FREE
DAY OF ORGAN PROGRAMS
FOR
ALL AGES IN
KIMMEL
CENTER’S VERIZON HALL
SATURDAY,
JUNE 10 FROM 11:00AM - 5:00 PM
Premiere
Performance of Works from New Fred J. Cooper Organ Book
The
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, in association with the Philadelphia
Chapter of the America Guild of Organists
(AGO) presents the 7th Annual Organ Day, a six-hour marathon
of FREE organ music performed on The Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ Day taking
place on Saturday, June 10, from 11 a.m.
to 5 p.m. Audiences are invited to see “Fred”, the largest mechanical
pipe organ in a concert venue in the United States for any or all portions of
the day. This year’s Organ Day will include a special celebration as the premiere performance of the Fred J. Cooper Organ Book.
Under the guidance of Philadelphia’s AGO chapter Dean, David Furniss, five
notable Philadelphia area composers were selected to each contribute a brief
solo organ piece. There will be various recitals, a performance by Opera
Philadelphia, brass and organ pieces, an excerpt from a silent film accompanied
by the organ and an opportunity for audience members to lay on the stage and
feel the organ’s powerful vibrations.
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