ORGAN CONFERENCE  

49th Conference on Organ Music

Music of France & Germany

October 4 – 7, 2009

  

LOCATION: University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Conference Schedule:

Sunday, October 4
Hill Auditorium, University of Michigan
825 N. University, Ann Arbor

4:00 p.m. Hymn Festival with Michael Burkhardt, Conductor

8:00 p.m. Recital: Organists from the UM Historic Tour 56 to Spain and France, July, 2009

Monday, October 5
Blanche Anderson Moore Hall
E.V. Moore Building - 1100 Baits Drive, Ann Arbor

9:30 a.m. Registration

10:30 a.m. Recital: Jason Branham, “The Leipzig Program”


11:30 a.m. Lunch on your own

Hill Auditorium Mezzanine

1:30 p.m. Lecture: Christoph Wolff, “J. S. Bach the Organist -- Recent Research”

2:30 p.m. Lecture: Michael Barone, “Reflections on Recordings of Mostly Mendelssohn”

4:00 p.m. Lecture: Christoph Wolff, “Silbermann and Others -- The World of Bach’s Organs”

5:00 p.m. A Few Bach Words from James Kibbie


5:30 p.m. Dinner on your own

Hill Auditorium

8:00 p.m. Recital: Istvan Ruppert

Tuesday, October 6
Hill Auditorium Mezzanine

9:30 a.m. Lecture: Jan & Bela Feher, “Photo Tour of European Organs”

11:00 a.m. Lecture: Christoph Wolff, “Bach’s Organ Music -- From 1750 to Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy”


12:00 p.m. Lunch on your own

First Congregational Church
Corner of State Street and William, Ann Arbor

1:30 p.m. Lecture: Susanne Diederich with Robert Luther & Christopher Urbiel, “The Classical French Organ, its Music, and the        

                  French Influence in Bach’s Organ Compositions”

3:00 p.m. Lecture: Seth Nelson, “Music of the Calvinist Reformation”

5:00 p.m. Dinner on your own

Hill Auditorium

8:00 p.m. Recital: James Hammann, “Mendelssohn’s Six Organ Sonatas”

Wednesday, October 7
Hill Auditorium Mezzanine

9:30 a.m. Lecture: Stephen Morris, “Acclaim, Slander, and Renaissance: An Historical Perspective on Mendelssohn”

10:30 a.m. Lecture: Christoph Wolff, “The Pre-History of Mendelssohn’s Performances of the St. Matthew Passion”

12:00 p.m. Lunch on your own

Hill Auditorium

1:30 p.m. Recital: Eugenio Fagiani

2:30 p.m. Lecture: Michele Johns, “Something Old, Something New...”

3:30 p.m. Recital: Aaron Tan, Winner of the National Organ Playing Competition, RCCO

5:00 p.m. Dinner on your own

8:00 p.m. Tribute Recital: Students of Robert Glasgow

 

 

 

 

 

 

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