Sep 18, 2023 | Organist's Blog
Sunday, September 24, 2023 Our Music for Meditation this week is a special treat, a movement from one of Bach’s Suites for unaccompanied cello, played by our guest cellist, Dusan Vukajlovik. The Bach unaccompanied cello suites are some of the most beautiful music...
Sep 11, 2023 | Organist's Blog
Organ Music for September 17, 2023 Our Music for Meditation this week is a movement from the distinguished American composer Ned Rorem’s 1977 organ suite A Quaker Reader. Rorem, who passed away last November at the age of 99, is likely best known for his many art...
Sep 5, 2023 | Organist's Blog
Organ Music for Sunday, September 10, 2023 This Sunday’s organ selections have an element in common – they are all in the key of G major! The prelude is a personal favorite of mine, the beautiful “Song of Peace” by the twentieth-century French composer Jean Langlais...
Aug 31, 2023 | Organist's Blog
Sunday, September 3, 2023 This Sunday’s Music for Meditation is a lovely setting of the 19th-century American hymn tune “Morning Song,” by the 20th-century American composer Wilbur Held. This particularly lovely melody is somewhat lesser known than other American hymn...
Aug 7, 2023 | Organist's Blog
This Sunday’s organ music begins with a light, cheerful setting of the seventeenth-century German hymn tune, “Es flog ein kleins Waldvöglein,” by the American composer Charles Callahan. This charming melody has in recent years been paired with a...
Aug 3, 2023 | Organist's Blog
This Sunday, I am so happy to be joined by my son, violinist Gregory Tompkins. Gregory is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, where he received the Bachelor of Music degree in violin performance. He went on to receive the Master of Music degree in violin...
