Concert brings multiple generations to the bench

One of the highlights of Concordia's 2008 Homecoming, Alumni Reunion and Family Weekend was the alumni organ concert on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 5.

Besides giving generations of Concordia graduates a chance to play the new Casavant Frères organ, the event also celebrated the significant role that organ has played in the music education of Concordia graduates throughout the university's history.
 
Concert recordings include:

• Introductory comments by Jan Koopman (listen), alumni director 
  
  
• Ruth Stelzer Pralle '35 (listen)
  Wake, Awake, for Night is Flying by  J. S. Bach 
  Agnus Dei  by  Theodore Stelzer
  
  
• Dr. Charles Ore '58 (listen 1, 2), professor emeritus of music
  Deuxieme Symphonie Op. 20 by Louis Vierne
  How Firm a Foundation by Charles W. Ore
  
  
• Phil Hesterman '84 (listen), minister of music, Trinity Lutheran Church and School, Grand Island, Neb.
  Prelude and Fugue in d minor by Vincent Lübeck
  
  
• Jonathan Mueller '87 and Stephanie Mueller (listen)
  Rhapsody for Flute and Organ by John Weaver
  
  
• Barbara Fremder '87 (listen), director of music, Pacific Hills Lutheran Church, Omaha, Neb.
  Wake, Awake, for Night is Flying by  J. S. Bach 
  Agnus Dei  by  Theodore Stelzer
  
  
• James Marriott '04 (listen), director of music, St. John Lutheran Church, Rochester, Mich.
  Introduction and Passacaglia in d minor by Max Reger
  
  
• Paul Soulek '07 (listen), director of music, St. John Lutheran Church, Seward, Neb.
  Liturgical Improvisation No. 1  by  George Oldroyd
  
  
• Mark Kanitz '08 (listen), organist, First St. Paul Lutheran Church, Hastings, Neb.
  Eight by Charles W. Ore