- Friday, January 13, 2012
- 7:00pm
- Childcare Available!
- Bring a friend!
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Elizabeth Prothro Organ Concert Series
Every year in the Fall (usually the month of September or October), we invite a world-renowned organist to give a special concert on our 2003 Garland Pipe Organ. Sometimes the concert focuses solely on the music, but from time-to-time, it has featured silent movies. Either way, you will be thoroughly entertained!
These are FREE concerts with childcare available, so you are encouraged to bring friends! You do NOT need a ticket to attend the concerts, so seating is first come, first served.
For more information, contact Dr. Kiyo Watanabe, Organist: 940-766-4231, x231.
To purchase CDs or DVDs of the concerts, contact Rev. John Dillard, Associate Pastor: 940-766-4231, x227.
See below for the latest news about this concert series!
Dances of the Night: A Free Organ Concert – January 13, 2012
8th Annual Organ Concert to Feature Cameron Carpenter
- October 6, 2011
Join us Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 7:00pm for the 8th Annual Elizabeth Prothro Organ Concert, which will feature Cameron Carpenter (www.cameroncarpenter.com) on Pipe Organ.
From Franz Liszt and Vladimir Horowitz to Michael Jackson and David Bowie, the most enduring musicians emerge as revolutionaries in their field, but never stop evolving as their careers develop. Encompassing the organ in all its iterations – pipe, virtual, classical, and popular – Cameron’s unique voice is following that pattern. He is renowned not only for his playing of the great organ works, but also for his compositions which – in their emphasis on color, secularity, and performative freedom – follow in the footsteps of Percy Grainger, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, and Leopold Godowsky.
The result? He is a popular concert hall artist; performs with pop singers like Vinicio Capossela and Bishi; is a frequent guest soloist with international symphony orchestras; and enjoys a career that in only three years has taken him to Royal Albert Hall (London), Melbourne Town Hall (Australia), Tchaikovsky Hall (Moscow), Capella (St. Petersburg), Kimmel Center (Philadelphia), Disney Hall (Los Angeles), Davies Hall (San Francisco), Gewandhaus (Leipzig), Philharmonic Hall (Cologne), and Philharmonic Hall (Berlin). For playing Chopin’s Études, Op. 10 on the organ; for his design of organs, organ benches, Swarovski-encrusted performance wear and organ shoes; for his original works and improvisations; and for his expansion of the organ repertoire into music from film, animé, and popular culture, he is widely acclaimed.
Our 2010 organist, John Weaver, had this to say about Carpenter:
“This is truly one of the most amazing musical minds that I have ever encountered, a talent of Mozartean proportions, and a technique the likes of which I don’t think has existed on this planet… because if it had, we would all know about it.”
This is a FREE concert with childcare available, so you are encouraged to bring friends! You do NOT need a ticket to attend the concert, and seating is first come, first served.
Learn more about our 2011 organist in this video clip:
Portions of the above text were taken from http://cameroncarpenter.com/bio.html on August 4, 2011.
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Join us Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 7:00pm for the 7th Annual Elizabeth Prothro Organ Concert, which will feature John Weaver on Pipe Organ and Marianne Weaver on Flute.
Marianne and John Weaver have included music for flute and organ on Dr. Weaver’s recital programs for many years. Indeed, their musical collaboration has inspired John Weaver to compose music for flute and organ, and two of these works have been published: “Rhapsody for Flute and Organ” (Boosey & Hawkes) and “Dialogues for Flute and Organ” (E.C. Schirmer).
This is a FREE concert with childcare available, so you are encouraged to bring friends!
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Silent Movie The Kid – September 19, 2009
This FREE showing of the silent movie, The Kid (1921), starring Charlie Chaplin
(and featuring world-renowned theater organist, Dennis James, on the Pipe Organ)
is the 6th Annual Elizabeth Prothro Organ Concert Series.
We hope to see you at 7pm on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2009!
Childcare will be available.
For more information, contact:
Dr. Kiyo Watanabe, Organist: 940-766-4231, x231
5th Annual Concert Features Carlo Curley
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4th Annual Concert Features Joyce Jones
In addition to the great performance provided by Joyce on Saturday, which featured her amazing rendition of “Flight of the Bumble Bee” using only her feet, on Friday, she put on two concerts for a total of approximately 2,300 children (10am & 1pm). The kids were truly amazed at all the organ can do!
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