A Recital for Corpus Christi

Last year an organist friend of mine presented what I somewhat derisively called a "Eucharistic Piety Concert". I suppose he'll take some satisfaction in seeing that I am now doing the same, this upcoming June 2nd (which is the Feast of Corpus Christi, observed). So as not to bore the audience too terribly by playing only organ music, I have invited a very talented soprano friend of mine, a Miss Katie B., to join me for some selections. You are, dear reader, as ever, most heartily invited.

"O Sacred Banquet": A Recital for the Feast of Corpus Christi
4:30pm Sunday, June 2nd
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Dixon, Illinois

• J.S. Bach (1685-1750): Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 532
  
• Mode V: Adoro te devote
  
• Gerald Near (b. 1942): Prelude and Four Variations on "Adoro te devote"
  
• César Franck (1822-1890): Panis angelicus, Op. 12, Mvt. 5
  
• Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992): Le banquet céleste
  
• Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904): "God Is My Shepherd", Op. 99, No. 4
  
• Harold Darke (1888-1976): Meditation on "Brother James' Air"
  
• Mode V: O sacrum convivium
  
• Louis Vierne (1870-1937): Carillon, Op. 31, No. 21