Sunday, January 15, 2012 5:15 PM
Organ Recital: John Cannon
John Cannon
Guest organist John Cannon from Fort Collins, Colorado, plays the Cathedral’s organ. $10 suggested donation
Program
Toccata, Adagio et Fuga in C, BWV 564
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Ave Maria von Arcadelt, S.659
Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
Litanies, JA 119
Jehan Alain (1911–1940)
Chorale Prelude on “Eventide”
T. Tertius Noble (1867–1953)
Dix Pièces pour orgue
V. Andante Religioso en forme de Canon
Eugéne Gigout (1844–1925)
Variations and Fugue on “America”
Max Reger (1873–1916)
About John Cannon
From 2003 through 2007, John Cannon was the Assistant University Organist for the University of the South, playing services at the School of Theology and the University Service at All Saints. Cannon travelled to England with the University Choir, once in 2005 to Wells Cathedral, and once in 2007 to York Minster. He has been featured on two CDs while at Sewanee. He was the only assistant organist in the history of the University of the South to serve four years and to accompany the University Choir on tour in England twice.
From 2007 to the present, Cannon has lived in Fort Collins, Colorado. He has produced a CD recording of the Marcusssen Organ at First United Methodist Church, and a CD on the Hauptwerk Virtual Organ, a computer organ simulator. In the summer of 2009, Cannon competed in the Luxembourg organ competition, Organs without Borders. Cannon has travelled around the United States playing recitals in many churches and cathedrals. On November 5, 2010, Cannon premiered an original composition by David Briggs based on the hymn tune Lobe den Herren, o meine Seele at the Cathedral of St. John, Jacksonville, Florida. In 2011, Cannon was a semi-finalist in the Rodgers Organ Competition.