…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.
…a selective quarterly sampling of recent organ recordings, with emphasis on the unusual and the unusually attractive. This potpourri covers a wide variety of musical types, performance styles and organ-building attitudes, as displayed on LP's and CD's of foreign and domestic vintage.
…organist Douglas L. Butler presents Marcel Dupre's famous 15 Pieces, op. 18 in a Vespers service at St. Boniface Church in San Francisco.
…a concert on the 1964 Holtkamp organ at St. John's Benedictine Abbey and University Church in Collegeville, MN.
…a survey of the works for organ by the contemporary Czechoslovakian composer, who is heard in comments about his creations.
…another program in a continuing, irregular series devoted to our historic American pipe organ heritage, featuring recordings from the archives of the Organ Historical Society and comments from OHS executive director William Van Pelt. This program focuses on organs in and around Chicago.
…performances by the noted American teacher recorded in concert on the 1979 C.B. Fisk organ at House of Hope Presbyterian Church in Saint Paul, MN, the magnum opus of this pathbreaking American builder.
…an entertaining glimpse at the show-biz cousin to the “king of instruments,” the theater organ, once the ubiquitous accompaniment to the action on the silver screen, now a popular attraction in its own right. Guest commentator Karl Eilers joins host Michael Barone in examining just what a “theater organ” is, and what it can do.
…a concluding program of performances recorded by guest artists at last summer's international organ week in Finland, at Lahti's Church of the Cross.
…solo performances recorded in concert on the 1979 Virtanen organ at Lahti's Church of the Cross.
…the first of three broadcasts featuring performances recorded in the contemporary Church of the Cross in the Finnish city of Lahti, annual site of an international organ celebration.
…an all-Bach recital played by James David Christie on the new Taylor & Boody organ at St. Joseph Memorial Chapel, College of the Holy Cross, in Worcester, Massachusetts. The program includes an in-depth examination of the instrument, as discussed by one of its builders, George Taylor.
…a concert performance by Yale University organist Charles Krigbaum of Bach's final masterpiece, recorded on the Robert Sipe organ in the Center for Faith and Life at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.
…performances by the California organist, recorded on Flentrop instruments in Seattle and Palo Alto, Schoenstein organs in Los Olivos and San Francisco, and the Holtkamp/Moeller organ at the US Air Force Academy chapel.
…music of American composers performed at Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall, the DuPont estate, Longwood Gardens and Grace Cathedral, San Francisco.
…on this first broadcast of a new Pipedreams series, host Michael Barone surveys the musical and historic variety of the pipe organ, while sampling recent recordings. The emphasis is on the unusual and the unusually attractive, with wide-ranging choices covering many musical styles, performers, and instruments.
…performances by members of the Twin Cities Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, recorded in concert.
…celebrated composers' musical tributes to Johann Sebastian Bach, using the theme derived from his last name.
