Celebrity Organ Series ft. Gail Archer

Lewis & Clark College Music Department

Friday, September 27, 2024 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)

Agnes Flanagan Chapel at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR, United States

$20 ($10 senior/alumni/LC employee/alumni/non-LC student; LC students free)

Gail Archer, organ

Johann Sebastian Bach — Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BWV 548
Johann Sebastian Bach — An Wasserflüßen Babylon, BWV 653
Johannes Brahms — O Welt, ich muss dich lassen, Op. 122, No. 3
Viktor Goncharenko — Fantasia
Svitlana Ostrova — Chacona
Mykola Kolessa — Passacaglia
Nadia Boulanger — Three Improvisations for Organ
Jeanne Demessieux — Te Deum, Op. 11

Lewis & Clark Department of Music welcomes Gail Archer to campus for an evening performance on the Casavant Organ in the Agnes Flanagan Chapel.

Join us for our 7th annual Celebrity Organ Series performance featuring guest performer, Gail Archer on Friday, September 27, 2024 at 7:30pm.

Ms. Archer will be performing on Lewis & Clark's Casavant Frères organ, which is a 66-stop organ suspended from the ceiling, and the world’s only circular pipe organ. The organ was dedicated on Easter Sunday, 1971, and has brought many world-renowned musicians to the Agnes Flanagan Chapel.

Performing works by Bach, Brahms, Nadia Boulanger, Jeanne Demessieux, and Ukrainian composers Viktor Goncharenko, Svitlana Ostrova, and Mykola Kolessa. You won't want to miss this performance! Tickets are on sale online and at the door one hour before the concert, via cash or check.

Join us on Saturday, September 28, 2024 at 10am as Ms. Archer presents a FREE Organ Lecture on the history and characteristics of Ukrainian and Eastern European organ music in the Chapel balcony. The lecture will be hosted by the Portland Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, and is free to attend! More information: https://www.lclark.edu/calendars/events/event/360154-organ-lecture-ft-gail-archer