Summertime Specials

Highlighting activities at San Diego's Balboa Park, the Methuen Music Hall in Massachusetts, and the Wanamaker Grand Court at Lord & Taylor's 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 Pavillion, Balboa Park). The historic Spreckels Organ is played every Sunday afternoon at 2PM. Summer evening recitals begin at 8PM on Mondays from mid-June through August. For more information: 619-702-8138 or www.serve.com/sosorgan

REGER: Symphonic Fantasy & Fugue, Op. 57 (Inferno) –Stefan Kozinski (1949 Aeolian-Skinner/Music Hall, Methuen, MA) GM CD-2064. Methuen recitals run from May 26 through September 1 on Wednesday evenings at 8 o'clock. For more information: 978-685-0693 or www.mmmh.org

CHUCKERBUTTY: Fanfare (Conte). ELGAR: Imperial March (Conte). ELGAR: Nimrod, fr Enigma Variations (Conte). TRADITIONAL: Ocean Grove Auditorium Usher's March (Foppiano). ROBERT HEBBLE: Londonderry Air (Conte). MULET: Toccata, Tu es petra, fr Byzantine Sketches (Cowan).

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 (MPR tapes, recorded 7/3/96 and 6/6/98). The instrument is played twice every day the Lord & Taylor Store is open (13th & Market Streets, Philadelphia), and will be featured in a special Organ Day celebration on June 12. For information visit Friends of the Wanamaker Organ.