- HOW WOULD
YOU
- LIKE
TO PRESENT
- YOUR
AREA
- PREMIER OF
- A
MAJOR NEW
-
ORGAN WORK?
Robert
Thompson,
Concert Organist, has performed all over Europe and
the United States and has multiple music degrees including a doctorate from the University of Michigan and holds a Fulbright Scholar Certificate for
organ study in Germany.
He has recorded and has performed on radio and television.
On February 21, 2007 Thompson
premiered selections
from
"The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of
the Heart" for organ and narrator
by noted Czech composer PETR EBEN in Eugene, Oregon.
The premier was filmed for television. DVD's of the premier are available free for anyone seriously considering presenting
the program.
Quotes from audience
members
at the premier performance
-
"I have never been so moved by an organ performance.
-
"Many of the audience were in tears, they were so moved by the beauty of the
music and the power of the narrations."
-
"Awesome!"
-
"Truly an unforgettable experience. I hope everyone has a chance to hear this work
played by Robert Thompson."
Thompson will perform Petr Eben's great work
"The Labyrinth of the World
and the Paradise of the Heart"
for you for a nominal fee on any good pipe organ.
BOOK HIM TODAY!
Contact him at btorgel@aol.com for more information on how you can have a
PETR EBEN
PREMIER FOR
YOUR AREA!
Petr Eben is among the most outstanding of living composers, having composed
dozens of works of all kinds. He is the winner of many prestigious awards. Most of his works are published and recorded.
The narrations of "The Labyrinth..." are drawn from a 17th century book of the same
title by Johann Comenius (1592-1670), Czech educator, artist, musician, scientist, philosopher and humanist
theologian. Comenius is considered the "Father of Modern Education" and was the first to advocate full formal educatioin
for women.
Author of 154 books, Comenius was the first
to use pictures in elementary textbooks. He had an international reputation and was invited to England and Sweden to
establish schools using his teaching methods.
Though Czech by origin, Comenius chose exile in Holland rather than submit to religious
persecution. His contemporaries were Galileo, Descartes, Milton and Rembrandt, who painted his portrait.
Comenius was invited to be the first president of Harvard University. He turned down
the offer to remain as pastor to a small, struggling congregation of Moravians exiled in Holland, where Comenius died in 1670
and where he is burried.
Dispite the immense stature of these two men, they are all but unknown in this county.
EBEN AND COMENIUS NEED TO BE
BETTER KNOWN IN THE U. S.!!
YOU CAN HELP DO THIS BY BOOKING
ROBERT THOMPSON NOW FOR
YOUR LOCAL PREMIER OF
"THE LABYRINTH OF THE WORLD
AND THE PARADISE OF THE HEART" !!
