The Seventh Annual East Texas Pipe Organ Festival will be held November 5–9, 2017. This festival honors the life and career of Roy Perry (1906–78), and features the area’s Aeolian-Skinner pipe organs he designed and tonally finished.
Thirteen full-length recitals will be offered by recitalists Jason Alden, David Baskeyfield, Casey Cantwell, Jonathan Dimmock, Mark Dwyer, Thomas Gaynor, Paul Halley, Frederick Hohman, Jan Kraybill, Alan Morrison, Raúl Prieto Ramírez, Michael Shake, and Clark Wilson.
Organ historian Bynum Petty will present lectures on the organ firms of M. P. Möller and Henry Pilcher’s Sons, and a newly commissioned work by composer Charles Callahan, written for organ duet in memory of organbuilder Nora Williams, will receive its world premier performance during the festival at First Presbyterian Church, Kilgore, Texas, in a concert by David Baskeyfield and Thomas Gaynor. Early registration is available through September 15.
For information:
[email protected];
www.easttexaspipeorganfestival.com/.
