Thomas Baugh plays Fisk Organ at Old West Church, May 16

Acclaimed organist Thomas Baugh (Roanoke VA) presents a solo recital on Old West's magnificent C.B. Fisk Organ on Friday, May 16 at 8 PM.   Old West Church is located at 131 Cambridge Street in downtown Boston.  This recital is the final concert in this season's Old West International Series sponsored by the Old West Organ Society.  Old West's Fisk Organ, Op. 55, was built by Charles B Fisk of Gloucester, MA and dedicated on Easter Sunday, 1971.  The world-renowned instrument features 29 stops, 46 ranks and over 2300 pipes.

Mr. Baugh's program features works spanning three centuries, rich in color and depth including
•  Mendelssohn  Prelude & Fugue in C Minor, Op. 37, No. 1
•  Orlando Gibbons    Fantasia No. 10 in A Minor
•  Johann Sebastian Bach   Trio Sonata IV in E Minor, BWV 528, and
    Toccata & Fugue in F, BWV 540
•  Gabriel Fauré   Pelléas et Mélisande, Suite, Op. 80
•  Max Reger   Fantasia on the Chorale 'Wachet auf! ruft uns die Stimme', Op. 52, No. 2

Mr. Baugh is Director of Music of Christ Episcopal Church (Roanoke, VA) where he directs two choirs, parish instrumentalists, bell-ringers, manages a concert series, and plays a C. B. Fisk organ installed under his guidance in 2004.  He  is a graduate of the University of Central Oklahoma and received the Master of Music degree from Westminster Choir College; he has studied organ with John Mueller, Bruce Stevens, Gerre Hancock, and in Lyon with Louis Robilliard. Mr. Baugh's CD recording played on Christ Church's Fisk Organ, French Eclat in the Roanoke Valley, is available from Raven Recordings.

Admission to the concert is $20, $15 for OWOS members, and just $10 for students and seniors.  Validated (free) parking at the Charles River Garage at 175 Cambridge St is available for this series.   For further information, please visit our web page, www.oldwestorgansociety.org or call 617-739-1340.

Founded in 1974, the Old West Organ Society is an association of music lovers, performers, and scholars committed to the preservation, protection, and promotion through performance and pedagogy of the C. B. Fisk organ, Opus 55 (1971), located in the Old West Church, Boston. This instrument is one of the finest organs built in the United States in the twentieth century, a master work of its designer and builder, Charles Brenton Fisk (1925-1983).