Harvey Burgett - Organ Recital - 23rd May 2014, 7.00pm
Free entry with retiring collection
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Programme:
Ludwig van Beethoven – Prelude in C Major Vernon Detar – Fugue in C Minor Frank Bridge – Adagio in E Major Gary Davison – Cantilena on “Michael” | Trumpet Rondo on “Lauda Domini” Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy – Prelude and Fugue in G Major John Stanley – Voluntary in D Major Harvey Burgett – Sunbeams (World Premiere) Johann Sebastian Bach – Kyrie, Gott, Heiliger Geist | Fugue in E-Flat Major Harvey Burgett leads an active musical life as composer, conductor, performer, educator and impresario. He has performed widely in the United States and Europe as an organist and chamber musician, and been a professor and organist at several universities in the United States, including Boston University, Rollins College and Stretson University. Harvey is a prolific composer whose music includes symphonic and chamber music as well as solo instrumental music and a large body of liturgical music. As an impresario, he has founded Underground Composers and the Burgett Ensemble in Boston, and has established Lunchtime Concerts series at Central Synagogue and Church of the Incarnation in New York City. His formal education included private study with Paul Jenkins and Vernon DeTar in organ, and Paul Langston, Joseph Goodman, Nadia Boulanger, Peter Maxwell Davies, Theodore Antoniou and David Del Tredici in composition. |
