Organ Day Schedule
11:00 AM
"Toccata" & Welcome with Master of Ceremonies, Tyrone Whiting
11:15 AM – 11:30 AM
Photo tour of the Dobson Organ with Organist Doug Backman
11:40 AM – 12:00 PM
Kids play the organ with Organist Doug Backman
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Silent film with live organ accompaniment
- Brett Miller and Best of Broadway: Featuring the Drawings of Al Hirschfeld
- Silent Film: Laurel and Hardy's Liberty
12:30 PM – 12:50 PM
Peter Conte & Rudy Lucente, Organ & Piano duet
- Finzi: Eclogue, Op. 10
- Callahan: Poem
12:50 PM - 1:10 PM
Organ & Instrument Duets: AGO Members (Erik Meyer and flutist Anna Meyer, Tyrone Whiting with Section Leaders of the Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Philadelphia)
1:10 PM – 1:55 PM
Opera Philadelphia, accompanied by Organist Meghan Meloy Ness
- "Praise the Lord" by Florence Price
- "O How Amiable" by David Hurd
- "Ubi Caritas" by David Hurd
- "Song of Hope" by Florence Price
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM
INTERMISSION
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM
Solo Recitals
- Featured Performers, Emily Amos, Dylan David Shaw, & Karen Whitney
3:15 PM – 4:00 PM
Philadelphia Ballet repertoire and artists
- Program rehearsed by Samantha Dunster, assistant artistic director
and Charles Askegard, rehearsal director
- Organist: Peter Richard Conte
See Full Philadelphia Ballet Program and Casting
4:00 PM – 4:45 PM
Solo Recitals: AGO Members
- Rasaan Bourke, Improvisation in the French Style (Doug Backman will provide melody)
- Josh Kraybill, Handel: “Hallelujah Chorus” (transcribed by Josh Kraybill, 2017)
- Luke Saisiunas, Silent Film or Multiple Shorts
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM
Organ Pumps
All scheduled programming and performers are subject to change.