Summertime Specials

Highlighting activities at San Diego’s Balboa Park, the Methuen Music Hall in Massachusetts, and the Wanamaker Grand Court at Macy's Center City Department Store in Philadelphia.

Program Broadcast dates:

• May 31, 1999

Music played in the program

ROBERT ELMORE: Fantasy on Nursery Tunes (CD-04). ALBINONI (arr. Giazotto): Adagio in g (CD-03). SAINT-SAENS: Marche Heroique (CD-06). SCOTT JOPLIN: Maple Leaf Rag (CD-03) –Robert Plimpton (1915 Austin/Spreckels Organ Pavilion, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA). The historic Spreckels Organ is played every Sunday afternoon at 2PM. Summer evening recitals begin at 8PM on Mondays from mid-June through August.

REGER: Symphonic Fantasy & Fugue, Op. 57 (Inferno) –Stefan Kozinski (1862 Walcker + 1947 Aeolian-Skinner/Methuen Music Hall, Methuen, MA) GM CD-2064. Methuen recitals run from May 26 through September 1 on Wednesday evenings at 8 o’clock.

CHUCKERBUTTY: Fanfare (Conte). ELGAR: Imperial March (Conte). ELGAR: Nimrod, from Enigma Variations (Conte). TRADITIONAL: Ocean Grove Auditorium Usher’s March (Foppiano). ROBERT HEBBLE: Londonderry Air (Conte). MULET: Toccata, Tu es petra, from Byzantine Sketches (Cowan) (1911 Wanamaker Organ/Macy’s Center City Department Store, Philadelphia, PA)
Peter Conte, Scott Foppiano and Kenneth Cowan were recorded in recital on the world’s largest functioning pipe organ of 451 stops and nearly 29,000 pipes (American Public Media recordings 7/3/96 and 6/6/98). The instrument will be featured in a special Organ Day celebration on June 12. For information visit Friends of the Wanamaker Organ.