MONROE - The first program of the 2016 season of Midday Masterworks, a quarterly organ mini-recital series, will feature music written by composers whose birthdays are in January.
Scheduled for 12:15 p.m. Wednesday at the United Methodist Church, 2227 4th St., Monroe, and repeated at 5:15 p.m. at St. Victor Church, 1760 14th St., Monroe, the program will include works by W.A. Mozart, John Stanley and French organists Marcel Dupré, Charles Tournemire and Théodore-César Salomé.
Now in its 15th season, Midday Masterworks was established in 2002 to feature the Monroe United Methodist Church's new three-manual, 39-rank Berghaus pipe organ. Midday Masterworks-Reprise, a repeat of the same program later in the day, was added in 2008 to showcase St. Victor Church's new Matthew Ronald Buholzer Memorial Organ, a hybrid combination of a Möller pipe organ and Rodgers digital organ. Monroe organist Deborah Krauss Smith plays the quarterly programs, all built around a particular theme.
The half-hour programs are free and open to the public. Both churches are handicapped-accessible. More information is available at http://coldspringsroad.com/middaymasterworks.html.
Scheduled for 12:15 p.m. Wednesday at the United Methodist Church, 2227 4th St., Monroe, and repeated at 5:15 p.m. at St. Victor Church, 1760 14th St., Monroe, the program will include works by W.A. Mozart, John Stanley and French organists Marcel Dupré, Charles Tournemire and Théodore-César Salomé.
Now in its 15th season, Midday Masterworks was established in 2002 to feature the Monroe United Methodist Church's new three-manual, 39-rank Berghaus pipe organ. Midday Masterworks-Reprise, a repeat of the same program later in the day, was added in 2008 to showcase St. Victor Church's new Matthew Ronald Buholzer Memorial Organ, a hybrid combination of a Möller pipe organ and Rodgers digital organ. Monroe organist Deborah Krauss Smith plays the quarterly programs, all built around a particular theme.
The half-hour programs are free and open to the public. Both churches are handicapped-accessible. More information is available at http://coldspringsroad.com/middaymasterworks.html.
