An Organist’s Yearbook

The traditional summary of a past year’s events, with resolutions for the New Year to come.

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Week of December 26, 2005

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Music played in the program

( Key to abbreviations)

GUY ROPARTZ: Cloches —Eric Lebrun (1894 Cavaillé-Coll/Saint-Antoine des Quinze-Vingts, Paris, France) JAV CD0155 (JAV Recordings)

MARCEL DUPRÉ: Meditation No. 13, from Le Chemin de la Croix, Op. 29 —Stephen Tharp (1862 Cavaillé- Coll/L’Église Saint-Sulpice, Paris, France) JAV CD-161 (JAV Recordings)

CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR: Kyrie, from Mass, Op. 36 —Choeur Darius Milhaud, Camille Haedt-Goussu; Ensemble Dodecamen, Christopher Hyde; Mark Dwyer (choir organ); Daniel Roth (1862 Cavaillé- Coll/L’Église Saint-Sulpice, Paris, France) JAV CD-158 (JAV Recordings)

LOUIS VIERNE: Scherzo, from Organ Symphony No. 2 —Michael Kaminsky (1922 Skinner/Holy Innocents R.C. Church, Brookly, NY) MPR Archive (recorded 12/8/05)

DOMENICO ZIPOLI: Al Post Communio and All’ Offertorio, from Sonate d’intavolatura—David Higgs (1770c. Italian/University Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY) Loft CD-1077 (Loft Recordings)

GUILLAUME LASCEUX: March in F —Roland Muhr (1736 Fux/Fürstenfeldbruck Monastery, Germany) Motette CD-13275 NOTE: this is one of more than four-dozen instruments to be visited by the Pipedreams Spring 2006 European Organ Tour in southern Germany (April 28-May 11, 2006). Download a brochure for more information. (pdf)

GEORGE BAKER: Improvisations on Texas Tunes (from Meyerson Live 4/25/05)

DAVID GEHRENBECK: The snow lay on the ground —Robert Baker (1985 Casavant/Evelyn Chapel, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL) Yale Institute of Sacred Music (special edition recordings)

NANCY PLUMMER FAXON: Intermezzo —John Weaver (1921 E.M. Skinner/Old South Church, Boston, MA) Pipedreams CD-1001

LEONARD CIAMPA: Jesu, redemptor omnium —Leonard Ciampa (1859 Hook/First Baptist Church, Jamaica Plain, MA) AFKA CD-428

MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER: Te Deum Prelude—Simon Bowler (1894 Hill/Peterborough Cathedral, England, UK) Sound Alive Music CD-502

DAVID N. JOHNSON: Voluntary in D-flat —Katharine Pardee (1950 Holtkamp/Crouse Auditorium, Syracuse University, NY). ROBERT PAOLI: Prelude & Processional, from The Syracuse Collection —Will Headlee (1952 Holtkamp/Hendricks Chapel, Syracuse University, NY) MPR Archive (recorded 5/95)

JESSE GREER: Flapperette —Carol Williams (1915 Austin/Spreckels Organ Pavilion, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA) SOS CD-08 (Spreckles Organ Society)

MARCEL DUPRÉ: Magnificat, Op. 18, no. 10—Janis Haustein (1877 Johnson & Son/Our Lady of Good Counsel, Mankato, MN) SSND CD-2005 (School Sisters of Notre Dame)

DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE: Toccata in F, BuxV 145 —Craig Cramer (2004 Fritts/Reyes Hall, University of Notre Dame, IN) MPR Archive (recorded 9/05, provided by JAV Recordings)

STEPHEN PAULUS: King David’s Dance (premiere) —Timothy Albrecht (2005 Jaeckel/Emory University, Atlanta, GA) MPR Archive (recorded 9/18/05)