New Thing- Organ Concert at St. David's with guest organist Michael Stairs
Inspiration: St. David's The Art of Faith Committee
Time: 30 minuets (I had to leave early)
Bottom Line: Beautiful!
Reflection: Today we had a great organ concert at Church that I was able to catch half of before heading back to work. It was wonderful and here is the description of the performance and the organist, Michael Stairs:
Michael Stairs was born in Milo, Maine and began studying piano in
Presque Isle at age ten. At Westminister Choir College he played for the
300-voice Symphonic Choir under the batons of great conductors such as
Stokowski and Bernstein. He then went on to earn the coveted Artist's
Diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music, studying organ with
Alexander McCurdy and piano with Vladimir Sokoloff. Michael taught
Upper School Music at the The Haverford School, where he was awarded the
first Grace and Mahlon Buck Chair in the Performing Arts. Ricardo Muti
appointed Stairs to do the organ work for the Philadelphia Orchestra in
1985. He has since been a featured soloist with the ensemble in
various locations ranging from New York's Carnegie Hall to Tokyo's
Suntory Hall. Maestro Christoph Eschenbach featured Michael in several
concerts on Verizon Hall's new Dobson organ. Stairs has recorded
several albums at the famed Longwood Gardens Ballroom organ. 
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