 –Gregory Crowell (1854 Hook/1st Unitarian Church, Jamaica Plain)
J. P. SWEELINCK: Balletto del Granduca –Erik Wm. Suter (1868 Hook/Follen Community Church, Lexington)
JOHANN HANFF: Wär’ Gott nicht mit uns dies Zeit. DANIEL PINKHAM: Pastorale, The Morning Star –Lois Regestein (1859 Hook/1st Baptist Church, Jamaica Plain)
ARTHUR FOOTE: Allegro comodo, fr Suite in D –Richard Hill (1870 Hook/1st Parish Unitarian/Arlington)
CHARLES AVISON: Concerto in D –Brian Jones (1985 Andover, using Hook ‘heritage’ components/1st Baptist Church, Newton Centre)
JOSEPH BONNET: Matin Provençal, fr Poemes d’Automne. ROBERT SCHUMANN: Study in E, Op. 56, no. 3. HENRI MULET: Carillon-Sortie –Thomas Murray (1863 Hook/Immaclate Conception Church, Boston)
Hour 2
JOHANNES WECK: Spanieler Tanz. TRADITIONAL: Hymn, Liebster Jesu –Nancy Granert (1886 Hutchings/Korean Church, Cambridge)
MARJORIE MERRYMAN: Celebration –Julian Wachner (1897 Hutchings-1987 Lahaise/Mission Church, Roxbury Crossing)
J.S. BACH: Pastorale (2 movements). LUCIEN SOUTHARD: Postlude –Scott Huntington (1854 Hook-1898 Hutchings/St. Thomas Aquinas Church, Jamaica Plain)
MARCEL DUPRÉ: 2 Antiphons –Kristin Farmer (1880 Hook/1893 Hutchings/St. Patrick Parish, Roxbury)
CHRISTIAN TEILMAN: Festival March. JAMES WOODMAN: Rock of Ages –Nancy Armstrong, soprano; Victoria Wagner (1853 Simmons/1st Baptist, Framingham)
EUGENE THAYER: Concert Sonata No. 5 in c –George Bozeman (1860 Hook/1st Congregational Church, Woburn)
LEO ABBOTT: Improvisation on Salve Regina –Leo Abbott (1875 Hook/Holy Cross Cathedral, Boston)
summer of 2000OHS Convention (August 10-15)AGO Convention in Boston (June 21-27, 2014)
