St. Alban’s Episcopal Church
3738 Old Sabino Canyon Road
Tucson, Arizona

St. Alban’s Concert Series presents organists Dr. Jeffrey Campbell, Associate Music Director and Organist at St. Philip’s In the Hills Episcopal Church, and Stephen Keyl, retired Director of Music at St. Alban’s, performing Bach’s Great Eighteen chorales. Dr. Jeffrey Campbell, and Stephen Keyl will collaborate in a complete performance of this cornerstone of the organ repertory on the beautiful Paul Fritts organ at St. Alban’s.

The Great Eighteen are a group of ambitious, large-scale organ works based on Lutheran chorales. Bach assembled them toward the end of his life from pieces he had written years earlier, revising and in some cases expanding them, perhaps intending to have them printed. Many are favorites with organists and audiences, such as: the brilliant fantasia on “Come, Holy Ghost” for full organ; the lyrical “Savior of the Nations, Come”; and the quietly moving “Before Thy Throne I Now Appear,” said to have been revised by the composer shortly before he died.