An American Organist’s Christmas

A coast-to-coast collection of memorable and mesmerizing manipulations of seasonal songs.

Program Broadcast dates:

• December 14, 1998

Music played in the program

DALE WOOD: 3 Holiday hymn-settings (People, look east; Noel Nouvelet; Forest Green). WILBUR HELD: Go, tell it on the mountain. FRANKLIN EDDINGS: Silent Night. BACH: Rejoice, ye Christians. WOOD: I saw three ships –James Welch (1982 Schoenstein/Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, Oakland, CA) Arkay CD-6166

LARRY VISSER: French Couplets on Angels we have heard on high –James Kibbie (1955 Aeolian-Skinner/Hill Auditorium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI) Prestant Records CD-1004

OBETZ (arr.): The First Noel. REGER: Weihnachten/Christmas, No. 3 from Seven Pieces, Op. 145. OBETZ (arr.): Joy to the World –John Obetz (1959 Aeolian-Skinner/RLDS Auditorium, Independence, MO) RBW CD-002  

HARMON (arr.): 2 Carols Settings (We wish you a Merry Christmas; While my sheep I watched at night). BACH (arr. Harmon): Sinfonia, from Cantata No. 142 –Jeffrey Curnow, Adam Gordon, trumpet; Clarece Candamio, Christina Harmon Hester Park CD-7706

ROGER HANNAHS: Fantasia on the Coventry Carol –Sandra Bittermann, harp; Susan Armstrong-Ouellette (1862 Walcker + 1947 Aeolian-Skinner/Methuen Music Hall, Methuen, MA) AFKA CD-542

ROBERT HOBBY: Toccata on God rest you merry gentlemen –Elizabeth & Raymond Chenault (1992 Ruffatti/Spivey Hall, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA) Gothic CD-49084

KEITH CHAPMAN: 3 Christmas Carols (Angels we have heard on high; Infant holy, infant lowly; Bring a torch, Jeannette, Isabella) –Robert Plimpton (1915 Austin/Spreckels Organ Pavilion, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA) Spreckels Organ Society CD-105

NORBERTO GUINALDO: Rhapsody on Sussex Carol –Robert Grogan (1964 Möller/National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, DC) Gothic CD-49069

OLIVERA: 2 Christmas Improvisations (Deck the halls; God rest ye merry gentlemen) –Hector Olivera (1991 Casavant; 1996 Rodgers/Bel Air Presbyterian Church, Los Angeles, CA) Rodgers CD-76015