Performing Tuesday, June 21 at 8:15 - 9:00, and 9:30 - 10:15 PM, St. Paul's United Methodist Church
Mary Preston is the Resident Organist and Principal/Lay Family Chair with the Dallas Symphony. She also serves as Organist and Choirmaster at St. John’s Episcopal Church and School in Dallas. Mary has been presented in recital throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia to audiences responding with enthusiasm and excitement. She has been a featured artist for numerous American Guild of Organists national and regional conventions. Along with performing concerti and other major works with the Dallas Symphony, she has performed with the L.A. Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Denver, East Texas and others orchestras. She performed the world premiere of Poul Ruders’ Organ Symphony No. 4 and the Guilmant and Saint-Saëns organ symphonies with the DSO, and continues to perform and record with the Dallas Wind Symphony as well. Her recordings are produced on the Reference, Gothic and Naxos labels, and are met with rave reviews. She and her husband Joe have been married for forty-five years.
The Houston Chamber Choir
Robert Simpson, Founder and Artistic Director
Mary Preston, organ
The Storm has Wrapped the Sky Alexander Dargomysky
(1813–1869)
The Golden Cloud Pytor Illyich Tchaikovsky
(1840–1893)
Kangaroo Sergie Ekimov
(b. 1974)
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O Clap Your Hands Orlando Gibbons
(1583–1625)
Tristis est anima mea Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa
(1560–1613)
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Even Song John LaMontaine
organ solo (1920–2013)
*Earthquake Zachary Wadsworth
SATB chorus, soprano solo, and organ (b. 1983)
Jauchz, Erd’, und Himmel, juble! (Rejoice, Earth and Heaven, Rejoice) Max Reger
organ solo (1873–1916)
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Stars Ēriks Ešenvalds
(b. 1977)
Deep River Spiritual
arr. Roy Ringwald
(1910–1995)
Pinball Wizard Pete Townshend
(b. 1945)
arr. A. P. Jackman
(1946–2003)
*Houston AGO 2016 Commission