SACRED/LITURGICAL MUSIC - MELLEN ORGAN AND RECITAL SERIES

THE MELLEN ORGAN

The Mellen Organ in St. Francis Chapel is a Spanish-style organ, built by Patrick Collon, of the Manufacture d'Orgues de Bruxelles.

It was donated in memory of Louise E. Mellen (1914-1977) a benefactor of education and a lover of organ music.

Recitals are regularly given which are free and open to the public.

A Spanish-style organ was chosen specifically to extend the already rich organ resources of the Cleveland area. We know of only three other Spanish-style organs in the United States: at SMU in Dallas; Mission San Jose in Fremont, California; and the University of California, Berkeley. Calvert Johnson's Early Spanish Organ Music, volume 2 features the Mellen Organ.

A stop list is available for those interested. The chapel also maintains the Augustus B. Bodnar Memorial Collection of classical organ music, both sheet and CD's, but principally Iberian music suitable for the Mellen Organ. The Mellen organ is cared for by Mr. Hal Gober, an organ builder in Toronto, Ontario.

MELLEN ORGAN RECITAL SERIES

Thanks to the generosity of Dr. and Mrs. John Drinko and the Mellen Foundation we have been able to sponsor a series of organ concerts on the Mellen Organ since its dedication and inauguration in 1991.

Visiting artists have included Guy Bovet, Bernard Foccroulle, Peter Hurford, and Montserrat Torrent.

If you wish to be informed of concerts in a timely manner, please e-mail us your postal address.

Our Last Recital was given by Padre Enrique Ayarra on Wednesday, September 26, 2001.

 

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