Westminster Organ Concert Series


Westminster Presbyterian Church
190 Rugby Road
Charlottesville, Virginia


September 16, 2005 at 8:00P. M.

Barbara Baird & Julia Brown
organ duo



Program


Fantasie in D minor, Op. 87
   Andante
   Allegretto
   Poco Moderato (fugue)


Adolph Friedrich Hesse
(1809-1863)
Contrapunctus XVIII
   from The Art of the Fugue
    Fugue in Four Voices:
      Rectus
      Inversus


Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750)
Contrapunctus XVII
   from The Art of the Fugue
Fugue in Three Voices:
 Rectus
 Inversus

Johann Sebastian Bach
Fugue in d minor
 Quartetto
Johann Christoph Kellner
1736-1803


Prelude and Double Fugue in a minor,
  Op. 49


David Hermann Engel
(1816-1877)

Intermission


Prelude and Fugue in B–Flat Major

Johann Georg Albrechtsberger
(1736–1809)


Organ Fantasia for Two Players,
  Op. 12

Josef Labor
(1842–1924)

Fantasia, Prayer, and Fugue

Johann Heinrich Löffler
(1833–1903)


The Artists


Barbara Baird & Julia Brown Image


Baird and Brown play varied works from Germany, Italy, England, Brazil, and the United States including newly composed works for the Baird/Brown Duo. Their recent programs have received standing ovations. A CD recording of their work was released in July 2004, titled “Organ Works for Two”.

Dr. Barbara Baird has been a member of the University of Oregon music faculty since 1989, teaching organ and harpsichord. She is Director of Music Ministries at First Congregational Church, Eugene, Oregon. An active recitalist since 1971, Baird has performed throughout the United States as well as Europe and Australia. A frequent adjudicator and clinician, she regularly conducts workshops and master classes for keyboardists. Dr. Baird has been a presenter and recitalist at both national and regional conventions of the American Guild of Organists, and for the Organ Historical Society. Baird currently has three CDs available.

Dr. Julia Brown received her M. M. and D. M. A. from Northwestern University, in the class of Wolfgang Rubsam. She has served as president of the Brazilian Association of Organists, and helped organize the Fifth Convention of Latin American Organists, the 3rd Festival of Sacred Music in Sao Paulo, and began a concert series on the historic Cavaillé-Coll organ in Campinas Cathedral. She has recorded several CDs, including works of Buxtehude and the complete works of Scheidemann (currently in progress) on the Naxos label. She has appeared in concert in North and South America and in Europe. She has performed for American Guild of Organists Regional Convention, Latin American Organist Conventions, the International Organ Festival in Uruguay and the International Festival in Juiz de Fora, Brazil, as well as on National Public Radio (U.S.). She is presently the Director of Music at First United Methodist Church in Eugene, Oregon.


Return to Home Page