Carleton College will honor and celebrate the tenure of Lawrence Archbold, the Henry and Enid Woodward College Organist and Professor of Music, on Sunday, Oct. 16 from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the Concert Hall. This event is free and open to the public.
Part concert and part colloquium, Archbold will be joined by his colleague, musicologist and organist William Peterson of Pomona College. The two will present a program of manualiter organ music. The event will also serve as a “swan song” for the College’s Holtkamp organ, which will be taken out of service when the Music Department moves into its new facilities in the fall of 2017.
Archbold, Professor of Music and Enid and Henry Woodward College Organist, has taught at Carleton since 1982. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley (A.B., M.A., Ph.D., all in music), he specializes in both the performance and scholarship of organ music and has presented papers at national meetings of both the American Musicological Society and the American Guild of Organists. He has edited, with William Peterson, French Organ Music from the Revolution to Franck and Widor, a volume of essays on nineteenth-century French organ music, which was published in 1995. A companion volume, French Organ Music from Franck and Widor to the Second World War, is planned.
During his tenure, Archbold has performed over one hundred and fifty solo organ concerts for the campus and greater community.
This event is sponsored by the Carleton College Department of Music. For more information, including disability accommodations, call (507) 222-4475. The Concert Hall is located on the Carleton campus on First Street between Winona and Nevada Streets in Northfield.
