MONROE - "Summer Souvenirs" is the title for the Wednesday program of the Midday Masterworks organ mini-recital series, now in its 13th year.
The free half-hour mini-recitals will be held from 12:15 to 12:45 p.m. at United Methodist Church, 2227 4th St., Monroe. A late afternoon reprise of the program will be held from 5:15 to 5:45 p.m. at St. Victor Church, 1760 14th St.
The program will feature transcriptions and arrangements for organ, including "Morning Mood" from Edvard Grieg's "Peer Gynt Suite"; "The Cuckoo and Nightingale" from G.F. Handel's "Concerto for Organ in F"; Stephen Foster's "Camptown Races"; the hymn, "This is My Father's World"; a Victorian parlor piece titled "Swing Song"; and "America, the Beautiful."
Programs are open to the public.
The program was established in 2002 by Monroe organist, Deborah Krauss Smith, as a way to feature the new 39-rank, three-manual Berghaus pipe organ at the United Methodist Church of Monroe. In 2008, a second reprise of the program was added to showcase Monroe St. Victor Church's new Matthew Ronald Buholzer Memorial Pipe Organ.
More information is available at coldspringsroad.com/middaymasterworks.html.
The free half-hour mini-recitals will be held from 12:15 to 12:45 p.m. at United Methodist Church, 2227 4th St., Monroe. A late afternoon reprise of the program will be held from 5:15 to 5:45 p.m. at St. Victor Church, 1760 14th St.
The program will feature transcriptions and arrangements for organ, including "Morning Mood" from Edvard Grieg's "Peer Gynt Suite"; "The Cuckoo and Nightingale" from G.F. Handel's "Concerto for Organ in F"; Stephen Foster's "Camptown Races"; the hymn, "This is My Father's World"; a Victorian parlor piece titled "Swing Song"; and "America, the Beautiful."
Programs are open to the public.
The program was established in 2002 by Monroe organist, Deborah Krauss Smith, as a way to feature the new 39-rank, three-manual Berghaus pipe organ at the United Methodist Church of Monroe. In 2008, a second reprise of the program was added to showcase Monroe St. Victor Church's new Matthew Ronald Buholzer Memorial Pipe Organ.
More information is available at coldspringsroad.com/middaymasterworks.html.
