Music for Grand Organ and Orchestra: Houlihan and the Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Friday, September 27, 2019   8:00 PM   Hartford, CT

Friday September 27, 2019 Trinity College Chapel, 300 Summit Street
Cost: Tickets: Gen: $35; Sr/Stu: $35 - $35 General Adm; $55 Premium
Performing: Christopher Houlhan, organist, with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Carolyn Kuan, conducting
Details: Acclaimed organist Christopher Houlihan joins the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Carolyn Kuan conducting, in the Opening Concert of the 2019 Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival Hartford. The program includes the thrilling and notoriously difficult Symphonie Concertante for organ and orchestra by Joseph Jongen. Houlihan, described as “one of the brightest stars in the new generation of American organists,” will also perform music by Bach and Widor (the opening movement of the Sixth Symphony). The program includes the fourth movement of Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 5 in D Major and an orchestral portrait of Albert Schweitzer by Gene Scheer, narrated by NEPR classical host John Nowacki. Pre-concert talk one hour before the performance. Tickets $35-$55
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