Piping Up! Organ Concert at Temple Square | October 5, 2022

[Music] good afternoon and welcome to this episode of piping up presented by the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square our organist today is Brian Matthias and I'm your host Luke Howard we opened with two works that have long Noble histories the first is an arrangement of the hymn Jehovah Lord of Heaven and Earth this tune was composed by the American Carpenter marine and part-time choir director Oliver Holden and was first published in 1793. it has been in constant use ever since making it quite possibly the oldest American hymn tune still in general use if you're familiar with this melody though you most likely associate it with a different text all hail the power of Jesus name Brian will perform John longhurst's arrangement of this Splendid tune followed by Dietrich bookstorhuda's preludium in C major an organ work in three distinct sections that attempts to create an impression of being improvised on the spot now that was typical of many keyboard works from the 17th century and the fact that they were subsequently written down and published shows that they weren't necessarily improvised but these Works give us important Clues regarding how organ improvisations may have sounded at the time [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] thank you foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign foreign [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] the French organist and composer Jean Allen was killed in action in World War II when only 29 years old perhaps more frequently than for any other composer of the 20th century a lens untimely death is still lamented 80 years later as a great loss to the musical world a land seemed to understand even in his relative youth the Allure of the unattainable in his 1934 work titled suspendu the Hanging Gardens Alan attempted to capture as he phrased it the ideal constantly pursued by the artist yet always elusive it is the inaccessible and inviolent refuge the Hanging Gardens is of course a reference to the legendary Gardens of Babylon one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World remote to John Alan in both chronology and geography so elan's music here can be no more substantial than an imaginary vision the sound World a land creates in this piece is vaguely relevant of the East but perceived through veils and Vapors it rarely Ventures lower than Middle Sea rarely gets louder than a dynamic marking of piano this is music that induces us to look upward as it strives for Eternal Tranquility that in violent Refuge unknown to jonalen in real life now there is a theory that the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were not actually real that they were nothing more than a poetic mythological idea of a peaceful Paradise and this makes a land's music even more diaphanous as if it were a dream of a dream perhaps like his friend Olivier Messiah Jean Allen seemed to understand that Divine Mysteries could be explored in music without necessarily putting God in the title or quoting Gregorian chant or arranging a well-known hymn tune this eternal Refuge a land hoped to portray might at times seem unattainably distant or even hypothetical like the Hanging Gardens of Babylon but it calls to us and it is real through musical works like Alan's La Jada suspendu we can understand that others also wonder where we can turn for lasting Divine peace where we can find that invalid Refuge that is more substantial than a dream a lens music is barely there it's an almost transparent evocation and yet it creates an impression of Eternal peace that in my hearing of it can give us real hope rather than a dream of a dream it might help to think of this music as a shimmering glimpse of the Divine [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign of the program we'll hear Brian Arrangements of two well-known Melodies first is the old Latter-Day Saint favorite come Come Ye Saints and then the beautiful silesian folk Melody first published as shirtsu it was subsequently known in English language hymnals as Fairest Lord Jesus or beautiful savior [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] thank you thank you foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] the French organist and composer Maurice durufflay was his own most severe critic duraflate published only a little more than a dozen works with Opus numbers during his lifetime so I believe that any of his compositions that made it through the composer's very own selective process of adjudication therefore worthy of our attention durafly didn't publish any lemons in other words we can't always make that claim for other composers even some of the great Masters Brian closes today's program now with a work inspired by the chiming bells of swazong cathedral in the north of France it's duraflase Fugue suletem ducalion desert de la Cathedral de suazon Opus 12 from 1962. [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] thank you thank you for watching this episode of piping Up featuring organist Brian Matthias we're so glad you joined us 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 choirs website and YouTube channel and at broadcasts.churchofjesuschrist.org [Music]

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Length: 31min 26sec (1886 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 05 2022