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REXBURG,
Idaho - Brigham Young University-Idaho will host an organ festival to
celebrate the completion of the 80-rank Ruffatti organ in the Barrus
Concert Hall of the Snow Center for the Performing Arts Friday, Oct. 15, at
7:30 p.m. The concert, sponsored jointly by the BYU-Idaho Music Department
and the Eliza R. Snow Society, will be free and will not be ticketed.
A
wide variety of musicians will perform, BYU-Idaho faculty members Darwin
Wolford, Daniel Kerr, Ted Ashton and Rebecca Parkinson. Senior organ
student Jason Gunnell will be featured and the Faculty Brass Quintet and
Collegiate Singers will perform with organ accompaniment as well.
This
event celebrates the completion and refurbishing of the Ruffatti organ.
Made in Italy,
the Ruffatti has four keyboards and 80 ranks, or sets, of pipes. Wolford
says, it is the finest organ in Idaho,
and the finest owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
outside of Temple Square.
Collegiate
Singers will perform two numbers with organ, “Te Deum” by
Benjamin Britain and an arrangement of “Come, Come, Ye Saints”
by Wolford. The Faculty Brass Quintet will also perform a number with organ
accompaniment.
Ashton,
the coordinator of violin studies at BYU-Idaho, will perform
“Vocalise” by Rachmaninoff with organ accompaniment.
This,
the second event of the inaugural series, will be one of Wolford’s
last performances. The first was Tabernacle organist Clay Christiansen.
Wolford will be replaced by Daniel Kerr in January as the director of organ
studies, when he retires.
Wolford’s
final performance will be a faculty concert on Tuesday, Nov. 2, the day of
the presidential elections.
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