Episodes: 2006

We ring out the old and ring in the new with reflections on happenings in 2006 and some projections for the future in 2007.

Our own composers and performers know how to bring a unique and special flavor to the holiday season.

Performers and composers from many lands celebrate the Nativity Festival.

Composers old and new create music of awe and expectation that preludes the Christmas festival.

A commemorative tribute to three American composers and a meditation for World AIDS Day 2006.

Some lively aural reminders of the fun we had during our recent visit to southern Germany and beyond.

Three contemporaries, a German, an Englishman and an American, embraced the pipe organ in divergent yet harmonious ways.

Exemplary scores by a titan of the keyboard who liberated the organ in ways we are only beginning to fully appreciate.

Exploring a collection of scores, some new, some newer, all by American composers.

Popular and unflappable church musician John Walker shares insights on his world and an extraordinary modern concerto that he champions.

With campus colleagues, faculty soloist Charles Tompkins celebrates the inauguration of the Hartness Organ (C.B. Fisk Opus 121) at Furman University in Greenville, SC.

Organs and organ music continue as an integral element in the artistic life of Nordic countries.

Without travelling abroad, we can learn more about this music by playing on instruments attuned to his era.

In Atlanta, Timothy Albrecht and colleagues celebrate the new pipe organ at Emerson Concert Hall of Emory University’s Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. Interview with Timothy Albrecht Interview with Daniel Jaeckel

A centenary tribute to Dmitri Shostakovich [1906-1975], and recital performances by guest Daniel Zaretsky, who introduces little-known music from an unlikely source.

The German-born English celebrity, George Frideric Handel [1685-1759], knew how to entrance audiences and generate publicity, as his Opus 4 organ concertos proved.

A miscellany of ‘early music’ from the fifteenth through the early 18th centuries.

A selective sampler of some of the newer items ‘hot off the press’, a sonic smorgasbord.