Leo Sowerby Pageant played by Ken Cowan on the pipe organ at St. Pauls Cathedra

Ken Cowan, organist plays Leo Sowerby s Pageant which is based on a heroic theme that recurs in five variations. The work is a pedal extravaganza and a challenge even the best organist s pedal technique. Sowerby composed this piece for the young Italian virtuoso, Fernando Germani, the organist at Saint Peter s Basilica in Rome. Germani commented after seeing the score; Now write me something really difficult. The pipe organ at Saint Paul s Episcopal Cathedral in San Diego was built by Quimby Pipe Organs of Warrenburg, Missouri. In all of my travels with all of the pipe organs I hear and recorded this is the finest new pipe organ built in the Symphonic Style. The reeds are extraordinary, the swell boxes provide a wide dynamic range, the Diapason Choruses are Willis like and the solo flute very orchestral.