MUSIC

Rice University Shepherd School of Music presents a Guest Artist Recital,  featuring Ken Cowan, organist. Sunday, January 30 at 7pm. Edythe Bates Old Recital Hall and Grand Organ - Alice Pratt Brown Hall.

Ken Cowan serves as Assistant Professor of Organ at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ.

“Cowan was at his most dazzling in transcriptions of Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream Overture and Liszt's Mephisto Waltz No. 1. Sounds shifted, swelled and diminished in apparently limitless variety, all while Cowan dispatched dizzying arrays of notes.”
Scott Cantrell, The Dallas Morning News

"It is difficult to find enough adjectives to describe Ken Cowan's playing. He is simply one of the best anywhere!"
The Diapason

“Mr. Cowan’s technical mastery, expressivity, musicality, and sheer brilliance thrilled the convention audience.”
The American Organist

Scheduled Program:

Allegro Vivace, from Symphonie V, Op. 42 No. 1
Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937)

The Soul of the Lake, Op. 96 No. 1 from Pastels from the Lake of Constance
Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933)

Fantasia in F minor, K. 608
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Variations sur un Noël, Op. 20
Marcel Dupré (1886-1971)

Canon in E major, Op. 56, No. 3
Canon in A- flat major, Op. 56, No. 4
Fugue on B-A-C-H, Op. 60 No. 5
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

Fantasy on Ad nos, ad salutarem undam
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

Photo by Jim Cunningham.