Iowa Organ Weekend Adventure

highlights from a convivial gathering of friends of the theatre organ in Cedar Rapids.

Program Broadcast dates:

• November 8, 1999

Music played in the program

Our toe-tapping music runs the gamut from a Mary Poppins medley to a Ritual Fire Dance, with Gershwin favorites, Roaring Twenties novelty tunes, and a salute to Frank Sinatra.

Featured performers include Ron Rhode, David Peckham, Clark Wilson, Walter Strony, Barry Baker and John Seng. They play on three period instruments instruments from the late ’20s:

• 3/12 Wurlitzer downtown at the Paramount Theatre
• 3/14 Wangerin-Barton around the corner at Theatre Cedar Rapids which is the modern reformatting of the former Iowa Theatre.
• 4/58 E.M. Skinner concert instrument moved from its original home in the city’s Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum to the Sinclair Auditorium of nearby Coe College.

Local theatre organ booster Dave Kelzenberg joins Michael Barone as guide and master-of-ceremonies.

These performances, recorded specifically for this broadcast, were recorded live in concert over the weekend of October 16-18, 1998. Compact discs of all of today’s featured artists are available through the Organ Historical Society catalog.