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Piping Hot! festival returns for six performances to celebrate the "International Year of the Organ"
Piping Hot! is a festival of pipe organ music in the Twin Cities, made possible by Pipedreams® from American Public Media™ and seven local presenters
September 17, 2008
WHAT: American Public Media's™ Pipedreams®, in conjunction with several local Twin Cities presenters, brings another Piping Hot! celebration of the organ to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area during the month of October 2008. Pipedreams host Michael Barone will act as master of ceremonies for all concerts.
WHEN: October 3–27, 2008 (see below for details)
WHERE: Varying locations throughout the Twin Cities (see below for details)
TICKETS: All Piping Hot! events are FREE and open to the public. For more information, visit , www.pipedreams.org/festival.
American Public Media's™ Pipedreams®, in conjunction with several local Twin Cities presenters, has created another Piping Hot! celebration of the organ in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area during the entire month of October 2008.
In cooperation with the Twin Cities chapter of the American Guild of Organists (AGO) and as part of the AGO's "International Year of the Organ," the six primary events in the Piping Hot! festival feature four esteemed visiting guest artists—John Weaver, Gail Archer, Olivier Vernet and Pamela Decker—and several local performers, including the University of Minnesota's Wind and Percussion Ensembles and a confluence of other solo organists and instrumentalists young and old.
American Public Media's Pipedreams host Michael Barone will be master of ceremonies for all concerts. Admission for these events is free. Many additional organ-related activities are scheduled throughout the month; audiences can pick any October weekend and create their own "organ festival adventure" in the Twin Cities. More information is available online at www.pipedreams.org/festival.
PIPING HOT! FESTIVITIES
What: John Weaver, organ
When: Friday, October 3, 7:30 p.m.
Where: Benson Great Hall, Bethel University, 3900 Bethel Drive, Arden Hills, Minn.
Tickets: FREE
John Weaver, retired chair of organ studies at both the Juilliard School in New York City and the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, plays an evening concert on the Blackinton organ at Bethel University's Benson Great Hall in Arden Hills, Minn. A related public workshop/master class/conversation with Dr. Weaver will take place at Centennial United Methodist Church in Roseville, on the following Saturday morning (9 a.m. to noon).
What: Gail Archer, organ
When: Friday, October 10, 7:30 p.m.
Where: Wayzata Community Church, 125 Wayzata Blvd E, Wayzata, Minn.
Tickets: FREE
Gail Archer, chair of the music department at Barnard College and on the faculty of the Manhattan School and Vassar College, presents the complete Meditations on Mysteries of the Holy Trinity by Olivier Messiaen, with a workshop on Messiaen the following morning, both activities featuring the Hendrickson tracker-action organ at Wayzata Community Church in Wayzata. A related public workshop/master class/conversation devoted to Olivier Messiaen will take place at Wayzata Community Church on the following Saturday morning (9:30 a.m. to noon).
What: Organ Spectacular! (multiple performers)
When: Sunday, October 19, 3 p.m.
Where: Central Lutheran Church, 333 South 12th Street, Minneapolis, Minn.
Tickets: FREE
In celebration of Pipedreams' 25th anniversary season, seven Minnesota organists—recent Dublin International Competition winner Joseph Ripka, Jonathan Gregoire, Andrew Hackett, Lily Ardalan, David Cherwien, Aaron David Miller and Donald Livingston—will create an Organ Spectacular! event as part of the American Guild of Organists' International Year of the Organ. The concert will feature the newly restored 108-rank 1963 Casavant organ at Central Lutheran Church in Minneapolis.
The program will observe the centennials of Olivier Messiaen, Hugo Distler and Jean Yves Daniel-Lesur, and offers an 85th birthday tribute to Ned Rorem. Also included is the newly published Minnesota Organ Book 2008, with works by Carol Barnett, Cary John Franklin, Linda Tutas Haugen, Monte Mason, David Evan Thomas and Janike Vandervelde; and a three-player "Improvisation Rodeo."
A Pipedreams 25th-anniversary reception follows the performance.
What: University of Minnesota Wind and Percussion Ensembles: Sonic Blockbuster
When: Friday, October 24, 7:30 p.m.
Where: St. Andrew's Lutheran Church, 900 Stillwater Road, Mahtomedi, Minn.
Tickets: FREE
The University of Minnesota Wind and Percussion Ensembles—led by Craig Kirchhoff and Fernando Meza, respectively—combine forces for a "sonic blockbuster" with the mighty 108-rank 1927 Casavant organ (rebuilt 2005 by Schantz) at St. Andrew's Lutheran Church in Mahtomedi, Minn. Guest soloist John Walker and local players Bill Chouinard, Dean Billmeyer and Michael Barone will perform works by Alfred Reed, Percy Grainger, Max Reger, Ron Nelson, Marcel Dupre, Herbert Nanney and David Maslanka, plus the sonorous Concerto for Organ and Percussion by Lou Harrison.
What: Olivier Vernet, organ
When: Sunday, October 26, 4 p.m.
Where: House of Hope Presbyterian Church, 797 Summit Avenue, St. Paul
Tickets: FREE
French recitalist Oliver Vernet, organist at the Cathedral in Monaco and professor at conservatories in Monaco and Nice, France, makes his Minnesota debut in concert on the 1979 C.B. Fisk and 1878 Merklin pipe organs at House of Hope Presbyterian Church. A related public workshop/master class/conversation will take place at House of Hope Church on the previous Saturday afternoon (1:30–4:30 p.m.).
What: Pamela Decker, organ
When: Monday, October 27, 8:15 p.m.
Where: Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas, University of St. Thomas, 2115 Summit Avenue, St. Paul (chapel on Cleveland Avenue at Ashland)
Tickets: FREE
Composer and recitalist Pamela Decker (of the University of Arizona in Tucson) plays works by American composers Angela Kraft Cross, Ken Yukl, Matthew Whitehouse and George Crumb, plus movements from the Nativity Suite by Olivier Messiaen on the Gabriel Kney tracker-action pipe organ at St. Thomas Aquinas Chapel of the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. A related public workshop/master class/conversation, devoted to Olivier contemporary American composers, will take place at the University of St. Thomas Chapel on Saturday morning, October 25 (9 a.m. to noon).
PHOTOGRAPHS FOR ALL PERFORMERS ARE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST; contact Jennifer Haugh (jhaugh@mpr.org or 651-290-1369).
More information is available online at www.pipedreams.org/festival.
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