Weekend Organ Meditations

Description

We offer Weekend Organ Meditations on The Bicentennial Organ from 4–4:45 pm on Saturdays during the program year, featuring the diverse repertoire of the pipe organ. The 2025–2026 season continues through May 30, 2026. Join us in person or via livestream.

Program

April 11, 2026
Patrick Allen, organ

Präludium in D-Dur, BuxWV 139…….Dietrich Buxtehude (c.1637-1707)

Largo from XERXES…….George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Partite diverse sopra: Sei gegrüßet, Jesu gütig, BWV 768…….Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Sonata in B-Dur, Opus 65/4…….Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847)

Allegro con brio ; Andante religioso ;

Allegretto ; Allegro maestoso e vivace

Variations sur un thème de Clément Jannequin…….Jehan Alain (1911-1940)
“Cette pièce doit être jouèe comme les Prèludes don’t parlait Couperin……..avec fraîcheur et tendresse.”
“This piece should be played as the preludes that Couperin spoke about…… with freshness and tenderness.”

Le Jardin Suspendu (Chacone)
“Le jardin suspendu, c’est l’idéal perpétuellement poursuivi et fugitif de l’artiste, c’est le refuge inaccessible et inviolable”
“The hanging garden is the artist’s ideal, perpetually pursued and eternally elusive; it’s the inaccessible and inviolable refuge”

Litanies
“Quand l’âme chrétienne ne trouve plus de mots nouveaux dans la détresse pour implorer la miséricorde de Dieu, elle répète sans cesse la même invocation avec une foi véhémente. La raison attaint sa limite. Seule la foi poursuit son ascension.”
“When in its extremity the Christian soul can find no new word to implore God’s mercy, it tirelessly repeats the same plea with vehement faith. The limits of reason are reached, and only faith can pursue its ascension.” Translation by Marie-Claire Alain

Toccata…….Eugène Gigout (1844-1925)

Bach at Noon

Tuesday–Friday at 12:20pm
Thirty-minute organ meditation dedicated to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach

Hymns from Grace

Sundays at 4 pm
Forty-five-minute organ meditation dedicated to favorite hymns, anthems and voluntaries played on the pipe organ

More

If Music be the food of Love,
Play on…….William Shakespeare
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