Internationally known organist Christina Harmon will play a variety of organ music on local church organs during the Pine Mountain Music Festival this month. (Photo courtesy Pine Mountain Music Festival)Christina Harmon is a U.P. native, born in Menominee, but is now a resident of Dallas, Texas. In between she has traveled extensively and has played many outstanding organs in the U.S. and elsewhere including Westminster Abbey in London, Notre Dame in Paris and Chartres Cathedral. She is a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Southern Methodist University and has studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.
In her concerts, Ms. Harmon will play works by Bach, Moussorgsky, Bolcom and others as well as a work of her own composition. The theme of the Festival’s 2009 season is "Anything Goes," and the range of composers in the organ concert reflects that theme admirably.
Often referred to as "the king of instruments," the organ has a range of sounds unlike that of any other instrument and has attracted world-class composers from centuries ago to the present. Organs vary greatly from one to another; and the Upper Peninsula, thanks to the protracted mining boom and the much larger population at that time, is fortunate to have many organs that are exceptionally "worth the trip."
The Pine Mountain Music Festival presents a season of opera, classical and jazz music in June-July in the Dickinson County area, the Marquette area, the Keweenaw Peninsula and other smaller towns in the Upper Peninsula and northeastern Wisconsin. Headquartered in Hancock, Michigan, it is supported by donations, ticket sales and grants. Visit the web site at pmmf.org, or call 1-877-746-3999 for tickets or 888-309-7861 for more information.
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