Organ virtuoso Robert Fertitta will be playing an organ concert of Bach, Clérambault, Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns, Brahms, Vierne and Fauré at the First Presbyterian Church of Bloomsburg at 7:30 PM on Friday, April 29th, 2010.
Mr. Fertitta received his musical education at Hunter College, Queens College, and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. He also studied at l'Ecoles d'Art Americaines in Fountainbleau, France, where he was a student of the legendary Nadia Boulanger, herself a student of Gabriel Fauré. Mr. Fertitta is now retired after thirty years of teaching at Purchase College, but still plays concerts from time to time.
Mr. Fertitta's program:
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault
G Minor Suite
Johann Sebastian Bach
Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier
Nun Komm, der Heiden Heiland
Fantasie in G major
Louis Vierne
Clair de Lune (from Pieces de Fantaisie)
Gabriel Fauré
Nocturne No. 6 in D Flat Major [piano]
Camille Saint-Saëns
Prelude du Deluge
Two of the Sept Improvisations, Op. 150
Johannes Brahms
2 Chorale Preludes, from Op. 122
- Mein Jesu, der du mich
- O Gott, du frommer Gott
2 Intermezzos [piano]
- C Sharp Minor, Op. 117 No. 3
- A Major, Op. 118 No. 2
Felix Mendelssohn
Sonata No. 3 in A Major
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