Pipescreams: A Halloween Concert

Pipescreams, A Halloween concert co-presented by the Greater Hartford Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. The music of DEAD composers is performed by local keyboard wizards making mischief in a wacky, video-enhanced program.

Special guests include the Seven Deadly Sins and the St. John's Youth Choir.

Treats to follow; costumes welcome!

PROGRAM INCLUDES:

Toccata and fugue in d minor BWV 565 by Johann Sebastian Bach; performed by St. John's Music Director Peter Stoltzfus Berton, with cameo appearances by Lady Gaga and  St. John’s Youth Choir

Theme and variation from Sonata VI (with the Seven Deadly Sins) by Felix Mendelssohn; performed by Cheryl Rita Wadsworth

Toccata from Pieces de Fantasie Op 53 by Louis Vierne; performed by Angela Salcedo

Allegro maestoso from Symphony III by Louis Vierne; performed by Monica Czausz

Funeral March of the Marionettes by Charles Gounod, arr. W.T. Best; performed by Kari Miller WITH A COSTUME PARADE!!!

Toccata from Suite Gothique by Leon Boellmann; performed by Meg Smith

Chatanooga Choo-Choo; arr. and performed by Cheryl Wadsworth

The Great Gate of Kiev from Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky; performed by Eugenia Sullivan

Strange Meadowlark by Dave Brubeck / Toccata in b minor by Eugène Gigout; performed by Natasha Ulyanovsky

Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner, arr. Clarence Dickinson and Charlotte Mathewson Lockwood; performed by Peter Stoltzfus and Peter Berton (ghost duet)