Hector Olivera

Hats Off for Hector!

…concert performances and commentary make clear why audiences everywhere are beguiled by Hector Olivera’s irrepressible and personable virtuosity.

Program Broadcast dates:

• Week of April 13, 2009

Links and Resources:

• Hector’s Performance Schedule
• Follow Hector’s performance of the Bach SAMUEL SEBASTIAN WESLEY with an online score.
• Printable program listings

Related Archived Programs:

• May 11, 1987: A Man for All Seasons (#8719 & #9123)

Interview Audio:

• Hector Olivera played a recital at Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, in August 2007…a dream come true.
• Reflections on Hector's return to Argentina, revisiting his roots, remembering his childhood beginnings at the pipe organ, his playing for Evita Peron at the age of five…
• On coming from Argentina to the United States to study at Juilliard with Vernon de Tarr
• His first breakthrough …winning an AGO competition in the 1960s, touring for the Conn (Electronic) Organ Company, etc.
• On the evolution of his style of programming music for the people, for the ‘farmer’ rather than the ‘conservatory graduate’…
• Beginnings as an improviser
• On playing the theatre organ
• On playing the Roland Atelier
• More about the Roland Atelier and his creative investment in/with it
• Accomplishments and goals

Music played in the program

Hour 1

WILLIAM RALPH DRIFFILL: Toccata. J.S. BACH: Passacaglia & Fugue in c, S. 582. LOUIS VIERNE: Scherzo, from Organ Symphony No. 2, Op. 20. HECTOR OLIVERA: Improvisation on a Theme by Jerome Kern (All the things you are). OLIVERA: Improvisation on Submitted Themes (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice; Sing praise to God who reigns above; On the trail, from Grand Canyon Suite) –Hector Olivera (2003 Blackinton/Benson Great Hall, Bethel University, Saint Paul, MN) Pipedreams Archive (recorded 4/22/05)

Filler - DRIFFILL (see above)

Hour 2

BACH: Fugue in G, BWV 577 (Jig) –played on a Roland Atelier AT90S digital synthesizer (MPI 112)

HANS FRIEDRICH MICHEELSEN: Toccata, Kanzona & Fugue on Es sungen drei Engel. HECTOR OLIVERA: Meditation on Londonderry Air. OLIVERA: Improvisation on Three Themes (I’ve been working on the railroad; Some day my prince will come; All my hope on God is founded). OLIVERA (after Martin & Blane): Fantasy on the Trolley Song –Hector Olivera (2005 Dobson/Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, PA) Pipedreams Archive (recorded 2/16/08)

Filler - BACH: Passacaglia in c (see above)

 

Particular thanks go to WRTI-90.1FM Philadelphia, and its network of stations throughout eastern Pennsylvania.