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Whether you are a first time visitor or a seasoned participant, this website is designed to provide you important information on the musical life of the Church of the Covenant.

You can find schedules, uploaded scores, MP3 recordings and more. Just click on the ensemble in which you are interested.  The site is constantly being updated, so if you can't find what you need just send me an email.

Our aim is to stay more in touch with you in order to create a more fulfilling musical experience for you at the Church of the Covenant!

Jonathan W. Moyer
Organist and Director of Music

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Fourth Annual Organ Marathon
Sunday, March 17, 2013


“Music from Many Lands”
Celebrating the diversity of organs and repertoire from around the world

12:30 pm

The Chancel Organ

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Fantasie und Fuge über den Choral “Ad nos, ad salutarem undam”
aus der Oper “Der Prophet” von Meyerbeer

Jonathan W. Moyer
The Church of the Covenant
                                                      
1:15 pm

The Newberry Organ
 
Philip Glass, arr. by Michael Riesman (b. 1937)
Satyagraha, Act III – Conclusion

I come into being age after age and take a visible shape and move a man with men for the protection of good, thrusting the evil back;
and setting virtue on her seat again.
(Words from the Bhagavad-Gita, sung in the opera
by the character Mohandas K. Ghandi)

Timothy Robson
Case Western Reserve University

The Chancel Organ

John Weaver (b.1937)
Passacaglia on a theme of Dunstable

Jarred Sorauf
Cleveland Institute of Music

Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
Berceuse, from 24 Pieces in Free Style

Louis Vierne (1870-1937)

Carillon de Westminster from Pièces de Fantaisie

Timothy Robson
Case Western Reserve University

1:45 pm

The Chancel Organ

Alec Rowley (1892-1958)
Benedictus

Percy Whitlock (1903-1946)
Pastorale from Seven Sketches on Verses from the Psalms

                Herbert Howells (1892-1983)              

Psalm-Prelude I

Barbara MacGregor
Professor Emerita of Music
The University of Akron

2:00 pm

The Newberry Organ

Dieterich Buxtehude (c.1637-1707)
Passacaglia in d minor, BuxWV 161

Hugo Distler (1908-1942)
Variations on “Wo Gott zu Haus nit gibt sein Gunst”

Dieterich Buxtehude
Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, BuxWV 178

Hugo Distler
Variations on “Frisch auf, gut G’sell, lass rummer gahn”

Dieterich Buxtehude
Toccata in F, BuxWV 156

Brian Wentzel
First Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lorain, Ohio

2:30 pm

The Chancel Organ

Joseph Jongen (1873-1953)
Choral, Op. 37, No. 4

Jean Langlais (1907-1991) 
Chant de Paix

Benjamin Carr (1769-1831)
Variations to The Sicilian Hymn

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Prelude and Fugue in G Major

  James P. Riggs
Plymouth Church, UCC, Shaker Heights, Ohio

3:00 pm

The Chancel Organ

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 545

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Sonata in f minor, Op. 65, No. 1
I. Allegro moderato e serioso

Matthew Grittner
Baldwin Wallace University

The Chancel Organ

Jean Langlais (1907-1991)
Hymne d'actions de grâces “Te Deum”
from Trois Paraphrases grégoriennes, Op 5

César Franck (1822-1890)
Choral No. 3 in a minor

Chad Pittman
Baldwin Wallace University

3:30 pm

The Chancel Organ

Jean Langlais (1907-1991)
Suite Médiévale, Op. 55
V. Acclamations

Richard Gray
Oberlin College

    David Conte (b.1955)
Soliloquy

  Duane Soubirous
Oberlin College

Jeanne Demessieux  (1921-1968)
Te Deum, op. 11

  Nicholas Capozzoli
Oberlin College

The Newberry Organ

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck  (1562-1621)
Mein junges leben hat ein End

Jessica Park
Oberlin College

The Chancel Organ

Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
24 Pièces de Fantaisie, Deuxième Suite, Op. 53
 VI. Toccata

Jillian Gardner
Oberlin College

The Newberry Organ

Dieterich Buxtehude (ca1637-1707)
Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 223

John Kearin
Oberlin College

The Chancel Organ

Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
Symphony III in F# minor, Op. 28 (1911)
IV. Adagio

  Mitchell Miller
Oberlin College

Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)
Choral varié sur le theme du “Veni Creator” Op. 4

Sanggil Travis Gu
Oberlin College

The Newberry Organ

Georg Böhm (1661-1733)
Partite super “Freu dich sehr, O meine Seele”

Matthew Buller
Oberlin College

The Chancel Organ

César Franck (1822-1890)
Prélude, Fugue et Variation, Op. 18

Adam Gruber

Oberlin College

Charles-Marie Widor (1822-1890)
Symphony V in F minor, Op. 42, No. 1 (1879)
I. Allegro vivace

Donald VerKuilen
Oberlin College

The Newberry Organ

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Fantasia sopra “Komm, Heiliger Geist, Herr Gott,” BWV 651

Wesley Hall
Oberlin College

The Chancel Organ

Jean Langlais (1907-1991)
Sonate en Trio (1967)

  Katelyn Emerson
Oberlin College

                                   Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)                                  
Suite pour orgue, Op. 5
III. Toccata

Alcee Chriss
Oberlin College
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