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The Interlochen Collection: Interlochen pipe dreams

Interlochen's Dendrinos Chapel and Recital Hall (2025)
Interlochen Center for the Arts
Interlochen's Dendrinos Chapel and Recital Hall (2025)

Hear decades of performances featuring Interlochen student and faculty musicians playing a variety of organs on the Interlochen campus.

Performances in this episode include a world premiere for the dedication of the C. D. Greenleaf Memorial Organ Building at Interlochen's National Music Camp and another feature for the dedication of the Model Grand 100 organ (a gift of the Hammond Organ Foundation).

Archival recordings featured in this episode

Don Gillis, Concerto for Organ and Band: first movement (world premiere performance)
George C. Wilson conducting the High School Symphonic Band with Richard Ellsasser, organ (faculty)
July 30, 1960

Johann Sebastian Bach, Prelude and Fugue in E-flat Major ("St. Anne")
Emily Amos, organ (student)
January 2019 (organ studio recital), Dendrinos Chapel

George Frederic Handel, Concerto no. 2 in B-flat major for organ and orchestra
Thor Johnson conducting the Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra with Robert Clark, organ (faculty)
May 28, 1966, Jessie V. Stone Building

Charles-Marie Widor, Symphony no. 6 (excerpt)
Thomas Bara, organ
July 30, 1989, Dendrinos Chapel

Camille Saint-Saens, Symphony No. 3 in C minor, "Organ" (excerpt)
Matthew Hazelwood conducting the Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra with Colin Fowler, organ (student)
January 16, 1998, Corson Auditorium

L to R: George C. Wilson, Don Gillis and Richard Ellsasser in Kresge Auditorium (1960)
Interlochen Center for the Arts
L to R: George C. Wilson, Don Gillis and Richard Ellsasser in Kresge Auditorium (1960)

The archival recordings heard on this program are available thanks in part to The Association for Recorded Sound Collections' Classical Music Preservation Grant, generous support from IPR listeners and the Hamer D. and Phyllis C. Shafer Foundation.

Dr. Amanda Sewell is IPR's music director.