1981 Visser-Rowland organ at Bates Recital Hall, University of Texas, Austin, Texas

Composers old and new create music of awe and expectation that preludes the Christmas festival.

…in celebration of the ’founding‘ of the Christian Church, music on themes for Pentecost.

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

…bigger-than-life performances on notable pipe organs in and around the Lone Star State.

…youthful performers, filled with enthusiasm, carry the King of Instruments with them into the 21st Century.

…A stroll past some excellent and unfamiliar examples of this time-honored musical form.

…A quarterly survey of recent recordings.

…Performances recorded during the National Convention of the American Guild of Organists held in Texas in 1988.

…A further exploration of known and unknown works which sound better on the pipe organ than their composer ever imagined.

…the notes are the same, but inevitably the accent is a bit different when works of French composer Cesar Franck are interpreted on instruments in the United States.

…performances and comments by husband-and-wife recitalists Cherry Rhodes and Ladd Thomas, organ faculty members of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.