Jan Kraybill, Josh Jones And Making Music On A Work Of Art

By Dan Margolies,

Published February 24, 2021 at 9:03 AM CST

Organist Jan Kraybill selects works that showcase the organ in different roles, including music by Saint-Saëns, Gounod and Guilmant. We'll also be joined by Josh Jones, principal percussionist with the Kansas City Symphony, who will play Vivaldi on marimba with Jan on harpsichord. Plus, we'll hear Yo-Yo Ma in "Three Meditations" from Leonard Bernstein's Mass.

An agreement with the Kansas City Symphony allows us to share audio for this program up to four weeks after the program's original air date. You can listen to currently available episodes here.

Hosts

Michael Stern, Conductor
Dan Margolies

Guests

Jan Kraybill, Organ Conservator at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

Josh Jones, Principal Percussionist, Kansas City Symphony

Program

Concerto in C Major for Piccolo
by Antonio Vivaldi
Josh Jones, marimba
Live streaming performance, January 2021

Josh Jones with The Kansas City Symphony - January 2021

Funeral March of a Marionette
by Charles Gounod
Jan Kraybill, solo organ
The Orchestral Organ
Reference Recordings, 2019

Symphony No. 1 for Organ and Orchestra
by Alexandre Guilmant
Paul Jacobs, organ
Live Performance, October 2016

Three Meditations from "Mass"
by Leonard Bernstein
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Live performance, March 2018

Symphony No. 3 "Organ"
by Camille Saint-Saëns
Jan Kraybill, organ
Reference Recordings, 2015

You can find music from Jan Kraybill and the Kansas City Symphony at referencerecordings.com.

Organist Jan Kraybill plays the custom-built Julia Irene Kauffman Casavant Organ. The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts may be closed, but the complex organ must be played to keep it in good working order. Kraybill visits the instrument in Helzberg Hall every three weeks. — Organist Jan Kraybill plays the Julia Irene Kauffman Casavant Organ.