The Delius Society presents Michael Stairs

Enjoy Sunday organ concerts and be dazzled by the magnificent sounds of the recently restored 10,010-pipe Longwood Organ.

Michael Stairs is the Organist for the Philadelphia Orchestra and has held the Buck Chair in Music at The Haverford School in Haverford, PA.

Sunday, May 6, 2012 at 2:30 pm
The Ballroom

Tickets

This performance is free with Gardens admission. First-come, first-served seating.

Program

Nigel Ogden
New Era

Percy Grainger
Country Gardens, arr. Keedy

Percy Grainger
The Nightingale and The Two Sisters, arr. Perna

Frederick Delius
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, arr. Stairs

Frederick Delius
La Calinda (from Koanga), arr. Stairs

Edward Elgar
Salut d'Amour, arr. Lemare

Nigel Ogden
Saints on a Spree

Nigel Ogden
Acacia Avenue (from An Art Deco 'Three Piece' Suite)

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Scenes from an Imaginary Ballet: No. 1, arr. Swinnen

Eric Coates
The Dam Busters

More about Michael Stairs

Michael Stairs enjoyed serving the Church of St. Asaph in Bala-Cynwyd for thirteen years and the Church of the Redeemer in Bryn Mawr for twenty-five. He is Organist Emeritus at Redeemer and continues to teach four levels of music theory at The Haverford School, where there seems to be an endless supply of very talented young singers and scholars. The fifty voice Glee Club performed the Mozart Requiem last season with girls from the Agnes Irwin, Baldwin and Brearley Schools. His select vocal ensemble, The Notables, completed a successful concert tour of Copenhagen and Stockholm in June 2010.

Ricardo Muti appointed Mr. Stairs to be the organist for The Philadelphia Orchestra in 1985, and this has led to solo performances in Carnegie Hall and Suntory Hall (Tokyo). As a member of The Philadelphia Organ Quartet, this group appeared last year to packed houses in Dallas and Ocean City NJ. Solo organ concert concerts and church organ dedications over these past three years include Guilford CT, Pompano Beach FL, Boone IA, Lake Worth FL, Belle Meade NJ, Miami Springs FL, and Cocoa Beach FL. Mr. Stairs has made several recordings on the famous Longwood Gardens organ, including an all-Delius album called "Paradise Garden."

More about The Longwood Organ

The organ is composed of 10,010 pipes divided into 146 ranks, making it one of the largest Aeolian organs ever constructed. Read more about The Longwood Organ.

See more upcoming Organ Series performances.

View Longwood's 2011-2012 Performance Series Schedule.