Traditional favorites for organ will be performed in a free concert at 3 p.m. Sunday at Hood College’s Coffman Chapel, 401 Rosemont Ave., Frederick.
Wayne L. Wold, associate professor of music and college organist, will perform compositions by Alain, Mozart and Barber as well as Widor’s ‘‘Toccata” and the ‘‘Toccata and Fugue in D Minor” by Bach.
Wold teaches music theory, music appreciation, composition, organ and harpsichord at Hood. He has performed with the Maryland Symphony Orchestra and at numerous concerts and hymn festivals across the United States and in Europe.
An active church musician, clinician, composer and author, Wold serves as the director of chapel music at the Naval Support Facility near Thurmont, and leads numerous music and worship clinics and conferences each year.
More than 200 of his compositions are in print from 13 different publishers in the U.S., and Australia, and they include 20 volumes of works for organ, 30 choir anthems, a children’s musical and hymn tunes found in five different hymnals.
A published poet and author, Wold has written numerous hymn and anthem texts, professional and review articles, and two books. He recently served on the editorial committee of ‘‘Evangelical Lutheran Worship,” the new Lutheran hymnal that was published in late 2006.
A native of Minnesota, Wold holds a bachelor’s degree from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn., a master’s degree from Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, and a doctor of musical arts degree from Shenandoah University in Winchester, Va.
Wold’s upcoming concert will be performed on Hood’s 41-rank pipe organ, one of the largest pipe organs in the Frederick area. It was built in 1955 by the M. P. Möller Company of Hagerstown and was given as a gift to the college by family and friends of the late Oscar B. Coblentz. The Coblentz Memorial Organ was enlarged in 1971 with the addition of the Sihler Memorial Trompetas Reales, given in memory of Herbert and Mary Sihler by their children. In 1994, more additions were made to the organ, made possible by a gift from Charles and Kathryn Nicodemus. The organ now has approximately 2,450 pipes, playable on a console of three manuals and pedal.
For more information, call 301-696-3782.
