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...
by Jim Gallatin | Jan 10, 2019 | Music
Processional: Songs of Thankfulness and Praise was written by Christopher Wordsworth (1807 – 1885), the nephew of the great lake-poet, William Wordsworth. He was educated at Winchester, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A., with high...
