The June 11 evening recital by organist Douglas DeForeest at the Church of the Incarnation in Santa Rosa featured six meditative selections from the compositions of Richard Purvis (1913-1994), the organist of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco from 1947 to 1971.
DeForeest, dean of the Redwood Empire Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, performed these romantic compositions sensitively, contrasting the sonorous solo stops of the church’s French Canadian Casavant organ with lush acco...
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