Organ & Voice Recital
April 29, 2010 - 8:00pm
- Thursday, April 29, 2010
- Old Cabell Hall
- 8:00pm
- Free
On Thursday, April 29, 2010, the McIntire Department of Music will present music department alumna Ginny Chilton and soprano faculty member Lily Hsieh in a program of music from late 19th- and early 20th-century France. The featured organ work will be Charles Marie Widor’s Symphony No. 5, concluding with its famous Toccata. Vocal works will include the “Pie Jesu” from the Fauré Requiem, a little-known Ave Maria by Widor himself, Gounod’s Ave Maria based on Bach’s C-major Prelude, Franck’s La Processione, and other pieces.
ABOUT THE ORGAN
Old Cabell Hall on the Central Grounds of the University Virginia boasts one of the earliest E. M. Skinner organ to survive in original condition and in its original site. The three-manual instrument was installed in 1906, less than a decade after the construction of Cabell Hall, and was given a thorough renovation by the Thompson-Allen firm of New Haven, Connecticut, in 1983.