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Great music for you to hear this evening
The first event of the restored and renovated E. and G.G. Hook organ at the Rainbow Mennonite Church took place on Sunday the 8th of this month. The first official organ recital is this evening Monday, February at 7:30 p.m.
The first event of the restored and renovated E. and G.G. Hook organ at the Rainbow Mennonite Church took place on Sunday the 8th of this month. The church was filled to overflowing and heard the organ in many guises: as solo instrument, with choirs and brass.
The first official organ recital is this evening (Monday the 16th) at 7:30. Bruce Stevens, a regular recitalist at conventions of the Organ Historical Society, has selected remarkable music for this remarkable organ. His program: Three Tone Pieces by Neils Gade (one-time conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra); Prelude and Fugue in G Major by Felix Mendelssohn (Gade's predecessor at the Gewandhaus); Adagio and Allegro, K. 594, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Prelude and Fugue in E Flat Major "St Anne" by Johann Sebastian Bach; Partita on "Jesu, meine Freude" by Johann Gottfried Walther; Three Preludes for Organs, founded on Welsh Hymn Tunes, by Ralph Vaughan Williams; and Sonata No. 3 in G Major, opus 88, by Josef Rheinberger. The author has played a good many of the pieces and knows what delights they are.
The church is located at 1444 Southwest Boulevard; the recital is free.
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