Episodes: 2009

…a time for celebration, reflection, and projection of new expectations for the new season ahead.

…special music from around the globe amplifies and illuminates the good tidings of Christmas.

…home-grown performers, composers, and instruments celebrate the Festival of the Nativity.

…a wrap up to this year’s bicentennial celebrations with a look at some of the composer’s best and least-known works for organ.

…a spirit of intimate reflection and anticipation is inherent in music for the weeks before Christmas.

…what better way to show appreciation for the bounties of life than through melodious outbursts of joy.

Imaginative composers and performers explore the varied opportunities of the King of Instruments.

…highlight performances from Montréal by winners of the 2008 Concours International d’Orgue du Canada, with commentary from CIOC artistic director John Grew.

…another go-round of compositional ‘sweets’ dedicated to the organ’s many moods and styles.

…some musical memories featuring artists and instruments enjoyed during the 2009 Pipedreams Tour.

…performances by students and faculty of the Eastman School of Music during a remarkably popular and successful weekend organ festival.

…music and conversation featuring internationally touring British recitalist Christopher Herrick, in celebration of his 40th anniversary as a recording artist.

…selections from recital recordings on the Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ [2006 Dobson] at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia.

…the collaborative efforts of performers and recording engineers, and the splendid sonorities of fine instruments in good rooms, work in accord to reveal unusual repertoire.

…a sample of some of the different ‘voices’ with which recently installed instruments in the United States speak.

Performances from inaugural season concerts featuring the University of Chicago’s recently renovated 1928 Skinner organ.

…selected performances recorded in conjunction with the 2006 National Biennial Convention of the American Guild of Organists.

…recitals, session recordings, and concerts collected from across the nation provide a superb display of the organist’s art in action.