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n.b.: All selections taken from Great Organs of New York, B&V Recordings CD 100. 

 

Aaron Copland, arr. Dorothy Papadakos—Fanfare for the Common Man.  3:42.  Dorothy Papadakos on the Aeolian-Skinner organ at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Amsterdam Ave. at 112th Street.

 

Dietrich Buxtehude—Prelude and Fugue in E Minor.  7:41.  Walter Klauss on the 1989 Holtkamp organ at All Souls Unitarian Church, 1157 Lexington Ave. 

 

Marcel Dupré—Variations on a Noel.  12:25.  Donald Dumler on the 1930 Kilgen organ at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, 5th Avenue. 

 

Leo Sowerby—Air with Variations.  7:05.  William Trafka on the 1970 Aeolian-Skinner organ at St. Bartholomew’s Church, Park Avenue.

 

Calvin Hampton—Music for an Important Occasion.  13:50.  Harry Huff on the 1936 Aeolian-Skinner organ at Calvary Episcopal Church, Park Avenue South at 21st Street.

 

Olivier Messiaen—Dieu Parmi Nous from La Nativité.  8:40.  Mollie H. Nichols on the Austin/Konzelman organ at Church of the Heavenly Rest, 5th Avenue at 90th Street.

 

Gerre Hancock—Improvisation.  7:12.  Gerre Hancock on the Aeolian-Skinner/Adams organ at St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue. 

 

John Philip Sousa—The Stars and Stripes Forever.  4:25.  George Stauffer and Mary Monroe on the Aeolian-Skinner organ at St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University, Broadway at 116th Street.    

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