Follow the Star

These brilliant denizens of heaven evoke their rolls as travelers’ guide, focus of prayers and wishes, and symbol of nations, while also providing us with a star-studded musical celebration of the season of Epiphany.

Program Broadcast dates:

January 6, 1997

Music played in the program

BURKHARDT: Variations on How brightly shines the morningstar –Michael Burkhardt (1988 Casavant/Christ College Chapel, Irvine, CA) MorningStar CD-11MB

BUXTEHUDE: Fantasy on Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern –Marie-Claire Alain (1692 Arp Schnitger [plus additions]/Martinikerk, Groningen, The Netherlands) Erato 2CD-12979

LEIDING: Chorale-prelude, Wie schön leuchtet –Jan Overduin (1766 Riepp/Ottobeuren Monastery, Germany) ebs CD-6010

JAMES WOODMAN: Little Partita for Epiphany –Peter Sykes (1989 Roche/Old North Church, Nantucket Island, MA) Raven OAR-320

PACHELBEL: Chorale-prelude, Wie schön leuchtet –Marilyn Mason (1985 C.B. Fisk/University of Michigan School of Music, Ann Arbor, MI) Musical Heritage Society CD-513276

RICHARD PURVIS: Caravan of the Three Kings –Keith Shafer (1994 Casavant/Saint Anne’s Episcopal Church, Tifton, GA) Saint Anne’s CD-1001

DUBOIS: March of the Magi –Francois-Henri Houbart (1845 Cavaillé-Coll/L'église de la Madeleine, Paris, France) BNL CD-112724

VIERNE: Etoile du soir, from Fantasy Pieces, Op. 54, no. 3 –Wolfgang Rübsam (1880 Cavaillé-Coll/Church of Saint François-de-Sales, Lyon, France) Bayer 2CD-100015/6

CARMICHAEL: Stardust –George Wright (Hollywood Philharmonic Organ) Banda CD-109454; VanHEUSEN: Swinging on a Star –David Peckham (1925 Marr & Colton/Clemens Center, Elmira, NY) Veteran Hill CD-1961

SOUSA: Stars and Stripes Forever –Simon Preston (1862 Walcker + 1947 Aeolian-Skinner/Methuen Music Hall, Methuen, MA) Argo 421 731-2

TOURNEMIRE: Communion for Epiphany, from L’Orgue Mystique –Pierre Cogen (1859 Cavaillé-Coll/Basilique Sainte Clotilde, Paris, France) Cybella CD-883

TOURNEMIRE: Offertoire and Fantasie-Chorale for the Sunday after Epiphany, from L’Orgue Mystique –Adrian Gunning (1962 Harrison & Harrison/Coventry Cathedral, England, UK) Libra CD-155