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Prominent artists to perform for Hyde Park organ series

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Richard Elliott opens the series Nov. 2

Hyde Park Community United Methodist Church has announced a trio of distinguished organists who will grace its organ series this year. All concerts are at 4 p.m. and are free and open to the public.

Nov. 2 — The series opens Nov. 2 with Richard Elliott, Principal Organist for The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah. Besides his position, he also has a busy solo career, having given thousands of organ concerts on Temple Square as well as numerous performances on five continents. He appears on seven organ CDs and is a published composer and arranger of music for organ, choir, and orchestra.

Before becoming a Tabernacle organist in 1991, Elliott was an assistant professor of organ at Brigham Young University, and for several years he served as assistant organist at the Wanamaker Department Store (later Macy’s) in Philadelphia, home to the world’s largest fully functioning pipe organ. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in organ from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and MM and DMA degrees from the Eastman School of Music.Read More »

Italian organist to perform on unique C.B. Fisk pipe organ at Christ Church Cathedral

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The C.B. Fisk Op. 148 Organ in Centennial Chapel

This Friday, Cincinnatians will have a chance to hear a rare concert on a spectacular pipe organ that is a recent addition to Centennial Chapel in Christ Church Cathedral, downtown.

Fisk organ 2Italian organist and harpsichordist Giulio Francesco Togni performs a free recital on the C. B. Fisk Opus 148 organ in Centennial Chapel, 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 1. His program will be 17th-century music of Italian composers Pasquini, Frescobaldi, Rossi, Storace, and Corelli.

Born in 1998, Togni is something of an organ prodigy. At the age of 16, he became the organist at the Church of San Giuseppe in Brescia, where he plays the historic organ of 1581 by Graziado Antegnati — the “Stradivarius in organ building,” says Harold Byers.Read More »

Rarely heard music by Baltic composers to soar in organ concert

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The historic Austin Pipe Organ at Covenant-First Presbyterian Church

Peggy Wolverton, organist of Covenant-First Presbyterian Church, 717 Elm Street, downtown, is performing a free organ concert featuring music of the Baltic States.

“Covenant-First is likely the only church in the U.S. where this music is heard!” she says. “We in the West have become quite familiar with choral and orchestral music of the Baltic States, but our exposure to music for the organ and other genre has been considerably less.”

She’ll be performing on the church’s historic, century-old Austin Pipe Organ. Built by the Austin Organ Co. of Hartford, Connecticut, it was considered one of the largest organs in this part of the country, with 51 stops and more than 3,100 pipes.

Her concert, 4 p.m. Sunday April 22, will survey the music of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. She says she became interested in that repertoire partly out of “self-defense,”  she says. Her husband, Dr. Vance Wolverton, a former professor of music at NKU, is a leading authority in the choral music of the Baltics. As he has edited and published choral scores, he’s been given many organ scores by the composers and conductors that he’s met along the way.Read More »