Today we remember the organist and composer Charles Callahan, who died on December 25, 2023. This episode was sponsored by Morningstar Music.
Hosts: Mark Scholtz, Bill Stein
Special thanks to Mark Lawson
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Title: Postlude in C
Composer: Horatio Parker
Organist: Charles Callahan
Album: Charles Callahan plays American Music at Sacred Heart, Tampa Florida – Pro Organo CD 2223
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Organ: 1993 IV/54 Moller/Wicks, Sacred heart Catholic Church, Tampa, Florida USA
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Title: Valediction – A Biblical Poem (Let not your hearts be troubled)
Composer: Charles Callahan
Organist: Ardyth Lohuis
Album: All American, Works for Violin and Organ, Vol 5 – Raven OAR 650
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Organ: 1950 IV/75 Aeolian-Skinner, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia USA
Title: In Paradisum
Composer: Charles Callahan
Organist: Jacques Boucher
Album: Le Violon Spirituel – Société Métropolitaine du Disque SMD 269-1
Organ: 1894 III/46 Casavant/Caron, Sanctuaire du Saint-Sacrement, Montréal, Quebec Canada
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Title: Aria
Composer: Charles Callahan
Organist: Ken Cowan
Album: The Austin Organ – Austin Organs AO101-CD
Organ: 1998 IV/50 Austin, St. Mary’s College Chapel, Moraga, California USA
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Title: Fanfares and Riffs
Composer: Charles Callahan
Organist: Jeremy Filsell
Album: Epiphany – Raven OAR-966
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Organ: 1966 III/50 Aeolian-Skinner, Church of the Epiphany, Washington, DC USA
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Title: Toccata
Composer: Leo Sowerby
Organist: Charles Callahan
Album: Music of Leo Sowerby –
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Organ: 1903 IV/68 Hutchings-Votey/Hook and Hastings, First Church of Christ Scientist, New York, New York USA
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Title: Hymn of the Nuns
Composer: Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wely
Organist: Charles Callahan
Album: The Aeolian-Skinner Legacy Vol 3 – Vermont Organ Academy 1-83253-00006-2
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Organ: 1968 IV/104 Aeolian-Skinner, National Presbyterian Church, Washington, DC USA
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Title: Improvisation in B-flat minor
Composer: Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
Organist: Charles Callahan
Album: Cathedral Echoes – Pro Organo CD 7232
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Organ: 1949 IV/121 Kilgen/Wicks, St. Louis Cathedral Basilica, St. Louis, Missouri USA
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Title: Invocation in E
Composer: Charles Callahan
Organist: Charles Callahan
Album: Cathedral Echoes – Pro Organo CD 7232
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Organ: 1949 IV/121 Kilgen/Wicks, St. Louis Cathedral Basilica, St. Louis, Missouri USA
Title: Sonata Eroica, no. 2 in G, op. 151 – III. Verdun. Allegro moderato
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Organist: Charles Callahan
Album: The Stanford Sonatas – Pro Organo CD 7010
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Organ: 1911 IV/71 Harrison and Harrison, St. Mary Redcliffe Church, Bristol, England
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