Great Music in a Great Space
The Great Organ: Great Artists
All concerts at 7:30 pm
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November 14, 2012
Organ Plus!
The incomparable Nancianne Parrella, Associate Organist of the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, will bring her signature Organ Plus! series to the Cathedral, demonstrating the versatility of the organ with various combinations of instruments. Featuring Jorge Ávila, violin, Victoria Drake, harp, and Arthur Fiacco, cello.
December 5, 2012
Raymond Nagem
Raymond Nagem, Assistant Organist of the Cathedral and C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellow at the Juilliard School, will perform Romantic masterpieces by Maurice Duruflé, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Felix Mendelssohn and Herbert Howells, as well as Mr. Nagem’s own Variations on a Villancico, composed in 2012.
January 16, 2013
Kent Tritle
Director of Music Kent Tritle will perform a recital celebrating the French grandeur of the Great Organ. Tritle will record this program on the Pro Organo label. Charles-Marie Widor, Symphonie VI Marcel Dupré, Magnificat Antiphons.
February 6, 2013
Thierry Escaich
The Cathedral welcomes back internationally-acclaimed French organist, improvisor, and composer Thierry Escaich, who helped rededicate the newly-restored Great Organ on the 2009–2010 “Great Organ: Great Artists” series, portions of which can be heard on the CD/DVD release From Ashes to Glory (Pro Organo label). This concert is generously underwritten by Bruce Westcott.
May 10, 2013
John Zorn
Acclaimed composer, crossover artist and recording artist John Zorn will perform and improvise on the Great Organ in a one-of-a-kind musical event. Zorn’s organ improvisations are breathtakingly beautiful—a perfect outlet for the composer’s dramatic sense of color and contrast.
Click the links below for more Great Music in a Great Space:
Great Choir: A Choral Concert Series - Holiday Concerts - Friends of Music - The Great Organ: It's Sunday
