{"id":5705,"date":"2018-07-11T18:39:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T23:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/?p=5705"},"modified":"2023-11-26T08:19:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T13:19:10","slug":"evening-inspirations-organ-concert-on-august-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/?p=5705","title":{"rendered":"“Evening Inspirations” – Organ Concert with Alan Saggerson
Sunday, August 12, 2018 at 5:00pm"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"On Sunday, August 12 at 5:00, please join us for “Evening Inspirations,” a program of organ music performed by Alan Saggerson\u00a0of\u00a0St. Mary with All Souls Church, West Hampstead (Kilburn), London, England.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr. Saggerson contacted St. John’s last March about playing our “Mighty McManis Organ” during a tour he is taking this summer in the United States. \u00a0At St. Mary with All Souls, Mr. Saggerson plays\u00a0the 2 pipe organs, directs the voluntary choir and the St. Mary\u2019s Singers, and presides over the annual St. Mary\u2019s concert programs organized in conjunction with the Royal Academy of Music.<\/p>\n

The concert is free and open to the public. \u00a0Free-will donations will be accepted to support the St. John’s Organ Fund.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The program will include:<\/p>\n

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    1. Toccata: Creator of the Stars of Night (Pietro Yon)<\/li>\n
    2. Vesper Voluntaries (Edward Elgar)<\/li>\n
    3. Komm Heiliger Geist (BWV 651) (J.S. Bach)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/li>\n
    4. \u201cEventide\u201d & \u201cCroft\u2019s 136th\u00a0<\/sup>(Hubert Parry)<\/li>\n
    5. Dancing in the Twilight (Eric Coates)<\/li>\n
    6. Quick March: \u201cCalling all workers\u201d (Eric Coates)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      More about Alan Saggerson
      \n<\/strong>Alan was educated at Hertford College, Oxford. His organ tutors include Ann Elise Smoot (USA) and Paul Bryan (RNCM, now Ely Cathedral). After 20 years as an organist at St. James\u2019s Parish Church in Islington, north London he moved in 2008 to St. Mary with All Souls, West Hampstead (Kilburn) where as well as playing the 2 pipe organs he directs the voluntary choir and the St. Mary\u2019s Singers and presides over the annual St. Mary\u2019s concert programs organized in conjunction with the Royal Academy of Music. \"\"He is a trustee of the Royal College of Organists St. Giles Academy organ project at St. Giles Cripplegate at London\u2019s Barbican Centre and has participated in the rebuilding and refubishment of several pipe organs in and around London (including St. Mary\u2019s 1880 Bishop organ and the installation of the 1966 Walker gallery organ at St. Mary\u2019s in 2014 \u2013 a gift from Downing College Cambridge with which St. Mary\u2019s has an historic connection). He is the founder and Director of the Islington Improvisation Workshops focusing on improvisation within the liturgy. He has toured annually in the Netherlands and France in each of the last 20 years as well as being a regular recitalist in and around London & throughout the UK. In 2014 he featured as an anniversary recitalist for the RCO\u2019s 150th anniversary celebrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      On Sunday, August 12 at 5:00, please join us for “Evening Inspirations,” a program of organ music performed by Alan Saggerson\u00a0of\u00a0St. Mary with All Souls Church, West Hampstead (Kilburn), London, England. Read More <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[402,6,400],"tags":[383,106,384,104,105],"class_list":["post-5705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-concerts","category-news","category-organ","tag-alan-saggerson","tag-episcopal","tag-organ-concert","tag-st-johns","tag-waterbury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12840,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5705\/revisions\/12840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}