Gordon Turk presents a program of "classics to present day," drawing on the clarity, subtlety and brilliance of the impressive Reuter pipe organ. It will include music of Handel, Bach, Sigfried Karg-Elert, Horatio Parker and Eugene Gigout. No admission charge.
For this program of "Dueling Organs," Gordon Turk will be joined by colleague Michael Stairs, organist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and they will play the two pipe organs in this historic church, antiphonally and together. The organ in the rear gallery was built in 1855 by Jardine, an American organ building company, and the organ […]
Good Friday, the choir and soloists of St. Mary's will present Rossini's vocal/choral masterpiece - Stabat Mater. This powerful composition is a very operatic setting of the sacred poetry that describes the emotions of Mary, the mother of Jesus, as she stands beside the cross. The intense demands made upon the soloists and instruments, cause […]
This small, charming church building contains some of the most unusual and famous stained-glass windows in the US. They were designed and created by French artists Marc Chagall and Henri Matisse. This concert will celebrate the tenth anniversary of this French-styled pipe organ, and the music of the concert will reflect this. Gordon Turk had […]
Gordon plays a special concert on the legendary Wanamaker Organ in the Grand Court at Macy's, in downtown Philadelphia. This immense instrument has over thirty-three thousand pipes, and Gordon intends to use at least thirty two thousand nine hundred of them in this concert.
Gordon Turk will play Durufle's beautiful Requiem with orchestra, choir and soloists of Church of the Good Samaritan under the direction of Richard Zuch. Durufle has based this music on Gregorian Chant, but with the more contemporary harmonies of lush Impressionism, and he creates a colorful blending of the orchestra of strings, harp and trumpets […]
A concert to benefit the Neptune Food Bank. Gordon Turk with baritone Norman Garrett. A small organ for a large cause.
