Music + Arts

Patrick Kreeger Organ Recital

  • Audio for this sermon will be available on Monday.

Visit our Sanctuary for an inspiring selection of stirring music played by our very own Dr. Patrick Kreeger, Associate Organist of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, on our renowned Mighty Austin organ. Selections include:

-Elfrida Andrée’s Organ Symphony in B minor

-Zsolt Gardonyi’s “Mozart Changes” (1995)

-Dieterich Buxtehude’s Chaconne in E minor, BuxWV 160

-Fela Sowande’s “K’a Mura” (1935)

-Joseph Jongen’s Sonata Eroica

Elfrida Andrée was a Swedish composer, and her Organ Symphony is a fantastic work. The Hungarian composer Zsolt Gardonyi’s piece, “Mozart Changes,” is a jazzy take on a melody by Mozart, Fela Sowande was a Nigerian organ composer and Joseph Jongen was a Belgian composer, whose Sonata Eroica is, as the title suggests, heroic. It is fitting for a performance as Jongen turns 150 this year.