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 William Peterson
Professor of Music and College Organist
Thatcher 104A,
(909) 621-8155,
william.peterson@pomona.edu
Expertise Profile
William
Peterson is the Harry S. and Madge Rice Thatcher Professor
of Music and College Organist at Pomona College in
Claremont, California. A member of the Pomona College
faculty since 1979. From the University of California at
Berkeley he received the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. Earlier
he received the B.A. and B.M. degrees from Oberlin College
and Conservatory.
In recent years, he has given many concerts using organ
and, on occasion' harpsichord: he has performed in
southern and northern California and in several other
parts of the United States (including Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Minnesota, and Georgia) on instruments by many builders
including Brombaugh, Fisk, Harrold, Jaeckel' Beckerath,
and Flentrop. He has presented many all-Bach recitals,
including three complete performances of J.S. Bach's
Dritter Theil der Clavierubung, and many performances of
seventeenth-century music, especially that of Sweelinck
and Scheidt. This year on 21 March -- Bach's birthdate --
he presented a concert entitled "The Leipzig Bach" at
Calvary Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh, PA, as part of the
''Organ Artists Series of Pittsburgh."
In the last ten years he has worked extensively, both as
performer and scholar, on French and Belgian organ music
of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At the
symposium held in 1989 in St. Paul, MN, "Charles
Tournemire in St. Paul," he performed the Symphonie sacree
pour orgue (1936), Op. 71, one of Tournemire's largest
works for the organ. This performance of Symphonie sacree
was broadcast on "Pipedreams" (Minnesota Public Radio).
His performance of Tournemire's Suite No. 30, recorded in
Minneapolis, is included on a compact disc, L' Orgue
mystique (Volume b, on the Sonus-Luxque label (1994). In
1996 he presented a program of French and Belgian music on
the Jaeckel organ at Pilgrim Congregational Church in
Duluth, MN. He is co-editor -- with Lawrence Archbold of
Carleton College -- of French Organ Music from the
Revolution to Franck and Widor (University of Rochester
Press, 1995 and 1997), a volume which includes eleven
articles by a group of American and French authors.
Peterson is author of "Lemmens, His Ecole d'orgue, and
Nineteenth-Century Organ Methods" and co-author of an
article focusing on organ music during the French
Revolution. Reviews of this book have been published in
the Times Literary Supplement, The Organ Yearbook, Music
and Letters, The American Organist, The Diapason, and
other journals in this country, Great Britain, and
Belgium.
In January of 1998 he presented two papers on
nineteenth-century topics at the Eleventh Annual Redlands
Organ Festival, Redlands, CA. He has presented papers at
national meetings of the American Musicological Society
(most recently, a paper entitled "Constructs of Memory,
1914-1918" in 1997) and the American Bach Society, and
also at the "Third International Romantic Organ Music
Symposium" in Chicago and "The Organist in the 21st
Century" in Palo Alto, CA. He has been invited to present
a paper in Texas later this year at a conference entitled
"199S Tribute to Aristide Cavaille-Coll," sponsored by the
University of North Texas. Research projects have been
supported by grants from Pomona College and also by a
Fulbright research grant. |
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