Pipe Screams! 2011

How fitting that my first post after a long time is a concert post! Tim Baker over at University United Methodist Church organised another Pipe Screams! for this year. It was co-sponsored by the Durham-Chapel Hill Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.

Just as in previous years, this year's Pipe Screams! benefit Habitat for Humanity of Orange County. In addition to Tim and UUMC's Handbell Choir, members of the Durham-Chapel Hill AGO also contributed pieces to this most entertaining program. Speaking of which, here is the music that was presented at this program.

• "Ghost Organist": Funeral March of a Marionette—Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
• UUMC Handbell Choir: Danse macabre (Op. 40, arranged for handbells)—Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
• Laurel Siviglia and Sandy Hobgood: Toot Suite (S.212°) for Calliope or Organ, Four Hands—P.D.Q. Bach (1807-1742)?
  • I. Preloud
  • II. O.K. Chorale
  • III. Fuga Vulgaris
• Tim Baker: The Sad Story of the Forgotten Soprano in the Pipe Chambers
• Mila Karamushka: Suite médiévale: V. Acclamations—Jean Langlais (1907-1991)
• "Soprano in the Pipe Chamber (Leslie Heal Ray), accompanied by "Ghost Organist": Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14—Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
• Valerie Lefever Hughes: A Diet of Worms—Michael Horvit (b. 1932)
• Em Haas, alto; Meghan Cox, piano: "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" from Phantom of the Opera—Andrew Lloyd Webber (b. 1948)
• Tim Baker: Toccata and Fugue in d minor (BWV 565—J.S. Bach (1685-1750)