Michael Dirk offers a concert to celebrate Adrian Koppejan’s Opus 20 turning 20 years at Good Shepherd Catholic Church.
(pre concert pipe-chamber projected slide-show- prepared by the Royal Canadian College of Organists – Vancouver Center)
Concert Prelude: Sinfonia from Cantata No 29 – JS Bach/arr Dupre (1731)
Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir (We thank you, God, we thank you) – Psalm 75
(based on Bach’s Violin Partita No 3)
Opening hymn – All Creatures of our God and King – St Francis of Assisi/Psalm148/Friedrich Spee (1225/1623)
Tribute to the Dutch origins of the commissioner and organ builder:
Ballo del Granduca – Petr Sweelinck (1589)
Tribute to the inaugural concert October, 1995 (Darryl Nixon, organist)
Prelude and Fugue in F – Darryl Nixon (1995)
<<Stella Maris Choir: Freedom Trilogy – Paul Halley (1994)>>
Tribute to Fr Galvon and Fr Dion
Variations sur «Nous chanterons pour toi, Seigneur» (“The Old Hundredth”) – Denis Bedard (1995)
Closing Hymn – Now Thank We All Our God – Rinkark/Crüger (1636/1647)
Concert Postlude – Carillon de Westminster – Louis Vierne (1927)