by Jim Gallatin | May 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
Prelude: Le Banquet Celeste The Celestial Banquet]was written in 1928 while Messiaen was still a student at the Paris Conservatory. The music has gone through a number of revisions. Messiaen wanted the piece to be played very slowly. Here is Messiaen playing on the...
by Jim Gallatin | Mar 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
When the Choir was scheduled to go on a tour hosted by Peter’s Way the music director got to go to Italy with another choir FOR FREE!! I went with a children’s choir from Texas. There was also a husband and wife music team (he directed and she played the...
by Jim Gallatin | Feb 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
Prelude: Le Banquet Celeste composed by Oliver Messiaen (1908 – 1992) in 1928. He was 20 and still at the Paris Conservatory. Here is a link with the composer at his organ at Sainte Trinite in Paris: https://youtu.be/FTyvgKdlIZc It is based on the slow movement...
by Jim Gallatin | Jan 31, 2019 | Music, Uncategorized
Prelude: Pastoral Milhaud was born in Marseille, the son of Sophie (Allatini) and Gabriel Milhaud. His father was from a Jewish family from Aix-en-Provence, and his mother was from a Sephardi Jewish family from Italy. Milhaud began as a violinist, later turning to...
by Jim Gallatin | Jan 16, 2019 | Music
Prelude, Sunday at 8:00: Symphonie II ‘I. ‘Praeludium Circulare’ Charles Marie Widor (1844-1937). The first movement of this organ symphony was reworked three or four times over his very long life. This is the final version. It moves through all the...
