Summertime Organ Concert at All Souls’ …and the livin’ is not just easy.&nbsp;It’s jivey and bumpy and cool - Baroque, European, American-built style.&nbsp;It’s being served after Coffee on Sunday, June 28, 2026, at 12;30 pm. &nbsp; Organist (Interim-Interim) Margaret (Meg) Irwin-Brandon, invites you to bend your ear to the Preludes and Postludes of the four Sundays in June and engage with them once again in a program which is just that - a reprise of music selected from major 17th and 18th century composers from Austria, France, Germany and Italy (one each Sunday)- and RATE THEM according to your preference in a “competition.”&nbsp;Your personal comments are optional, and encouraged as well. A raffle for those who “rate” the selections will present a winner with a very special prize “for two”.&nbsp; The concert is “gratis” so feel free to bring your neighbors and friends, and children also.&nbsp;The Fritts-Richards organ is one of a kind, totally unique, built and designed to please the ear and the spirit of the listener.&nbsp; For you:&nbsp;Make time this month to engage more deeply in “advanced listening” using the fabulous resources of the internet to explore the lives of the composers, listen to different performances…delve into historic organ-building! Be in dialogue with the organ in worship…ramp up your own singing! And get ready to meet your new organist with enthusiasm!&nbsp; Performer, Meg has spent most Sundays on an organ bench for many decades, is a specialist on keyboard instruments before 1800, but also engages with music of the avant-garde and jazz. She has performed on harpsichord and organ in concerts in Asia, Europe, S and N America, following organ studies in Germany on a Fulbright grant. A “musical collaborator” she is Director Emerita of Arcadia Players,&nbsp;a period- instrument orchestra in Massachutts, now in its 29th year. Meg lives in Desert Hot Springs where she occasionally resurrects “Desert Baroque, a concert series.&nbsp;

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Summertime Organ Concert at All Souls’

One of America’s leading concert organists, David Higgs is also Chair of the Organ Department at the Eastman School of Music. He performs extensively throughout the United States and abroad, and has inaugurated many important new instruments including St. Stephan’s Cathedral, Vienna; the Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas; St. Albans Cathedral, England; St. Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny, Ireland; and the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York City. His performances with numerous ensembles have included the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Orpheus Ensemble, Chanticleer, and the Empire Brass. For more than twenty years the San Francisco Symphony featured his holiday organ recitals at Davies Symphony Hall, and now the Los Angeles Philharmonic/Hollywood Bowl continues that tradition each year at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

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