Organ dedication, 3:00 pm, Sunday, 9 June 2013

The Dedicatory Recital

The Ahlborn-Galanti Organ

The Episcopal Church of the Holy Cross
51 W Main Street
North East, Pennsylvania

Sunday, 9 June 2013 at 3:00 pm

     At 3 o’clock on Sunday, June 9, Washington, DC area organist Lynn Allen Dean will dedicate new Ahlborn-Galanti organ, just installed, at The Episcopal Church of the Holy Cross in North East, PA. Lynn is a friend of the parish who worships at Holy Cross when he comes to North East on vacation each summer. The rest of the time he is organist and director of music ministries at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Fulton, Maryland.

     Lynn holds degrees in Music Performance and Liturgical Music from the Catholic University of America and the Oblate College, and has also studied at Westminster Choir College and in Paris, France. He has played for services and in recital at the National Cathedral and many other locations. Lynn lives in Olney, MD with his wife Mary Kay; they have two grown daughters and a pug puppy.

     We are delighted that Lynn has agreed to play for us as we dedicate the new organ in honor of Harold Page, who has led us in worship for so long, and in gratitude to Neal Durchman, who has masterminded the project from the beginning. Lynn’s program is designed to exploit many of the vast possibilities of our new organ. It features music from many centuries, and opportunities for the congregation to join him in hymns. We hope that everyone will come and celebrate this great day. +

Chaconne            Francois Couperin (le Grande) 1668-1733

Passacaglia in d minor (BuxWV 161)            Dietrich Buxtehude 1637-1707

The Hymn: The Church’s One Foundation - H525

            Music: St Theodulph – Melchior Teschner (1584-1635)

From the Suite du Premier Ton             Louis-Nicolas Clerambault 1676-1749

            Duo           

            Basse et Dessus de Trompette

Fugue in g minor (“The Little”) (BMV 578)            Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750

Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (BMV 147) with the Rev’d Carol Carlson

Toccata and Fugue in d minor (BMV 565)

The Hymn: Alleluia! Sing to Jesus - H460

            Music: Hyfrydol – Roland H Prichard (1830)

Adagio for Strings             Samuel Barber 1910-1981

             (orchestral reduction for organ- William Strickland)

The Hymn: Earth and All Stars – H412

            Music: Earth and All Stars – David Johnson (1922-1987)

Carillon (opus 31)            Louis Vierne 1870-1937