Music of Eliza Crawly Murden, James Hewitt, and John Zundel

Featuring the exceptional Fantasias of Charles Zeuner preserved in the Library of Congress

Passion Consort

A new music series at St. John’s Lutheran Church, downtown Montreal

Inaugural event

Reconstructions of lost music by Charles Ives, recital pieces of Parker, Whiting, and Paine, and the formidable Sonata for Organ by Florence Beatrice Price

Works of/des oeuvres par:

Max Reger, Sigfried Karg-Elert, Johanna Senfter

University of Memphis, TN

“Powers and beauties unknown before”: Late-nineteenth century innovation in American pipe organ construction and its implications for performers

— Rescheduled from March 27 —

Lecture recital for the degree of Doctor of Music.

An empirical demonstration of the improvisation didactics of Girolamo Diruta and Adriano Banchieri, as pertains to performers of early music in the twenty-first century. Demonstrations will explore possible applications comprising solo improvisation, fully-realized contrapuntal accompaniment, and the arrangement and expansion of existing polyphony.

Works by Reger, his student Johanna Senfter, and his contemporary and rival in virtuosic organ composition, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, all inspired by the tradition of German chorale (hymn) singing. Featuring the “Chorale-Fantasy on Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme op. 52 no. 2.

Part of the Bay Area Sesquicentennial Reger Festival

Works of Reger, Karg-Elert, Senfter, Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Bach

Part of the Bay Area Reger Sesquicentennial Festival

The late nineteenth century saw an exponential expansion of the American organ repertory, with method books, treatises, and sophisticated solo repertory being written for the first time by U.S.-born composers and pedagogues.

This lecture-demonstration will provide examples of historical instruments, instruct on the development of period technique, and lay out issues of performance practice relevant to interpretation.

Church of the Covenant, Cleveland, OH

Seventeenth century music for organ written in tavolatura: intabulations of Italian madrigals, Frescobaldi’s formidable Toccata nona, and chorale verses by the Braunschwieg virtuoso Delphin Strungk.

Redpath Hall, McGill University

with/avec Leah Weitzner, soprano

Music by Francisco Correa d’Arauxo and his contemporaries, reconstructing the sound-world of an early-baroque Spanish vespers.