Word: 134th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fats was playing a harmonium at the age of five. Born on Manhattan's West 134th Street, he grew up next door to P.S. 89. This made it easy for his mother, who had eleven other children, to lean out of the window and call, "How's Tom doin'?" His father was pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, now the largest Baptist congregation in the world, where Tom took up the organ...
...that "Nymphe and Shepherds" of Purcell was written for a play called the "Libertine," a fact not mentioned on the program but given here for what it is worth. Following are two religious pieces of the 17th century, "Confitemini Domino" by Constantini and a setting for chorus of the 134th psalm by Bach's contemporary, Sweelink. The 18th century is represented by a beautiful chorus from Gluck's "Orpheus." The two modern choral works to be sung are unusual arrangements. "Mal" Holmes has turned the organ accompaniment of Mendelssohn's motet "Laudati Pueri" into a rich orchestral background, while...