Virgil Fox "Here Comes The Bride" Recorded on the magnificent pipe organ at Girard College

The final piece in this year’s organ tutorial series is Mendelssohn’s well-known Wedding March from his incidental music to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, written in 1842, shortly before his death. As we near the end of 2020, a year of virus-related restrictions, it seems ironic and possibly even a little cruel to have chosen late in 2019 to feature wedding and memorial music in this year’s tutorials. It has been a year in which those important events in human experience have sometimes been limite