Upcoming Concerts
Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony
Conductor Laureate Christopher Warren-Green returns to Charlotte to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Charlotte Chapter of the American Guild of Organists with Saint-Saëns' breathtaking Organ Symphony. In collaboration with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Paul Jacobs will be performing at First United Methodist Church, Charlotte, on Friday, September 30 and Saturday, October 1. Paul will also play a solo recital on Sunday, October 2 at 4pm. General Admission ticket prices for the CSO concerts will be $25. General Admission for the solo concert will be $20.
Performance on Friday, September 30, October 1 at 7:30 p.m.
First United Methodist Church
501 North Tryon Street
Charlotte, NC 28202
Solo Performance on Sunday, October 2 at 4:00 p.m.
First United Methodist Church
501 North Tryon Street
Charlotte, NC 28202
Tickets
https://www.charlottesymphony.org/events/fc70f398-9a9c-4ede-8099-5f6d720ded07
or
Parking
Free parking is available for all concert events at the 525 N. Tryon parking garage – enter from W. 9th Street, between N. Tryon and Church Streets.
About Paul Jacobs
The only organist ever to win a Grammy Award (for Messiaen’s “Livre du Saint-Sacrement”), Paul Jacobs is an important influence in the revival of symphonic works featuring the organ and is a true innovator in the advocacy of organ repertoire, performing and encouraging the composition of new works that feature the instrument.
Mr. Jacobs made musical history at the age of 23 when he played Bach’s complete organ works in an 18-hour marathon performance on the 250th anniversary of the composer’s death. He is a frequent concerto and recital soloist, featuring the concert organs of the San Francisco Symphony, the Montreal Symphony, the Pacific Symphony, the Edmonton Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony, and the Lexington Philharmonic, among others. He appears frequently in New York and has been featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, ABC-TV’s World News Tonight, and BBC Radio 3.
Mr. Jacobs studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and joined the faculty of the Juilliard School in 2003. He was named chairman of the organ department in 2004, one of the youngest faculty appointees in the school’s history. He received Juilliard’s prestigious William Schuman Scholar’s Chair in 2007 and an honorary Doctor of Music from Washington and Jefferson College in 2017.
Grammy Award-winning organist Paul Jacobs
Past Concerts
Below you will find links and information about past concerts and events showcasing the 1967 M. P. Möller Opus 10260 pipe organ.
53rd Anniversary CONCERT
Dr. Patrick Pope, Recitalist
Dr. Pope presented a program of diverse contemporary composers of varying backgrounds.
Presented by the Kathryn Stephenson Pipe Organ Foundation and sponsored by the First United Methodist Child Development Center and anonymous donors.
Program:
Scherzo - Alleluia - Raymond Weidner - b. 1947)
Carillon - Leo Sowerby ( Leo Sowerby (1895 - 1968)
Sonata Breve - Gerald Near (b. 1942)
I. Prelude
II. Air with Variation
III. March
Passacaglia - David Hurd (b. 1950)
Adoration - Florence Beatrice Price (1887-1953)
Monument - Brenda Portman (b. 1980)
Recording and replay link:
John Apple, August 9, 2020
First United Methodist Church hosted a live-streamed concert on August 9, 2020 as part of the Charlotte Chapter of the American Guild of Organists Summer Recital Series in support of the chapter's Robert Stigall Scholarship Fund.
Click on below Web Link to hear the Concert
52nd Anniversary Concert
52nd Anniversary Concert September 8, 2019
Clara Gerdes, Recitalist
Program:
Organ Sonata in G Major, op 28 - Allegro Maestoso - Edward Elgar
L'Ascension (1933) - Serene Alleluias - Olivier Messiaen
Paean ( from Six Pieces for Organ, 1940) - Herbert Howells
Trois Danses, op 6 (1932 Divertissement) - Maurice Durufle
Gershwinesca - Naji Hakim
Recording and Replay link:
silent film presentations
Silent film presentations with organ accompaniment
In 2018 and 2019 organist Scott Foppiano improvised organ accompaniments to famous silent films, much in the way audiences would have heard film music in the day. Mr. Foppiano performed to "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" on October 18, 2019 and to the 1920 production of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" in 2018.
51st Anniversary Concert
51st Anniversary Concert September 9, 2018
Lester E. Ackerman, Recitalist
with David Brian Clark and Eric Loftin, Baritones
Program:
Carillon, from Twenty-four Pieces in Free Style, Op. 31 - Louis Vierne
Fantaisie in C Major (Version III) - Cesar Franck
Sound the Trumpet, from Come, Ye Sons of Art - Henry Purcell
A Trumpet Minuet - Alfred Hollins
Five Mystical Songs - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Toccata, from Uzbekistan Suite - Georgi Alexandrovich Mushel
Partita on 'Ein feste Burg' A Mighty Fortress is Our God - Tune by Martin Luther,
Setting by Andrew Clarke
Anthem, from Chess the Musical - Benny Andersson, Tim Rice and Bjorn Ulvaeus
Stars, from Les Miserables - Claude-Michel Schonber
Carillon-Sortie - Henri Mulet
50th Anniversary Concert
50th Anniversary Concert September 10, 2017
Dr. Joby Bell, Recitalist
Program:
Grand Choeur Dialogue - Eugene Gigout *
"O Man, bewail they grievous sin" BWV 622 J. S . Bach *
Prelude in E-flat, BWV 552i J.S. Bach *
Duruflé Prelude and Fugue on name "Alain" - Maurice Durulfle *
Pastorale - Jean-Jules Aimable Roger-Ducasse *
Symphonie Gothique, Op 70 -
II. Andante Sostenuto - Charles-Marie Widor
"St. Anne" Fugue in E-flat, BWV 552ii *
* Performed during the 1967 inaugural recital