Date: Tuesday July 6, 2010
Time: 7:30 PM
Type of Event: Pops concert
“A Celebration of Movie Music played on the Pipe Organ”
Mr. Wickerham will be delving into the extensive realm of motion picture themes, film scores, and television music, utilizing the vast tonal resources available on the Kotzschmar Organ.
The program order will be announced from the stage.
Selections may include:
The MGM fanfare
The King Kong March from the original motion picture
Music from, The Sting
Vangelis: Chariots of Fire
“A Tribute to Henry Mancini”
Baby Elephant Walk, Moon River, The Pink Panther and more.
A “Disney” Festival
Timeless melodies from decades of classic Disney films
Music from 2001: A Space Odyssey
The theme from Bridge Over the River Kwai
A John Williams Fantasy
Including themes and music from: Harry Potter, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., 1942 and Star Wars.
About Dave Wickerham
Dave Wickerham was born in Encino, California in 1962. He began playing the electronic organ at the age of four and had his first pipe organ experience at age10. His musical education started at age 7.
When he moved to Arizona in 1976, he became Associate Organist at the famous Organ Stop Pizza Restaurants in Phoenix, Mesa and Tucson. While in Arizona, he continued his musical studies with Roseamond Crowley, one of the few remaining descendants of the Louis Vierne line of organists. He attended the University of Arizona in Tucson on a full scholarship, pursuing classical organ studies for six years with Dr. Roy Johnson.
In 1984 Dave moved to the Chicago area to become Staff Organist at Pipes and Pizza in Lansing, Illinois. In addition to his performance there, he concertized frequently, as well as ministering musically and serving at various churches.
August of 1990 found the Wickerham family - Dave his wife and two young children - moving to Wisconsin, where he was one of the featured Staff Organists at the Piper Music Palace in Greenfield, a position he held for 10 years.
In the spring of 2000, Dave ushered in the new millennium with a limited special engagement, as a featured organist at "Roxy's Pipe Organ Pizzeria", part of a $26,000,000 expansion phase at the FIESTA Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Wickerham's, Dave, Rhonda, and three great kids, spent a year and a half there before returning back home to Wisconsin in August of 2001.
Dave has resumed his position at the Piper Music Palace and is also the principal organist at Williams Bay Lutheran Church in Lake Geneva, WI. He enjoys concertizing frequently to many audiences including various chapters of the American Theatre Organ Society. In April of 1999 he took great pleasure being a feature artist in Melbourne, Australia for the convention of the Theatre Organ Society of Australia for which he received rave reviews. He also enjoys recording and has recently released his second CD - recorded on the famous Kimball organ at John Dickinson High School, Wilmington, Delaware.
Web site: http://www.smargison.com/dave
