David Hatt workshop and concert

David Hatt, assistant organist at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco, presented a workshop and organ concert in Santa Barbara, California on February 1–2, sponsored by the Santa Barbara chapter of the American Guild of Organists.

The concert at First United Methodist Church included works by Max Reger (Prelude and Fugue in G# Minor and Sonata), Helmut Walcha, David N. Johnson, David Hatt, J.S. Bach, Louis Vierne, Cornelius Heinrich Dretzel, and Emma Lou Diemer. The music of Dretzel was discussed and played in reference to the opinion of some musicologists that Dretzel may have written Bach’s famed Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, an opinion much disputed. (See “BWV 565: Composer Found?” in The Diapason, January 2013.)

The organ music of Max Reger is a specialty of David Hatt. The American composer David N. Johnson was the father of David’s wife, Teal Johnson.