Gioioso - Organ Celebration Concert

About the concert
We present a concert showcasing the organ playing a variety of musical styles. Accomplished musicians from across the area to demonstrate how the instrument blends and enhances soloists, ensembles, and choruses. 

This concert marks an important milestone -- the halfway point of our organ restoration and upgrade.

Orange Presbyterian Church (OPC) has long been a vital part of the Orange music community.  

In 2021 Orange Presbyterian Church (OPC) elected to give the sanctuary organ a major overhaul and renovation. Time had taken its toll on the instrument. Parts of the instrument were unplayable, and beyond repair.

The original organ was installed in our old sanctuary (now the Fellowship Hall) in 1915. When the new sanctuary was built in 1973, the organ was dismantled and moved into the choir loft. It was expanded with pieces from other organs to create an impressive instrument of over 1,100 pipes.

Phase One of the project replaced the old console with a Viscount 363DK Classic Organ. This electronic organ, with its system of 26 professional-grade speakers and 99 presets is the instrument you'll be hearing this evening. 

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Free-will donations for funding Phase Two will be greatly appreciated.

This phase includes completely rewiring, refurbishing, and retuning the pipes, replacing the wind chest, and connecting the acoustic pipe organ to the Viscount console. 

When completed, organists can play the electronic instrument, the acoustic organ pipes, or both together! This concert only shows the potential of what this instrument could do.

GIOIOSO! A CELEBRATORY CONCERT
MUSIC FOR ORGAN WITH BRASS, SOLOISTS, AND CHORUS
OCTOBER 27, 2024 2:00 PM
ORANGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
​162 W Main St, Orange, VA 22960

CONCERT PROGRAM
Gioioso! for brass sextet and organ
Charles J. Torian, Jr.
Brass Sextet:  John Harding, Dick Stageberg,  trumpet; Sara Lindgren, French horn; Scott Colley, Steve Sanford, trombone; Tracey Stakem, tuba;
Theresa Torian, organ

Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee
Ludwig van Beethoven, (setting by Joel Raney)
Greg Harris, piano; Theresa Torian, organ

Ave Verum Corpus, K. 618
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Orange Community Chorus; Greg Harris, director; Theresa Torian, organ

Fanfare Prelude on “Old Hundredth”
Louis Bourgeois
Theresa Torian, organ

Pie Jesu from "Requiem"
Charles J. Torian, Jr.
Betsy Smith, soprano; Theresa Torian, organ

Hymn # 1 Holy, Holy, Holy
John B. Dykes
Congregation, Instrumentalists, Theresa Torian, organ

Meditation, Op. 76, No. 6
Cécile Chaminade (arr. by Charles Callahan)
Heather Welch, clarinet, Theresa Torian, organ

National Hymn for Brass & Organ
George W. Warren
Brass Sextet; Theresa Torian, organ

Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140
Johann Sebastian Bach 
Alice Layman, organ

When the Saints Go Marching In
Spiritual (arr. by John Rutter)
Heather Welch, clarinet; Steve Sanford, trombone; Theresa Torian, piano

Introit and Kyrie from "Requiem"
Charles J. Torian, Jr.
Orange Community Chorus; Greg Harris, director; Theresa Torian, organ

Toccata from Symphony for Organ No. 5 in F minor, Op. 42, No. 1
Charles-Marie Widor 
Alice Layman, organ