What: Organist Gail Archer Performs Concert to Benefit Haley’s Heroes Foundation
When: Sunday, October 27, 2019, 4:00 p.m.
Where: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1444 Liberty Street SE, Salem, OR, 97302
Tickets + Info: Free. Suggested donation $25. Please contact the church 503.362.3661 or visit StPaulsOregon.org.

Program:
Program to include J.S. Bach, Mary Howe, and Max Reger. This is a concert to benefit the Haley’s Heroes Foundation, a local, Salem-based non-profit created in honor of Haley, a little girl with Bratten Disease, whose family are members of the St. Paul’s church. Haley’s Heroes is dedicated to finding a cure for Bratten Disease.

About Gail Archer:
Gail Archer is an international concert organist, recording artist, choral conductor and lecturer who draws attention to composer anniversaries or musical themes with her annual recital series including Max Reger, The Muse’s Voice, An American Idyll, Liszt, Bach, Mendelssohn and Messiaen. Ms. Archer was the first American woman to play the complete works of Olivier Messiaen for the centennial of the composer’s birth in 2008; Time Out New York recognized the Messiaen cycle as “Best of 2008” of classical music and opera. Her recordings include her September, 2017 CD A Russian Journey, The Muse’s Voice, Franz Liszt: A Hungarian Rhapsody,Bach: The Transcendent Genius, An American Idyll, A Mystic In the Making (Meyer Media), and The Orpheus of Amsterdam: Sweelinck and his Pupils (CALA Records). Ms. Archer’s 2018 European tour took her to France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, the Slovak Republic, the Ukraine and Poland. She is the founder of Musforum, www.musforum.org an international network for women organists to promote and affirm their work. Ms. Archer is college organist at Vassar College, and director of the music program at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she conducts the Barnard-Columbia Chorus, and is a member of the faculty of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. She serves as director of the artist and young organ artist recitals at historic Central Synagogue, New York City.