Organ Mini-Festival

The Organ as a Mirror of Cultural Change
French and German currents in the late 17th century

featuring organists Jan Willem Jansen & William Porter
and musicologist Kerala J. Snyder

Friday, June 15 | Old West Church

Part One: 9am - 11:30pm
The Organ in France at the Time of Lully: Music of d’Anglebert, deGrigny, Lully, and others
Played on the C. B. Fisk organ (1971)

The incursion of operatic style into the liturgical organ music of the late 17th century produced some of the most elegant music written for the French organ. Concerts during Part One will showcase that development on an instrument long admired for its particularly French qualities.

Friday, June 15 | The First Lutheran Church

Part Two: 1pm - 4pm
Signor Buxtehudo and Monsieur Böhm: Cosmopolitan Musicians of
Northern Europe

Played on the Richard, Fowkes & Co. organ (2000)

This anniversary year for Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707) provides an opportunity to hear Professor Kerala Snyder, America’s leading Buxtehude scholar, speak about her current research in this field, and—within the French emphasis of this year’s festival—to hear North German music that bows both to French taste (Böhm) and to that of the Italians (Buxtehude).