RSS 2.0 FeedOctober 28, 2009, Classical, City Pipes
Community of Christ organ celebrates 50 years
On November 6th, 1959, Catharine Crozier, one of America's great organists of her generation, gave the initial recital on the massive Aeolian-Skinner organ in the Community of Christ (then RLDS) Auditorium in Independence. Over 7,000 people attended that event!On November 6th, 2009, Jan Kraybill, current Director of Music and Principal Organist of the Community of Christ Church, will replicate that recital, playing the same music that Dr. Crozier played.
On November 6th, 1959, Catharine Crozier, one of America's great organists of her generation, gave the initial recital on the massive Aeolian-Skinner organ in the Community of Christ (then RLDS) Auditorium in Independence. Over 7,000 people attended that event!
On November 6th, 2009, Jan Kraybill, current Director of Music and Principal Organist of the Community of Christ Church, will replicate that recital, playing the same music that Dr. Crozier played. She will perform: Fanfare in C by Henry Purcell; Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach; Variations on a Noel by Marcel Dupre; and Sonata on the 94th Psalm by Julius Reubke.
It is an extraordinary program and Dr. Kraybill has the technique and musical gifts to make the music and the evening transcendent.
The organ is a much warmer instrument than the one played in 1959, thanks to some revoicing done by the Quimby Organ Company of Warrensburg. It has well over 10,000 pipes, with an amazing variety of colors.
It is probably foolish to hope that 7,000 people would venture to River and Walnut Street in Independence to hear the recital, which begins at 8:00 on November 7th. But, it would be grand to honor the venerable instrument and the organist who plays it so well by filling the Auditorium to capacity.
Free admission. For more information visit: www.cofchrist.org/dome_spire/calendar.asp#Kraybill
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