MONROE - Midday Masterworks, an organ mini-recital series, will start its 2012 season Wednesday, Jan. 25 with performances at 12:15 p.m. at the Monroe United Methodist Church and at 5:30 p.m. at St. Victor Catholic Church. The program is titled "March Madness."
The free half-hour concert will feature marches written or transcribed for organ. Composers represented include Saint-Saëns, Dubois, Grieg, Mendelssohn and others.
Deborah Krauss Smith, director of music-organist at St. John's United Church of Christ in Monroe, founded Midday Masterworks in 2001 to showcase the 39-rank, three-manual Berghaus pipe organ at the Monroe United Methodist Church, and has continued for more than a decade as the primary organist for the mini-recitals. In 2008, Midday Masterworks-Reprise, a repeat of the noontime program, was added to feature the Matthew Ronald Buholzer Memorial pipe organ, a hybrid pipe-electronic instrument built for St. Victor Church in 2007.
Programs in the series are presented quarterly on the fourth Wednesday of the month. Each program has a different theme. Other mini-recitals in the 2012 series include "Pick a Peck o' Pachelbel" on April 25; a piano-organ program on July 25 with organist Maynard Heins titled "Dualing Keyboards"; and "Made in the U.S.A." on Oct, 24. More information is available on Facebook or at www.ColdSpringsRoad.com/MiddayMasterworks.html.
The free half-hour concert will feature marches written or transcribed for organ. Composers represented include Saint-Saëns, Dubois, Grieg, Mendelssohn and others.
Deborah Krauss Smith, director of music-organist at St. John's United Church of Christ in Monroe, founded Midday Masterworks in 2001 to showcase the 39-rank, three-manual Berghaus pipe organ at the Monroe United Methodist Church, and has continued for more than a decade as the primary organist for the mini-recitals. In 2008, Midday Masterworks-Reprise, a repeat of the noontime program, was added to feature the Matthew Ronald Buholzer Memorial pipe organ, a hybrid pipe-electronic instrument built for St. Victor Church in 2007.
Programs in the series are presented quarterly on the fourth Wednesday of the month. Each program has a different theme. Other mini-recitals in the 2012 series include "Pick a Peck o' Pachelbel" on April 25; a piano-organ program on July 25 with organist Maynard Heins titled "Dualing Keyboards"; and "Made in the U.S.A." on Oct, 24. More information is available on Facebook or at www.ColdSpringsRoad.com/MiddayMasterworks.html.
