Midnight Organ Recital
Every year at midnight on Halloween, students cram into Sayles Hall to listen to the University organist play a selection of death-themed music on the largest remaining Hutchings-Votey organ in the world. The main program of musical selections are always followed by a masterful performance of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.
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Famous quotes containing the words midnight, organ and/or recital:
“Such as the wreck of the Hesperus,
In the midnight and the snow!
Christ save us all from a death like this,
On the reef of Norman’s Woe!”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)
“What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The anarchy, assassination, and sacrilege by which the Kingdom of France has been disgraced, desolated, and polluted for some years past cannot but have excited the strongest emotions of horror in every virtuous Briton. But within these days our hearts have been pierced by the recital of proceedings in that country more brutal than any recorded in the annals of the world.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)