Name: A Bite from the Big Apple
Start: 2018-08-02T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2018-08-02T21:30:00+01:00
Location: St. Paul's Cathedral

A Bite from the Big Apple

Music Department of St Paul's Cathedral

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The music of America and beyond, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the American Memorial Chapel at St Paul’s Cathedral
 
Thursday 2nd August at 7.00 pm
A Bite from the Big Apple 
Stephen Tharp (Organ)
 
Variations on ROUEN                                           George Baker
Intermezzo in A (Op.118, No 2)                              Johannes Brahms (trans. S. Tharp)
Messe de la Pentecôte                                         Olivier Messiaen
Larghetto from Serenade for Strings (Op. 20)       Edward Elgar (trans. C.H. Trevor)
Totentanz                                                             Franz Liszt (trans. S. Tharp)
 
An exciting opportunity to hear acclaimed New York City virtuoso Stephen Tharp in concert at the mighty Grand Organ of St Paul’s.  Hailed as “the best organist in America” (The Diapason), Tharp brings a formidable programme to London, with music from his home country, Brahms and Elgar at their poetic best, the wind and fire of Messiaen’s landmark Messe de la Pentecôte, and concluding with Liszt’s epic Totentanz.
 
Main sponsor: Katten Muchin Rosenman
With additional support from Coppa Club and Grange Hotels
 
Doors open: 1 hour before performance.
Concessions: 60 years and above; 18 years or younger; full-time student.

St. Paul's Cathedral

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