Organ Reform Movement in Europe and America

About This Event

This session includes three papers, followed by Nathan Laube's organ demonstration of the Hope Jones organ in the church. Christopher Anderson: “What is Orgelbewegung? – Remarks on the Character of a ‘Movement’” Paul Peters: Scandinavian organ reform Jonathan Ortloff: English organbuilders in America from the 1880s to the Great Depression

Featured Guests

Christopher Anderson, Southern Methodist University
Paul Peeters, Gothenburg International Organ Academy
Jonathan Ortloff, Ortloff Organ Builders
Nathan Laube, University of Rochester

Co-sponsors

Westfield Center for Historical Keyboards
Eastman School of Music Department of Organ, Sacred Music, and Historical Keyboards

Nov. 11, 2024, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

First Universalist Church, 150 Clinton Square, Rochester, NY 14604

MP18: Improvisation in Theory and Practice

Audience: Open to the Public

Host: University of Rochester

Category: Conference

RSVP by Nov. 8, 2024