Flentrop 50th Anniversary Celebrations | Alumni Recital

Watch the webcast  – streamed live at concert time.

This recital features alumni from 50 years of Conservatory organ studies in Warner Concert Hall. This recital is a part of the 50th Anniversary celebrations of the Van Cleef Family Flentrop Organ.

Installed in 1974, this landmark instrument has inspired generations of organists and musicians from around the world and continues to play a central role in Oberlin's amazing collection of instruments, used on a daily basis for teaching, performing, and practice. For more information about the history of this instrument please read The American Organist magazine article.

Join us for this special weekend of events. Further details at oberlin.edu/organ. Alumni and organ enthusiasts should register via this form. Registration deadline is Friday, October 25.  Accommodations should be booked on your own. 

Program:

Johann Sebastian Bach Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 531

Georg Muffat Toccata septima

John Redford Selections from The Mulliner Book

Dieterich Buxtehude Praeludium in E Minor, BuxWV 142

Johann Ernst Eberlin Toccata Sexta and Fugue in F Major

Nicolas de Grigny From Livre d’Orgue

Ethel Smyth Prelude and Fugue on ‘O Traurigkeit’

Johann Sebastian Bach Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 545

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Conservatory visitors are asked to enter the complex through either Bibbins Hall’s east entrance (off College Place, across from the Oberlin College Bookstore) or the Conservatory Lounge’s west entrance (off S. Professor St., adjacent to the Conservatory Pond). All other entrances will be closed to the public.