The Rochester Theater Organ Society, Inc.

THEATER ORGAN CONCERTS AT THE AUDITORIUM THEATRE

885 East Main Street, Rochester, NY 14605

on the RTOS-Grierson 4/23 Wurlitzer

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RTOS Membership is Your Personal Passport to Great Enjoyment!

RTOS membership is open to anyone over 18 years of age. Regular membership is $50 a year. Associate membership at only $35 a year is available to anyone who lives more than 50 miles airline from Rochester and to all students between the ages of 18 to 24. An additional $5.00 for first-class mailings is recommended for all non-local members and is required by postal regulations for Canadian members.

RTOS memberships provide the following benefits:

Free concert admissions for member, spouse and minor children living in the household, (or a single member plus a guest) to most if not all of the nine concerts usually scheduled from September through May. The rare exception to free membership concerts are occasional Special Events that provide a discounted ticket price to members.

Open Console playing privileges on both the 4/23 and 3/12 Wurlitzer theater pipe organs.

Newsletters before each concert.

Members are also eligible for RTOS bus tours and special social events.

A membership lending library with theater organ cassette tapes (including RTOS live concert tapes), LP records, CDs, sheet music, books and magazines is open at each concert.

In addition, Regular Members have voting rights and are able to hold office.

For more information write Ken Veneron, RTOS Membership, 48 North State Street, Nunda, NY 14517 or click here RTOS Membership. You can also click here for a Membership Application. You will need Adobe Reader to fill out on line and print the membership application. Save the completed membership form to your desktop and attach it to an email to RTOS Membership.

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The sound you hear on this CD is a unique result of the intersection of the organ, the room and several special people. I was hearing this Wurlitzer before I was born and I am honored to have the opportunity to offer this collection of music to you. This has always been a fine sounding theatre organ and the absence of seating transformed the room into a cathedral-like acoustic -- like the sound bloomed! I was delighted to have several close friends with me that warm August weekend in 2003. They offered advice, Krispy Kreme donuts, patience, occasional page-turning, encouragement and love. Thank you all... David Peckham

Price: $20.00 postpaid. Checks should be made payable to: David Peckham

David Peckham
838 Veteran Hill Road
Horseheads, NY 14845-7262

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Jonathan’s premier recording, made on the world-famous RTOS-Grierson 4-manual, 23-rank Wurlitzer installed in the Auditorium Theatre, Rochester, New York. Recorded during Jon’s senior year at the Eastman School of Music, the CD features seven tracks recorded with the incredible talent of drummer Allan Ward, for an exciting, big band sound.

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Click on the hyperlinked titles below for audio samples ~

1. The Trolley Song*
2. Charade
3. West Side Story Medley
          Maria
          Tonight
          One Hand, One Heart
          America
          Somewhere
4. It’s De-Lovely*
5. Grey Skies*
6. Folk Song Suite
          Waly, Waly
          Four Strong Winds
          Shenandoah
7. We Open in Venice*
8. Tableau II from The Firebird
9. All the Things You Are/My Funny Valentine*
10. So in Love*
11. All I Ask of You
12. It’s All Right With Me*

     * With Allan Ward, drums

Copied from Jonathan Ortloff's website with permission 4/6/2010. See Jon's website www.jonathanortloff.com

© 2012 Jonathan Ortloff
Audio files are Copyright (P) 2012 by Jonathan Ortloff. All rights reserved. These recordings may not be used, reproduced or transmitted, in whole or in part, in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or the use of any information storage and retrieval systems, without prior permission in writing from Jonathan.

"Tom Grierson Plays Palace Favorites"

This CD was re-mastered by Dick Clay from the original 1963 release stereo LP vinyls. The original tape master was recorded in the Rochester's RKO Palace Theatre 2 years before the theatre became a victim of urban renewal in 1965. The artist Tom Grierson, an Organist Hall of Famer, opened the Wurlitzer 4/21 featured in this album on December 24, 1928. Mr. Grierson was the RKO Palace House Organist until the management stopped using the organ in the 1940s. This CD has been released to celebrate the 75th birthday of this famed Wurlitzer and the luxurious RKO Palace and the 40th birthday of RTOS itself. RTOS restored and moved this now 4/23 instrument to its present home in Rochester's Auditorium Theatre where it has been used to entertain hundreds of thousands since the start of a regular series of concerts beginning in January 1967. Tom Grierson Plays Palace Favorites produced by the RTOS in 2003.

The CD includes the following selections:

RKO March, Green Leaves of Summer, Holiday, Fiddle-Faddle, Enjoy Being a Girl, Magic Flute, Hail Festival day, Sleeping Beauty Waltz, The Maid with the Flaxen Hair, Welsh Hymn and Finlandia.

To Order "Tom Grierson Plays Palace Favorites" from the U.S.A. and Canada send check (or Money Order)
for $12.95 in U.S. funds made out to "RTOS Recordings" with memo stating "for RTOS013" to:
RTOS Recordings 48 North State Steet Nunda, NY 14517-9655
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