On March 9 at 7PM Richard Frey performed on the Konzelman Pipe Organ. This was the first solo recital of the second year of the Grace Concert Series.
Richard E. Frey is a native of Bethlehem, PA. He holds degrees from Westminster Choir College, Boston University, and Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He served churches in Binghamton, NY, Wayne, PA, and for over 30 years at the Ridgewood United Methodist Church from 1972-2003. Since July of 2003 he has served as Minister of Music at Trinity United Church of Christ in Hanover, PA, a church of 1200 members with 12 choirs.
He has given recitals at St. Patrick’s Cathedral and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, and the Cadet Chapel at West Point. In 1981 he served as organist for the national convention of the National Council of Churches. In 1986-87, he gave benefit recitals around the country, raising $10,000 for Bread for the World. In 1994 and 1999 he accompanied Peter, Paul, and Mary at the Ocean Grove, NJ, Great Auditorium.
He has made 14 recordings, six of them of organ music. As a composer, he has 26 works published. He is married to Susan Dotterer Frey, a native of Lamar, PA, and also a graduate of Westminster Choir College. The Freys have 3 children.
His program ranged from Bach’s “Toccata and Fugue in D minor” to contemporary composers Gordon Young, George Shearing and himself.
Program
Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
George F. Handel: Thanks Be to Thee
Dietrich Buxtehude: Chorale Prelude—Nun Bitten Wir
and Prelude, Fugue and Chaconne
Richard E. Frey: Three Trumpet Tunes for Today— i. Trumpet Procession
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ii.Trumpet Pastorale iii. Trumpet Jubilation
Josef Rheinberger: Vision
Theodore Dubois: Toccata
INTERMISSION
Gordon Young : Prelude in Classic Style
Flor Peeters: Aria from Twelve Character Pieces for Organ
Jehan Alain: Litanies
Three Jazz Settings: Amazing Grace – arr. George Shearing, There Is a Balm in Gilead
and My Lord What a Morning – arr. Johannes Matthias Michel
Alexandre Guilmant : Finale from Sonata No. 1
Bach-Toccatta
Handel: Thanks
Frey: Three Trumpet Tunes
Alain: Litanies
Guilmant: Finale
