American Organist’s Christmas #2051
. . . music for the holiday with a distinctly home-grown flavor.
Hour One
LEE HOIBY: At the round earth’s imagined corners –Memphis Boy Choir & Chamber Choir/John Ayer; Diane Meredith Belcher (1990 Reuter/St. John’s Episcopal Church, Memphis, TN) Pro Organo 7037
GERALD NEAR: My dancing day –Memphis Boy Choir & Chamber Choir/John Ayer; David Kienzle (1990 Reuter/St. John’s Episcopal Church, Memphis, TN) Pro Organo 7039
HENRY MARTIN: Prelude & Fugue No. 18 in E-flat –Adam Brakel (1965-2010 Wicks/St. James Cathedral, Orlando, FL) PD Archive (r. 9/30/20)
STEPHEN PAULUS: Hallelu. DAVID ASHLEY WHITE: Hodie Christus natus est –University of St. Thomas Singers/Brady Knapp; Yuri McCoy (1998 Schoenstein/St. Basil’s Chapel, St. Thomas University, Houston, TX) Gothic 49312
DAVID CHERWIEN (arr.): 4 Christmas Carols (On Christmas night; Oh, come little children; It came upon a midnight clear; Joy to the world) –Rachel Brandwein, harp; Sarah Carmack, oboe; National Lutheran Choir; David Cherwien (2003 Reuter/St. Michael’s Lutheran Church, Bloomington, MN) NLC 2019
GASTON DETHIER: Christmas (Variations on Adeste fidelis) –Adam Brakel (1965-2010 Wicks/St. James Cathedral, Orlando, FL) PD Archive (r. 10/2/20)
Filler – HOIBY (see above)
Hour Two
J. F. WADE: Adeste fidelis –Memphis Boy Choir & Chamber Choir/John Ayer; Kristin Lensch (1990 Reuter/St. John’s Episcopal Church, Memphis, TN) Pro Organo 7169
LEROY ANDERSON: Sleigh Ride. MEL TORMÉ & ROBERT WELLS: The Christmas Song. RAYMOND SCOTT: The Toy Trumpet –Jonas Nordwall (Wurlitzer/Community Theater, Berkeley, CA) Nor Cal 908
J. WILLIAM GREENE: 3 Christmas Ayres & Dances (Carol Ouverture; Regent Square Harpeggio; Stille Nacht Pastorale) –J. William Greene (Klop trunk organ/Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Lynchburg, VA) Pro Organo 7281
LARRY VISSER: Solemn Prelude on In the bleak midwinter –Larry Visser (1996 Austin-Allen/LaGrave Avenue Christian Reformed Church, Grand Rapids, MI) LaGrave 2013
ROBERT ROTH: Improvisation on The Infant King –Thomas Baugh (2004 Fisk/Christ Episcopal Church, Roanoke, VA) Raven 850
THEODORE MORRISON: Cantata, Unto us a child is born –Michael Gallant, tenor; University of Michigan Chamber Choir & Detroit Chamber Orchestra/Theodore Morrison; James Kibbie (1955 Aeolian-Skinner/Hill Auditorium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI) Equilibrium 54
Filler – MARTIN (see above)
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