Bruce Adami - Organ Recital, August 19th, 2020

LIVE ORGAN RECITAL FROM THE METHUEN MEMORIAL MUSIC HALL
METHUEN, MASSACHUSETTS, USA
19 AUGUST 2020 7:30 PM (EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME)

Welcome to a live Organ Recital played by Bruce Adami
on “The Great Organ” at the Methuen Memorial Music Hall
E.F. Walker and Company, Opus 200, 1863
Aeolian-Skinner Organ Company, Opus 1103, 1947

2020 Summer Recital Series
in Memory of Edward J. Sampson, Jr.
September 21, 1942 - January 2, 2020

Recital sponsored by Campbell Steward

PROGRAM

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fugue in C major (BWV 547)

Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
Werde munter, mein Gemüte
Chorale with 4 Variations

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Sonata #1 in F minor, Op. 65, No. 1
Allegro moderato e serioso
Adagio
Andante-recitativo
Allegro assai vivace

Brief Intermission

Calvin Hampton (1938-1984)
Suite No. 1
Toccata

Malcolm Davey (1915 - 1992)
Andante Tranquillo

Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)
Chorale Variations on Veni Creator

Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
Twenty-Four Pieces in Free Style
11. Divertissement

Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911)
Sonata #1 in D minor, Op. 42
Finale



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Bruce Adami has held the position of Organist at Christ Episcopal Church, Exeter, New Hampshire since 2007. From 1984 until 2004 he was Director of Music and Organist at Brookside Congregational Church, (UCC) in Manchester, NH. There he directed several choirs and supervised the renovations of the church’s two pipe organs. Adami holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Organ Performance from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music where he studied organ with Haskell Thomson and piano with Miles Mauney and Marvin Blickenstaff. He also studied organ with John Hofmann and Erick Brunner and has taken postgraduate courses at Westminster Choir College. His several years of work with George Bozeman and Company as a pipe organ builder underlies his knowledge of the workings of the instrument. He serves on the Executive Committee of the New Hampshire Chapter of the American Guild of Organists and was previously the chapter’s Treasurer and Dean. He is a faculty member of the Young Organist Collaborative in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.