American Blessings

The rich resource of our nation’s own compositional talent store gives our ears and hearts much for which to be thankful.

Program Broadcast dates:

• November 25, 1996

Music played in the program

SOWERBY: Comes Autumn Time –Lorenz Maycher (1949 Aeolian-Skinner/First Presbyterian Church, Kilgore, TX) Raven OAR-310

PARKER: Romanza, Op., 17, no. 3; Fugue, Op. 36, no. 3; Risoluto, Op. 68, no. 5 –Albert Ahlstrom (1895 Müller & Abel/Saint Joseph’s Church, New York, NY) Raven OAR-340

MacDOWELL: To a wild rose, from Woodland Sketches –Virgil Rox (Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1118/Riverside Church, New York, NY) EMI Classics CD-65426

ARNDT: Nola –George Wright (Hollywood Philharmonic Studio Organ) Banda CD-109555

PINKHAM: Gloria –Philadelphia Brass; Joan Lippincott (1992 Mander/Princeton University Chapel, NJ) Gothic CD-49072

ELMORE: Fantasy on Nursery Tunes –Jonas Nordwall, Tom Hazleton, organ POLLACK: At the Codfish Ball –DonnaParker (1928 Kimball/Dickinson High School Auditorium, Wilmington, DE) Triple Play CD-33302

KATHLEEN SCHEIDE: Amazing Grace –Kathleen Scheide (1897 Hutchings/Mission Church, Boston, MA) Raven OAR-350

JOPLIN: Magnetic Rag –Ansgar Aylward, violin; Keith Hooper, oboe; Jürgen Schwab (1994 Mühleisen/Owenstadt Parish, Germany) Fireworks Music CD-0028

COPLAND: Symphony for Organ and Orchestra (1924) –Simon Preston (1965 Aeolian-Skinner/Cathedral of Christ the King, Saint Louis, MO) RCA CD-68292