Piping Up! Organ Concert at Temple Square | June 21, 2023

[Music] thank you welcome to this episode of piping up presented by the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square we're glad to have you with us today our organist is Brian Matthias and I'm your host Luke Howard Welsh composer William Matthias wrote both a processional in 1965 and a recessional in 1986 for solo organ although they might come at opposite ends of the service and from different times in matthias's career they share similar features both are bright enthusiastic and mostly upbeat solos with a clear step-like tread to their rhythms the more recent recessional is a little more chromatic and some of its harmonies perhaps darker more densely voiced than its neo-renaissance sibling this recessional by William Mathias opens Brian's concert today [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Applause] thank you [Music] foreign [Applause] foreign foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] thank you Robert Schumann was a Pianist a composer of course a friend and host to famous musicians and Nemesis to some others he was also a very influential music critic Advocate and mentor and the husband of one of the most gifted and underrated 19th century musicians Clara Schumann what Robert Schumann wasn't was an organist or a master of Baroque style Counterpoint despite being completely enamored for a time with J.S bark and fugues it was 1845 and Schumann tried very hard to develop his technique in Counterpoint through a series of compositions for either organ or pedal piano we'll hear two of these works now the puckish canon in B minor followed by the sentimental song-like canon in B major from schumann's six canonic etudes opus 56. and neither of them sound remotely like Bach's Counterpoint the canonic voices in each work are often hidden in decidedly schumannesque harmonies and textures thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] arrangement of the pioneer era hymn come Come Ye Saints followed by Jesus Loves Me A mid-19th Century Sunday school song with music by the boston-based organist and composer William B Bradbury it was actually Bradbury who added the chorus yes Jesus Loves Me to the simple but affecting verses originally penned by Anna Bartlett Warner in 1860. come Come Ye Saints then Brian matthias's arrangement of Jesus loves me [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] what does it mean when we describe a piece of music as being in a particular key G Major D Minor that kind of thing it depends completely on the style and more especially the time period of the piece if the music dates from around the 1760s for example stating that a piece is in the key of G major brings with it some expectation of predictability it will almost certainly start and finish with a G major chord and there'll be a lot of G major and closely related harmonies in the middle of the piece by the time you get to the late 19th and early 20th centuries a composition that's titled as being in a key might actually do none of those things and this is certainly the case with Louis vian's Organ Symphony Number Three which is nominally in the key of F sharp minor a key signature of three sharps as you listen to the first movement the Allegro mystoso you might wonder though where F sharp minor really is the deeply chromatic opening leaves you unrooted without a solid reference point there's only one indisputable F-sharp minor chord in the entire piece that sounds like it's the home chord and that comes about a minute into the movement then the key signature changes to four sharps then three Flats back to three Sharps four flats and finally back to three Sharps the key signature of F sharp minor but vienne doesn't give us another F sharp minor chord at all the final chord of the movement is a pickety third F sharp major now I know that was a lot of musical terminology to describe what's really a simple phenomenon sometimes a title or a label really doesn't do justice to the complexity of the thing it describes we like labels they're useful we like to know where things fit but a label can also oversimplify or mask or misdirect this is as true of people as it is of musical compositions how easy is it to reduce a vibrant intricate individual to a simple catchphrase or label that to borrow from vienne might represent only one chord among hundreds in the complex composition of their life and character we're taught rightly to beware of judging superficially or of thinking we know a person based on things like their physical appearance their politics their culture or temperament it's too easy to say oh they're that kind of person and reduce them to one trait alone so Brian will close today's program with the Allegro mystoso first movement from vienne's Symphony Number Three but if you're thinking that this is just an F sharp minor kind of movement prepare to be astonished [Music] thank you foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] foreign foreign [Music] foreign [Music] we're so glad you joined us for this episode of piping Up featuring organist Brian Matthias thank you for watching you are always welcome to return for the weekly live stream of these concerts and previous episodes are also available for on-demand viewing more information about this program including a link to submit listener requests can be found at tabquire.org piping up piping up organ concerts at Temple Square streams live every Wednesday at noon Mountain Time on the Tabernacle choir's website and YouTube channel and at broadcasts.churchofjesuschrist.org [Music]

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Length: 30min 47sec (1847 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 21 2023