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Organ Highlights

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The Friday Evening Music Club of the WSO Presents Organ Highlights Friday, February 28 at First Presbyterian Church, Greensburg

Organist Matt Klumpp, will perform Rockingham by Kenneth Leighton and Bach’s Little Prelude and Fugue in F Major, BWV 556. Organist Sylvia Andrae has chosen to play two settings of the English Folk Tune KINGSFOLD by two American composers, Brenda Portman and Maureen Howell. Mary McCormack, soprano, and Christine Loughran, piano, will perform Visi d’arte from the opera Tosca by Puccini as well as The Prayer by David Foster.

Guest organist, music director at Zion’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, David Bridge, will open his portion of the program with Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 549, followed by Americana: Organ Settings of Early American Hymn Tunes by composer Gilbert Martin.

We are also very honored to be celebrating Black History Month. First Presbyterian’s music director, Jeff Jones will bookend the recital, beginning with a Mark Hayes piano arrangement of George Allen’s Precious Lord, Take My Hand. To close the evening, he will head up to the organ loft to share George Shearing’s arrangement of Amazing Grace, Adolphus Hailstork’ssetting of Deep River, and Carl Haywood’s Spirit Fantasy, based on the spiritual, “Every Time I Feel the Spirit.”

Admission is free to club members, and voluntary donations are accepted from non-members at the door. All are invited to a reception following the recital. For more information visit https://westmorelandsymphony.org/friday-evening-music-club/

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