Organ Recital by John Courter at Berea College Feb. 25

The renovated Holtkamp pipe organ at Berea College will be featured in an organ recital on Sunday, Feb. 25 at 3 p.m. The concert will be held in Gray Auditorium of Presser Music Building on the Berea campus.

John Courter, Professor of Music and College Organist, will perform music by composers from Germany, France and America.

The year 2007 marks an anniversary year for these composers: Dietrich Buxtehude (300 years), Jean Langlais (100 years), and Gian-Carlo Menotti (d. 2007). Other composers on the program are Johann Sebastian Bach, Cesar Franck, Ernst Friedrich Richter, Samuel Barber and John Courter; the latter two are represented by organ pieces based on familiar hymn tunes.

The Holtkamp Organ Company of Cleveland, builders of the original organ in 1970, enlarged and rescaled the organ for the renovated Presser Music Building in 2003-04. All are invited to this free concert to hear the impressive sounds of this addition to Berea’s musical community.