Austin Cities Unlimited

A tribute to the oldest continuously functional organ-building firm in the United States, Austin Organs, Inc., of Hartford, CT.

Program Broadcast dates:

• January 29, 1996

Music played in the program

WEITZ: Fanfare & Gothic March –James Drake (1990 Austin/National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa, Doylestown, PA) Arkay CD-6109

LEMARE: Scherzo Fugue, Op. 102. WAGNER (trans. Lemare): Evening Star, from Tannhauser –Frederick Hohman (1912 Austin/Merrill Auditorium, Portland, ME) Pro Organo CD7018

ELMORE: Holiday for Organ –Robert Plimpton (1915 Austin/Spreckels Organ Pavilion, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA) Balboa SOS-4CD

VIERNE: Kyrie, from Solemn Mass, Op. 16; Romance, from Organ Symphony No. 4, Op. 32 –John Rose (1962 Austin/Saint Joseph’s Cathedral, Hartford, CT) Towerhill T-1007 and CD-900101 (out-of-print)

DUPRÉ: Jesus is stripped of his clothes, from Stations of the Cross, Op. 29; Fugue in g, Op. 7, no. 3 –Clarence Watters (1971 Austin/Trinity College Chapel, Hartford, CT) AFKA CD-508

SOWERBY: Carillon –William Evans (1991 Austin/Westminster Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, PA) Audible Images CD-2734

HAKIM: Symphony in Three Movements –Naji Hakim (1988 Austin organ/Church of Our Lady of Grace, Edina, MN)(recorded 10/13/89 in concert)

MULET: Meditation Religieuse; Carillon-Sortie –Thomas Murray (1990 Austin/National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa, Doylestown, PA) Arkay CD-6109

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This program was originally issued as #9347 in November 1993.