Thomas Murray plays five stellar Hook organs (see list below), including the first, with commentary on each spoken by Barbara Owen, Robert C. Newton, Edgar A. Boadway, and Robert J. Lahaise. First produced for the U. S. Bi-Centennial, these recordings are now on CD and feature material not included with the original issue on LP, the most telling of which is a stop-by-stop tour of the Immaculate Conception organ, complementing a similar tour of the Holy Cross organ. Repertoire includes Zeuner, Camidge, Boyce Thorley, J. C. Moller, Bach, Mendelssohn Franck and Widor. ORGANS: 1827 George Hook, Essex Institute, Salem, Mass. 1842 E. & G. G. Hook, op. 48, Northfield, Massachusetts 1849 E. & G. G. Hook, op. 93, Hinsdale, New Hampshire 1854 E. & G. G. Hook, op. 171, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 1863 E. & G. G. Hook, op. 322, Immaculate Conception, Boston 1875 E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings, Op. 801, Holy Cross Cathedral |