Earlier this year we visited Memorial Methuen Music Hall in Methuen Massachusetts to make videos for our YouTube channel. Matthew Bellocchio gave us an extensive history of the organ and the hall, but it didn’t all make it into the video. The entirety of that story is included in this podcast.

Barbara Owen – The Great Organ at Methuen

Music heard in this episode:

Title: Organ Sonata no. 2 in F minor, op. 16 – III. Finale
Composer: Henry Morton Dunham
Organist: Steven Young
Album: Henry Morton Dunham – A Boston Classic – AFKA SK-563
Organ: 1947 IV/112 Aeolian-Skinner, Methuen Music Hall, Methuen, Massachusetts USA
Sheetmusic: PDF

Title: Resignazione, S. 263
Composer: Franz Liszt
Organist: Iain Quinn
Album: Iain Quinn Plays the Great Organ at Methuen – Raven OAR 360
Organ: 1947 IV/112 Aeolian-Skinner, Methuen Music Hall, Methuen, Massachusetts USA

Title: Ride of the Valkyries
Composer: Richard Wagner
Organist: Frederick Hohman
Album: Methuen Century – Pro Organo CD 7234
Organ: 1947 IV/112 Aeolian-Skinner, Methuen Music Hall, Methuen, Massachusetts USA
Sheetmusic: Purchase