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2000 Austin at the Forbidden City Concert Hall, Beijing, China
Out in the Hall
If you naturally think of the pipe organ as a church instrument, think again. This week, we celebrate three organ installations from concert Halls in China, Australia and England. Carol Williams shows off the Connecticut-built Austin organ in the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, Thomas Heywood gives us the before-and-after treatment at Melbourne Town Hall, where the 1929 Hill organ was expanded and modernized by the Schantz Company of Ohio, and at the new concert hall in Birhmigham, England, Thomas Trotter pulls out all the stops.
Click and listen to concert music for concert instruments. This week, we’re not in a church but Out in the Hall.
Program Broadcast dates:
- April 07, 2003
Featured Organs:
- 1929 Hill - 2000 Schantz at Melbourne Town Hall, Australia
- 2000 Austin at the Forbidden City Concert Hall, Beijing, China
- 2001 Klais at Birmingham Symphony Hall, UK
Links and Resources
Music played in the program
EDWIN H. LEMARE: Toccata di Concerto, Op.59 –Thomas Heywood (2001 Schantz/Town Hall, Melbourne, Australia) Move CD-3120
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI (arr. Lemare): William Tell Overture –Thomas Heywood (2001 Schantz/Town Hall, Melbourne, Australia) Pro Organo CD-7141
ENRICO BOSSI: Etude Symphonique, Op. 78. J.S. BACH (arr. Archer): Air, from Suite No. 3 in D. GAVIN STEVENS: Toccata. RICHARD PURVIS: Prelude on Greensleeves. JERRY HERMAN (arr. Williams): Hello Dolly Medley -Carol Williams (2000 Austin/Forbidden City Concert Hall, Beijing, China) Melcot Music CD-015
MORTON GOULD: Pavane. MICHAEL NYMAN: Fourths, Mostly (premiere). RICHARD WAGNER (arr. Lemare): Rienzi Overture –Thomas Trotter (2001 Klais/Symphony Hall, Birmingham, England, UK) Symphony Hall CD-1
Increasingly it can be said that no respectable concert facility is complete without the presence of an authentic pipe organ.