Raymond Nagem, Associate Organist of St. John the Divine, showcases organ music from Germany and France in a program ranging from J.S. Bach’s exuberant Prelude and Fugue in D Major to Paul Hindemith’s elegiac Third Sonata. The second half of the program is devoted to Charles-Marie Widor’s Symphonie gothique.

PROGRAM INCLUDES
Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 532

Paul Hindemith
Sonata III

Dieterich Buxtehude
Praeludium in G Minor, BuxWV 149

Charles-Marie Widor
Symphonie gothique, Op. 70

ABOUT RAYMOND NAGEM
Raymond Nagem is Associate Organist at the Cathedral and a C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellow at The Juilliard School, where he teaches the survey course in organ literature. He is a student of Paul Jacobs.

Nagem earned his B.A. from Yale University, where he studied with Thomas Murray, and his M.M. from The Juilliard School. He has held positions at The Parish of All Saints, Ashmont and at Christ Church, New Haven. In addition to his responsibilities for service playing and choral accompaniment, he works regularly with the Cathedral Chorale and the Choristers.