1992 C.B. Fisk organ at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, TX

Pulling Out ‘All the Stops’

Craig R. Whitney visits us to talk about the traditions and power of the pipe organ in the United States.

Craig R. Whitney’s popular book, All the Stops: the Glorious Pipe Organ and Its American Masters, is published by PublicAffairs.

Music played in the program

NICOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Procession of the Nobles, from Mlada –Thomas Murray (1929 Skinner/Woolsey Hall, Yale University, New Haven, CT) JAV CD-124

J. S. BACH: Toccata & Fugue in d, S. 565 –E. Power Biggs (1958 Flentrop/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA) CBS CD-42644

BACH: Air, from Orchestral Suite No. 3 –Virgil Fox (Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1118/Riverside Church, New York, NY) RCA CD-61251

LEON BOLLMANN: Toccata, from Suite gothique, Op. 25 –Virgil Fox (Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1118/Riverside Church, New York, NY) EMI Classics CD-66386

LOUIS VIERNE: Préambule, from 24 Pieces in Free Style. DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE: Fugue in C (Jig) –Peter Stoltzfus (1937 Aeolian-Skinner/Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, PA) JAV CD-109

JAN PIETERSZOON SWEELINCK: Malle Sijmen –Gail Archer (1981 C.B. Fisk/Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA)

FRANZ TUNDER:Jesu Christus, unser Heiland (3 verses) –Bernard Lagacé (1981 C.B. Fisk/Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA) Titanic CD-207

CHARLES TOURNEMIRE: Fantasie-Chorale In Festo Pentecostes, from L’Orgue Mystique (Suite 25) –Douglas Major (1973 Aeolian-Skinner/Washington National Cathedral, DC) Gothic CD-118316; WILLIAM WALTON: Orb and Sceptre March –David Briggs (1932 Skinner; 1969 Schlicker organs/First Congregational Church, Los Angeles, CA) Delos CD-3241

ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK (trans. Lemare): Prelude to Hansel and Gretel –Ken Cowan (1930 Skinner/Holy Rosary Cathedral, Toledo, OH) JAV CD-131

MAURICE DURUFLÉ: Variations on Veni Creator, Op. 4 –Mary Preston (1992 C.B. Fisk/Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, TX) Gothic CD-49079