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April 9: Free organ concert at St. Helena, featured organist Dr. Elizabeth Harrison

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The final organ concert of the Music at St. Helena’s Spring series will be presented on Friday, April 9 at noon. The featured organist is Dr. Elizabeth Harrison from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Dr. Harrison received bachelor’s degrees from Duke University and Southern College, her master’s degree from New England Conservatory, and a D.M.A. from Stanford University. Her specialty is Baroque organ pedagogy.

She has taught studio organ, organ literature, church music, music theory, and music history at Stanford University, Cogswell Polytechnical Institute, Westminster College (New Wilmington, Penn.), and Geneva College. From 1988 to 1991, Dr. Harrison studied at the North German Organ Academy in Bunderhee, Germany, where she was organ assistant.

She is executive director of the Historic Organ Resource Program, an international organization specializing in organ pedagogy. Her publications include several papers on early keyboard pedagogy and an article in the Revised New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Her performances have been featured on commercial CDs including “The Sweelinck School of German Organists” (released on the Raven label), “Schnitger in Neidersachsen” (ORSEV), and The Sounds of Bellingwolde (Raven).

The organ concerts at St. Helena have become known far and wide for attracting musical artists of the highest quality to play on St. Helena’s famed classical tracker Taylor & Boody organ. The presentations include four concerts each fall and four each spring. The Dr. Elizabeth Harrison performance is the final concert of the four in the spring 2010 series.

The organ at St. Helena’s is modern yet reminiscent of the organ-building practices used during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe. This fine instrument is an example of the pinnacle of organ craftsmanship, a period known as the “golden age” of organ building and organ music, reached in Europe between 1600 and 1750.

Three centuries later, the legacy of excellent organ building continues to elevate the spirit. Installed in 1985 by Taylor & Boody Organ Builders of Staunton, Virginia, the two-manual organ has 19 stops and more than 1,150 pipes housed in a beautifully crafted oak case.

When and where:

Friday, April 9, noon Parish Church of St. Helena, 505 Church Street, Beaufort, SC. The concert is free.

Dr. Elizabeth Harrison, organ.

Program:

Praeambulum in d – Heinrich Scheidemann (ca. 1595-1663)

Nun lob mein Seel den Herren – Dieterich Buxehude (1636-1707)

Prelude and Fugue in C, BWV 545 – J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

From the Orgelbüchein (1716) – J.S. Bach:
Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 625
Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, BWV 626
Christ ist erstanden, BWV 627
Erstanden ist der heilge Christ, BWV 628
Erschienen ist der herrliche Tag, BWV 629
Heut triumphieret Gottes Sohn, BWV 630

L’homme armé Organ Mass – Margaret Sandresky (b. 1921):
I. Introit (Entrada),
II. Kyrie (Lord have mercy upon us)
IV. Credo, V. Sanctus
VI. Agnus Dei

Fantasie à gusto italiano in F – Johann Krebs (1713-1780)
Fugue in a

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