Episodes: 2020

. . . the annual summing up of a year’s happenings.

. . . music for the holiday with a distinctly home-grown flavor.

. . . jubilant and celebratory selections for the Christmas holiday.

. . . a multi-generational sampler of festival holiday music from many lands.

. . . celebrating the 250th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven (b. 1770) with some of few pieces he wrote for organ, and many that he didn’t!

. . . in anticipation of the Christian festival of the Nativity, music that looks for good news.

. . . to Cecilia, the Patron Saint of Music, to composer Benjamin Britten, and to the memory of Stephen Cleobury. 

. . . in his anniversary year, we explore music by the many other composers with significant anniversaries in 2020.

. . . in the shadow of another Covid-cancelled 2020 gathering, we revisit these exceptional East Texas Pipe Organ Festival performances from 2019.

. . . additional performances recorded during the American Guild of Organists 2018 National Convention in Kansas City.

. . . excerpts from the American Guild of Organists’ Organ Fest 2020, featuring compositions and performers scheduled for the canceled 2020 AGO Convention in Atlanta.

. . .a full helping of intriguing interpretive indulgence featuring David Briggs, Olivier Latry and Wayne Marshall in concert at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center.

. . . a celebration of the legacy of the famed organist of Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, Louis Vierne, on the sesquicentennial of his birth (b. 10/8/1870)

...some profound and entertaining compositions by the ‘bad boy’ of the 20th century French music scene, Francis Poulenc.

. . . selections from special concerts featuring the world’s largest fully functional pipe organ in the Grand Court at Macy’s Center City Store in Philadelphia, PA.

. . . internationally-acclaimed American recitalist Nathan Laube plays the first public concert on the renovated 108-rank Aeolian-Skinner organ at the University of Minnesota.

. . . concert performances from a national organist’s convention in Kansas City.

. . . the magic of organ with orchestra and other instruments has beguiled audiences for several centuries.