AFTERNOON SEMINAR
Seminars are open to registered participants of the Organ Festival.
Day passes are available for 550 SEK.
14:15 - A short introduction (in Swedish)
14:30 - Visionary Organ Music through Time
Moderators and Presenters: Annette Richards and David Yearsley
Presenters: Isabelle Demers and William Porter
Across its long history, the organ has been a vehicle for visionary music and ideas. A musical, visual, technological, wonder, the organ invites experiment, imagination, and radical daring. In this seminar Isabelle Demers, William Porter, Annette Richards, and David Yearsley take us from the theories of 17th-century polymath Athanasius Kircher to the music of contemporary absurdist composer Mauricio Kagel, from the extravagant American Wanamaker organ of the early 20th-century to the experimental, global, hyperorgan of today; how might Bach’s music accompany visions of ecological crisis? What is the relation between the “Visionary” and the “Innovative,” and what might “clarity of vision” mean in today’s organ culture?
16:30 - A glimpse of SONORA.
Presenters: Eleanor Smith-Guido, Fredrik Tobin-Dodd and Paul Peeters
Göteborg International Organ Festival
October 8-19, 2025
A World of Tactile Passion and New Sounds – for All!
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