On Sunday May 12, PAGO co-sponsored an organ concert featuring internationally recognized conductor, organist and teacher, James O'Donnell at the Anglican Parish of St. Mark in Portland.
In his 23-year tenure as Organist and Master of Choristers at Westminster Abbey he directed music at great national occasions including the 2022 funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Mr. O'Donnell now holds the post of Professor in the Practice of Organ at Yale School of Music and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music in New Haven, CT.
O'Donnell played works by JS Bach, F. Tunder, Orlando Gibbons, W. Byrd and Nicolas de Grigny on the church's three manual tracker-action instrument made by the Werner Bosch firm of Kassell, Germany and installed in 1966.
Also featured in the program was the 7 rank Dutch cabinet organ, the work of an unknown builder, circa 1790. It was rebuilt by Frans W. M. Bosman, Portland in 1982.
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