David Enlow
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In June, the renowned Victoria Bach Festival featured a concert of organ music played by David Enlow. The concert was played on an AG3200 augmented with several ranks of pipes by Russell Franklin of Franklin Pipe Organs. The concert was presented free of charge to the public by Franklin Pipe Organs and Ahlborn-Galanti Organs, as a gift to the musical community and to encourage people to hear the organ in concert.
The program included three movements of Widor's Sixth Symphony, Bach's Prelude and Fugue in E-flat, and, since this year's central offering of the festival was Mendelssohn's Elijah, organ music of Mendelssohn. The audience broke out into rhythmic applause during the first encore, 'The Yellow Rose of Texas', which was followed by Mendelssohn's Allegro Vivace from the first sonata. A reception followed.
The Victoria Bach Festival was founded in 1975, and regularly receives national attention for its varied and lively programming, which is especially notable since Victoria is a town of only 61,000 people. This year was the first to have an organ concert as one of principal evening concerts.
David Enlow is Organist and Choir Master of the Church of the Resurrection, New York, where he directs a professional choir which offers over fifty settings of the mass each season, often with orchestra. Mr. Enlow is also on the organ faculty at Juilliard, where he teaches the service playing component of the curriculum, Founder-Director of Cappella New York, a semi-professional choral society, and organist of the Welsh Church of New York. The recipient of two Juilliard degrees, Mr. Enlow studied with Paul Jacobs & John Weaver at the Curtis Institute of Music and Juilliard, and with John Tuttle. Mr. Enlow won first prizes in the Arthur Poister Competition, and the Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival (USA).
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