Michael Barone and Jean Guillou at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Dallas

David Baskeyfield at 1st Presbyterian Church, Kilgore

The growing crowd eagerly awaits!

Audio archivist (Barone) and founder (Lorenz Maycher) at the 2014 East Texas Pipe Organ Festival

Jeremy Filsell at the console of Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1174 at 1st Baptist Church, Longview, TX

Texas Treasures

…selections from the increasingly popular festival devoted to Aeolian-Skinner pipe organs designed by Roy Perry.

Program Broadcast dates:

• Week of October 26, 2015

Links and Resources:

• Printable program listings

Music played in the program

Hour 1

CHARLES TOURNEMIRE: Te Deum –David Baskeyfield (1949 Aeolian-Skinner/1st Presbyterian Church, Kilgore, TX*)

LEO SOWERBY: Comes Autumn Time – Lorenz Maycher (1960 Aeolian-Skinner/Lover’s Lane United Methodist Church, Dallas, TX)

G.F. HANDEL: Suite for Musical Clock –Mark Dwyer (1949 Aeolian-Skinner/1st Presbyterian Church, Kilgore, TX*)

LEO SOWERBY: Psalm 122 –Tudor Rose Ensemble/Donald Duncan, director/Graham Schultz (1949 Aeolian-Skinner/1st Presbyterian Church, Kilgore, TX*)

CHARLES CALLAHAN: And thou shalt be secure, fr 6 Meditations on the Old Testament; Fanfare & Riffs –Jeremy Filsell (1951 Aeolian-Skinner/1st Baptist Church, Longview, TX)

CHARLES CALLAHAN: Legend for Harp and Organ –Stephen Hartman, harp; Charles Callahan (1949 Aeolian-Skinner/1st Presbyterian Church, Kilgore, TX*)

JOHN WILLIAMS: Star Wars Theme Music –Michael Kleinschmidt (1955 Aeolian-Skinner/St. Mark’s Cathedral, Shreveport, LA)

Hour 2

JOHN WEAVER: Toccata –Joby Bell (1958 Aeolian-Skinner/15th Church of Christ, Scientist, Dallas, TX)

CESAR FRANCK: Piece heroique –Jean Guillou (1962 Aeolian-Skinner/St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Dallas, TX)

GEORG BÖHM: Vater unser im Himmelreich –Casey Cantwell (1964 Aeolian-Skinner/Kessler Park United Methodist Church, Dallas, TX)

AMY BEACH (trans. Bozeman): Phantoms & In Autumn, fr Sketches, Op. 15 –George Bozeman (1952 Aeolian-Skinner/St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, Kilgore, TX)

JAMES BIERY: Three Gospel Scenes (Jesus in the Desert; Woman at the Well; Prodigal Son). WILLIAM BOLCOM: Gospel Prelude, What a friend we have in Jesus –Richard Elliott (1955 Aeolian-Skinner/St. Mark’s Cathedral, Shreveport, LA)

HERBERT HOWELLS: The Dallas Canticles (Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis) –Incarnation Choir/Scott Dettra, director; Graham Schultz (1958 Aeolian-Skinner/Church of the Incarnation, Dallas, TX)

 

Recordings were made by Michael Barone during the 2014 East Texas Pipe Organ Festival (November 9-14, 2014). A CD sampler of Barone’s recordings from the 2012 Festival and a full concert by Ken Cowan, guest recitalist again in 2015, are available from the Festival Office in Kilgore.

The next Festival takes place November 8–12, 2015, and you are invited to join Michael Barone and the happy throng in East Texas!

*It is the en chamade (horizontal) trumpet rank at 1st Presbyterian Church, Kilgore, reputedly the first-such stop installed on an organ in the United States (1949). This picture was used heavily in Aeolian-Skinner promotions, including on the albums of the company's King of Instruments LP series, coveted items in any organ-lover’s collection in the mid 20th century (and still!).