ORGAN CONCERT
Tuesday, June 12, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Church of the Gesu
1210 West Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee
Larry Wheelock, Organ
Gesu Parish presents
Larry Wheelock as featured soloist for our monthly concert in June. Larry will be performing on Gesu’s Schantz pipe organ, which was renovated in 2011 and has 4 manuals, 6 divisions, and 6,804 pipes.
Born in Indiana, Larry began his musical studies at the age of 5 and became a church organist at 14. His teachers have included B. L. Spencer, Daniel Pedtke, Arthur Lawrence, Philip Gehring, and Robert Plimpton He studied music theory and composition with Marilyn M. Green, Katherine Aller, and Richard Wienhorst.
He has served Lutheran churches in Indiana, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and was Minister of Music at St. Michael's Lutheran Church in (Germantown) Philadelphia from 1983 to 1991. Since 1991 he has served as Director of Music Ministries at Kenwood United Methodist Church, adjacent to the campus of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
His compositions have been published by Augsburg Press and Celebrations Unlimited. He currently serves as Dean of the American Guild of Organists -- Milwaukee Chapter.
Mr. Wheelock will play works of Joseph Bullnois, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Edward Elgar, J.S. Bach, Camille Saint-Saëns, William Lloyd-Weber and will close with an improvisation on a submitted theme.
Title: Organ Concert
Date: June 12, 2012
Time: 7:30-9:00 PM
Location: Gesu Church, 1145 W.Wisconsin Ave. Milwaukee, Wi 53233
Organization phone number: 414-288-7101; email:
gesuparish@gmail.com
Admission: Free will offering
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