An Organ Odyssey
Concert for Organ and Orchestra
presented by
February 28, 2004
8:00 pm
First Baptist Church, Fort Lauderdale
An Organ Odyssey featured organist Schuyler Robinson in a concert presenting music written for Organ and Orchestra. At 6:00 pm the day of the concert, Dr. Luce conducted an organ crawl for audience members, exploring and explaining one of the country's largest organs.
As part of Ars Flores's educational outreach program, 7th graders from Pine Crest School took a pre-concert field trip to the Baptist Church where they learned about the physics of sound, and the evolution and mechanics of the pipe organ.
Educational Outreach
Our guest artist, Schuyler Robinson
Schuyler
Robinson has served as Professor of Organ and Harpsichord at the University
of Kentucky since 1982. Prior to this he served as Professor and College
Organist at Warren Wilson College (Presbyterian), Asheville, N.C. for 13
years. He has served churches in Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, and
Kentucky as Organist and Organist/Choirmaster. He has appeared as adjudicator,
recitalist, and clinician at numerous local chapter meetings and several
regional conventions of the American Guild of Organists, several terms as
Dean of AGO chapters in W. North Carolina and Lexington, Kentucky, and Service
Organist / Organ Clinician at PAM Conferences at both Montreat, NC and New
Wilmington, PA.
He has concertized extensively in the eastern half of the U.S. and in 5
countries in Europe, in Costa Rica and Taiwan. In a four decade career as
Church Organist he has served for 12 years as Assistant Organist at Christ
Church (Episcopal) Cathedral in Lexington, KY. This tenure has also incorporated
performance residencies in the great cathedrals of England, including Westminster
Abbey (2 and a solo recital) and St. Paul's, London; also Ely, Bristol,
Lincoln, Peterborough, Norwich, and Gloucester. U.S. highlights have included
Chicago, NYC, Washington, D.C. Atlanta, and San Francisco, as well as a
CD recording with the Cathedral Choirs. His collaboration in the DiMartino-Robinson
Trumpet-Organ Duo has taken performances to some 22 states and produced
a CD recording, The Art of the Transcription, chosen as the International
Trumpet Guild's CD of the year for its 7,000 members in 1995.
Dr. Robinson chairs a newly approved Master of Music in Sacred Music program
at U.K. which merges music and seminary courses into an exciting new degree
offering, which is already drawing regional interest from church musicians
in voice, organ, and choral conducting.
A native of Lake Forest, Illinois, Dr. Robinson earned degrees at Illinois Wesleyan University, University of Michigan, and University of Illinois. His wife, Linda K. Robinson, is an early childhood music and movement specialist and international teacher trainer for Musikgarten, as well as co-author of God’s Children Sing.
program
Concerto in B-flat
Major, Op. 4, No. 6 George Frederic Handel for Organ
and Orchestra (1685-1759)
I. Andante allegro
II. Larghetto
III. Allegro moderato
Sospiri, Op. 70 Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Serenade for String
Orchestra, Op. 20 Edward Elgar
I. Allegro piacevole
II. Larghetto
III. Allegretto
Concerto in G
Minor Francis Poulenc for Organ, String Orchestra and Timpani (1899-1963)
I. Andante
II. Allegro giocoso
III. Subito andante moderato
IV. Tempo allegro, molto agitato
V. Trés calme, Lent
VI. Tempo de l’allegro initial
VII. Tempo introduction. Largo
Intermission
Toot Suite ( S.
212 ° ) P.D.Q. Bach for Calliope or Organ, Four
Hands (1807-1742)?
I. Preloud
Organ Concerto
No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 177 Joseph Rheinberger
I. Grave (1839-1901)
II. Andante
III. Con moto
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