Friday, March 04, 2011

Brown to perform mid-Lent organ recital

Akron Organist J. Curtis Brown, a former Beacon Journal reporter who lives in Highland Square, will present an organ recital for Mid-Lent meditation at 4 p.m., Sunday, April 3, 2011 (Mid-Lent) at New Life Episcopal Church, 13118 Church Ave. NW, Uniontown, Ohio. (330) 699-3554.

The program includes quieter organ works by Antonio Vivaldi, J. S. Bach, Franz Liszt, Cesar Franck, Jean Langlais, George Oldroyd, Healey Willan, Gordon Young and Dale Wood. A reception will follow the recital. Brown will perform on the church's Rodgers Organ in the historic country church setting of New Life Episcopal.

In addition to duties as organist/choirmaster at New Life, Brown, one of the senior organists in the region, is a teacher of piano and organ and studied at Oberlin and Baldwin-Wallace conservatories as well as with the faculty from the University of Akron in his high school years.

Convenient directions may be found on the church's web page

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