Organ Concert August 6th Features Bridgette Wargovich (Portland, ME)
The August 6 concert features Bridgette Wargovich from Portland, Maine. Wargovich will perform music of Felix Mendelssohn, Heinrich Scheidemann, and Théodore Dubois.
Dr. Bridgette Wargovich is Director of Sacred Music and Organist at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland, Maine. Here she directs the Cathedral Choir, Men’s and Women’s Scholas, and Vespers Schola. A native of Massachusetts, she earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Organ Performance in 2018 and a Master of Sacred Music degree summa cum laude in 2014, both from Boston University. Her doctoral dissertation was entitled, “The King of Musical Instruments and the Spirit of the Liturgy: The Pipe Organ and Its Liturgical Repertoire Analyzed in Light of Ratzinger’s Theology of Liturgical Music.” The dissertation explored the theology of Pope Benedict XVI, linking his main themes to the pipe organ and its repertoire. She has performed throughout Boston, at the Methuen Memorial Music Hall, and at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston. Her principal organ teacher was Peter Sykes and she has studied liturgical music with Dr. Peter Latona at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Bridgette has a special love for sacred and liturgical music; she is dedicated to preserving and promoting this musical treasure.
St. John’s Organ Society is pleased to announce the 33rd Summer Recital Series on Maine’s largest 19th-Century mechanical-action pipe organ, E. & G. G. Hook’s magnificent Opus 288, at St. John’s Roman Catholic Church in Bangor. These hour-long recitals occur on Thursday evenings at 7:30. St. John’s Catholic Church is located at 207 York Street in Bangor. Admission is free, but donations are appreciated.