Organ Study Tour

Topic: Tour Calendar June 22 to July 1, 2009

University of Alabama's 2009 Organ Study Tour!

This is your invitation to spend an exciting 10 days on tour with organ professor Dr. Faythe Freese and Witte Travel & Tours’ Keith Cole. Planned for June 22 to July 1, 2009, our tour will focus on historic and contemporary instruments in London and other cities within easy reach. Instruments currently under consideration include the following:

London

• St. Anne’s Limehouse – Gray & Davison
• St. Dominic’s R.C. Priory – Willis
• St. Joseph’s R.C. Church – Hill
• Union Chapel Compton Terrace – Willis
• St. John’s Duncan Terrace – Walker
• St. James Clerkenwell – England
• St. Augustine Kilburn – Willis
• Holy Trinity – Walker
• St. Giles-in-the-Fields – Holborn, Gray & Davison
• St. Martin-in-the-Fields – Walker
• Royal Albert Hall – Willis
• Royal Festival Hall – Harrison
• Sacred Heart R.C. Church – Walker
• St. Paul’s Cathedral – Willis
• Southwark Cathedral – Lewis
• Westminster R.C. Cathedral – Willis

Outside London

• Bath: Bath Abbey – Klais
• Birmingham: Birmingham Symphony Hall – Klais
• Coventry: Coventry Cathedral – Harrison
• Oxford: Oxford Town Hall – Willis / New College – Grant, Degans & Bradbeer / St. John’s College Chapel – Aubin
• Salisbury: Salisbury Cathedral – Willis

Our tour will also include time to enjoy London, the “Queen of Cities,” with its many world-class museums and galleries, unrivaled theatre, exquisite gardens, and its fantastic shopping. The 2009 organ study tour is the third in a series of distinctive tours designed and led by Faythe and Keith for organists, students, and organ enthusiasts. On the 2005 journey, Faythe’s and Keith’s group visited numerous Baroque and Romantic instruments in former East Germany, including the Berliner Dom’s Sauer organ; Silbermann organs at Trinity Cathedral in Dresden, the Pfarrkirche in Crostau, and Rotha’s St. George; the Woehl organ at Thomaskirche in Leipzig; St. Wenzel-Kirche’s (Naumburg) Hildebrandt organ; and the Ladegast organ at Merseburg’s Dom. Immersing themselves in all things French, participants on the 2007 tour were thrilled with visits to organs in Chartres, Poitiers, Versailles, and of course, the magnificent French capital city, Paris. Among the highlights of the 2007 list were the 1787 Cliquot at Cathedral St-Pierre in Poitiers, the 1868 Cavaille-Col at Eglise de la Trinite, and the 1781 Cliquot at Eglise Saint Sulpice. In addition to the marvelous organs, the group was treated to a champagne reception at Chateau de Versailles!

Program Leaders

Dr. Faythe Freese is an Associate Professor of Music at the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa) School of Music. She holds degrees in organ performance and church music from Indiana University. Her organ teachers have included Marilyn Keiser, Robert Rayfield, William Eifrig and Phillip Gehring. As a Fulbright scholar and an Indiana University/Kiel Ausstausch Programme participant, she studied the works of Jean Langlais with the composer in France, and the works of Max Reger with his former student, Heinz Wunderlich in Germany. Dr. Freese is in demand as a recitalist throughout the United States. In addition to continuing her concert career, she recruits and teaches undergraduate and graduate organ students majoring in Organ Performance at the U of A School of Music.

Keith Cole holds a Master of Divinity degree from Garret-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois; a Master of Church Music degree from Scarritt Graduate School in Nashville, Tennesee; and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music and Theatre from Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio. He has over 15 years of choral conducting experience and currently conducts a children’s choir at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Nashville. Keith has directed several groups on tour in Europe with Witte Travel & Tours and he joined the Witte staff in 2003.


A descriptive itinerary brochure on the 2009 tour will be available in June 2008. To reserve your copy, download the .pdf and complete and return the coupon or contact...

Dr. Faythe Freese ~ faythefreese@earthlink.net ~ (205) 348-3329

Keith Cole ~ keithc@wittetravel.com ~ (888) 868-7717

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