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Celebrating the pipe organ, the King of Instruments

[1927 Wurlitzer organ in the Music Salon of the Sanfilippo residence, Barrington, IL.]
1927 Wurlitzer organ in the Music Salon of the Sanfilippo residence, Barrington, IL.

On Your Toes

…It’s not just fancy pedal-playing that keeps these musicians’ happy feet, and ours, dancing.

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Music played in the program

ANTONIO VALENTE: Lo Ballo dell’Intorcia. ANTOIO de CABEZON: Himno. CLAUDE GERVAISE: Branle. ANONYMOUS: 3 Renaissance Dances –Kalevi Kiviniemi (1993 Kangasala/Mukkula Church, Mukkula, Finland) Finlandia 4509-98036

MAURICE RAVEL: Menuet antiqueKarl Ludwig Kreutz (1993 Göckel/St. Jacob Church, Mannheim-Neckarau, Germany) Orgelbau Göckel CD 11293

EDVARD GRIEG: Norwegian Dance in A, Opus 35, number 2 –Hans Uwe Hielscher (1919 Hill, Norman & Beard/Dunedin Town Hall, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand) Organ CD ORG7211

PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY (arranged by Goss-Custard): Waltz of the Flowers, from Nutcracker Ballet –Thomas Trotter (1834 Hill/Town Hall, Birmingham, England, UK) London/Decca 436 656

ERNST FISCHER: Bunte Gedanken im WalzertaktGerhard Gregor (1930 Welte/North German Radio Studio, Hamburg, Germany) Klassik Edition E700255

ANONYMOUS: Tired HandsWeber Maesto Orchestrion (Siegfried’s Mechanisches Musikkabinett, Rüdesheim am Rhein, Germany) SMMK 13

LEROY ANDERSON: SarabandJelani Eddington (1927 Wurlitzer/Place de la Musique, Sanfilippo Residence, Barrington, IL) RJE Productions 1908B

ERNEST GOLD: It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Waltz. IRVING BERLIN: Always. ROBERT STOLZ: Waltzing in the Clouds. VINCENT ROSE: The Umbrella Man Waltz –Jim Riggs (1927 Wurlitzer/Alabama Theatre, Birmingham, AL) Rolling Pin CD-1989

NOEL RAWSTHORNE: Line Dance, from Dance Suite –Christopher Herrick (2000 Kuhn/Berner Münster, Switzerland) Hyperion CDA67228

ANONYMOUS: 4 Renaissance Dances –Colin Andrews (1977 Flentrop/St. Stephen Episcopal, Durham, NC) ZigZag ZZ1102

HEINRICH SCHEIDEMANN: Galliarda ex D –Naoko Imai (1715 Wittig/Parish Church, Morlanda, Sweden) Musica Rediviva MRCD-011

ALEXANDRE GUILMANT: Danse des Songes, Opus 53, #3 –Ernst Breidenbach, piano; Johannes Matthias Michel, harmonium (1913 Mustel/Paris, France) Signum SIG X112-00

PETER WITTRICH: Rocking Toccata, from Dancing ChoralsGerhard & Beatrice-Marie Weinberger (1999 Grenzing/Catedral del Nuestra Senora de la Almudena, Spain) Ars Musici AM-1338

 

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