Michael Barone on stage at the Auditorium Theatre in Rochester, NY

Pipedreams Live! in Rochester (Part 1)

…performances by students and faculty of the Eastman School of Music during a remarkably popular and successful weekend organ festival.

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David Higgs was the sole representative of the Eastman School Faculty at our Friday night concert at Sacred Heart Cathedral, and he explained the nickname given to the three-headed faculty ‘ensemble’ comprised of himself, Hans Davidson, and William Porter, who are corporately called “Fluffy”

Music played in the program

CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR: Finale, from Organ Symphony No. 6 in g, Op. 42, no. 2 –Benton Blasingame (2008 Fritts/Sacred Heart Cathedral, Rochester, NY)

GASTON LITAIZE: Lied, from Douze Pieces –Lars Gjerde (2008 Fritts/Sacred Heart Cathedral, Rochester, NY)

J.S. BACH: Fugue in D, BWV 532 –Amanda Mole (2008 Fritts/Sacred Heart Cathedral, Rochester, NY)

STEVEN SEIGART: Improvisation March –Steven Seigart (2008 GoART Casparini/Christ Church Episcopal, Rochester, NY)

JOHANN CHRISTIAN RINCK: Flute Concerto, 1st movement –Annie Laver(2008 GoART Casparini/Christ Church Episcopal, Rochester, NY)

COLE PORTER: It’s D’Lovely –Jonathan Ortloff , organ Allan Ward, drums (Wurlitzer Opus 1951/Rochester Auditorium Theatre, Rochester, NY)

Filler - LITAIZE (see above)

JOHANNES BRAHMS: Prelude & Fugue in a –Thatcher Lyman(2008 Fritts/Sacred Heart Cathedral, Rochester, NY)

LOUIS VIERNE: Scherzo, from Organ Symphony No. 5 in A, Op. 47 –Brett Judson (2008 Fritts/Sacred Heart Cathedral, Rochester, NY)

LOUIS VIERNE: Final, from Symphony No. 6 in b, Op. 59 –David Baskeyfield (2008 Fritts/Sacred Heart Cathedral, Rochester, NY)

MAX REGER: Trios –Malcolm Matthews (2008 GoART Casparini/Christ Church Episcopal, Rochester, NY)

FELIX MENDELSSOHN: Sonata in f, Op. 65, no. 1, movements 3 & 4 –David Higgs(2008 GoART Casparini/Christ Church Episcopal, Rochester, NY)

Filler - ORTLOFF: Grey Skies –Jonathan Ortloff (Wurlitzer Opus 1951/Rochester Auditorium Theatre, Rochester, NY)

This past winter, February 13-14-15, the Eastman-Rochester Organ Initiative (EROI), the Rochester Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, the Rochester Theatre Organ Society and public radio station WXXI-91.5FM collaborated in a three-day organ orgy with Pipedreams host Michael Barone. Capacity audiences attended events featuring two new instruments, the 2008 Fritts organ at Sacred Heart Cathedral and the 2008 GoART Casparini Project organ at Christ Church Episcopal, along with a well-attended afternoon extravaganza at the Rochester Auditorium Theatre. This is the first of two programs derived from those weekend events. Mr. Ortloff’s performances are available on CD from his website.