After you vote on Tuesday, Nov 6, you can head over to Hope Church for a special Election Day Organ Recital that night at 7:30pm. Ok, election day was actually serendipitous (what repertoire would I play for an Election Day Concert anyway?), the original idea tied this concert to the upcoming Veterans Day, with the theme of War and Peace. I will be playing music by contemporary American composers such as Bernard Wayne Sanders, Gwyneth Walker, and Emma Lou Diemer, as well as the French Messiaen, Czech Eben, and Spanish Correa. There will also be the war and peace themed movements from Holst’s The Planets, in a powerful organ transcription. James Sailers will join me on tuba for a German early 20th century setting of a chorale involving the Grim Reaper! And there’s one more tie-in for this concert. This fall marks the 35th anniversary of the NPR radio show Pipedreams, hosted by Michael Barone from Minnesota Public Radio. Pipedreams plays at 7am on Sunday mornings on Blue Lake Public Radio, and our concert will be paying tribute to a wonderful radio program, and showing our support as organ lovers for many hopeful future years of the pipe organ heard on public radio. Come out to show your support for Pipedreams, come to hear powerful and beautiful evocations of War and Peace, or come out to shake those election day jitters! All are welcome on Tuesday, Nov. 6.
~Rhonda Edgington, Associate Director of Music and Organist