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Celebrating the pipe organ, the King of Instruments |
…a recital by Robert Noehren on the Gress-Miles organ at St. John’s Church, Lafayette Square, plus a cameo appearance by Judith Hancock at the National Cathedral, also in Washington, DC, both recorded during the 1982 National Biennial Convention of the American Guild of Organists.
•May 14, 1984 as Program #33 [Show 8433]
•September 21, 1987 as Show #8738
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GERALD NEAR: A Triptych of Fugues
EDWARD DIEMENTE: Cantos, premiere
1. Spiritual - Homage to Duke Ellington
2. Comme de la grele - Homage to Joan Miro
3. Lullaby - Homage to Hugo Wolf
4. Dragon Music - For Norman, who likes dragons
OTTORINO RESPIGHI: Prelude on a Chorale of Bach
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS: Improvisation in a, Opus 150, number 7
–Robert Noehren (1969 Gress-Miles/St. John Lafayette Square, Washington, DC) recorded June 30, 1982
JOHANNES BRAHMS: Chorale-prelude, O wie selig seid ihr doch, Opus 122, number 6
ROBERT NOEHREN: Etude, For Solo Pedal and Full Organ
–Robert Noehren (1969 Gress-Miles/St. John Lafayette Square, Washington, DC) recorded June 30, 1982
HEALEY WILLAN: Introduction, Passagaclia and Fugue [1919]
–Judith Hancock (1938 Ernest M. Skinner & Son; 1975 Aeolian-Skinner/National Cathedral, Washington, DC) recorded July 2, 1982
This broadcast is another in a series of new programs that marked the full-time return of PIPEDREAMS to the national airwaves in 1983.
On-location recordings were engineered by Curt Wittig.