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:
“The house had gone to bring again
To the midnight sky a sunset glow.
Now the chimney was all of the house that stood,
Like a pistil after the petals go.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn’t have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“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)