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The Wanamaker Organ Hour
Co-hosts, Jill Pasternak and Peter Richard Conte
First Sunday of each month, 5 to 6 pm
Listen to recordings by Peter Richard Conte, Macy's Grand Court organist, from Macy's in downtown Philadelphia. Peter chats about his music with Jill Pasternak back at the WRTI studio. The Wanamaker Organ Hour is produced with the cooperation of the Friends of the Wanamaker Organ.
Sunday, July 6
Guest organist: Colin Howland
Program:
Keith Chapman: Fanfare and Procession
Robert Elmore: Pavane
Robert Elmore: Fantasy on Nursery Tunes
J.S. Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Claude Debussy: Ballet (transcribed by Leon Rogues)
John Phillip Sousa: Liberty Bell March (transcribed by Colin Howland)
Arthur Sullivan: The Lost Chord (transcribed by Colin Howland)
Richard Purvis: Fantasia on Ton-Y-Botel
John Williams: Main Title from Star Wars (transcribed by Colin Howland)
Sunday, May 4
This week's guest is John Binsfeld.
The distinguished organist and choirmaster at Philadelphia's Old Christ Church for 43 years began playing the Wanamaker Organ in the late '60s. For many years he also had the largest studio of private organ students in the Philadelphia area.
Program:
- David German: Festival Trumpet Tune
- H. Walford Davies: Solemn Melody
- Alexander Schreiner: I will lift up mine eyes
- Camille Saint-Saens (arranged by William Felton): "Tollite Hostias" from Christman Oratorio
- Percy Fletcher: Fountain Reverie
- Edvard Grieg (arranged by William Felton): Triumphal March
- Joseph Jongen: Petit Prelude
- Charles Callahan: Aria
- Benedetto Marcello: Psalm 19
- J.S. Bach: Morning Cactus Flower in Evening Song
Sunday, April 6
Dr. Barry Rose, O.B.E: Distinguished British organist, choirmaster, and teacher
Program:
- H. Walford Davies: Royal Air Force March Past
- Edwin Lemare: Andantino, "Moonlight and Roses"
- William Mathias: Processional for Charles and Diana's Wedding, arranged for Brass and Organ by Peter Richard Conte
- Alan Ridout: Water from "Canticle of the Rose"
- Grayston Ives: Intrada
- Edward Elgar: Military March No. 4 in G, arranged for Brass and Organ by Peter Richard Conte
- Gabriel Faure: Cantique de Jean Racine
- Peter Wilhousky: Battle Hymn of the Republic, with chorus
- Louis James Alfred Lefebure-Wely: Sortie
Sunday, February 3
Enjoy a potpourri of organ music this month.
Program:
- J.S. Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
- Craig Sellar Lang, Tuba Tune
- Frank Bridge, Adagio in E
- Alexandre Guilmant, Scherzo, from Sonata VIII
- Michel Corrette, Grand Choeur, avec Tonnerre
- Joseph Bonnet, Elfes
- Leon Boellmann, Toccata, from Suite Gothique
- J.S. Bach, Final, from St. Matthew's Passion
- Arthur Sullivan, The Lost Chord
- (in memory of Tommy Whiting, FOWO volunteer)
Sunday, December 2This month’s Wanamaker Organ Hour, hosted by Grand Court Organist Peter Richard Conte, and WRTI’s Jill Pasternak, features a fascinating guest. Stephanie Liem, a 4th year organ student at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, has been playing the organ since age 9. An inspiring story accompanies Miss Liem, as she recently developed tremors in her left hand and left leg. After being approached to perform a fund-raising concert for WE MOVE, an organization which supports research for movement disorders, she began to investigate her own situation, and to ultimately champion a cause which seeks to aid those suffering from this mysterious disease. She has recently been accepted to Harvard University, in pursuit of a medical career.
Sunday, November 4
Join us for another installment in the Wanamaker Organ Hour from Macy's in downtown Philadelphia. Jill Pasternak and Peter Richard Conte welcome Gordon Turk to the show. Dr. Turk is resident organist of the historic Auditorium in Ocean Grove, NJ. In the spacious acoustics of this hall he plays weekly recitals during the summer season on the large pipe organ of five manuals and 10,000 pipes.
As a critically acclaimed concert organist, Turk has performed throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. As a composer he has written compositions for string orchestra, woodwinds, organ, piano, voice, and chorus. |
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