THE LAST PAGE THE ALL-WAGNER ORGAN RECITAL


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ONG BEFORE radio broadcasts and phonograph recordings were made possible by the electric micro- phone, the pipe organ was the best instrument to simulate the sustained lines, the variety of tone col- ors, and the powerful climaxes of orchestral music. So popular was the music of Richard Wagner,


whose bicentennialwe celebrate this year, that many organists devoted entire programs to excerpts from his operas.Here are four examples of all-Wagner recitals given by brilliant American organists in the early years of the 20th century.


Samuel A. Baldwin Great Hall of the


College of the City of New York


November 4, 1908


Tannhäuser March and Chorus


Lohengrin, Vorspiel


Die Meistersinger von Nürenberg Vorspiel Introduction to 3rdAct


A Siegfried Idyl Siegfried, Waldweben


Parsifal Good FridayMusic


Edwin Arthur Kraft


Trinity Cathedral Cleveland, Ohio January 23 and May 28, 1912


Die Meistersinger Overture


DieWalküre, Feuerzauber (FireMagic)


Parsifal, Overture


Die Meistersinger Introduction to 3rdAct Prize Song


Tannhäuser, Overture


Tristan und Isolde Liebestod


Siegfried, Waldweben (Forest Murmurs)


DieWalküre Ride of the Valkyries


Walter C. Gale


Broadway Tabernacle New York, N.Y. March 19, 1912


Tannhäuser a. March b. Song to the Evening Star


c. Overture


Lohengrin a. Vorspiel b. Prelude to Act III


Tristan and Isolde a. Prelude b. Liebestod


Charles Heinroth


CarnegieMusic Hall Pittsburgh, Pa. January 22, 1916


Rienzi, Overture Albumblatt Siegfried Idyl


DieMeistersinger von Nürenberg, Prelude


Die Walküre Wotan’s Farewell Magic Fire Scene


Tannhäuser “Evening Star”


KaiserMarsch


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