MONROE - Honky-tonk, boogie-woogie and gospel will be among the genres played at Midday Masterworks, a quarterly organ mini-recital series, scheduled for Wednesday, July 22.
The entertaining half-hour program titled "All That Jazz" will be presented at 12:15 p.m. at the United Methodist Church of Monroe and again at 5:30 p.m. at St. Victor Catholic Church in Monroe.
"Mozart Changes," a jazz styling written in 1995 specifically for organ and based on Mozart's last piano sonata in D Major, will be among the selections performed. Also included will be familiar spirituals, Cole Porter's "Anything Goes," and a gospel piano arrangement of "The Old Rugged Cross."
Deborah Krauss Smith, organist-director of music at St. John's United Church of Christ in Monroe, is the organist for Midday Masterworks.
The programs are free and open to the public. More information is available at www.coldspringsroad.com/MiddayMasterworks.
The entertaining half-hour program titled "All That Jazz" will be presented at 12:15 p.m. at the United Methodist Church of Monroe and again at 5:30 p.m. at St. Victor Catholic Church in Monroe.
"Mozart Changes," a jazz styling written in 1995 specifically for organ and based on Mozart's last piano sonata in D Major, will be among the selections performed. Also included will be familiar spirituals, Cole Porter's "Anything Goes," and a gospel piano arrangement of "The Old Rugged Cross."
Deborah Krauss Smith, organist-director of music at St. John's United Church of Christ in Monroe, is the organist for Midday Masterworks.
The programs are free and open to the public. More information is available at www.coldspringsroad.com/MiddayMasterworks.
