Music Director Robert Gurney is one of the regular organists at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park.  He gives concerts on the second weekend of every month, and he will be giving concerts this coming weekend, June 13 and 14.  Legion organ concerts are free to the public (with museum admission), and are held in the Rodin Gallery at 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. 

The Legion's fantastic E.M. Skinner organ is a wonderful historic instrument.  It has unusual bells and whistles, including a marvelous battery of real percussion instruments.  You won't see them, of course, but they are there in the organ loft.  It is a real pleasure to sit in that beautiful Rodin Gallery, listening to Robert's masterful playing of the Legion's symphonic organ.  Robert's program for this weekend is:

High School Cadets  John Philip Sousa 1854-1932

Sonata in C Minor for Organ    Felix Mendelssohn 1809-1847
  I. Grave
  II. Adagio
  III. Allegro maestoso e vivace
  IV. Fuga

Four Two-Part Inventions    Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750
  No. 14 (B Flat)
  No. 13 (A Minor)
  No. 4  (D Minor)
  No. 8  (F)

Bist Du Bei Mir (from the "Anna Magdalena Clavier Book) J.S. Bach

An Der Schonen Blauen Donau  (On The Beautiful Blue Danube) Johann Strauss
Jr. 1825-1899

Music from the film "The Mission"   Ennio Morricone b. 1928

Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D   Sir Edward Elgar 1865-1934
arr. Edwin H. Lemare 1865-1934