To celebrate our country’s 240th birthday, our show today will be a program of all patriotic favorites.
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Title: Variations on America
Composer: Charles Ives
Organist: Mary Preston
Album: Organ Odyssey – Reference RR-113
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Organ: 1992 IV/82 CB Fisk, Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, Texas USA
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Title: The Liberty Bell
Composer: John Philip Sousa
Organist: James Welch
Album: Around the World in Under Eighty Minutes – Arkay AR6169
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Organ: 1986 II/21 Schoenstein, St. Elizabeth Church, San Francisco, California USA
Title: Concert Variations on the Star-Spangled Banner, op. 23
Composer: Dudley Buck
Organist: Adam Brakel
Album: Romantic and Virtuosic – Raven OAR-933
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Organ: 2000 IV/109 Austin, The Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea, Palm Beach, Florida USA
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Title: Fantasie on a National Air
Composer: Norman Coke-Jephcott
Organist: Jeremy Filsell
Album: Americana – Raven OAR-942
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Organ: 1963 IV/186 EM Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner, National Cathedral, Washington, DC USA
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Title: Eternal Father, Strong to Save
Composer: John Bacchus Dykes
Organist: William Neil
Album: Amazing Grace – Hymns of Faith and Praise – MSR Classics MS1183
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Organ: 1968 IV/104 Aeolian-Skinner, National Presbyterian Church, Washington, DC USA
Title: Concert Variations on The Star Spangled Banner
Composer: John Knowles Paine
Organist: Bruce Stevens
Album: Historic Organs Of Connecticut – Organ Historical Society OHS-94
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Organ: 1871 III/55 E and GG Hook, St. Mary’s Church, New Haven, Connecticut USA
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Title: Variations and Fugue On Heil dir im Siegerkranz (God Save the King)
Composer: Max Reger
Organist: Christopher Herrick
Album: Organ Fireworks – VIII – Hyperion CDA66978
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Organ: 1989 IV/130 Rieger, Hong Kong Cultural Center, Hong Kong, China
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Title: The Stars and Stripes Forever
Composer: John Philip Sousa
Organist: Elizabeth and Raymond Chenault
Album: Twentieth Century Organ Music For Two, Vol 2 – Gothic G49073
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Organ: 1963 IV/186 EM Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner, National Cathedral, Washington, DC USA