Stephen O’Baker, Organ – Organist of Iowa [Remote/Livestream]

Stephen O’Baker, Mount Pleasant native and former student of Dr. Steven Egler, has been afforded the distinct honor of being named Organist of Iowa for 2025 by the Iowa State University Department of Music and Theatre in Ames, Iowa. Stephen is a fine player whose performance promises to be a wonderful experience with some interesting and varied repertoire. Please watch the livestream it if you are able to.

Livestream: https://www.music.iastate.edu/recital-hall-livestream

Time and Location:

1:30 p.m. Central time (local) / 2:30 p.m. Eastern time (for livestreaming in Michigan)

Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall
Simon Estes Music Hall
Iowa State University
2427 Union Dr
Ames IA 50011

Program:

Overture to Talestri, regina delle amazzoni by Maria Antonia Walpurgis (1724–1780), Germany. Transcribed by Anne Marsden Thomas (b. 1948), England.

Concerto in C Major, BWV 592 by Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar (1696–1715), Germany. Transcribed by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Germany.

Laudate for Organ by Ruth Zechlin (1926–2007), Germany.

Ricercar,  SwWV 280 by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562–1621), The Netherlands.

A Quaker Reader by Ned Rorem (1923–2022), United States.

• No. 4. “There Is a Spirit that Delights to Do No Evil”
• No. 5. “The World of Silence”
• No. 6. “Bewitching Attire of the Most Charming Simplicity”
• No. 7. “A Secret Power”
• No. 8. “No Darkness at All”

Variations and Fugue on “Jesu, meine Freude” by Doy M. Baker (1917-2002), United States.

Moto Ostinato by Petr Eben (1929–2007), Czech Republic