Music at St. Paul’s presents celebrated concert organist Scott Hanoian performing 19th and
20th century masterworks on St. Paul’s Casavant organ. Mr. Hanoian’s program
includes music by Felix Mendelssohn, Jean Langlais, Charles Marie Widor, César Frank, Louis
Vierne, and Herbert Howells.
The concert takes place at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 305 W. Seventh at Pine Street, on Friday, Feb. 19 at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets are $15 at the door; $5 for students. For reservations and more information, contact Music at St. Paul’s at 423-266-8195 or visit their website www.stpaulschatt.org.
Mr. Hanoian is organist and director of music at Christ Church in Grosse Pointe, Mi, where he is also conductor and music director of the Oakland Choral Society and the University Musical Society Choral Union, which appears frequently with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
Formerly, Mr. Hanoian was the assistant organist and assistant director of music at Washington National Cathedral where he played for many services, including the funerals of Presidents Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford.
He has performed throughout the US and internationally in evensongs and concerts at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, Wells Cathedral, St. Alban’s Abbey, St. George’s Chapel in Windsor, St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, Notre Dame Cathedral, La Madeleine, Chartres Cathedral, St. Maximin, and St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
Keith Reas, music director at St. Paul’s, describes the church’s 1984 Casavant organ as “the
ideal instrument to bring out the colors and sonorities in the music of the great French masters
Franck, Widor and Vierne.”
Program for the concert:
Fanfare (Psalm 81:1-3), John Cook
Andante Sostenuto from Symphonie Gothique, Charles Marie Widor
Choral No. 2 in B minor, César Franck
Hymne d’Actions des Graces “Te Deum,” Jean Langlais
Prelude and Fugue in G major, Felix Mendelssohn
Psalm Prelude (Psalm 34:6), Herbert Howells
In thee is gladness, Dale Wood
Carillon de Westminster, Louis Vierne