Word: organists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other boys along North Gage Avenue, in Los Angeles, gallivanted around, used dirty words, got into fights. But tall, skinny, redheaded Courtney Rogers practiced his music lessons, minded his father and his mother and his grandmother. After he graduated from high school he got a job as a church organist...
...club song of London's 18th Century Anacreontic Society. Called To Anacrcon in Heaven, it was written by John Stafford Smith, the society's organist. Author Francis Scott Key. although believed to be tone-deaf, was apparently familiar with the original song. Congress, tone-deaf to such entreaties as the tune's unsingability as well as its convivial origins, made the anthem official...
Fauré: Requiem (Marcelle Denya, soprano, Mack Harrell, baritone, Roland Roy, organist, Les Disciples de Massenet chorus, Montreal Festivals Orchestra conducted by Wilfred Pelletier; Victor; 9 sides). A beautiful, almost overrefined French deathpiece, finely done...
...Toccata and Fugue in D minor, for instance, easily surpasses all of the D minor, for instance, casily surpasses all of the other four versions, three of which are recorded on large-scale organs, and one of which is in an opulent orchestral transcription. Certainly if there is any organist in the country who has spark enough in his fingers to put the Germanic Museum organ through its baptism of fire and make the rafters ring with really gorgeous organ sonorities, it is Weinrich...
...works of three generations of organisits--Sweelinck, Buxtehude, and J. S. Bach. Sweelinck, the wonder of his age, who toured Europe triumphantly performing on the organ and clavichord, has long been relegated to a musty pigeonhole in the history of music. Musicologists credit him with having been the first organist to use the pedal independently, as a separate voice in a fugue, Sweelinck's own editors claim for him the distinction of having "founded" instrumental music, but rarely if ever is his fine body of work treated to a fresh, non-pedantic hearing...