Grand Organ Series

War and Peace

Saturday, April 25, 2026
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3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. | Saint Thomas Church

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Organist Katelyn Emerson joins the Grand Organ Series with a varied program of music depicting battle or written in response to war, coupled with works that evoke a sense of peace in its many forms.

Program

Triumphal March from ‘Caractacus’, Op. 35
transc. E. Lemare/K. Emerson
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Fiducie (2021)Ad Wammes (b. 1953)
Prelude and Fugue on ‘O Traurigkeit, o Herzeleid’Ethel Smyth (1858-1944)
Trois danses pour orgue
Joies
Deuils
Luttes
Jehan Alain (1911-1940)
Requiescat in Pace Leo Sowerby (1895-1968)
Vor deinen Thron tret' ich hiermit, BWV 668Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prélude et Fugue sur le nom d’Alain, Op. 7Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)