The Winifred and Emil Barrows
Music in the Museum Concert Series

Season sponsor: The Corbett Foundation

Our E.M. Skinner Symphonic Organ has been called one of the finest in the world. Hearing it in the lush, reverberant acoustics of our Rotunda is an experience unlike any other. Don't miss these world-renowned musicians and performances. All concerts start at 7:30 p.m.

2012-2013 Series

Monday, November 5, 2012: Peter Richard Conte with Soprano Saxophonist, Rick Van Matre

Monday, March 4, 2013: Bruce Neswick with the CCM Chamber Choir, Earl Rivers, Director; and the CCM Brass Choir, Timothy Northcut, Director

Monday, April 29, 2013: David Briggs with CSO Principal Trumpet, Robert Sullivan

Monday, November 5, 2012

Peter Richard Conte with Soprano Saxophonist, Rick VanMatre
Peter Richard Conte was appointed Grand Court Organist of the Wanamaker Organ in Macy’s, Center City, Philadelphia, in 1989 and is the fourth person to hold that title since the organ first played in 1911. He is also Principal Organist of Longwood Gardens and is highly regarded as a skillful performer and arranger of organ transcriptions. He also serves as Choirmaster and Organist of St. Clement's Church, Philadelphia, where he directs a professional choir. Rick VanMatre has recorded as a jazz saxophone soloist with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, the Psychoacoustic Orchestra, Latin X-posure and the CCM Faculty Jazztet. He was called a "superb instrumentalist" by the Cincinnati Enquirer and a "reed titan" by Midwest Jazz magazine.

Program
Allegro, from Sonata VII, Alexandre Guilmant; Choral, Joseph Jongen; Aria, Firmin Swinnen; O Christ, Forgive Thy Servants, Marcel Dupre; Arabesque #1, Claude Debussy (with saxophone); Love Trio from Act III and Finale from Der Rosencavalier, Richard Strauss; Night Song, & Fantasy on Nursery Tunes, Robert Elmore; Pavane, Gabriel Faure (with saxophone); Siegfried's Funeral March & Immolation Scene from Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods), Richard Wagner.

Monday, March 4, 2013

Bruce Neswick with the CCM Chamber Choir, Earl Rivers, Director; and the CCM Brass Choir, Timothy Northcut, Director 
Bruce Neswick is Associate Professor of Music in Organ and Sacred Music at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. He was the Director of Music at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, where he directed the Cathedral Choir of Girls, Boys and Adults. As a recitalist, he has performed extensively throughout the United States and Europe and has been a featured performer at national and regional conventions of the American Guild of Organists. The CCM Chamber Choir is a graduate-based ensemble of 40 voice and choral majors under the direction of Earl Rivers that performs masterworks with chamber orchestra and miniatures from the historical standard repertory and contemporary periods.

Program
Tocatta, P. Whitlock; Prelude and Fugue in E minor, J.S. Bach; Two Chorale-Preludes on Herzlich tut mich verlangen, J. Brahms; Toccata, L. Sowerby; Air, J. Hancock; Choral in B minor, C. Franck; Mass, J. Jongen (with CCM Chamber Choir & Brass Choir); Adagio and Finale from Symphony #3, L. Vierne; Improvisation.

Monday, April 29, 2013

David Briggs with CSO Principal Trumpet, Robert Sullivan
David Briggs has built an international career, which has taken him to more than 20 countries as a concert organist  He is an innovative musician and dazzling performer, sought after for his orchestral transcriptions and improvisation. He is winner of the Tournemire Prize at the St Albans International Improvisation Competition, and won the first prize in the International Improvisation Competition at Paisley. He is Organist Emeritus of Gloucester Cathedral, where he directed the music for eight years. Robert Sullivan is Principal Trumpet of the CSO. He was Associate Principal Trumpet of the New York Philharmonic and a faculty member of the Manhattan School of Music. He was also a soloist with the U.S. Air Force Band, and toured the U.S. with the trumpet and organ duo, "Toccatas and Flourishes.”

Program
Overture, Air and Gigue (Orchestral Suite #2), J.S. Bach; Sonata for Trumpet and Organ, A. Stradella; Leibestod from Tristan and Isolde, Richard Wagner; Sonata for Trumpet and Organ, Naji Hakim; Adagietto (Symphony #5), Gustav Mahler; Flight of the Bumble-Bee, Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakoff; Variations on Greensleeves, David Briggs; Excerpt from Death and Transfiguration, Richard Strauss.

Past concerts

Monday, April 23, 2012
Frédéric Champion with the Xavier University Concert Choir, Tom Merrill, Director, and the Xavier University Women’s Chorus, Robert Vance, Director.

FRÉDÉRIC CHAMPION is the winner of the 2008 Canadian International Organ Competition and has performed organ music of the 16th through the 21st century as a solo organist and with orchestras and choirs around the world. Mr. Champion studied at the Conservatoire de Région in Lyon with Louis Robilliard, and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris. Mr. Champion has been heard on Radio-France, Austrian radio stations and Japanese TV/Radio broadcasts.

PROGRAM: C. Debussy, Nocturnes (Clouds, Festivals, Sirens) (with Women’s Chorus); J. Alain, Intermezzo; G. Verdi, Stabat Mater (with Choir); C. Franck, Choral in E Major; F. Liszt, St. Francis of Paola Walking on the Waves; and C. Franck, Symphonic Interlude from Redemption. Transcriptions are by Frédéric Champion.