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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Little Rock, Arkansas – 22 January 2025
1. Organist Colin MacKnight plays the organ for an audience
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Little Rock, Arkansas – 21 January 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Colin MacKnight, Organist:
"This year, my very big project is performing the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach, which is about 18 hours of music. I have it all right here in this stack of 11 volumes of organ music. And I’m doing this over the course of the year, mostly in 30 minute lunchtime concerts on Wednesday afternoons."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Little Rock, Arkansas – 22 January 2025
3. CU of Organist Colin MacKnight hands playing organ
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Little Rock, Arkansas – 21 January 2025
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Colin MacKnight, Organist:
"I think I’ve probably wanted to do this for as long as I’ve played the organ. But it takes a long time to get there."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Little Rock, Arkansas – 22 January 2025
5. Wide of audience
6. Various tight shots of MacKnight playing organ
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Little Rock, Arkansas – 21 January 2025
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Colin MacKnight, Organist:
"Well, my hope for the audience is that it’ll be a little highlight and there we can a moment to relax and unwind and think about things other than work and to do list. And for me, it’s; it’s both stressful and hard work and also really gratifying, and I chose to take this project on my own. Nobody was forcing me to do it, but I’ve wanted to for a really long time because it’s, I think, the most thorough way of immersing myself in the brilliance of Johann Sebastian Bach."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Little Rock, Arkansas – 22 January 2025
8. Program showing Bach on cover
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ben Wiley, Concert Attendee:
"I love Bach. His music is so intricate and yet so simple. It’s difficult to explain. But it always amazes me how somebody could play an organ to begin with, let alone something sometimes so complex."
10. MacKnight plays organ
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Barry Coplin, Concert Attendee:
"Colin’s obviously a very talented performer. And this is a as I understand it, this is a feat that is not done by many organists to be able to play the entire Bach repertoire, either in sequence, as he’s doing here or in some other fashion. But to learn all the Bach pieces is quite a quite an accomplishment."
12. Audience applauds MacKnight
STORYLINE:
It was hushed inside a 140-year-old cathedral on the outskirts of Little Rock’s downtown as about five dozen people sat in the pews during a recent lunch break in January.
The nave filled with the sounds of the Gothic church’s pipe organ, and a screen showed a man performing the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Those gathered weren’t there for church, but for the third concert in a series Colin MacKnight is performing over the next year to commemorate the 275th anniversary of Bach’s death.
MacKnight, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral’s music director, is performing all of Bach’s organ works throughout 2025 — one lunch break at a time. The ambitious plan entails performing 18 hours of music in half-hour increments nearly every Wednesday.
“I’ve wanted to for a really long time because it’s, I think, the most thorough way of immersing myself in the brilliance of Johann Sebastian Bach,” MacKnight said one morning as he rehearsed in the empty cathedral before a concert.
AP Video shot by Andrew DeMillo
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