NEXT CONCERT
Thursday Evening, 1 July 2010 at 7:00 p.m.
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium, Chattanooga, Tennessee
The Chattanooga Music Club
Chattanooga, Tennessee
NOTE: FREDERICK HOHMAN'S APPEARANCE
IS BEING RE-SCHEDULED FOR SUMMER, 2011.
This is the venue and the organ (4-manual Austin) where Edwin Lemare - the world's greatest organist of his time (1880-1920) - once played regularly during the mid 1920s.
When preparing for this event in March, 2010, Frederick Hohman uncovered deficient winding in this instrument, and found that the planned program could not be rendered well when the organ is in its current condition, due to the technical and physical demands that will be made upon the organ by the program. The organ committee at the venue has acknowledged, with concurrence of a qualified, independent organ technician, that the winding system of the organ at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Auditorium is deficient in many respects at present, but that remedies to the problem, while available, will take up to a year to implement. Therefore, the sponsors and artist have agreed to postpone and reschedule FREDERICK HOHMAN's appearance at this venue in SUMMER, 2011, at a date after restorative repairs to the winding system will have been made.
An alternate artist has been procured to appear at the 1 July 2010 event.
Friday Evening, 10 September 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
First Church of Christ
The Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival and Competition USA
Wethersfield, Connecticut
I believe this shall be my 13th consecutive year serving as a Festival Artist and Competition Adjudicator for the Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival and Competition USA. The weekend opens with a festival concert, featuring the superb choir led by First Church of Chirst music director and organist, David Spicer. Joining me in the festival program this year will be Joyce Jones, a renown concert organist and instructor from Waco, Texas, and Charles Callahan, renown composer and organist from Orwell, Vermont. Dr. Jones, Dr. Callahan and I shall each be featured in a brief solo concert segment in the program.
The High School Division final competition is held on Saturday morning, 11 September 2010 from 9 a.m. to noon, and the Young Professional Division competitioni is held from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday afternoon, 11 September 2010. Awards are presented in a brief Sunday afternoon ceremony on 12 September 2010, which is to be followed by a masterclass involving all three jurors and six finalists. - FH
Sunday Afternoon, 20 March 2011 at 4:00 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church
Elkhart, Indiana
First Presbyterian of Elkhart has a fine 3-manual pipe organ, originally by Schantz (late 1950s) and just recently restored and updated. I've accepted the kind invitation of the music committee to appear as a recitalist on their ongoing organ recital series, which is very generously funded, allowing the concerts to be open to the public free of charge. This concert will have an added personal meaning for me, because it was in this very sanctuary where my spouse and I were wed some 17 years ago! I've been asked to play music of J. S. Bach (after all Bach's birthday - March 21 - is just the day after the concert date) and a few of my own original compositions. It is likely that at least one of my own works on the program shall be given a premiere on this occasion.- FH
