Pipedreams with Michael Barone
Sundays, 8 to 10pm on WXXO-FM 91.5, WXXY 90.3, WXXO-FM/HD1 and online at wxxiclassical.org
Pipedreams, which began production in 1982, remains the only nationally-distributed weekly radio program exploring the art of the pipe organ. Host and senior executive producer Michael Barone has been recognized nationally for his outstanding contributions to the world of organ music.
Michael brought Pipedreams to Rochester in 2009 and again in 2016, recording Pipedreams Live programs featuring students and faculty from the Eastman School of Music in one of the most "remarkably popular and successful weekend organ festivals" ever.
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Max Reger, described as both a conservative and a visionary, looking back to the traditional forms of the 18th century and forward to the harmonic adventures of the 20th, has had his music described as the counterpoint of Bach meets the harmonies of Schoenberg. -
The organ at Royal Albert Hall is a massive beast with 9,999 pipes. Built in 1871, it can erupt with deafening blasts of sound that are capable of making the floor tremble. 20-something organist Anna Lapwood, associate artist of Albert Hall, tames the beast and brings it under her artistic control.
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The Wilhelmy American Flag Glass Pipe Organ, built by Austrian Certified Pipe Organ Builder Xaver Wilhelmy, features glass pipes, the first pipe organ pipes made from glass in the world. This sound sculpture was created as part of a Memorial Proposal to create one working glass pipe organ pipe for each person lost during the tragic events of 9/11, to give each individual a voice.
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Cycles of renewal and rebirth are visible all around us should we open our eyes to them. Like the Easter anthem proclaims, grain rises out of wintery soil - and we'll enjoy music that reflects this rebirth.
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Angela Kraft Cross is just one of several women we'll meet during March on Pipdreams, Sundays at 8pm
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The “bracing virtuosity” (Chicago Classical Review) and clarity of world-traveling recitalist and teacher Isabelle Demers' playing make an enormous impression on both organists and non-organists alike.
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From the Institute for Historic Organs of Oaxaca, Mexico
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The King of Instruments welcomes Christ the King throughout December 2022, Sundays at 8pm
