Episodes: 1989

…diverse delicious distractions dedicated to variety and tuneful pleasure.

…Recital performances by Michael Schneider and Gaston Litaize, notable musicians who celebrate 80th birthdays in 1989.

…Guest commentator Karl Eilers joins host Michael Barone for some repertoire from the lighter side, a genial and general survey of theater organ recordings.

…Musical as well as political attitudes changed when the Bastile fell.

…Recital performances on the famous Aeolian-Skinner organ at the historic Methuen Memorial Music Hall in Massachusetts.

…A quarterly survey of recent organ recordings which emphasize the unusual and the unusually attractive. Program host Michael Barone plays arbiter of taste.

…A Langlais Landscape... viewing the composition terrain of the famous blind Parisian octogenarian organist Jean Langlais.

…Harald Vogel and Megumi Tsuji perform historic repertoire on new instruments in the old style built by Daniel Jaeckel, Hiroshi Tsuji, and the shop of Taylor and Boody.

…performances from an Organ Historical Society gathering in and around Newburyport, Massachusetts.

…Whether in Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, the Netherlands or Germany, the music of Johann Sebastian Bach is always “at home.”

…Recital performances on the celebrated Kotzschmar Organ in the City Hall Auditorium of Portland, Maine.

…the amiable and peripatetic Swiss musician introduces us to historic sounds south of the border, plus other delights.

…Dupre in Boston, performances at Old south Church and the Mission Church in Roxbury Crossing of music by the celebrated Parisian organist Marcel Dupre. These performances were presented by the Boston chapter of the American Guild of Organists to celebrate the Dupre Centenary in 1986.

…Concert performance by Edward Tarr and Imtraud Krueger of music from the Iberian peninsula and the British Isles.

…festive organ solos and hymn improvisations performed at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

…Another quarterly review of recent, unusual, and remarkable organ recordings representing a diversity of instrumental types and musical styles.

…Radulescu in Recital... concert performances at St. Paul's House of Hope Church and recordings of the restored instrument in Vienna's Michaelerkirche featuring Austrian organist Michael Radulescu.

…three unusual tributes to the memory and the mighty genius of Johann Sebastian Bach.