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Ruth Pilger Andrews Organ Scholarship Fund Benefit Event.
Friday, May 10, 2002
7:30 p.m. (ACM annual meeting at 6:45 p.m.)
Luther Memorial Church
1021 University Avenue; Madison, Wisconsin
(downtown campus area)

$15 for adults
$5 for youth under 18


Minnesota Public Radio personality and producer, Michael Barone, hosted a Madison performance of the award-winning public radio program, Pipedreams, featuring the three pipe organs (Austin, Steere and Bedient) of Luther Memorial Church.

About 300 attended and thoroughly enjoyed the evening. It also raised enough funds to put the Ruth Pilger Andrews Organ Scholarship Fund over it's goal of $10,000! The concert program, with delightful commentary by Barone, was as follows:

  • Bruce Neswick: Toccata for Organ Duet
  • Wm. Byrd: A Fancie from My Ladye Nevells Booke
  • J.S. Bach: Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor. BWV 582
  • Cesario Gussago: Sonata 'La Leona à 8'
  • Louis Vierne: Final from Symphony III
  • G.F. Handel: Overture to Messiah, transcribed by Greg Punswick
  • Billy Nalle: Trio in the Style of Bach
  • Pablo Bruna: Tiento de mano derecha y al medio a dos tiples lo tono
  • John Knowles Paine: Double Fugue on 'America', Op. 2, No. 2
  • Guy Bovet: Salamanca from Trois preludes Hambourgeois
  • Charles Villiers Stanford: Intermezzo Founded Upon an Irish Air
  • Eugene Gigout: Grand Chœur Dialogue

    Madison Chapter AGO organists presenting the program were Bruce Bengston, Don DeBruin, Sandy Erickson, Susan Klotzbach, Mark Miller, Greg Punswick, Ted Reinke, John Chappell Stowe, Linda Stowe and Max Yount.

    Michael Barone is a native of Kingston, PA, where early keyboard lessons, plus exposure to music at church and in school band and choral programs undoubtedly influenced his 'outcome.' He earned a BM degree in Music History at the Oberlin Conservatory (Ohio) and upon graduation in 1968, began work at KSJR-FM in the Collegeville, MN, the predecessor to Minnesota Public Radio. He's been with MPR ever since, serving for 25 years as Music Director, and involved with two national productions (St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and Pipedreams) since 1982. He is president of the Organ Historical Society and the Citroën Car Club of Minnesota.

    Pipedreams with Michael Barone is broadcast by Wisconsin Public Radio on WERN-FM 88.7 every Friday from 8:30 - 10:00 p.m. Additional information, national carriage lists and access to dozens of past programs in an 'audio archive' is available on-line here.

    The Association of Church Musicians would like to thank
    WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO
    for their generous co-sponsorship of this successful event.


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