Episodes: 2016

…the annual Olde Yeare-New Year reflection, with highlights from recent recordings, concert excerpts, prize-winning performances, memorial tributes, and more.

…whether with carols or noels, anthems or improvisations, these musicians proclaim holiday cheer!

…whether in Michigan or New Mexico, Ely or Orleans, the music of Christmas resounds of peace and joy.

…from the stage of the Sharp Concert Hall at Oklahoma University, students and faculty of the American Organ Institute share in some seasonal revelry.

…music on themes for the season of Advent, heralding the coming of Christmas.

…compositions and performances by Minnesota musicians, from the Pipedreams archive.

…a tribute to the venerable recitalist, composer, and teacher who for 42 years was master of the mighty Beckerath organ at the Oratoire Saint-Joseph in Montreal.

…reminiscences of last year’s East Texas Pipe Organ Festival, as this year’s celebration of the Roy Perry Legacy is underway in Kilgore, Longview and Shreveport.

…another sampler from among the remarkable influx of recently produced recordings, with music from five centuries.

…you don’t want to be left all alone when things go bump in the night in the organ loft!

…from Alumni Hall at the Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, this second program featuring organ students of Janette Fishell and Christopher Young, plus their teachers.

…from Auer Hall at the Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, this first of two programs featuring organ students of Janette Fishell and Christopher Young.

…two celebrated 20th century masters, Marcel Duprè and Max Reger, left sets of seven characterful works that convey the many mercurial moods of the King of Instruments.

…though some instruments were specifically created to accompany silent films, pipe organs have proven that they can tackle movie music of any sort!

…‘live’ and lively performances by some ‘rising stars’ and established talents of the American organ scene.

…selections from the inaugural concerts on the new Grenzing pipe organ in the Radio France Auditorium.

…an international array of soloists leads us through the magical intricacies of The Art of Fugue/Die Kunst der Fuge (S. 1080) by Johann Sebastian Bach.

…unique concert performances of diverse works by American composers, primarily from the Pipedreams archive.