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HANDEL
AND BACH
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KIMBERLY MARSHALL
ORGAN
.November 9, 2014
2:30 p.m.
ASU Organ Hall

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HANDEL AND BACH

Concerto in B-flat Major, HWV 306
Andante
Largo e piano
Fuga (from Handel's published
organ fugues, Op. 3, no. 3)
Adagio
Bouree

Largo from Xerxes, HWV 40

Concerto in D minor, after Vivaldi, BWV 596
[Allegro]
Grave-Fuga
Largo e spiccato
Allegro

Passacaglia in C Minor, BWV 582

George Frideric Handel
(1685-1759)

G. F. Handel

Johann Sebastian
Bach
(1685-1750)

Kimberly Marshall
maintains an active career as
an organist, performing
regularly in the US and
Europe. Dr. Marshall currently
holds the Patricia and Leonard
Goldman Endowed Professorship in Organ at Arizona State
University. During her
sabbatical last year, she was
invited to play one of the
inaugural concerts on the
Richards-Fowkes organ at St.
George's, Hanover Square,
Handel's parish church. Her
recording of music by Handel
and Bach should be available
online early next year.

NOTES

J. S. Bach

Alexandre Guilmant
Two adaptations of Handel's music:
(1837-1911)
Paraphrase on "See the conqu'ring hero
comes!" from Judas Maccabeus, Op. 90
March "Lift up ye Heads," from Messiah, Op. 15

There are many similarities and differences between the German
baroque giants, G. F. Handel and J. S. Bach. Handel was born 33 days after
Bach in 1985 in the city of Halle, less than 150 miles from Bach' s birthplace
in Eisenach. Yet while Handel traveled widely during his career, with
operatic ties to Hamburg, Italy and London, Bach never left Germany, with
positions in Weimar, Cothen, and Leipzig and trips to Lubeck, Hamburg
and Dresden. While Handel was hailed as a master of music for the stage,
Bach was the liturgical musician par excellence, writing over 200 cantatas,
most for performance within the Lutheran service. Both men were virtuosos
at the organ and acknowledged masters of improvisation. Handel's oeuvre
for organ comprises only 6 published fugues and 18 organ concertos,
whereas Bach composed more than 40 organ fugues and 100 chorale
settings, in addition to numerous preludes and toccatas for the instrument.
This afternoon's program attempts to show the cosmopolitan aspects of both
composers at the organ, including organ concerti and passacaglia settings

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Please join us for our Christmas concerts
and next year's season:
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Saturday, December 6, 2:30 and 5 pm
Sunday, December 7, 5 pm
12th Annual Organ Christmas concert
The glorious music and festively decorated Organ Hall
are sure to get you in the holiday spirit.
Sunday, January 18, 2:30 pm
High meets Low
The lyrical oboe takes its name from the French "Hautbois,"
meaning high wood(wind). ASU professor of oboe
Martin Schuring joins Kimberly Marshall for this duo concert.
Sunday, February 8, 2:30 pm
Prelude to the Dance
University of Arizona organ professor Pamela Decker
performs her own dance-based works alongside pieces
by Bach, Mendelssohn and Widor.
Sunday February 22 2:30 pm
Dancing through the Centuries
Goldman professor of organ Kimberly Marshall
continues the dance theme including some of the