Musica Organi
Westminster Presbyterian Church, Knoxville, Tennessee
Thursday, April 30, 2004, 8:00 p.m.
| Toccata in D Minor, BuxWV 155 | Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707) | |
| Music for the Church Year | ||
| Advent | ||
| Freu dich sehr, meine Seele | Anton Heiller (1923-1979) | |
| Vorspiel | ||
| Choral | ||
| Nachspiel | ||
| Christmas | ||
| Von Himmel hoch da komm ich her (4 versus) | Heinrich Scheidemann (1595-1663) | |
| Epiphany | ||
| Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern | Johann Philipp Kirnberger (1721-1783) | |
| Lent | ||
| O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden | Anton Heiller | |
| Vorspiel | ||
| Zwischenspiel | ||
| Choral | ||
| Easter | ||
| Christ lag in Todesbanden | Georg Böhm (1661-1733) | |
| Pentecost | ||
| Komm, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott | Jan Janca (b. 1933) | |
| Trinity | ||
| Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr | Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621) | |
| Intermission | ||
| Three Noels | Jean-François Dandrieu (1682-1738) | |
| A minuit fut fait un réveil | ||
| Noël pour l'amour de Marie | ||
| Noël de Saintonge | ||
| From the Neumeister Chorales | Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) | |
| Wir Christenleut, BWV 1090 | ||
| Herr Gott, nun schleuss den Himmel auf, BWV 1092 | ||
| Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 1100 | ||
| Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut, BWV 1114 | ||
| Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542 | J. S. Bach |
Craig Cramer is Professor of Organ at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. He holds degrees from Westminster Choir College and the Eastman School of Music, where he earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Organ Performance and was also awarded the prestigious Performer's Certificate in Organ. He studied with Russell Saunders, William Hays, James Drake, and David Boe, and in Paris with André Marchal.
Cramer maintains an active recital career: he has performed in forty-two of the United States as well as in Canada, and his annual European concert tours have taken him to Belgium, the Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Poland, Scotland, and Switzerland. He has played for conventions of the American Guild of Organists as well as for many AGO chapters across the country. Recently he performed the complete organ works of Bach in eighteen concerts, using a distinguished set of mechanical-action organs in the state of Indiana.
In 1998 he was Guest Artistic Director of the Redlands Organ Festival in Redlands, California. He was a featured recitalist for the International Symposium at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, in April 1999 to inaugurate the new organ by Paul Fritts.
Craig Cramer's performances are frequently heard on the nationally syndicated program "Pipedreams" on National Public Radio. Among his recordings are two recently released CDs of music by Johann Gottfried Walther on the Naxos label.