All Episodes

…in recital, John Weaver at Grace Cathedral and Thomas Murray (+) at Trinity Episcopal Church.

…an introduction to the 1984 National Biennial Convention of the American Guild of Organists, featuring digital tapes of concerts and recitals performed in and around San Francisco.

…organist Douglas L. Butler presents Marcel Dupre's famous 15 Pieces, op. 18 in a Vespers service at St. Boniface Church in San Francisco.

…organ music in celebration of the 350th anniversary of the first Swedish settlement in the New World.

…our potpourri covers a wide variety of musical types, performance styles and organ-building attitudes, with emphasis on an arresting listening experience.

…music of American composers performed at Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall, the DuPont estate, Longwood Gardens and Grace Cathedral, San Francisco.

…an appreciative look at America's organ-building past. Special guest William van Pelt of the Organ Historical Society is convinced of the importance of preserving antique instruments, and demonstrates their variety and character with many recorded examples.

…Robert Glasgow and the Indepedent Presbyterian church Choir from Birmingham, Alabama, perform music by Louis Vierne.

…Marilyn Mason premieres new music and Janice Beck displays a new instrument at the University of Michigan.

…more finalists from the Organ Performance Competition in Detroit.

…finalists in the National Young Artists Competition perform at the Mariner's Church and St. Jude's Church, Detroit.

…performances recorded during the American Guild of Organists National Convention in Detroit, featuring organists Huw Lewis and Daniel Roth performing on the 1980 Aeolian-Skinner organ at Detroit's Ford Auditorium (assisted by the Brazeal Dennard Chorale and the Detroit Brass Ensemble).

…More recordings and repertoire by the famous French virtuoso and teacher Marcel Dupre.

…some musical views of the scintillating American organist Anthony Newman.

…rosalind Mohnsen and John Weaver play on landmark American instruments in new homes.

…inaugural performances on the huge new 193-rank Rodgers pipe organ at Second Baptist Church in Houston, TX.

…viennese recitalist Michael Radulescu plays contemporary and historic music in Tennessee and Switzerland.

…a spring quarterly survey of some recently released recordings of organ music, with commentary by program host Michael Barone.