Photos - February 10, 2003

Updated 08 Mar 2010

Music for Organ and Instruments, February 10, 2003

St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Santa Monica

Photos by Thomas H. McCage, Jr. Click a photo to see it enlarged.

A concert of music for organ and instruments was given at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Santa Monica. Organists were chapter members Mary Lee Mistretta, Edward Murray, Thomas Neenan, Craig Phillips (program coordinator), and Philip Smith, with flutist Sheila Zimmermann, bassoonist William Wood, and trumpeters Chris Price and David Searfoss. The program was in memory of organbuilder Larry Abbott who died in 2001, and was played on an organ built by the firm of Abbott and Sieker. Larry was a long-time member of this chapter and a founding member of the American Institute of Organbuilders. At the preceding dinner, Pete Sieker spoke about the history of their firm, which led the revival of tracker organ building on the West Coast in the early 1960s and built or rebuilt over 100 organs.

	Back row: David Searfoss, Sheila Zimmermann, Mary Lee Mistretta, William Wood, Craig Phillips, Thomas Neenan. Front row: Edward Murray, Philip Smith.
	Sheila Zimmermann and Mary Lee Mistretta played a concerto for flute and keyboard by Johann Quantz.
	Edward Murray (without a date for the evening, as he pointed out), played music of Bach.
	William Wood and Craig Phillips performed Craig's Pastorale for bassoon and organ (1999).
	Chris Price and Philip Smith closed the program with an improbable set of variations on a theme of Jeremiah Clarke for trumpet and organ by Stanley Weiner.
	Our gracious hosts for the evening were Pastor James Boline and Barbara Hoffman, organist and director of music.
	Abbott and Sieker organ, 1974, 2 manuals, 15 ranks, mechanical action.