Michael Barone on stage at the Auditorium Theatre in Rochester, NY

Pipedreams Live! in Rochester (Part 1)

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

Program Broadcast dates:

• Week of October 19, 2009

Featured Instruments:

• (2008 Fritts/Sacred Heart Cathedral, Rochester, NY)
• (2008 GoART Casparini/Christ Church Episcopal, Rochester, NY)
• (Wurlitzer Opus 1951/Rochester Auditorium Theatre, Rochester, NY)

Links and Resources:

• More information about Pipedreams Live! events
• Take a look at the Picture Gallery
• Printable program listings

Interview Audio:

• David Higgs was the sole representative of the Eastman School Faculty at our Friday night concert at Sacred Heart Cathedral, and he explained the nickname given to the three-headed faculty ‘ensemble’ comprised of himself, Hans Davidson, and William Porter, who are corporately called “Fluffy”

Music played in the program

Hour 1

CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR: Finale, from Organ Symphony No. 6 in g, Op. 42, no. 2 – Benton Blasingame (Fritts)

GASTON LITAIZE: Lied, from Douze Pieces –Lars Gjerde (Fritts)

J.S. BACH: Fugue in D, BWV 532 –Amanda Mole (Fritts)

STEPHEN KENNEDY: 3-3-33 –Hans Davidson, David Higgs, and William Porter (GoART Casparini)

STEVEN SEIGART: Improvisation March –Steven Seigart (GoART Casparini)

JOHANN CHRISTIAN RINCK: Flute Concerto (1st movement) –Annie Laver (GoART Casparini)

COLE PORTER: It’s D’Lovely –Jonathan Ortloff , organ Allan Ward, drums (Wurlitzer)

Filler - LITAIZE (see above)

Hour 2

JOHANNES BRAHMS: Prelude & Fugue in a –Thatcher Lyman (Fritts)

LOUIS VIERNE: Scherzo, from Organ Symphony No. 5 in A, Op. 47 –Brett Judson (Fritts)

LOUIS VIERNE: Final, from Symphony No. 6 in b, Op. 59 –David Baskeyfield

MAX REGER: Trios –Malcolm Matthews (GoART Casparini)

FELIX MENDELSSOHN: Sonata in f, Op. 65, no. 1 (movements 3 & 4) –David Higgs (GoART Casparini)

Filler - ORTLOFF: Grey Skies –Jonathan Ortloff (Wurlitzer Opus 1951/Rochester Auditorium Theatre, Rochester, NY)

 

This past winter (February 13-14-15), the Eastman-Rochester Organ Initiative (EROI), the Rochester Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, the Rochester Theatre Organ Society and public radio station WXXI-91.5FM collaborated in a three-day organ orgy with Pipedreams host Michael Barone. Capacity audiences attended events featuring two new instruments, the 2008 Fritts organ at Sacred Heart Cathedral and the 2008 GoART Casparini Project organ at Christ Church Episcopal, along with a well-attended afternoon extravaganza at the Rochester Auditorium Theatre. This is the first of two programs derived from those weekend events. Mr. Ortloff’s performances are available on CD from his website.