An Organist’s Yearbook #2552
. . . the annual summing up of the preceding twelve months’ happenings, celebrating success and lamenting losses.
Hour 1
NICOLAS de GRIGNY: Pieces d’orgue (Kyrie en taille a 5; Fugue a 5 renferme le chant Kyrie) –Balint Karosi (1979 Fisk/House of Hope Presbyterian Church, Saint Paul, MN) PD Archive (r. 5/2/25)
CHARLES GOUNOD: Marche Pontificale –Eric Anderson (1875 Hook & Hastings/Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Boston, MA) PD Archive (r. 2/23/25)
CHELSEA CHEN: Children’s Dances –Henry Dangerfield (1927 Casavant-2001 Schantz/St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church, Mahtomedi, MN) PD Archive (r. 5/4/25)
PAUL FEY: Festival Improvisation –Paul Fey (1964-2025 Wicks/Bethel Lutheran Church, Rochester, MN) PD Archive (r. 10/5/25)
SAMUEL BACKMAN: Encore-Improvisation –Samuel Backman (1928 Hinners-1956 Wicks-1997 Orvold/Holy Cross Catholic Church, Minneapolis, MN) PD Archive (r. 11/6/25)
VINCENT YOUMANS: Sing Hallelujah –Mark Herman (2025 Wurlitzer hybrid/Carma Laps, Franklin, WI) PD Archive (r. 7/26/25)
SIGFRID KARG-ELERT: Voices of the Night, Op. 142, no. 1 –Ken Cowan (1926 Votteler-Holtkamp-Sparling/St. John Cantius Catholic Church, Cleveland, OH) PD Archive (r. 11/2/25)
JACOB ADLER: Kosmogonik –Ilona Kubaiczyk-Adler (1978 Sipe/Center for Faith and Life, Luther College, Decorah, IA) PD Archive (r. 3/9/25)
Filler - de GRIGNY: Cromorne en taille a 2 parties fr Pieces d’orgue
Hour 2
ULYSSES KAY: Prelude, fr Suite No. 1 –James Abbington (Aeolian-Skinner/Riverside Church, New York, NY) JAV 112
JOSEF RHEINBERGER: Cantilene, fr Sonata No. 11 in d, Op.148 –Bruce Stevens (1888 Miller/Salem Lutheran Church, Lebanon, PA) (In Memoriam Robert C.Newton) Raven 140
J. S. BACH: Contrapunctus No. 8, fr The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 –Bernard Lagacé (1961 Beckerath/Immaculate Conception Church, Montreal, Quebec) Analekta 2-3066/7
JOSEF SEGER: Pastoral Toccata in D. MONICA HOUGHTON: Erebus –Karl Paukert (1971 Holtkamp/Gartner Auditorium, Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) Azika 71228/9
OLIVIER LATRY: Arabesque on the Name of Karen McFarlane –Stephen Tharp (1999 Holtkamp/Griswold Hall, Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore, MD) PD Archive (r. 9/8/2000)
CHRISTOPH BULL: A Minor Trance –Christoph Bull (2004 Glatter-Götz-Rosales/Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA) (In Memoriam Frank Gehry) Bull Run Music 706
CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD (arr. Ferguson): When in our music God is glorified –Martin Hodel, trumpet; St. Olaf Brass; Choirs from St. Olaf College, St. John’s Lutheran-Northfield, and Normandale Lutheran-Edina/Anton Armstrong; James Bobb (2007 Holtkamp/Boe Memorial Chapel, Northfield, MN) PD Archive (r. 3/29/25)
Filler - KAY: Pastorale fr Suite No. 1
Click below for a detailed accounting of the many musicians memorialized in our program’s second hour.
Yearbook Losses - 2025 - An Inevitably Incomplete List
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, and from the Berghaus Organ Company, Inc. of Bellwood, IL and the Bedient Pipe Organ Company of Roca, NE, 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.
