Celebrate the 100th Birthday, legacy, and life of Hugh Allen Wilson (1925-2010), emeritus Music Director and Organist of First Presbyterian church, and emeritus Conductor of the Glens Falls Symphony.

Hugh will be remembered and celebrated in a special concert, featuring organ pieces by Buxtehude, Mozart, Mendelssohn, and more, with orchestral works by Barber, Couperin, Hindemith, Handel, and more!

This concert will feature members of the Glens Falls Symphony, as well as Bryan Kirk, Organist and Music Director of First Presbyterian Church. This concert will be conducted by GFS Music Director Charles Peltz.

*This Performance is a Bonus Concert included with a Season Subscription Purchase!

There is no pre-concert talk at this performance

For more information, contact the GFS: 518.793.1348 or email: info@gfso.org

Program:

Concerto grosso, Op.6, No.11 in A Major

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Andante Larghetto e staccato 

Allegro

Largo E Staccato

Andante

Allegro

Les Barricades Mysterieuses

Francois Couperin (1668-1733)

K. Bryan Kirk, Harpsichord 

Chorale Prelude: Wenn wir in Hochsten Noten Sein, BWV 641

J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

Brandenburg Concerto No.3 in G major, BWV 1048

J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

Allegro

Adagio ma non tanto

Allegro

Intermission

Toccata in F Major, BuxWV 157

Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707)

K. Bryan Kirk, Organ

Acht Syucke, Op. 44, No. 3

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)

Adagio for Strings, Op. 11

Samuel Barber (1910-1981)

In memoriam - Hugh Allen Wilson 

Organ Sonata No.1 in D Minor, Op. 42

Felix-Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911)

III. Final Allegro

K. Bryan Kirk, Organ