Word: organ
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Teddy Roosevelt was trustbusting, Omaha's most grandiose mansion was Joslyn Castle. Daring schoolboys pressed their noses against the glass of its greenhouse for a peek at the Joslyn orchids. Their elders exclaimed over the turreted grey pile's pipe organ. But in local society, even organ and orchids could never quite let George Joslyn and his wife Sarah live down the rumor that their fortunes were founded on a quack cure for gonorrhea ("Big G"). The Joslyns went to Omaha in 1880 with $9 and two suitcases. In 1916 sharp-eyed George Joslyn left his wife...
Sarah Selleck Joslyn spent years planning a memorial for her husband, finally hit on a combined art gallery and concert hall which could house the beloved organ he had played with player rolls. After the $2,900,000 pink marble Joslyn Memorial was opened in 1931, she used to visit it and put player rolls on the organ herself. This winter, too feeble to venture out, she stayed bedridden in Joslyn Castle...
...rest in the accompaniment, with the words, "Organun ad Libitum" which meant that the player was free to improvise. This was one of the first attempts at the development of the cadenza. Both of Handel's concertos which are to be played on Tuesday night are subtitled, "For organ and harpsichord." This perhaps explains why there seems to be a departure from the usual solemnity of the organ, for the two instruments are quite different in character...
...contrast to the graceful organ style of Handel, is that of Johann Sebastian Bach, whose organ music is more of a religious nature. He seems to think of the organ as a sacred instrument. The music he composes for it is inborn. While Handel0 adapted to the organ many ideas which he used in other forms of music, making it easier for the listener to understand, Bach treated the organ as an instrument whose great resources offered new ideas for music...
Four of Bach's works for solo organ are included on the program. The Fugue in G major, the Tocatta and Fugue in D minor, known to many through Stokowski's transcription of it for orchestra, and two Chorale Preludes. It is in these Chorale Preludes that Bach proves himself to be one of the greatest masters of the organ...