Buckeye Beauties

with William Osborne, Susan Craig and friends, we discover some little known organ music by Ohio composers, plus other hidden treasures.

Program Broadcast dates:

• November 29, 1999

Music played in the program

JAMES H. ROGERS: Prologue & March, from Suite for Organ [1905], Prelude & Fughetta [1922]. CARL HUGO GRIMM: tone-painting The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters –William Osborne (1924 Skinner, augmented/St. John the Baptist RCC,, Canton, OH) Pipedreams Archive recorded 7, 1998

DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE: Toccata in G –Edward Parmentier, organ. J.S. BACH: O Lamm Gottes unschuldig, S. 1095 –David Boe, organ. FANNY MENDELSSOHN-HENSEL: Praeludium in F. EMMA LOU DIEMER: Blest be the tie that binds. FANNY MENDELSSOHN-HENSEL: Wedding Recessional in G –Susan Craig (1972 Brombaugh/Ashland Avenue Baptist Church, Toledo, OH) Veritas CD-96002

EUNICE LEA KETTERING: Passacaglia in g [1953]. JOSEPH CLOKEY: Sketches from Nature [1929]. RALPH CLEWELL: Scherzo Humoresque [1927] –William Osborne (1924 Skinner, augmented/St. John the Baptist RCC, Canton, OH)

The contrast between the historic, but much rebuilt, E.M. Skinner organ in Canton and the relatively new, path-breaking Brombaugh instrument in Toledo, constructed in the manner of 17th century instruments, proves revealing.