Christ Church Cathedral

Guest organist Douglas Murray will play a Pre-Evensong Organ Concert, including works of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maurice Duruflé as well as an Improvisation. At 4pm the Cathedral Choir will sing Choral Evensong following the concert, including music by Orlando Gibbons, Gary Davison and Egil Hovland. Plan to come and let this afternoon of organ and choral music set the tone for the beginning of your Lenten devotions. A reception will follow the concert and Evensong. Childcare is provided. 

Douglas Murray is Professor, Department of English, Belmont University, Nashville Tennessee. He is author of numerous articles on 18th-century fiction and edited (with Margaret Anne Doody) Austen's Catharine and Other Writings (Oxford World's Classics). He studied organ with Stanley Scheer at Pfeiffer University in his native North Carolina and attended improvisation workshops with William Porter, Jeffrey Brillhart, Gerre Hancock, Rick Erickson and Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra. He was interim organist at First Presbyterian Church, Nashville in 1999, then organist there from 2001-2010. He has also been assisting organist at Christ Church Cathedral, Nashville, working under Michael Velting and Peter Fyfe. He is one of five semi-finalists in the 2012 NCOI (National Competition in Organ Improvisation), sponsored by the American Guild of Organists.