Rodgers featured at Veterans Day Concert

The Fox Valley Chapter of the American Guild of Organists had a members recital last Sunday afternoon at St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Parish in Wheaton, IL.

The Great Organ of St. Michael Church is a RODGERS IV-manual, 74 stop hybrid organ with 39 ranks of windblown pipes, over 240 stop choices, and over 600 additional orchestral / midi voices.

• The performers included:

Chris Orf.:  Fugue on Star Spangled Banner (John Knowles Paine)

Jane Holstein:  A Shokun Farewell

Marsha Foxgrover:  Adagio for Strings (Samuel Barber)

Betsy Waldon:  Orchestral Excerpts from Symphony No. 9, “New World”    Antonin Dvorak  (1841-1904) with Rev. Craig S. Felde, timpani

Daniel Shroeder:  Variations on Jerusalem

Marianne Kim:  Variations on America the Beautiful

Kevin Ballard:  Naval Hymn arr.by Dan Miller     listen

Click Here to listen to the Naval Hymn on YouTube