Piping Up! Organ Concerts at Temple Square

[Music] hello and welcome to this episode of piping up presented by the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square we're glad to have you with us all five of the Tabernacle and Temple Square organists are represented on our program today Richard Elliot Andrew unsworth Brian Mathias Linda Margarets and Joseph peoples I'm your host Luke Howard we open with Richard Elliot playing an old dance updated into the 20th century in the middle of Andre ca's 1712 Opera eom the composer includes a brief instrumental rigodon in the 17th and 18th centuries a rigodon was an energetic couple's dance that involved Hops and leaps it could be quite vigorous in 1960 Virgil Fox published an organ arrang ment of ca's rigodon with the tempo slowed down considerably and it soon became a favorite processional for weddings and other ceremonial occasions in Fox's version this music is more Majestic than vigorous so while the notes on the page are by CA the interpretation is very much Virgil [Music] Fox [Music] when Johan Sebastian bark moved to leik in 1723 he began composing sacred canatas for the St Thomas Church at the rate of about 1 a week over the next next four or 5 years these 200 plus cantatas are a truly remarkable body of work not only for the Supreme quality of the musical composition but also the profundity of Bark's understanding of the Liturgy and its ability to express faith that he could keep turning out works like this at such a pace is a miracle and I don't use that word lightly we'll hear the opening Symphonia of one of these canatas unuk fangan bwv 49 which dates from 1726 originally written for kante organ and Orchestra will hear it performed in an arrangement for organ duet by Cult and era dong our organists are Linda margets and Joseph peoples then immediately following Andrew unsworth performs the Fantasia by Sir Charles villus Stanford a work from 1910 that's based on a hym tune Stanford him self had written a few years earlier in 1904 the hymn tune is Engelberg which Stanford intended to accompany the hymn for all the saints unfortunately for Stanford his illustrious student Ray for Williams also wrote a very fine musical setting of for all the saints and that was the one included in the English Himel of 1906 which vaugh Williams edited eventually Stanford's engleberg tune was paired with the much more recent hymn when in our music God is glorified and that's where it found a lasting home first we hear Joseph and Linda perform the opening Symphonia of bar canata number 49 then Andrew presents the Fantasia by Sir Charles villus Stanford [Music] [Applause] [Music] of [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] l [Music] [Music] [Music] in [Music] [Music] [Music] for [Music] all [Music] for [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] h [Music] [Music] I have a distinct memory of the first time I heard the Andante sanuto movement from Shari vidor's syon goti it was in the mid1 1980s in Sydney Australia and my father had just purchased the family's first compact disc player to add to our home sound system for me the Howard family's resident classical music buff the most pressing question was of course what should be the first CD we listen to on our new player the answer came quickly the man from the audio store Who Sold us the equipment presented us with a compact disc of John L hurst's 1983 recording of organ music from the Salt Lake Tabernacle without knowing of our family's connections to Salt Lake City at all he told us this was the perfect opportunity to experience the advanced Sound Engineering of the new compact disc format I had just returned from spending 18 months in Salt Lake City where I had the privilege of hearing Dr Longhurst and the other Tabernacle organists play the organ regularly and frequently the sound of This Magnificent instrument was almost literally still ringing in my ears when I popped the CD recording into the tray and pressed play I'd never heard the Andante Sano movement of vor's Gothic Symphony until I sat and listened to that recording in my family living room with headphones on and wept it wasn't just vor's music glorious as it is nor the instrument itself magnificent as it is it wasn't only the sensitive and eminently musical performance nor Nostalgia for my recent connection with the Tabernacle and its world famous or my emotions sprang from some combination of all those things along with the palpable feeling that through this music this instrument and this performer I felt in my heart that God knew me and was speaking to me in a language I could understand that experience relatively prosaic in all external ways has shaped my life ever since in sharing this story recently with tab AAL organist Brian maias I learned that he also first heard and loved this music on John LGH hurst's recording in fact vor's Andante sanuto was one of the first pieces Brian ever played on the Tabernacle organ as a teenager with John Longhurst standing by assisting with the registration we'll hear now Brian maias perform the Andante sanudo second movement from Sharie vidor's smony goti of 1895 [Music] [Music] live [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] for [Music] [Music] [Music] for [Music] [Music] [Music] h [Music] [Laughter] [Music] for [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] for [Music] [Music] Amazing Grace is one of the most cherished hymns in all of Christendom it's deeply personal message of being rescued from blindness and despair resonates not only with The Devout believer but also with anyone who has grieved either for themselves or others and it has rightly taken it place as an Anthem of healing and hope outside of the church as well Linda margets concludes this program now with the Takata on Amazing Grace by the American organist composer J Christopher Parini [Music] [Applause] [Music] I [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] when we began broadcasting piping up in June 2020 the world looked quite different this show was created originally to offer some hope and help meet the need for beauty and spiritual renewal in very trying times I think we did well for the last three and a half years millions of viewers have tuned in to piping up for superb performances of great organ music and all those performances will still be available for on demand viewers on the Tabernacle choir's YouTube channel but the original objectives of piping up have been met and it's time to move forward with other endeavors so on behalf of the organists the crew and everyone associated with piping up we thank you for sharing this journey with us it's been our pleasure and honor you can keep watching these amazing organists on the Tabernacle choir's weekly broadcasts of music and the spoken word and we hope period Al to come together again in the future for special piping up related events and broadcasts but for now in musical terminology we've reached the end of the movement the double bar line thank you and we look forward to seeing you again next [Music] time

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Length: 31min 24sec (1884 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 09 2023