ROBERT KNUPP AT MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE'S PROVINE CHAPEL, JANUARY 29, 2002

   Knupp opened the program with Petr Eben's Moto Ostinato from "Sunday
Music"; it was big and vigorous. Bach's Prelude and Fugue in F minor
(BWV 535) was next and followed by Morricone's "Gabriel's Oboe", from
the film "The Mission"; I was reminded - at least at first - of South
American flutes, which reflected the locale of this powerful movie.
Perhaps the most impressive item followed, J.S. Bach's Prelude and Fugue
in E Minor (The "Wedge", BWV 548). Although I had heard this work several
times before, Knupp made it come alive so that this seemed to me to be
the first time I "really" heard it. Larry King's "Resurrection" included
a "light" show that used lights placed to cast a shadow of pipes
onto the curved ceiling over the organ. Widor's Chorale from "Symphony
Romane" and Tournemire's Chorale Improvisation on "Victimae Pascali
Laudes" closed the program in style.