St. John’s Organ Society is pleased to announce the 32nd Summer Recital Series on Maine’s largest 19th-Century mechanical-action pipe organ, E. & G. G. Hook’s magnificent Opus 288, at St. John’s Roman Catholic Church in Bangor. These hour-long recitals occur on Thursday evenings at 7:30. St. John’s Catholic Church is located at 207 York Street in Bangor. Admission is free, but donations are appreciated.
The August 7 concert features Leo Abbott from Boston, MA. Abbott is performing music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Camille Saint-Saëns, and George E. Whiting.
Leo Abbott is a graduate of the St. Paul Choir School, Cambridge, and the Chaloff School of Music, Boston. His teachers include Theodore Marier, George Faxon, Clarence Watters and Flor Peeters, in organ; Naji Hakim in improvisation, and Julius Chaloff in piano. He holds the Fellowship and ChoirMaster Certificates of the American Guild of Organists, has one First Prize in several national and international competitions, and was a finalist at the "Grand Prix de Chartres" in 1984. After nearly 33 years, he retired from the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston, and was named Music Director and Organist Emeritus. Mr. Abbott has performed for conventions of the American Guild of Organists and the Organ Historical Society, and in France, Belgium, Great Britain, Ireland, and across the United States.
For more information visit our website:
https://hookopus288.org/.
You may also like the following events from St. John's Organ Society:
- This Thursday, 31st July, 07:30 pm, Organ Concert July 31 Features Laurent Jochum (Paris, France) in Bangor
- Next month, 14th August, 07:30 pm, Organ Concert August 14 Features Edith Yam (Rochester, NY) in Bangor
- Next month, 28th August, 07:30 pm, Concert August 28 Features Kevin Birch, organ, and Anatole Wieck, violin in Bangor
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