Summer Music #1734
…from around the world, marvelous melodies and evocations of this season of universal pleasure.
Hour 1
FELIX MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture –played automatically by Boston University’s John. R. Silber Symphonic Organ (Skinner and Aeolian-Skinner/Fuller Building, Boston University, MA) Pipedreams Archive (r. 8/1987)
MICHEL LeGRAND: Summer me, winter me –Dan Bellomy (Wurlitzer/Paramount Theatre, Brooklyn, NY) Cambria 1108
GEORGE GERSHWIN: Summertime, fr Porgy & Bess –Walt Strony (Wurlitzer/Wheaton Fox Studio, Wheaton, IL) WFS 2006
NILS LINDBERG: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? –James D. Hicks (2013 Tostareds Kyrkorgelfabrik/Kalmar Cathedral, Sweden) Pro Organo 7271
MAURI VIITALA: Canon, Partita & Fugue on Sen Suven Suloisuutta/The Sweetness of the Summer –James D. Hicks (1980 Virtanen/Turku Cathedral, Finland) Pro Organo 7279
Hour 2
LEROY ANDERSON: Summer Skies –Jelani Eddington (Wurlitzer/Sanfilippo Music Salon/Barrington, IL) RJE Productions 1908B
DIMITRI TIOMKIN: The green leaves of summer –Don Baker (Wurlitzer/Paramount Theater, NYC) POP 131
SONNY BURKE: Midnight Sun –Jelani Eddington (Wurlitzer/Saunders Music Room, Zanesville, OH) RJE Productions 1677
STEPHEN SONDHEIM: Send in the clowns, fr A Little Night Music –Ralph Wolf, piano; Rob Richards (Wurlitzer/Nethercutt Collection, San Sylmar, CA) RR 1080
DUDLEY BUCK: Variations on The Last Rose of Summer –Tom Trenny (2003 Schantz/St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Savannah, GA) Pro Organo 7196
VICTOR HERBERT: Indian Summer –Bobby Hackett, cornet; Johnny Seng (Wurlitzer/Loderhose Studio, Long Island, NY) Sony 26656
SVEN-INGVART MIKKELSEN: Summer Fantasy –James D. Hicks (2013 Tostareds Kyrkorgelfabrik/ Kalmar Cathedral, Sweden) Pro Organo 7271
MENDELSSOHN: March of the Elves, fr A Midsummer Night’s Dream –Olivier Vernet & Cedric Meckler (2004 Aubertin/St. Louis en l’Ile, Paris) Ligia Digital 0104180-07
MENDELSSOHN: Bridal March, fr A Midsummer Night’s Dream –Douglas Major (Aeolian-Skinner/National Cathedral, Washington, DC) Gothic 18828
You’re welcome to enjoy these other collections of seasonal sounds from the PIPEDREAMS archive:
Summer Fun (Program #0323)
Summer Fun, II (Program #0724)
Summer Breezes (Program #0923)
Summer Concerts (Program #1124)
