Home  Reviews  Articles  Calendar  Presenters  Add Event     
Other
CHARMING "BARBER" A MENDO FESTIVAL TRIUMPH
by Pamela Hicks Gailey
Friday, July 21, 2023
Other
JOYFULLY WE SING
by Pamela Hicks Gailey
Thursday, February 23, 2023
Other
SUBDUED PIANISM IN RARE FORTEPIANO RECITAL IN THE RAVEN
by Terry McNeill
Sunday, February 12, 2023
Other
DINOVA PIANISM CHARMS SATED AUDIENCE AT J-B MARIN RECITAL
by Terry McNeill
Sunday, November 20, 2022
Other
CLEARY'S NEW ORLEANS BAND IGNITES PARTY FOR THE GREEN AT SSU
by Terry McNeill
Saturday, September 25, 2021
Other
SIX GUITARISTS IN UNIQUE NAPA RECITAL
by Gary Digman
Sunday, July 25, 2021
Other
STUNNING LINCOLN CENTER CONCERT LAUNCHES FIFTH WEILL SEASON
by Philip Beard
Saturday, October 1, 2016
Other
LATE BEETHOVEN EXPLORED AT MMF CONCERT IN PRESTON HALL
by Paula Mulligan
Thursday, July 21, 2016
Other
ANGUISH AND TRIUMPH IN MENDOCINO FESTIVAL'S BIG TENT
by Kayleen Asbo
Sunday, July 10, 2016
Other
ARCANE ARENSKY TRIO HIGHLIGHTS NAVARRO'S SEASON OPENING CONCERT IN SCHROEDER
by Terry McNeill
Sunday, October 4, 2015
OTHER REVIEW
AGO - Santa Rosa Concert / Friday, September 11, 2009
Harold Julander

Church of the Incarnation Organist Harold Julander

JULANDER LAUNCHES A.G.O. TWILIGHT SERIES

by James Harrod
Friday, September 11, 2009

North Bay music fans had the opportunity Sept. 11 to hear pipe organ virtuosity by Santa Rosa organist Harold Julander, as he presided at the console of the mighty Casavant organ at Church of the Incarnation in downtown Santa Rosa. This well attended twilight concert featured composers of classical organ music from the Baroque to the 20th Century.

Mr. Julander opened the recital playing the Concerto del Signor Meck (Allegro-Adagio-Allegro) by Johann Gottfried Walther (1684-1748), an organ transcription of a Baroque chamber orchestra concerto. Mr. Julander played the concerto with authentic Baroque keyboard touch and with effortless dialogue between the two divisions of the instrument. The delicate registration of the melody and accompaniment of the Adagio was authentic to the Baroque sound, as was the organ plenum used in the opening and closing Allegro.

Courageously passing through a time warp, Mr. Julander resurrected the romantic spirit of Franz Liszt, playing his Evocation a la Chapelle Sixtine. Liszt’s chromatic acrobatics in the d’Allegri et section of the Evocation lifted the audience higher and higher without a stumble. Next came music of Olivier Messiaen with a skilled and sensitive performance of two portions of the L’Ascension Suite:(Alleluias sereins and Transports de joie). Beginning with the quiet flute sound of actual bird calls, typical of Messiaen, the music graduated into a thunderous awakening of nature.

The recital’s closing was “back to Bach” with a fast, flawless playing of the Fugue in D major, BWV 532, followed by standing applause from the large audience.

The twilight organ recitals will continue on the second Friday of each month sponsored jointly by the Church of the Incarnation and the Redwood Empire Chapter of the American Guild of Organists (AGO) and featuring local recitalists.