Jacob Benda, professor of music at St. Thomas University and director of music, liturgy and sacred arts at St. Thomas Aquinas Chapel, was recently featured in a Guild convention review North Central American organists by the Tribune of stars.
Tuesday’s opening concert made the sound of an organ even more powerful by augmenting it with an orchestra. Three organ concertos were on the program at St. Thomas Aquinas Chapel at St. Thomas University, two from this century, and the concert overflowed with all the grandeur one could desire. …
An orchestra of top-notch Twin Cities-based musicians were kept in ideal balance with organ soloist Jacob Benda under Callahan’s direction, the pure and passionate sounds of French horn soloist Neal Bolter piercing gravity with a sound like comfort and compassion.
