…invented by the Italians and transformed by composers everywhere ever since, the Organ Sonata encourages different strokes from different folks.
…players and listeners alike experience a special exhilaration in concert settings.
…a celebration of the iconic 1959 Aeolian-Skinner instrument in the Auditorium of the Community of Christ in Independence, Missouri, with comments from Jan Kraybill and the late John Obetz.
. . . instrument, artist, and audience participate in music improvised, played and sung.
. . . regardless of how or where or on what you play it, Bach’s music always comes round right.
. . . some select sounds of recently-installed instruments.
. . . at one of the summer season’s gathering points, concert performances by soloists ages 17-21.
. . . listening to these new recordings is almost as good as being there.
. . . a sampler of composers, performers and instruments from the north, south, east, and west.
. . . from vintage recordings and live performances, a selection of entertaining popular tunes.
. . . a survey of the remarkable and rarely-heard music of Belgian-English composer Guy Weitz (1883-1970).
. . . some extraordinarily effective transcriptions and original works by the romantic-era’s foremost virtuoso.
. . . one is percussive, the other wind-blown, but these two keyboard instruments make a marvelous match.
. . . highlights from the most recent in-person gathering of the Organ Historical Society in Texas.
. . . more mementos from the AGO convention in Seattle in the year 2000, preluding the upcoming one in July 2022.
. . . get to know some of the instruments that the Pipedreams tour group are encountering in person.
. . . a celebration of the indomitable spirit of American composer Margaret Sandresky and her 101st birthday!
. . . composers through history have satisfied every taste by creating intriguing variations over a repeated harmonic phrase via the chaconne.
