LIVE ORGAN RECITAL FROM THE METHUEN MEMORIAL MUSIC HALL
METHUEN, MASSACHUSETTS, USA
25 AUGUST 2021 7:30 PM (EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME)
Welcome to a live Organ Recital played by Jennifer McPherson
in the 75th Summer Recital Series
on “The Great Organ”
at the Methuen Memorial Music Hall
E.F. Walker and Cie., Opus 200, 1863
Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Opus 1103, 1947
Recital sponsored In Memory of
Lee W. Malone
PROGRAM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude & Fugue in D-Major, BWV 532
Johann Sebastian Bach
Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, BWV 663
Gwyneth Walker (b. 1947)
Beside the Still Waters
William Bolcom (b. 1938)
Just as I am (from Gospel Preludes, Book 1)
Charles Tournemire (1870-1939)
tr. Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)
Cinq Improvisations, Vol. 1
2. Cantilène Improviseé
3. Improvisation sur le ‘Te Deum’
Intermission
Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911)
Marche religieuse sur un thème de Handel, Op. 15, No. 2
"Lift Up Your Heads"
Théodore Salomé (1834-1896)
12 Pièces nouvelles pour orgue, Op. 59
2. Èglogue
Marcel Dupré (1886-1971)
Prélude et Fugue en si majeur, Op. 7
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Jennifer McPherson serves as Director of Music and Liturgy at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Portsmouth, NH. She holds a Master of Music in Historical Performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and received her undergraduate degree from College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, where she was Organ Scholar of the class of 2013.
As a recitalist, Ms. McPherson has performed throughout the United States and Canada including Methuen Memorial Music Hall (Methuen, MA), Cathedral of the Sacred Heart (Richmond, VA), First (Scots) Presbyterian Church (Charleston, SC), and Saint Joseph’s Oratory of Mount Royal in Montreal, QC, Canada. At the age of 21, she was awarded Third Prize in the 2012 International Organ Competition Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck in Amsterdam. She won First Prize in the 2013 American Guild of Organists Quimby Competition and was featured as a Rising Star at the 2014 National AGO Convention.
A committed teacher of young musicians, Ms. McPherson is co-director of The Choir School at St. John’s, an after-school tuition-free music program for children grades 3-8. She also serves on the board and as an instructor for the Young Organist Collaborative, based in Portsmouth, NH. She has been a judge for the Young Organist Competition of the Columbia, SC AGO, and has served on the board for the L’Organo Series of the Piccolo Spoleto Festival.
