MUSIC AT MIDDAY: September 20, 2024 - ANGELA KRAFT CROSS, organ

Welcome to Music at Midday for Friday, September 20, 2024. The program begins at the 2:50 mark of the recording. Today we are delighted to be presenting organist and composer Angela Kraft Cross, who is performing a variety of works, including two of her own compositions:
• Homage to Martin Luther King, Jr. - Angela Kraft Cross
• His Song - R. Nathaniel Dett
• Scherzo - Maurice Duruflé
• Healing Waters - Angela Kraft Cross
• Symphonie VIII in B (3. Allegro; 6. Finale) - Charles-Marie Widor
Angela Kraft Cross, AAGO, San Francisco Bay Area organist, pianist and composer, graduated from Oberlin in 1980 with bachelor’s degrees in Physics and Organ Performance. She then earned her Doctor of Medicine degree at Loma Linda University, where she subsequently completed her residency in ophthalmology. Dr. Kraft Cross has performed extensively internationally. In July 2011, she was a featured recitalist at the SF AGO Region IX Convention. She has released nine solo CD albums, recorded in California, Paris, Lyon and London, most recently Passages on the Journey, her original compositions since 2013, on the historic Great Organ in Methuen. Her organ recordings can be heard on Pipedreams and on Spotify. She has served as the Organist/Artist-in-Residence of the Congregational Church of San Mateo since 1993. Her seven books of compositions are published by Lorenz/Sacred Music Press.