Organ students at Westminster Choir College of Rider will present two recitals in Princeton in November and December.  The public is invited to attend both a no charge.  Each recital will be approximately one hour long.

The first recital will be Monday, November 28 at 7:30 p.m. in Miller Chapel at Princeton Theological Seminary.  This is the final recital in the graduate course in North German organ literature, which was led by Andrew Henderson.  It will be a lecture-recital format focusing on chorale-based works by North Gernman composers.  The repertoire will be 

The second recital will be presented Monday, December 5 at 7 p.m. in the Princeton University Chapel.  It will feature organ students performing the nine movements of Olivier Messiaen’s La Nativité du Seigneur.  The evening will begin with a discussion lof the work ed by organ faculty member Ken Cowan.  Widely-regarded as Messiaen’s first large-scale work for organ, this nine-movement cycle surrounds themes of the birth of Christ.