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GSM – September 2, 2018 https://spoti.fi/2oEcMXV
Don’t forget that we have more choral and organ music programmed
on Sunday evenings beginning at 10 p.m. eastern.
Rob Kennedy
WCPE The Classical Station
Web: TheClassicalStation.org
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Edwin Fissinger: Lux aeterna
Woodley Ensemble, Robert Lehman
Daniel E. Gawthrop: Show Me Thy Ways
Utah State University Chamber Singers, Cory Evans
Jonathan Rose, organ; Nicole Watts, violin
DJ Hesterman, cello
Leo Sowerby: And They Drew Nigh
Choir of Trinity Church, Wall Street, New York, Larry King
Dr. Edward Fissinger (1920-1990) was a charter member of the
American Choral Directors Association. American composer Daniel E. Gawthrop (1949-) has composed mainly choral and organ works. Dr. Leo Sowerby (1895-1968) won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1946.
William Billings: I am the Rose of Sharon
His Majestie’s Clerkes, Paul Hillier
Carl Glaser, arr. Barbara Harbach: Azmon: Oh, for a Thousand Tongues to Sing
Barbara Harbach, organ
1965 Aeolian-Skinner organ at Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis, Missouri
William Billings (1746-1800) was the first early American composer of hymns. In addition to her duties as Director of Music at Christ Church Cathedral, Saint Louis, Barbara Harbach has been Professor of Music at the University of Missouri-St. Louis since 2004.
GSM Commentary: Dr. Ray Urwin
Dr. Ray Urwin is Minister of Music at St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, Costa Mesa, California.
John Knowles Paine: Variations and Fugue on “The Star-Spangled Banner”
Murray Forbes Somerville, organ
1863 Walcker organ in Methuen Memorial Music Hall, Methuen, Massachusetts
Carson Cooman: Be Present, Holy Trinity
Royal Holloway Choir, University of London, Rupert Gough
Samuel Rathbone, organ
Dr. Murray Forbes Somerville was Gund University Organist and Choirmaster from 1990 to 2003, The Memorial Church at Harvard University. Felices Ter takes its text from Horace (65 BC – 8 BC). American composer Carson Cooman (1982-) is a prolific composer who writes in a variety of forms.
Bruce Neswick: I Will Set His Dominion in the Sea
Choir of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C.,
Samuel Carabetta
J. Dan Kiser, organ
Dr. Bruce Neswick is the Canon for Cathedral Music at Trinity Cathedral, Portland, Oregon.
J.S. Bach: Cantata 17, “Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich”
Holland Boys’ Choir; Netherlands Bach Collegium, Pieter Jan Leusink
Ruth Holton, soprano; Sytse Buwalde, alto
Knut Schoch, tenor; Bas Ramselaar, bass
Craig Smith notes: “The pairing of the rather preachy passage from Galatians and the parable of the ten lepers from Luke at first seems an odd one. Jesus’ point – that none of us appreciate enough the gifts of God, since only the Samaritan thanks him for being cured – is really in line with the idea that living by the spirit is the only way to avoid sin in our lives. What is for most people the “straight and narrow” clearly means to Jesus the fullness of all experience.”
Randall Thompson: The Place of the Blest (Cantata for treble voices and chamber orchestra)
Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys; Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Gerre Hancock
Dr. Gerre Hancock (1934-2012) was Organist and Director of Music at St. Thomas Church, New York from 1971-2004.
Ernest Bloch: Adoration and Benediction ~ Sacred Service
London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, Ernest Bloch
Marko Rothmuller, bass-baritone; Dorothy Bond, soprano
Doris Cowan, contralto
This moving performance from 1950 of Ernest Bloch’s moving “Avodat Hakodesh or Sacred Service” was conducted by the composer. The work was commissioned by Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco in the 1930s.
Aaron Copland: In the Beginning
Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys, John Scott
Meg Bragle, mezzo-soprano
“In the Beginning” had its first performance in May 1947 at a Symposium on Music Criticism at Harvard University. Copland used texts from the first two chapters of the Book of Genesis. The work is scored for mezzo-soprano soloist and unaccompanied SATB choir.
Dan Locklair: Requiem
Choir of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem; with members of the
Winston-Salem Symphony Orchestra, Dr. John Cummins
Dr. John Cummins, organ
This recording is from the Requiem’s premiere performance, Nov. 1, 2015, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Winston-Salem. It was written in memory of Professor Locklair’s parents.
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