Phascinating Philadelphia

The City of Brotherly Love is home to some of the largest and rarest instruments of the American Industrial Era.

Program Broadcast dates:

• June 17, 1996

Featured Organs:

These four instruments alone contain more than 53,000 pipes, and make a quality of sound which is seldom encountered these days. The Philadelphia Convention Hall instrument will be played for the last time in concert on June 30, prior to that building’s planned demolition. These and other of the city’s historic pipe organs will be featured during a week-long convention of the Organ Historical Society (June 30-July 6)

Music played in the program

HANDEL: Allegro, from Concerto No. 4. VIERNE: Andante, from Symphony No. 1 –Keith Chapman (1911 Wanamaker Organ/Macy’s Center City Department Store, Philadelphia, PA) Vantage 2CD-69-694-001

ELGAR: Pomp & Circumstance March No. 1 in D. BACH: Air. MULET: Tu es Petra, from Byzantine Sketches –Ted Alan Worth (1926 Austin/Irvine Auditorium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA) Curtis Restoration CD-141601

DELIUS: Serenade, from Hassan –Ted Alan Worth (1933 E.M. Skinner/Girard College Chapel, Philadelphia, PA) DTR CD-9301

KARG-ELERT: Fugue, Canzona & Epilogue, Op. 85, no. 3 –Harry Wilkinson (1933 E.M. Skinner/Girard College Chapel, Philadelphia, PA) Pro Organo CD-7044

GRIEG: Triumphal March, from Sigurd Jorsalfar –Carlo Curley (1933 E.M. Skinner/Girard College Chapel, Philadelphia, PA) Argo CD 430-200-2

CLARK: Torchlite March. PURVIS: Earth Carol. WIDOR: Toccata, from Symphony No. 5 –Thomas Hazleton (1931 Moeller/Philadelphia Convention Hall, PA) PORC CD-9301

BACH: Come, sweet death –Virgil Fox (1911 Wanamaker Organ/Macy’s Center City Department Store, Philadelphia, PA) Bainbridge CD-2501