December 20, 2012
The University of Michigan will celebrate the centennial of Hill Auditorium and its Frieze Memorial Organ with a concert for the University Musical Society’s Choral Union Series on January 13. The Detroit Symphony, Leonard Slatkin, conductor, with organ soloists Peter Richard Conte, David Higgs, and James Kibbie and the Choral Union, Jerry Blackstone, director, will perform works of Barber, Bolcom, Khachaturian, MacMillan, and Bach/Stokowski. The Frieze Memorial Organ was built in 1893 by Farrand & Votey, then rebuilt by Hutchings in 1913 as the centerpiece of architect Albert Kahn’s design for Hill Auditorium. It was subsequently rebuilt and enlarged by E.M. Skinner in 1927 and Aeolian-Skinner in 1955.
