2012 East Texas Pipe Organ Festival Highlights

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The Aeolian-Skinner Legacy Presents

2012 East Texas Pipe Organ Festival Highlights

The East Texas Pipe Organ Festival is a five-day annual festival featuring the area’s Aeolian-Skinner pipe organs designed and tonally finished by Roy Perry. This disc features highlights from the 2012 festival featuring the Aeolian-Skinner pipe organs at First Presbyterian Church, Kilgore; St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, Kilgore; First Baptist Church, Longview, and First Baptist Church, Nacogdoches. Organists Charles Callahan, Ken Cowan, Scott Davis, Richard Elliott, Ann Frohbieter, Christopher Jennings, Thomas Murray, Walt Strony, and Bradley Welch play music of Guilmant, Reger, Louis Couperin, Fiocco, Bach, Dett, Dickinson, Bizet, and Thalben-Ball. Over 71 minutes of glorious Aeolian-Skinner sound as captured in live performances by recording engineer Michael Barone.

Complete playlist:

• Guilmant – Scherzo Symphonique in C Major, Opus 55, No. 2
  Bradley Hunter Welch, organist
  Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1174, First Baptist Church, Longview
• Reger – Introduction and Passacaglia
  Ann Frohbieter, organist
  Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1173, First Presbyterian Church, Kilgore
• Louis Couperin, arr. Bonnet – Chaconne
  Richard Elliott, organist
  Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1174, First Baptist Church, Longview
• Fiocco – Adagio and Rondo
  Charles Callahan, organist
  Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1175, St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, Kilgore
• Bach – Passacaglia, BWV 582
  Thomas Murray, organist
  Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1173, First Presbyterian Church, Kilgore
• Hymn – “O God, Our Help in Ages Past”
  Scott Davis, organist
  Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1153-A, First Baptist Church, Nacogdoches
• Dett – Adagio Cantabile from “Cinnamon Grove Suite”
  Charles Callahan, organist
  Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1153-A, First Baptist Church, Nacogdoches
• Dickinson – Scherzo from “Storm King Symphony”
  Christopher Jennings, organist
  Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1173, First Presbyterian Church, Kilgore
• Bizet, arr. Strony – Carmen Fantasy
  Walt Strony, organist
  Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1173, First Presbyterian Church, Kilgore
• Thalben-Ball – Variations on a Theme by Paganini
  Ken Cowan, organist
  Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1173, First Baptist Church, Longview

Total Playing Time: 71:35

By mail ($15 postpaid) from:

The Roy Perry American Classic Organ Foundation
P. O. Box 2069
Kilgore, TX 75663

Download available at easttexaspipeorganfestival.bandcamp.com