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Please note that we are no longer able to obtain this CD. However, it is available for download on iTunes.
Chosen Tunes showcases Susan Jane Matthews, Principal Organist of Grace Cathedral from 2003-2005, playing the Cathedral's Aeolian-Skinner organ (Opus 910 - 1934).
Susan Jane Matthews completed her Masters of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts (D.M.A.) in organ performance and literature at the Eastman School of Music as a student of David Higgs. She has served as Director of Music at St. Luke & St. Simon Cyrene Episcopal Church, Rochester, New York and St. Michael’s Episcopal Cathedral, Boise, Idaho. The winner of the 1998 John R. Rodland Memorial Scholarship Competition held in New Jersey, she also received First Place in the 1993 American Guild of Organists Region III Competition for Young Organists in Wilmington, Delaware. At the 2003 AGO Regional Convention in Salt Lake City, she served as organist for the opening service and presented a lecture recital on the legendary French organist Jeanne Demessieux. She frequently performs throughout the United States. She was appointed Assistant Organist of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco in 2001 and served as Principal Organist from 2003-2005.
Music Listing
- Cortège et Litanie, Opus 19, no. 2 --- Marcel Dupré (1886–1971)
- Romance --- Claude Bénigne Balbastre (1727–1799)
- Nimrod (from Enigma Variations, Opus 36) --- Edward Elgar (1857–1934)
- Sortie in E-flat --- Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély (1817–1870)
- Adagio for Strings, Opus 11 --- Samuel Barber (1910–1981)
- Crown Imperial: A Coronation March --- William Walton (1902–1983)
- Chosen Tune (from Three Pieces for Violin and Piano, Opus 28, no. 29) --- Herbert Howells (1892–1983)
- Con moto maestoso, Andante tranquillo (from Sonata III in A Major, Opus 6) --- Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
- Tuba Tune --- Norman Cocker (1889–1953)
- Outer Hebrides --- Paul Halley (1952– )
- Te Deum, Opus 11 --- Jeanne Demessieux (1921–1968)
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