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Tuesday, 14 October 2008 01:00 |
MAUMEE—“Pipes Spectacular: The World’s Largest Organ Concert” is presented in Toledo Oct. 19 at First Presbyterian Church, 200 E. Broadway St. in Maumee. The event begins at 4 p.m.
The American Guild of Organists (AGO) presents more than 2,000 performers in more than 225 concert venues throughout North America and abroad. This one-day celebration is designed to increase public awareness of the organ and is one of various events celebrating the International Year of the Organ, 2008-2009. These events will feature the organ in its historic and evolving roles as a solo, accompanying and ensemble instrument.
The Maumee concert features chapter members performing on the three-manual Möller/Bunn-Minnick organ, the Academy Brass Ensemble and the St. Rose/Zoar Lutheran Children’s Choir, directed by Charlotte Mariasy and Eric Dickey.
Oboist Kim Bryden and organist Kathryn Mumy are to perform “Ornament of Grace” by American composer Bernard Wayne Sanders, winner of a composition competition sponsored by the AGO for this specific occasion. Another featured work commissioned for this event is “Blithely Breezing Along” by Stephen Paulus, which will be performed by Brian Rotz. This is to be the northwest Ohio premiere of these two compositions.
The concert includes an organ and piano duet performed by Cheryle Knight and Gladys Rudolph. Sarah Moon, a master’s student in organ performance at Oberlin College/Conservatory and past AGO High School Scholarship winner in the Toledo chapter, is to perform Dietrich Buxtehude’s “Praeludium in G minor.” A movement from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cantata #78 is to be performed by organist Barbara Dulmage and a treble chorus under her direction.
Paul Monachino, Diocese of Toledo music director, leads the hymn “When in Our Music God Is Glorified,” and Wayne Whitten concludes the concert with the famous “Toccata” from the Fifth Organ Symphony by Charles-Marie Widor.
The concert is underwritten by the Toledo Chapter of the AGO and admission is free.
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For more information, visit www.toledoago.org.
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Last Updated on Monday, 22 December 2008 11:09 |
