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St John’s Cathedral will feature “The Three Organists,” the title of organist Chris Nelson’s seventh recital on Sunday, Oct. 12, at 4 p.m, part of St John’s Second Sunday Recital Series.
The recital will feature the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, César Franck and Anton Bruckner.
Nelson, when he isn’t transcribing pieces of music for organ, is a mountaineer who specializes in photographic surveys, from Mt. Spokane to Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.
He said in a press release, “I do these surveys the same way I put an organ recital together, with an eye to preservation and promotion. These composers are treasures from the musical past, and like our wilderness and mountains, are too quickly moving toward endangerment.”
Nelson has transcribed Anton Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony, showing that Bruckner’s symphonic work flowed from the mind and heart of an organist.
The other two pieces on the program include Bach’s “Toccata and Fugue in F Major,” and Franck’s “Fantasie in A Major.”
Nelson is organist and music director at Messiah Lutheran Church in Spokane and is a member of the Spokane Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.
Donations are $10 at the door.
For more information visit the cathedral website or call 838-4277.
