On Monday night Augsut 12 at 7:30 p.m., the International Organ Festival continues with a concert by Isabelle Demers. Known as the diminutive dynamo of the organ world, she is head of the organ program at Baylor University, Texas, and stands as one of North America’s most virtuosic organists. Demers has enraptured listeners world-wide with spell-binding performances and has enchanted standing-room-only audiences who call her back to the stage with “Demers fever.” Concert Program:
J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Organ Concerto in a minor after Vivaldi BWV 593
Allegro
Adagio senza pedale a due claviere
Allegro
Jason Roberts (b. 1980) – Two Scherzos
Whimsical
Mischievous
Oskar Lindberg (1887-1955) – Gammal Fäbodpsalm
Charles Tournemire (1870-1939) – Choral Improvisation sur le Victimae Paschali Laudes
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) – Allegro con brio from Symphony #5 op. 67 in c minor, trans. Demers
Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813-1888)
Douze études pour les pieds seulement
Fughetta
Adagio
Moderato
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) – Three Movements from Petrushka, trans. Demers
Russian Dance
Petrushka’s room
The Shrovetide fair