During the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the dedication of the Rosales organ at St. James Cathedral, Seattle, we feature the organ throughout the 2025-2026 concert season.

The pipe organ is unique in many ways, but one of the most surprising to people unfamiliar with organ music is the requirement to play melodies with the feet just as aptly as with the hands. This concert features music that lets the feet dance!

"Feats for the Feet" opens with a piece for feet, "Pedal exertitium" (BWV 598) originally attributed to J. S. Bach but now believed to have been composed by his son, Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach. Next is Johann Sebastian Bach's Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 532, which opens with a big D major scale played by the feet. The rest of the program keeps the feet dancing in various ways – by playing melodies, manipulating controls for dynamics, and other techniques. The concert closes with a real "feat," Leo Sowerby's "Pageant," which features the feet in amazing and virtuosic ways.

PROGRAM:
Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach (1714–1788)
Pedal exercitium (BWV 598)

J.S. Bach (1685–1750)
Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 532

Gustav Holst (1874–1934)
Chaconne from First Suite for Military Band, Op. 28, No. 1

Charles Gounod (1818–1893)
Marche funèbre d'une marionette (Funeral March of a Marionette)

Geoffrey Wilcken (b. 1972)
The Love Amazing, Op. 74, No. 1

Libby Larsen (b. 1950)
Tambourines, from Aspects of Glory

Charles-Marie Widor (1844–1937)
Intermezzo from Symphony No. 6 for Organ

INTERMISSION

Rachel Laurin (1961–2023)
Three Short Studies, Op. 68
I. Monologue (pour pédale solo)
II. The Flight of the Hummingbird
III. The Dialogue of the Mockingbirds

Johannes Matthias Michel (b. 1962)
Swing Five: ERHALT UNS, HERR (Keep us, Lord)

Robert Elmore (1913–1985)
Rhumba

Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924)
Intermezzo on an Irish Air ("Danny Boy"), Op. 189, No. 4

Leo Sowerby (1895–1968)
Pageant

Program is approximately 90 minutes, including intermission.

GRAMMY-nominated artist Jan Kraybill is a concert organist, pianist, and harpsichordist; a dynamic speaker, educator, church musician, and consultant; and an enthusiastic cheerleader for the power of music to change lives for the better.

In addition to maintaining a very active concert schedule, Dr. Kraybill is organ conservator at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, Missouri, USA; organist-in-residence at the international headquarters of Community of Christ in Independence, Missouri; and organist at Village on Antioch Presbyterian Church in Overland Park, Kansas. In these roles she plays and oversees the care of three of the Kansas City metro area's largest pipe organs: the 113-rank Aeolian-Skinner (1959) and 102-rank Casavant (1993) at Community of Christ's Auditorium and Temple, and the Kauffman Center's 102-rank Julia Irene Kauffman Casavant (2012).