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Cathedral Architecture for organ and piano
RSN:
72857
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Composition Date:
2016
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Revision Date:
N/A
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Duration:
00:38:00
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Programme Notes
Cataloguing Information
Call Number
MI 2334 B954cat
Genre
Keyboard, Clavichord or Similar, Two Keyboards, Four or More Hands, Four Hands
Material Type
Print-music
Acquisition Date
2017-08-14
Library Collection Publisher / Label
Unpublished, printed by CMC / Inédit, imprimé par le CMC
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Additional Information
I. Spires II. Gargoyles III. Windows IV. Flying Buttresses V. Foundation
Master Location
Toronto
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Physical Description
Found 1 record(s)
Available Actions
Extent of Item
Score
Instrumentation
Found 2 record(s)
Available Actions
Set No.
Category
Instrument
Number
53040
Keyboard
Piano
1
53040
Keyboard
Organ
1
Divided
No
Solo
No
Divided
No
Solo
No
Premiere
Edmonton, Alberta West End Christian Reformed Church 4 Nov 2016 Duo Majoya: Marnie Giesbrecht, organ, and Joachim Segger, piano
Cathedral Architecture began life as a work for organ and brass band, commissioned by the Hannaford Street Silver Band for a premiere performance at Metropolitan United Church, Toronto, Ontario, on November 3rd, 2012. The work is dedicated to organist William O’Meara, the soloist for this premiere performance and an organist who has performed numerous compositions by John Burge in the past. The HSSB released a recording of this premiere performance on a CD titled, ONTARIO REFLECTIONS: Hannaford Live, Vol. 1. The work was subsequently rescored for organ and orchestra through a commission from the Kingston Symphony Association for a premiere performance on October 27th, 2013 in St. George’s Cathedral, Kingston, Ontario with the Cathedral’s organist, Michael Capon as soloist and Evan Mitchell, conducting. Finally (and this surely will be the last version), the composer was very happy to make an arrangement of the work for organ and piano at the request of two wonderful Edmonton musicians, Marnie Giesbrecht and Joachim Seeger, who are both fine pianists and organists regularly presenting a concert series in Edmonton and touring under the name DUO MAJOYA.At the work’s heart, Cathedral Architecture is really an organ concerto or symphony that musically captures the structural and design features of a large cathedral in sonic building blocks. While the work is organized in five movements, the brevity of the first four movements coupled with the expansive last movement give the work a broader two-part sense of organization. The first four contrasting movements are subtitled, “Spires, Gargoyles, Windows and Flying Buttresses,” and are presented in a slow-fast-slow-fast alternation of tempos. Each of these opening movements utilizes very distinctive organ colours, sometimes employed to accompany prominent solos from the band or orchestra. The fifth and final movement is subtitled, “Foundations,” and is a passacaglia with a fixed bass line that is repeated throughout the movement beginning initially with a lengthy organ solo. As the last movement unfolds, prominent passages from the opening four movements return in reverse order as the music builds an aural cathedral moving from the foundations through the buttresses, windows, gargoyles and spires until eventually reaching a coda that ends with as much volume as can be produced by all the musicians involved. Please note: The organist might consider performing this work using the solo organ part that was prepared for the organ and brass band version and the organ and orchestra version. In other words, the organ part is identical in all versions but the separate solo organ part has better page turns and just a single line of cues than the piano/organ score.
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