AGO San Francisco 2024 (I) #2518
. . . the first in an ongoing series of programs featuring performances from the American Guild of Organists’ national convention in California.
Hour 1
LOUIS VIERNE: Hymne au soleil, Op. 53, no. 3. CECILIA McDOWALL: First Flight. DAVID HURD: On the Theme ‘Maurice Duruflé’. IAIN FARRINGTON: Heads Up (Sing Around-Swag Rag-Sweep Steak) –James Kealey (1958 Aeolian-Skinner/Unitarian Universalist Church, Berkley-Kensington, CA) PD Archive (r. 7/3/24)
J. S. BACH (arr. Zhao): French Suite No. 5 in G, BWV 816 –Weicheng Zhou (1960 Aeolian-Skinner/St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, San Francisco,CA) PD Archive (r. 7/4/24)
Filler – HURD (see above)
Hour 2
CARL RÜTTI: Wisdom –Nicole Keller (1993 Rosales/1st Presbyterian Church, Oakland, CA) PD Archive (r. 7/1/24)
WILLIAM GRANT STILL: Reverie –Ken Cowan (1928 Skinner/Trinity & St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, San Francisco, CA) PD Archive (r. 7/2/24). A teenaged Ken Cowan was smitten with the sounds of this instrument as discovered by him in PIPEDREAMS Program #8595.
MARY BETH BENNETT: Toccata, I believe in one God (Credo III). DAVID CONTE: O come, let us sing. BROOKE JOYCE: Anthem, Songs for the people. JARED JOHNSON: Psalm 145, I will exalt you. HERBERT HOWELLS: Jubilate Deo, fr Collegium Regale. TRADITIONAL: Hymn, Love divine, all loves excelling (Blaenwern). BENNETT: Improvisation on Blaenwern –Cathedral Choir/Jared Johnson; Mary Beth Bennett (1933 Aeolian-Skinner/Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA) PD Archive (r. 7/4/24)
Filler – FARRINGTON: Sweep Steak (see above)
AGO National Conventions take place in even-numbered years; the next one will be in Saint Louis, Missouri (July 6-10, 2026). Regional conventions will be held this year in Phoenix, Arizona (June 16-19, 2025) and Fort Worth, Texas (June 30, 2025).
PIPEDREAMS is supported in loving memory of Lucinda and Wesley Dudley by their family, with additional support from Walter McCarthy, Clara Ueland, and the Greystone Foundation, from Ed and Wanda Eichler, from the Art and Martha Kaemmer Fund of the HRK Foundation, and from Dobson Pipe Organ Builders of Lake City, IA and C. B. Fisk, Inc. of Gloucester, MA, members of APOBA, the Associated Pipe Organ Builders of America, a collaborative of designers, creators, and maintainers of pipe organs found in religious and educational institutions, concert halls, and residences throughout the United States and beyond. An APOBA resource guide and member prospectus is available at APOBA.COM.
