52nd Annual Organ Concert by Ron Pearson

Name: 52nd Annual Organ Concert by Ron Pearson
Start: 2025-10-05T16:00:00-05:00
Location: 709 South Boston Avenue, Tulsa, OK, United States, Oklahoma 74119

Schedule

Sun, 05 Oct, 2025 at 04:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

709 South Boston Avenue, Tulsa, OK, United States, Oklahoma 74119 | Tulsa, OK

You are invited to the 52nd Annual Organ Concert presented by Ron Pearson, Music Director and Organist at First Presbyterian Church in Tulsa.
The program will include Tulsa’s first performance of Pater Noster (Our Father), a set of eight pieces by Canadian composer Denis Bedard, based on the ancient chant sung to the words of The Lord’s Prayer. The chant will be sung by Gretchen Bashforth, Associate Director of Music at First Church Tulsa.
Also included will be the first-ever Tulsa performance of the Symphony no. 1 for Organ and Orchestra, by the French composer Alexandre Guilmant, with the University of Tulsa Orchestra, conducted by Rick Wagner. This piece is often played as a Sonata for organ alone, but it has never been performed in Tulsa as a collaborative work with orchestra.

This concert will conclude the 140th Anniversary Celebration of First Presbyterian Church, which was founded on October 5, 1885, as Tulsa’s first church.