2021/22 Walt Disney Concert Hall
Organ Recitals (OR1)
Packages start at $104
Cameron Carpenter
A “smasher of cultural and classical music taboos” (Los Angeles Times) returns to Walt Disney Concert Hall
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- BACH Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537
- BACH Prelude and Fugue I in C Major from Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II, BWV 870
- BACH Prelude and Fugue XII in F Major from Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II, BWV 880
- BACH Fantasia on “Komm, Heiliger Geist,” BWV 651
- BACH Chorale Prelude “O Mensch, bewein’ dein’ Sünde groß,” BWV 622
- BACH Prelude and Fugue in E-flat major, “St. Anne,” BWV 552
- Intermission
- BACH Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Artists
- Cameron Carpenter, organ
Chelsea Chen
An accomplished soloist and composer, Chelsea Chen comes to Walt Disney Concert Hall.
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- MESSIAEN L’Ascension: Transports de joie
- DEBUSSY (trans. Roques) Petite suite
- Chelsea CHEN The Moon Lady (A Chinese Folktale – Chang-e ascends to the moon)
- DURUFLÉ Prelude and Fugue on the Name ALAIN
- Intermission
- Julian REVIE Arise (In memory of the extinct Hawaiian O’O bird, tape recording of O’O birdsong) (West Coast premiere)
- HOLST (trans. Sykes) The Planets: Venus, the Bringer of Peace
- SAINT-SAËNS (trans. Briggs) Symphony No. 3, “Organ”: Finale
- Program notes by Gregg Wager
Artists
- Chelsea Chen, organ
Monica Czausz Berney
The extravagantly gifted young American organist makes her debut here.
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- KAPUSTIN (arr. Czausz Berney) Sinfonietta, Op. 49: Rondo
- MENDELSSOHN Allegro, Chorale and Fugue
- BACH Toccata and Fugue in D minor, “Dorian,” BWV 538
- Intermission
- DEMESSIEUX Te Deum, Op. 11
- Naji HAKIM Arabesques
- TCHAIKOVSKY (trans. Guillou/Czausz Berney) Scherzo from Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique”
- Program notes by Tom Neenan
Artists
- Monica Czausz Berney, organ
Hold On, We Shall Overcome! with Nathaniel Gumbs
The Director of Chapel Music at Yale University reimagines traditional hymns, spirituals, and concert music with 21st-century perspective.
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- About the Program, notes by Christopher Russell
- HOLLINS Concert Overture No. 2 in C minor
- FRANCK Choral No. 1 in E major
- KARG-ELERT “Harmonies du Soir,” Op. 72, No. 1 (from Three Impressions for Organ)
- PRICE First Sonata for Organ
- Intermission
- TRADITIONAL (ARR. BY JOSEPH JOUBERT) “Hold On” (world premiere, commissioned by N. Gumbs)
- TRADITIONAL (ARR. BY JOHN STODDART) “Soon-a will be done” (world premiere, commissioned by N. Gumbs)
- TRADITIONAL (ARR. WILLIAM BOLCOM) “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” (from Gospel Preludes, Book 1)
- Uzee BROWN Church Yard Chatter
- TRADITIONAL (ARR. CARL HAYWOOD) “We Shall Overcome”
Artists
- Nathaniel Gumbs, organ