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The American Connection

Performers
Jonathan Dimmock, organ
Biography

Jonathan Dimmock is Principal Organist of the Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco, where he gives weekly organ demonstrations and lectures for the 750 people who show up every week. He is also organist for the San Francisco Symphony. He has made more than 50 recordings (both ensemble and solo) and enjoys touring at home and abroad. Dimmock has toured on six continents and has a Grammy Award with the San Francisco Symphony. He was also the first - and only - American Organ Scholar at Westminster Abbey, and has served three American Cathedrals: St John the Divine (New York), St Mark’s (Minneapolis), and Grace Cathedral (San Francisco). Jonathan loves to perform and looks forward to sharing his excitement about organ music his audience in Tullamore.

Programme

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Prelude and Fugue in C, BWV 547

Bert Matter (b.1936)

Von Gott will ich nicht lassen

Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988)

Paean (1966)

Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)

Magnificat primi toni

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)

Sonata 1

Mäßig schnell

Sehr langsam

Phantasie, frei

Ruhig bewegt

Johann Kaspar Kerll (1627-1693)

Passacaglia in D Minor

Aaron Copland (1900-1990), arr. J. Dimmock

Rodeo

Hoe Down