PEACE ON EARTH

GOODWILL TOWARD ALL MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN, BORN AND UNBORN

Saturday, October 18, 2008

This will knock the wind out of your pipes!

The Tri-Chapter Committee of the
American Guild of Organists


Potomac, Washington D.C. And Northern Virginia Chapters
presents

PIPESPECTACULAR IX 2008
at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
Washington, D.C.

Sunday October 19, 2008 at 6:30 p.m.

Free admission

“L'Orgue Symphonique et Liturgique”

Celebrating the AGO International Year of the Organ and its related activities in chapters across the country and Europe, the three chapters of the Washington area invite all to enjoy dramatic and colorful music for the pipe organ in the French symphonic and liturgical tradition, featuring noted Washington area organists performing on the magnificent four-manual, 172-rank Moller organ in one of America's great sacred spaces, the Basilica and National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

The Program will include:

Jeremy Filsell
Principal Organist, Basilica of the National Shrine
Litanies; Deux Danses a Agni Yavishta
Jehan Alain
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (transcribed by Jeremy Filsell)
Paul Dukas

Lawrence Young
First Presbyterian Church, Annandale, VA
Pastorale
Jean-Jules Roger-Ducasse

Julie Vidrick Evans
Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church, Chevy Chase, MD
Carillon de Westminster
Louis Vierne

Ronald Stolk
St. Patrick's Church, Washington D.C.
Improvisation in French style on the Kyrie from Messe Cum Jubilo

Scott Dettra
Organist, Washington National Cathedral
Prelude, Adagio et Chorale Varié sur le Veni Creator
Maurice Duruflé

Peter Latona
Director of Music, Basilica of the National Shrine
Sortie: Le Vent de L-Esprit (Messe de la Pentecôte)
Olivier Messiaen

Master of Ceremonies
Dr. Eileen Guenther
National President
American Guild of Organists

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