This week we celebrate our nation’s approaching birthday with more music by American composers.
Hosts: Mark Scholtz, Bill Stein
Playlist
Title: Fugue on America
Composer: Eugene Thayer
Organist: Charles Callahan
Album: Cathedral Echoes Pro Organo – CD 7232
Organ: IV/121 Kilgen/Wicks St. Louis Cathedral Basilica, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Title: A Retrospection
Composer: Richard Purvis
Organist: Jeremy Filsell
Album: Americana Raven – OAR-942
Organ: IV/186 EM Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner National Cathedral, Washington, DC, USA
Title: Improvisation
Composer: Jonathan Tuuk
Organist: Jonathan Tuuk
Album: Works for Cathedral Spaces Pro Organo – CD 7015
Organ: III/40 Wicks St. Adalbert’s Basilica, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Title: Intermezzo for Organ
Composer: Nancy Plummer Faxon
Organist: John Weaver
Album: Pipedreams Premieres Pipedreams – PD1001
Organ: IV/123 EM Skinner Old South Church, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Title: Hommage à Messiaen
Composer: McNeil Robinson
Organist: Maxine Thévenot
Album: Without Boundaries Raven – OAR 890
Organ: III/65 Reuter Cathedral of St. John, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Title: Prelude on an Old Folk Tune – The Fair Hills of Eire, O
Composer: Amy Beach
Organist: Allen Shaffer
Album: Rose Windows Pro Organo – CD 7154
Organ: III/77 Casavant/Letourneau Christ and St. Luke’s Church, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Title: Veni, Creator Spiritus
Composer: Libby Larsen
Organist: Douglas Cleveland
Album: Celestial Fire Gothic – G49113
Organ: III/70 Goulding and Wood St. Meinrad Archabbey, St. Meinrad, Indiana, USA
Title: Amazing Grace
Composer: Albert Travis
Organist: Jonathan Ryan
Album: A Cathedral’s Voice Raven – OAR-941
Organ: III/55 Parkey Cathedral of St. John Berchmans, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
Title: Fantasia on a Theme of Gustav Holst
Composer: Aaron David Miller
Organist: Daryl Robinson
Album: American Fantasia Gothic – G-49315
Organ: IV/109 Rosales-Glatter-Götz Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, California, USA
Title: Paean
Composer: Stephen Paulus
Organist: Benedict Lewis-Smith and Julian Collings
Album: Firebird – Virtuoso Organ Duets Regent – REGCD 500
Organ: IV/59 Walker Blackburn Cathedral, Blackburn, England
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Title: The Happy Breed – II. Cocktails and pedals
Composer: Dick Hyman
Organist: Benjamin Saunders
Album: Gracious Groove Pro Organo – CD 7269
Organ: IV/55 Norman and Beard/Klais Leeds Cathedral, Leeds, England
Title: Sketchbook Three – Scherzando
Composer: Daniel Gawthrop
Organist: Mary Mozelle
Album: Exultate – Organ Music of Daniel E Gawthrop MSR Classics – MS1185
Organ: IV/135 EM Skinner/Mander Princeton University Chapel, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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