James Welch organ recital – Harmonies from Heaven: Organ Classics, with Symphonic and Operatic Gems

On Saturday, May 18, at 7:30 p.m., James Welch will present an organ recital at the Edgemont Stake Center, 303 W 3700 N, Provo, Utah (not Edgemont North or Edgemont South Stake).

The program will feature some great organ classics (Bach’s Toccata in D minor, and Boellmann’s Toccata from the Gothic Suite), orchestral works (Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, Mozart’s Symphony No. 39), operatic arias from Puccini’s Turandot and Wagner’s Rienzi, The Holy City, and even a Sousa march about an eclipse.  All are welcome at this concert.

• Toccata in D minor, Johann Sebastian Bach
• Allegro con brio, from Symphony No. 5, Ludwig van Beethoven (arr. Jonathan Scott)
• Adoration (1898), Felix Borowski
• Minuet, from Symphony No. 39, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• The Lost Chord (1888), Sir Arthur Sullivan (arr. Alexander Schreiner)
• Funeral March of a Marionette (1872), Charles Gounod
• Prayer, from Rienzi (1842), Richard Wagner
• Fanfare (1862), Jacques Lemmens
• Nessun dorma, from Turandot (1924), Giacomo Puccini
• Transit of Venus March (1883), John Philip Sousa
• The Holy City (1892), Stephen Adams
• Toccata, from Suite Gothique (1895), Léon Boëllmann