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Oberlin's New 'French' Fisk
The accent is convincing, but the context? On our next Pipedreams program, we listen to a new instrument fashioned in the manner of the great organs by 19th century French builder 
Aristide Cavaillé-Coll. But we're not in a famous Parisian church, rather we're on the Ohio plains southwest of Cleveland, at Finney Chapel of Oberlin College where the C.B. Fisk company of Gloucester, Massachusetts, set out to provide students with an experience they could only otherwise achieve abroad.
We celebrate in style, with solos and orchestral pieces, as faculty recitalists Haskell Thomson and David Boe show off a new instrument which adds to a teaching resource unparalleled at any other American school. Join us at Finney Chapel to savor Oberlin's New French Fisk, this week on Pipedreams.
Program Broadcast dates:
- April 8, 2002
Music played in the program
ROBERT SIROTA: In the Fullness of Time. CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS: Maestoso, fr Symphony No. 3 in c, Op. 78 – David Boe, o; Oberlin Orchestra/Paul Polivnick, cond (recorded 9/28/01)
ERMEND BONNAL: La Vallée du Béhorléguy, au matin, fr Paysages euskariens. LOUIS VIERNE: Final, fr Symphony No. 1 in D, Op. 14- David Boe, o (recorded 9/29/01)
LOUIS JAMES ALFRED LEFÉBURE-WÉLY: Scene pastorale. OLIVIER MESSIAEN: Sortie, Le vent de l'Esprit, fr Messe de la Pentecote - Haskell Thomson, o (recorded 9/29/01)
JOSEPH JONGEN: Lento misterioso (3rd mvt.) and Toccata (4th mvt.), fr Symphonie Concertante, Op. 81 - Haskell Thomson, o; Oberlin Orchestra/Paul Polivnick, cond (recorded 9/28/01)
Oberlin Conservatory and the Westfield Center will sponsor an international summer symposium on French Romantic Organ Music ("Cavaille-Coll in Oberlin") will be held on campus June 12-15, 2002. For more information, contact: www.westfield.org/programs2.htm or phone toll-free 888-544-0619.