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Podcast Episode: An Introduction to 300 Years of Organ Music
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In this episode of Sounds of Faith, Dr. Robert Parkins reflects on his forty-seven years of service at Duke and gives a brief survey of 300 years of organ music history, as heard through the pieces in his final recital:
Dr. Parkins’s career at Duke has spanned five decades, and the music in his recent farewell recital spanned three centuries. A professor of the practice of music and university organist at Duke, he performed on all three of the Duke Chapel’s main organs during the recital, employing each for the musical era to which it is best suited.