Edwin Flath Organ Concert, (Nov. 1974)

A concert presented in November of 1974 at the Calvary Church in San Francisco featuring organist Edwin Flath. Works heard include “Poeme Heroique,” for organ and brass ensemble by Marcel Dupré, “Prologue to Everyman for organ and cello by Ernst Bacon, “Canzona,” for organ and oboe by Henk Badings, “Parapraise,” for organ, reeds, brass, percussion, and hand bells by Donald Aird, “Partita,” for organ and English horn by Jan Koetsier, “Ekagrata,” for organ, percussion, and tape by Richard Felciano, and “Concerto,” for organ and percussion orchestra by Lou Harrison. Edwin Flath was a native of Canada, and studied at the Royal Conservatory at Toronto University and with Arthur Poster of Syracuse University before finally settling down in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he founded the California Bach Society in 1971. Mr. Flath died in 1987 at the age of 57.