Summer Fun

It’s time to take the organ out of its religious context, and enjoy it out of doors at Balboa Park in San Diego. We’ll also visit other venues where summer concerts win new friends for the King of Instruments. From the Methuen Music Hall in Massachusetts to the Mormon Tabernacle, from Balboa Park in San Diego to the Berks County Museum in Pennsylvania, we celebrate a season of adventure and discovery, a sampler of seasonal recital venues coast to coast. It’s all about having some Summer Fun.

Audio Listen to the program

Program Broadcast dates:

June 9, 2003

Music played in the program

JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU (transcribed by Edwin H. Lemare): Gavotte, from Le Temple de la Gloire –Thomas Murray (1912 Austin/Merrill Auditorium, Portland, ME) AFKA SK-515

SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN: Iolanthe Overture –Peter Richard Conte (1912 Austin/Merrill Auditorium, Portland, ME) AFKA SK-108

NAJI HAKIM: Mariales –Margaret Evans (1915 Austin/Spreckels Organ Pavilion, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA) Arkay AR6155

GIUSEPPE VERDI (transcribed by Edwin H. Lemare): Triumphal March, from Aida –Robert Plimpton (1915 Austin/Spreckels Organ Pavilion, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA) Spreckels Organ Society CD-6

CASPAR SCHAFFNER: Prelude in G. JOHANN PACHELBEL: Fantasia in g. OLIVER SHAW: Windslow Blues Bugle March –Philip Cooper (1787 Tannenberg/Moravian Church, Lititz, PA) AFKA SK-540

JOHANN PACHELBEL: Fugue in C –Philip Cooper (1800 Dieffenbach/Berks County Historical Society, Reading, PA) AFKA SK-540

ROBERT SCHUMANN: Canon in A-flat, Opus 56, number 4 –Frederick Hohman (1863 E.F. Walcker; 1947 Aeolian-Skinner/Methuen Music Hall, Methuen, MA) Pro Organo CD 7066

ROGER HANNAHS: Ceremonial Music for Organ and Brass –Methuen Brass; Susan Armstrong-Ouellette (1863 E.F. Walcker; 1947 Aeolian-Skinner/Methuen Music Hall, Methuen, MA) AFKA SK-531

FRANZ LISZT: Consolation in E –David Mulbury (1863 E.F. Walcker; 1947 Aeolian-Skinner/Methuen Music Hall, Methuen, MA) AFKA SK-535

G.F. HANDEL: Hornpipe, from Water Music Suite –Frederick Hohman (1863 E.F. Walcker; 1947 Aeolian-Skinner/Methuen Music Hall, Methuen, MA) Pro Organo CD 7066

J.S. BACH: Chorale-prelude, Liebster Jesu, S. 713 –David Heller (1991 Rosales/University UMC, San Antonio, TX) Calcante CD-017

CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR: Andantino quasi allegretto, 3rd movement, from Symphony Number 5, Opus 42, number 1 –Jared Johnson (2001 C.B. Fisk/Finney Memorial Chapel, Oberlin Conservatory, Oberlin, OH) Pro Organo CD 7153

TRADITIONAL (arranged by Clay Christiansen): Come, come ye saints –Clay Christiansen (1948 Aeolian-Skinner/Mormon Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, UT) Klavier K 11044

LOUIS VIERNE: Impromptu in F, Opus 54, #2 –Richard Elliott (1948 Aeolian-Skinner/Mormon Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, UT) Pro Organo CD 7036

CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR: Toccata, from Symphony Number 5, Opus 42, #1 –John Longhurst (1948 Aeolian-Skinner/Mormon Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, UT) Klavier K 11069

AGO Regional Conventions - Summer 2003

OHS National Convention in Pennsylvania, June 19-26

AGO Regional Conventions:

Region I - Cape Cod, June 29-July 2
Region II - Albany, NY, June 29-July 2
Region III - Alexandria, VA, June 22-25
Region IV - Charleston, SC, June 3-8
Region V - Cleveland, OH, June 22-25
Region VI - Saint Joseph, MO, June 14-18
Region VII - San Antonio, TX, June 15-18
Regions VIII/IX - Salt Lake City, UT, June 16-19
The Mormon Tabernacle

Special Summer Concert Venues

The Kotzschmar Memorial Organ in Portland, Maine
The Spreckels Organ in Balboa Park, San Diego, California
The Methuen Music Hall (1863 E.F. Walcker; 1947 Aeolian-Skinner/Methuen Music Hall, Methuen, MA)