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.
Recital performances from events inaugurating recent instruments around the USA.
Performances by and conversation with the amiable Delbert Disselhorst of the University of Iowa.
A cross-section of instruments and performers in Minnesota, drawn from our considerable archive of live-concert recordings.
Unencumbered by the organ’s generally sober aspect, we let enthusiasm and optimism take the upper hand
Poetic portraits and psalmists songs summon soothing images of lush summer fields and quiet times.
A visit with the remarkable young blind British organist David Aprahamian Liddle.
A display of surprising rhythmic agility, proving that even the King of Instruments can “get down” on occasion.
These brilliant denizens of heaven evoke their rolls as travelers’ guide, focus of prayers and wishes, and symbol of nations, while providing us with a star-studded musical celebration.
…the rich resource of our nation’s own compositional talent store gives our ears and hearts much for which to be thankful.
Considering what one player at the console can accomplish, just imagine what is possible with organ duos and duets.
Everybody loves a familiar tune, and these composers take advantage of some popular melodies from diverse cultures.
Sounds of some noteworthy and historic instruments in and around Chicago, as prelude to upcoming national conventions of the American Guild of Organists and Organ Historical Society.
Or Woman Composers for the Organ, a survey of some interesting works by some interesting people.
Further glimpses at the remarkably diverse organ repertoire by American composers, recorded in and around Boston.
Glimpses into the life and art of respected American teacher and recitalist David Craighead.
Encompassing both tumultuous and tender compositions to mark the 50th anniversary of Max Reger’s death, May 11, 1916.
Recital performances on the historic 1878 Merklin and famous 1979 Fisk organs at House of Hope Presbyterian Church on Summit Avenue in Saint Paul, MN.
But not so distant, either, three new pipe organs at Indiana’s Goshen College, Saint Chrysostom’s Church in Chicago, and the University of Notre Dame.
A springtime review of some interesting new CD releases of organ music from around the world.
Our musical progression leads from Palm Sunday through Passiontide and on to the Resurrection Festival.
A continuing centennial tribute to one of the most influential and effective advocates for the pipe organ, the late, great Edward George Power Biggs March 29, 1906—March 10, 1977.
Part one of a two part celebration of the 100th birthday of one of the most influential and effective advocates for the pipe organ, the late, great Edward George Power Biggs, March 29, 1906—March 10, 1977.
…music by offspring, pupils, and later enthusiasts for whom the music of Johann Sebastian Bach was both beacon and benediction.
Varied concert performances from an American Guild of Organists national convention.
From England’s famous and historic King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, performances plus conversation with organist/choirmaster Stephen Cleobury.
As always, glorious sounds result when a pipe organ teams up with other instruments.
Embellished by the pipe organ’s many colors, these compositions were inspired by African and Afro-American themes.
A visit to northeastern Pennsylvania to explore the renovated Berghaus pipe organ at Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
Wouldn’t you like to have a pipe organ of your very own at home? Some lucky people do!
Many performers still appreciate the potentials inherent in the pipe organ’s original, basic mechanical action.
In celebration of the 250th birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [born 1/27/1756], we explore some of the music he wrote for the organ, and some that he didn’t.
In contrast to its preponderantly pious personality in church service, these pipe organs do know how to get out and “get down.”
Performances on interesting recent instruments in Florida, Texas and Minnesota.
Michael Barone shares his field recordings of some exceptional historic instruments in spectacular Bavarian Baroque churches, and invites you to join his tour there in May 2006.
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