Faculty and student soloists demonstrate instruments by Flentrop, Aeolian-Skinner, Brombaugh and Holtkamp on the campus of the famed Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio.
The Oberlin Conservatory was established in 1865 as an adjunct to the co-educational Oberlin College, they each being the first such institutions of their kind in the United States. At present, the Conservatory serves approximately 500 students, a bit less than one-fifth of the total college population. In addition to the 1974 Flentrop tracker organ, III/44, in Warner Concert Hall and the 1955 Aeolian-Skinner, III/68, in Finney Chapel, the campus boasts 23 other pipe organs of various sizes and styles for practice, teaching and performance.
Early Baroque and late Romantic repertoire from the organ’s spiritual home.
Spirited and creative variants on themes of heavenly grace.
Capsule coverage of some recent organ installations showing an interesting variety of styles.
Bay-area favorite Tom Hazleton returns to home territory for concert performances at the Castro Theatre and Trinity Episcopal Church on Bush Street, where California landmark instruments were recorded during an Organ Historical Society convention.
Concert performances on the 1985 Schantz pipe organ at the Church of Saint Leo the Great in Saint Paul, MN.
A miscellany of music for organ and various other instruments.
A summer quarterly review of recent releases of organ music on compact disc.
instruments built by John F. Nordlie and Charles Hendrickson envigorate the organ scene in and around Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
a collection of unusual repertoire featuring Canadian composers and performers.
portraits of four historic instruments, in Portland and Bangor, Maine; Ocean Grove, New Jersey; and Round Lake, New York, famous for their summer concert schedules.
A sonorous survey of nine instruments by the most illustrious of North German Baroque organbuilders, Arp Schnitger [1648-1719], in celebration of the 350th anniversary of his birth.
From Rocky Mountain country, a sampler of instruments in and around Denver, Colorado.
Premiere performances and other sonically exceptional music presented in southern comfort at a national convention of the American Guild of Organistrs.
Reminiscences of an American Guild of Organists Convention in America’s organ city.
Showing independence of spirit and diversity of expressive means, a sampler of music from Norway.
A survey of some deliciously romantic music by Joseph Jongen of Belgium, with commentary and performances by his biographer John Scott Whiteley.
A visit with convivial scholar-performer John Butt of Cambridge, England, who plays in recital in Boston and on instruments in the O’Neill Collection of the University of California-Berkeley.
