Concert to Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Fritts Organ at ASU

The Fritts organ at ASU's music school is a 1,900-pipe tracker organ built in 1992 to the specifications of a European Baroque pipe organ.

Organ Hall. Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA. January 8, 2011. ASU has a wonderful Baroque pipe organ, which was constructed 20 years ago and is housed in a gorgeous hall built for it in ASU’s music school. Today, in order to celebrate the 20^th anniversary of this unique and visually gorgeous instrument, six organists, all university professors, came from around the US, to perform in this celebratory event. The music ranged from pre-Baroque to contemporary (e.g., Buxtehude, Bach, Mozart, and three living composers), showed the wide range of this admittedly high-Baroque instrument of northern Europe design. The overflow audience responded with prolonged applause. I was present at one of the first public hearings of the organ 20 years ago, and I’ve heard it many times since then.