Repertoire

Marking the beginning of the season of Lent, don’t miss this fabulous organ recital offered by Isaac Johnson, our Sunday morning organist. The program includes:

• Pange Lingua--Nicolas de Grigny

• Le banquet celeste--Olivier Messiaen

• Herzlich tut mich verlangen--J.S. Bach

• Chorals-poems on the seven last words of Christ: II. Hoodie mecum eris in Paradiso (Today you will be with me in paradise) & V. Sitio (I thirst)--Charles Tournemire

• Trois Danses (Joies, Deuils, Luttes/Joys, Sorrows, Struggles)--Jehan Alain

About the Organist

Isaac Johnson is our regular organist for our Sunday, 8am Masses. He is a 3rd year Ph.D. student in Musicology at the University of Colorado-Boulder, where he specializes in the study of Gregorian Chant in North America. He holds degrees from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Samford University. He has served as music director, organist, tenor, composer, and choral director at parishes across the U.S. and has performed organ recitals at churches and cathedrals in both the U.S. and Canada. His wife Christen is an ICU nurse at Longs Peak Hospital, and they have two children, Linus (age 3) and Cecilia (age 1).