The East Texas Pipe Organ Festival has released a new compact disc, 2012 East Texas Pipe Organ Festival Highlights Sampler, featuring organists Charles Callahan, Ken Cowan, Scott Davis, Richard Elliott, Ann Frohbieter, Christopher Jennings, Thomas Murray, Walt Strony, and Bradley Welch live in concert in Texas on the Aeolian-Skinner pipe organs at First Presbyterian Church, Kilgore; First Baptist Church, Longview; St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, Kilgore; and First Baptist Church, Nacogdoches.
Recorded by Michael Barone of American Public Media’s Pipedreams, the recorded sound quality is exceptional, perfectly capturing each of these landmark instruments in their present-day glory. With music by Guilmant, Reger, Louis Couperin, Fiocco, Bach, Dett, Dickinson, Bizet (arr. Strony), and Thalben-Ball, total playing time is 71:35.
The East Texas Pipe Organ Festival, established in 2011 in honor of the life and career of Roy Perry (1906–1978), is an annual five-day event featuring concerts and lectures on the East Texas and surrounding area Aeolian-Skinner pipe organs that Roy Perry designed and tonally finished along with the Williams family of New Orleans.
For further information or to purchase the CD ($15, postpaid), visit www.easttexaspipeorganfestival.com, or contact Lorenz Maycher, East Texas Pipe Organ Festival, PO Box 2069, Kilgore, TX 75663.
