Daryl Robinson, first place NYACOP winner

Daryl Robinson

(National Young Artists in Organ Performance)
Wednesday, October 17 at 7:30 p.m.
This concert is co-sponsored with St. John's Cathedral, 1007 Superior Ave., downtown Cleveland. Daryl's program will include works by by Leo Sowerby, Karg-Elert, Judith Weir, J. S. Bach, Anton Heiller, Gerre Hancock and Franz Liszt. The concert is free with secure parking available in the Cathedral lot. Our chapter will have a private reception and some visiting time with Daryl at the Cathedral following his performance. Daryl's full bio can be found at www.concertorganists.com. A flyer for this concert can be downloaded here. Daryl will be playing one of Cleveland's important pipe organs -the 72 rank Holtkamp at St. John's. Here is some information and a photo of this instrument:

CATHEDRAL of ST JOHN the EVANGELIST
1948 Holtkamp Organ, III / 72

St. John Cathedral

Built in 1948 by Walter Holtkamp, Sr. of Cleveland's Holtkamp Organ Company at the cost of $45,000, the Cathedral organ comprises a total of 72 ranks distributed over 7 divisions: specifically, 54 ranks in the west Gallery, and 18 ranks in the Chancel at the East End. It is playable from two identical 3 manual consoles: a moveable console located in the west Gallery, and a stationary console located in the Chancel area.

EROI Report

 

Craighead-Saunders organ

The opening concert for the EROI/Bach Society Symposium, Bach and the Organ, held September 27-30 at the Eastman School of Music, was a recreation of the Felix Mendelssohn Organ Concert in Leipzig 1840. Mendelssohn has been credited with re-introducing the music of J.S. Bach to the world. Eastman professors Hans Davidsson, David Higgs and William Porter played the concert on the stunning Craighead-Saunders Organ at Christ Church, Rochester. The organ built by GOArt in 2008 is a research copy of a historical 1776 instrument   from Vilnius, Lithuania. On Friday attendees heard a Bach recital by Eastman students. The evening concert was a recital by Jaques van Oortmerssen, Professor of Organ at the Amsterdam conservatory, also at Christ Church. Works played included Piece d-Orgue, Canzona in D Minor and the Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C Major, all by Bach.

            An afternoon recital on Saturday was play by Joel Speestra on a pedal clavichord. David Higgs introduced the program and described the value of the pedal clavichord for organ study. It was enlightening to hear Bach Preludes and an organ trio sonata played on this instrument. The evening program was a gala concert of festive cantatas with organ. In addition to Bach, two unpublished cantatas by the composer Gottfried Heinrich Stolzel were played by the Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble with the Christ Church Schola Cantorum. The high quality of the Stolzel works made one sorry that the bulk of this composers works have been lost.

            The first concert on Sunday afternoon was on a magnificent Paul Fritts instrument of 2008 at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Rochester. Robert Bates played Bach's Clavierübung III. The final concert was at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester on an Italian Baroque organ that is installed in the fountain court there. Eduardo Bellotti, who is teaching at Eastman this semester, played a program titled "Bach and the Italian Influence".

Alexandre Guilmant

Auld Lang Syne was the theme for improvisation given to Alexander Guilmant at his Euclid Avenue Baptist Church recital, in Cleveland on this date in 1893. Euclid Avenue Baptist was known as "Rockefeller's Church" and John D. was superintendent of the Sunday School at the time of this concert. Here is a link to music by Guilmant that can be downloaded for free. Here is a link to a website with all things Guilmant.

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Barbara MacGregor

Fairlawn Lutheran Church will open the 15th anniversary season of Parish Arts Concerts with a recital by organist, Barbara MacGregor,  on Sunday, October 7th at 4 p.m.  The program will feature the church's Holtkamp pipe organ and will include music by J.S. Bach, John Cook, Paul Dukas, Jean Langlais, Dan Locklair, Billy Strayhorn and Charles-Marie Widor.

Barbara is Sub-Dean of the Cleveland Chapter AGO. She is Professor Emeritus from the University of Akron where she taught organ for many years. She was also Director of music at Holy Trinity Church in Akron where she headed a very successful organ recital series. Barbara maintains an active performance schedule. She also was local co-chair of the semi-finals of the NYACOP held in Cleveland in May.

The program is free and open to everyone. A reception will follow.   Fairlawn Lutheran Church is located at 3415 W. Market St. just west of Summit Mall 330-836-7286

 

American Guild of Organists Cleveland Chapter
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Gerry Mass, our Cleveland Chapter Placement Officer collects and updates job openings in the area.  Although they are not listed in the weekly updates, there is a link in the "Quick Links" section every week that will take you to the updated list on the chapter website.  Questions or need help finding a position? Email: placement@agocleveland.org