It’s Still Summer #2531
. . . and if you still have the chance to get out and hear any of these instruments, don’t miss the opportunity!
Hour 1
DAVID GERMAN: Festive Trumpet Tune. H. WALFORD DAVIES: Solemn Melody. ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER (trans. Shaw): Music of the Night, fr Phantom of the Opera. FREDERICK SCOTSON-CLARK: Marche aux Flambeaux –Dylan David Shaw (1932 Midmer-Losh/Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, NJ) PD Archive (r. 4/10/24)
J. S. BACH: Kommst du nun Jesu, BWV 650. JOSEPH JONGEN: Chant de Mai, Op. 53. No. 1. ALEXANDRE GUILMANT: March on a Theme of Handel, Op. 15, no. 2 –Gordon Turk (1908 Hope-Jones+2000 Shaw/Ocean Grove Auditorium/Ocean Grove, NJ) Ocean Grove 2009
FRANZ LISZT (trans. Robilliard): Funérailles, fr Harmonies poétiques et religieuses –Loreto Aramendi (Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, NJ) PD Archive (r. 4/3/24)
With 33,112 pipes, the Midmer-Losh at Boardwalk Hall is the world’s largest pipe organ, and though not yet 100% functional at the moment, it is slowly coming back to life at the hands of the staff and volunteers of the Historic Organ Restoration Committee. Included are comments from recitalist Dylan David Shaw and Curator Nathan Bryson (r. 8/10/22). A video of Dylan playing Nimrod from Elgar’s Enigma Variations is available on Youtube.
This monumental pipe organ is played at noon Monday through Friday most weekdays (check the online calendar) through Labor Day, then Wednesdays only through December, with Curators Tours offered at 10AM on Wednesdays April through December.
Filler – GERMAN (see above)
Hour 2
EUGENE GIGOUT: Toccata in b. GEORGE GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue –Maria Teresa Sierra, piano; Raul Prieto Ramirez (1915 Austin/Spreckels Pavillion at Balboa Park, San Diego, CA) PD Archive
JOHANNES BRAHMS: Hungarian Dance No. 5 in g. PIETRO YON: Humoresque. LOUIS VIERNE: Final, fr Symphony No. 1, Op. 13 –Daniel Brondel (1938 Casavant/Basilica of St. Peter, Lewiston, ME) PD Archive (r. 9/29/23). Check their website for the schedule of summer noonday and other afternoon and concerts at the Basilica.
RICHARD PURVIS: Canzona on Liebster Jesu –George Bozeman (1860 Hook/St. John’s Catholic Church, Bangor, ME) SJOS 101-97
ENRICO BOSSI: Etude Symphonique, Op. 78 –Simon Preston (1863 Walcker+1947 Aeolian-Skinner/Memorial Music Hall, Methuen, MA) Argo 421 731
SIGFRID KARG-ELERT: Clair de lune, Op. 72, no. 2. MARCEL DUPRÉ: Final, Op. 27, no. 7 –Michael Murray (1863 Walcker+1947 Aeolian-Skinner/Memorial Music Hall, Methuen, MA) Telarc 5036. Wednesday evening summer concerts continue through August 27.
Filler – SCOTSON-CLARK (see above)
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 Foley-Baker, Inc. of Tollund, CT and Paul Fritts & Company, Organ Builders of Tacoma, WA, 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.
