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30 Anniversary Virtual Organ Concert Series Adelaide. Designed for Life. Welcome to the Adelaide Town Hall’s 30th Anniversary Virtual Organ Concert Series In this year, 2020, we celebrate the 30th Anniversary The key action for the organ is mechanical. It uses since our magnificent J.W. Walker Organ was an electrical system to couple the keyboards. installed in the grand Auditorium. J.W. Walker & It also uses micro-chip technology to program Sons built the current Town Hall organ in Brandon combinations of stops and effects. The organist can (Suffolk, England). At the time of its construction, pre-select pistons and store stopping combinations it was the largest mechanical-action instrument in an electronic memory. They can operate these via built in the United Kingdom for 100 years. It has a hand-held keypad. 61 stops distributed over four keyboards and 4,500 handmade pipes. We hope you enjoy our special program of virtual organ concerts that you can enjoy from The organ is ornately designed. It features the comfort of your own home. We are pleased contrasting shades of light (maple) and dark to present seven South Australian organists who, (American red oak) timber. The red silk-back pipe prior to COVID-19, were performing in churches and shades are hand carved and use Australian native venues across the City of Adelaide and beyond. flora as motifs. These include the wattle, native hibiscus and Sturt’s Desert Pea. The organ’s forte is the English and French repertoire of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The clarity of its voicing is also well suited to the contrapuntal styles associated with Bach and his contemporaries. 30th Anniversary Virtual Organ Concert Series Tuesday 2nd June Tuesday 28th July Baroque Beauties Fanfare & Festivity Organist: Gina Dutschke Organist: Amir Karas Tuesday 16th June Tuesday 11th August Movie Medley Enchanting Elgar Organist: Claire Baker Organist: David Heah Tuesday 30th June Tuesday 25th August Timeless Town Hall Bach & Beyond Organist: Graham Bell Organist: Peter Kelsall (featuring a piece from the first Organ Concert held at Town Hall) Tuesday 14th July Storming of the Bastille Organist: Josh van Konkelenberg Tuesday 2nd June Tuesday 2nd June Arrival of the Queen of Sheba was written by Handel as a Beautiful Baroque sinfonia for two solo oboes with string accompaniment in Organist:Baroque Gina Beauties Dutschke 1749 as part of the oratorio Solomon. In this transcription Organist: Gina Dutschke for organ, the oboes are realised by the Cremona (Choir) and Hautboy (Swell). About Gina Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Wake, Awake for Night is Flying) was composed by Bach in Leipzig (1731) as a cantata Gina Dutschke began taking piano lessons at St to be sung during the Lutheran worship service. Josephs Convent Murray Bridge at the age of 7. She was accepted into private instrumental lessons at the Elder Program Bach’s transcription for organ was published with a set of Conservatorium at age 12, studying piano with Dr Graham 1. Arrival of the Queen of Sheba six chorales in 1747. In three parts, the upper melodic line Williams and Ms Zelda Bock. At age 15 Gina completed G.F.Handel from Solomon, is written in alto clef (as per a viola score), the tenor solo is her Associate Music Diploma on pianoforte and also Arranged by E.W.Maynard written using the tenor clef, and the basso continuo part is began organ studies with John Stiller. After completing 2. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme given to the pedals. her Bachelor of Music in piano performance, Gina began (Wake, Awake for Night is Flying) BWV 645, J.S.Bach studies with Christa Rumsey on organ, completing the 3. Capriccio sopra il Cucu Johann Caspar Kerll (1627-93) was a south German Church Music Certificate (TAFE) and an Honours Degree Johann Caspar Kerll composer and organist whose influence can be traced in organ performance (University of Adelaide). Gina holds 4. Paraphrase See the Conqu’ring Hero Comes to Bach and Handel. Kerll’s Capriccio Sopra ‘il Cucu takes Diplomas in Education and Theology, and a certificate From Judas Maccabaeus by Handel 18 Pieces one on a journey to a European forest where cuckoos in German as a Foreign Language (Goethe- Institut, Nouvelles, Livraison 6, No 2, Op 90, call to one another. The use of flute stops on the organ Germany). After working as Music Director of Cornerstone Alexandre Guilmant to replicate the sound of cuckoos was common in the Baroque period. College Mt Barker for four years, Gina and husband About the Program Michael spent a year living in Eisenach, the birthplace of J.S. Bach, above which is perched the Wartburg Castle The Baroque period (1600-1750) encompassed a style Handel wrote the oratorio Judas Macabaeus in 1746 where Luther translated the New Testament into German. of art, architecture and music of great beauty and rich as a compliment to Prince William Augustus, Duke of Gina was blessed to be a part of the Bach-choir in decoration. Music of this era featured contrasts between Cumberland on his victorious return from the Battle of Eisenach during this time. Gina currently teaches over 20 soloists and ensemble, layered melodies and the extensive Culloden. The tune of the chorus See, the Conqu’ring piano and organ student, co-ordinates the instrumental use of trills and other musical ornamentation. Hero Comes has been used as both an Easter and Advent hymn, and was paraphrased for organ by French Romantic tuition program at Our Saviour Lutheran School Aberfoyle Park, and is part of the music leadership at both Aberfoyle Georg Friedrich Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach were composer Alexandre Guilmant. Park and Bridgewater Lutheran churches. Gina is thankful born in Germany during the same year (1685), in towns less to have the opportunity to play for services on two than 200km apart. Handel went on to become a famed Pogson organs from time to time: those at St Martins’ English composer, Bach a prolific composer of Lutheran Lutheran Church Mannum and at Westbourne Park church music. Uniting Church. Tuesday 16th June Movie Medley Organist: Claire Baker About Claire Claire played organ in pop and rock and roll bands as a teenager, but family and career intervened, and she didn’t As an Organist who plays the Town Hall Organ for Program touch a keyboard for nearly 30years. As a professional corporate functions and weddings Claire remarked, “It's Telecommunications Network Design Architect, she 1. 20th Century FOX Intro Fanfare slightly unfortunate that the sound of the pipe organ subsequently volunteered to maintain the electronics of 2. Back to the Future Theme has been typecast and stereotyped with horror movies the WuliTzer Theatre Organ in the Capri Cinema. After or creepy religious themes. The organ is actually a 3. James Bond Theme repairing it one day, someone heard her play while testing. tremendously versatile and expressive instrument. The Their request to play more, re-ignited her passion for 4. Star Wars Medley (Star Wars, Darth Vader's Theme, Walker organ in the Adelaide Town Hall is a particularly playing the organ.Claire plays the Adelaide Town Hall Star Wars reprieve) good example. It has delicious and sweet soft tones, as Organ for Corporate Functions and Weddings and performs well as the power and authority we normally associate 5. Hooray for Hollywood regularly at the Capri theatre to packed audiences of up to with a pipe organ. The Adelaide Town Hall Organ is also 700. A recent highlight was a joint concert with the Band 6. There's No Business Like Show Business unusual in that it is entirely mechanical. When you push a of the SA Police. Claire is passionate about, and is an expert 7. Bach Toccata intro to "He's a Pirate" from Pirates of key, it moves a rod, which pushes a length of wood, which builder of Virtual Pipe Organs. the Caribbean turns a pivot, which nudges a lever, which lets wind into a pipe to make it sing. This happens for every key and pedal. 8. This Is It (Bugs Bunny Theme) It is truly a marvellous mechanical beast. It could even be played with no electricity at all – as long as you had a About the Program couple of strong people to pump the main wind supply! Claire’s program of music for our virtual organ concert And it's really fast. It's speed and sonic character make series is not your traditional line-up of organ music – it is a it suitable for all types of music. It's incredibly versatile; medley of music from some of the greatest movies of all sweet but strong, quiet but boisterous, delicate yet as time. The program has a Theatre Organ music flavour that powerful as a locomotive.” is fun and powerful. Tuesday 30th June Timeless Town Hall Organist: Graham Bell About Graham Graham Bell was born in Adelaide in 1959. Whilst his Program About the Program working life was as a professional botanist, music has 1. “Springtanz” (Spring Dance) from “Terpsichore” When originally asked to perform a “live” Town Hall recital, always been “the other life”. He has sung in choirs since a collection of more than 300 instrumental dances I developed a concept to coincide with History Month in childhood and was drawn to the pipe organ from his arranged by the German composer Michael Praetorius Adelaide, including music composed and performed by earliest recollection. (1571-1621) here re-arranged by contemporary English Adelaide City Organists of past times. organist Alan Wilson. From 1979 until 2010, Graham was Organist and Now we are under rather different circumstances, an 2.