Affirming Good Counsel

While visiting the restored 1877 Johnson & Son organ which celebrates renewed vitality in the care of the School Sisters of Notre Dame at their Chapel of Our Lady of Good Counsel in Mankato, MN.

Program Broadcast dates:

• October 28, 1996

Featured Organs:

One of the most highly regarded American organbuilders, William Johnson & Son produced 860 instruments in the last third of the nineteenth century, of which this imposing 45-stop organ, built for Saint Mary's Catholic Church in Boston, is the largest remaining. The instrument came to Minnesota in 1975 when Saint Mary's was slated for demolition. Recent restorative work was accomplished by Dobson Pipe Organ Builders of Lake City, IA. For more information about the Johnson organ and the remarkable community of its present curators, write: School Sisters of Notre Dame, 170 Good Counsel Drive, Mankato, MN 56001-3198 (507-389-4213).

Music played in the program

BACH: Cantata Sinfonia No. 29 (Wir danken Dir) –Thomas Murray, organ (recorded 3/17/96)

PAINE: Concert Variations on the Austrian Hymn –Kim Kasling, organ (recorded 1/28/96)

SCHUMANN: Sketch in D-flat, Op. 58, no. 4 –Thomas Murray

DURUFLE: Fugue on the Soissons Cathedral Bells.

SOWANDE: Joshua fought the Battle of Jericho–Kim Kasling

ROGER HANNAHS: Carillon on He is Risen; 5 Reflections on Plansong Hymns (Adoro te devote; Pange lingua; Lauda Sion; Iam Lucis; O lux beata trinitas).

RHEINBERGER: Introduction & Fugue, fr Sonata No. 17 in B, Op. 181 –Susan Armstrong-Ouellette (recorded 10/4/90, pre-restoration)

FLEURY: Variations on a Burgundian Noel.

FRANCK: Choral No. 3 in A-minor.

BACH:"Saint Anne" Fugue in E-flat, S. 552 –Thomas Murray (recorded 3/17/96)