For Immediate Release: September 25

Showing off the Renovated Stone Chapel with International Music Flair

Contact:
Nancy Johnston
Academic Dept. Secretary, Music
Office: (417) 873-7296
njohnsto@drury.edu

SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Sept. 24, 2008 — Internationally known organist Andrew Scanlon will be performing on the Chalfant Organ in the century-old, newly renovated Stone Chapel on the Drury University campus Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 7:30 p.m.

The concert will include organ solos spanning from Johann Sebastian Bach in the Baroque to Olivier Messiaen from a more modern era. Also included in the performance will be works of Alexandre Guilmant, Herbert Howells, Frank Bridge, Joseph Willcox Jenkins and Marcel Lanquetuit

A native of Methuen, Massachusetts, Scanlon resides in Pittsburgh, PA where he is a member of the organ faculty at Duquesne University, Director of Music at the First Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh and Director of the Pittsburgh Compline Choir.

For additional information, please contact Nancy Johnston in the music office at (417) 873-7296 or by email at njohnsto@drury.edu ###
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