Schlicker Opus 2 Pipe Organ Concert
Allegro (from Concerto in G) |
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) |
Two Canons: C major and A Flat |
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) |
The Mercy, Jehova |
Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739 |
Adagio in E |
Frank Bridge (1879-1941) |
Sonatta III |
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) |
Cantique de Jean Racine |
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) |
Trumpet Tune |
Alfred Fedak (b. 1953) |
Hymn: With Pipes of Wood and Tin, Make Known |
Fedak |
Select Performers' Bios
Eugene Tobey, bass-baritone, is soloist at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Troy, New York, and has performed with choral groups in New York’s Capital District for over thirty-five years. He also assists in music for the High Holy Days at Congregation Berith Shalom in Troy. His repertoire includes the requiems of Mozart, Brahms, Fauré and Duruflé, Bach cantatas and passions, Handel oratorios and the Haydn oratorios and masses, as well as songs of Schubert, Schumann, Purcell, Ives, Brahms, Britten and Barber. He has presented recitals from Maine to Florida, in Canada, Great Britain, Sweden and the Fringe of the Edinburgh Festival. Last August he provided the bass component in a quartet accompanying the Mark Morris Dance Company at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. This November he will be soloist in an all-Fedak concert presented by the Burnt Hills Oratorio Society in Clifton Park, NY. Two of Alfred Fedak’s compositions, each commissioned by Mssrs. Tobey and Ingram, are featured on today’s program.
Donald Ingram was born in Hinsdale and studied organ in Buffalo during his high school years. He earned Bachelor and Master of Music degrees, with a major in organ, from Syracuse University where he was a student of the late Arthur Poister. Shortly after graduation, he became Organist and Choirmaster at Kenmore United Methodist Church and then St. Paul’s Cathedral, Buffalo while also performing as Sales Manager and Staff Organist of the Schlicker Organ Co. from 1956 to 1963. Other congregations he has served include St. Peter’s Church, Albany; historic Trinity Church, Newport, RI and Trinity Church, Vero Beach, FL, from which he retired in 1999. Since that time he has served as Interim Music Director in several churches. Don was a lecturer at the 2004 Organ Historical Society convention in Buffalo and has presented recitals and workshops throughout North America and Europe. During his career, he has been Organ Consultant to many churches and is presently a member of the organ advisory committee at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Albany. He currently lives on the Mohawk River, north of Albany.