Afternoon seminar – Mon Oct 13, 2025 – Haga Church – Visionary Organ Music through Time

Göteborg International Organ Festival October 8-19, 2025 A World of Tactile Passion and New Sounds – for All! www.organacademy.se/programoversikt Afternoon seminar Monday, October 13, 2025 14:30–16:45 Haga Church (Admission free) Visionary Organ Music through Time Annette Richards and David Yearsley, moderators and presenters Isabelle Demers, Kimberly Marshall, William Porter, presenters Across its long history, the organ has been a vehicle for visionary music and ideas. A musical, visual, technological, wonder, the organ invites experiment, imagination, and radical daring. In this seminar Isabelle Demers, Kimberly Marshall, William Porter, Annette Richards, and David Yearsley take us from the theories of 17th-century polymath Athanasius Kircher to the music of contemporary absurdist composer Mauricio Kagel, from the extravagant American Wanamaker organ of the early 20th century to the experimental, global, hyperorgan of today; how might Bach’s music accompany visions of ecological crisis? What is the relation between the “Visionary” and the “Innovative,” and what might “clarity of vision” mean in today’s organ culture? Göteborg International Organ Festival October 8-19, 2025 A World of Tactile Passion and New Sounds – for All! www.organacademy.se/programoversikt