Alistair Nelson, Assistant Organist and Choirmaster On Sunday, October 26th at 4 p.m. Alistair Nelson, Assistant Organist and Choirmaster at the Cathedral of the Incarnation, presented an organ recital. The program included the classical pieces Prelude and Fugue in G major, BWV541 by J.S. Bach, Landliche Szene, Op. 132, no. 3by Marco Erico Bossi, Suite Breve by Jean Langlais, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV56 by J.S. Bach, Danse Macabre b Camille Saint-Saens (arranged by Lemare) and Fantasia in F minor, K.608 by W.A. Mozart.

The second half of the program had a Halloween theme. The Toccata and Fugue in D minor is a Halloween favorite. Danse Macabre is a programmatic piece describing a night scene in which the clock strikes midnight, death starts playing his violin, and out come the skeletons to dance until the cock crows at dawn. The Mozart Fantasia was written to be played by a mechanical organ at a waxwork mausoleum in Vienna (kind of an 18th century Ripley's Believe It Or Not).

Alistair Nelson grew up in Australia, receiving his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Sydney and winning the Open Section of the Sydney Organ Competition in 2005. Alistair recently graduated from Yale University with a Master of Music degree. While at Yale he was an Organ Scholar and Interim Organist at Christ Church, New Haven, Connecticut.

For further information about the Episcopal Cathedral of the Incarnation or the music program, please visit the website at www.incarnationgc.org or call the church office at 746-2955.