Oberlin College and Conservatory

David S. Boe Organ Dedication Concert

Tuesday, February 16, 2016 at 8:00pm to 10:00pm

Fairchild Chapel, Bosworth Hall
50 West Lorain Street, Oberlin, OH 44074

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David S. Boe, emeritus professor of organ and former dean of the conservatory, and his wife Sigrid Boe, gift their Brombaugh organ to Oberlin Conservatory.

This dedication concert features Assistant Professor of Organ Jonathan Moyer, joined by Oberlin faculty, students, alumni, and guest artists.

 

Program:

 

Voluntary VIII, Op. 6                  John Stanley         (1712-86)

         Largo-Vivace

 

Ground                  Arthur Phillips         (1605-95)

 

Noël provençal                  Michel Corrette         (1707-95)

 

Kleines harmonisches Labyrinth, BWV 591                  Johann Sebastian Bach         (1685-1750)

 

Toccata nona                  Johann Ernst Eberlin         (1702-62)

 

Toccata in C                  Matthias Weckmann         (1616-74)

 

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Geist und Seele wird verwirret, BWV 35         Bach 

      Prima parte 

         Concerto 

         Aria: Geist und Seele wird verwirret 

         Recitativo: Ich wundre mich 

         Aria: Gott hat alles wohlgemacht! 

      Seconda parte 

         Sinfonia 

         Recitativo: Ach, starker Gott, laß mich 

         Aria: Ich wünsche nur bei Gott zu leben

   

    Joseph Schlesinger, alto        Marilyn McDonald, violin I        Ruiqi Ren, violin II        Hanna Santisi, viola

    David Ellis, cello        Susan Yelanjian, bass        Kathryn Montoya, oboe I        Eduardo Sepulveda, oboe II

    Debra Nagy, taille        Webb Wiggins, harpsichord        Jonathan Moyer, organ

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David Boe joined the Oberlin faculty in 1962. He was appointed associate dean in 1974 and became dean of the conservatory in 1976, a position he held until mid-1990 while continuing to perform and teach. He earned a BA degree magna cum laude at St. Olaf College and was a University Fellow at Syracuse University, where he studied organ with Arthur Poister and earned an MMus degree. On a Fulbright grant he continued his studies with Helmut Walcha at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Frankfurt, Germany. Boe has appeared in concert and on the radio throughout Europe and the United States and has recorded on the Gasparo and Veritas labels. He appeared in the 1987 documentary The Wind at One's Fingertips, broadcast nationally on PBS.

Oberlin Conservatory established its first endowed professorship named after a current or emeritus professor—the David Boe Chair in Organ Studies—in 2011 with a $2 million gift from the Wyncote Foundation. 

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Jonathan William Moyer AD '12 maintains a dynamic career as an organist, pianist, singer, and conductor. He has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan, including such venues as Washington National Cathedral, the Musashino Civic Cultural Hall in Tokyo, and at the Dvôrák Spring Festival in Prague and Vienna. He is a member of the critically acclaimed early music vocal ensemble Quire Cleveland.

At the Church of the Covenant in Cleveland, Moyer oversees a music program consisting of a professional and amateur choir, children’s youth and handbell choirs, one of Cleveland’s largest pipe organs (E.M. Skinner/Aeolian Skinner/Holtkamp), the Newberry baroque organ (Richards Fowkes), and a 47-bell Dutch carillon.

In 2008, Moyer performed the complete organ works of Olivier Messiaen in four recitals at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore, celebrating the centenary of the composer's birth and the renovation of the cathedral's organ. Also that year, he received second prize in the Sixth International Musashino Organ Competition in Tokyo, Japan. In 2005, he was one of four finalists in the St. Albans International Organ Competition. He has served on the executive committee of the Cleveland Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.

Hear Moyer's recent live performances on the C.B. Fisk Organ, Opus 116, in Oberlin's Finney Chapel.

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