This weekend is 1st Sunday Advent so here’s “O come, O come, Emmanuel” from my “9 Seasonal Voluntaries” (Concordia Publishing House). This recording from mid-80s when I was almost 40 years younger. If I were able to re-rerecord it now, I’d do it MUCH more rubato and slightly slower overall…but I know I’m in no shape to perform it at ANY tempo at my current age 🙂 Recorded at Bayshore Baptist Church, Tampa, FL.
Category: pipe organ
Thanksgiving Hymn Playlists
YouTube playlist of Thanksgiving Day Hymn Videos
SoundCloud playlist of Thanksgiving Day Hymn streaming audio
The two links above are the music posted over the past 6 days, including the video (and soundtrack on SoundCloud) of the Thankfulness video from the Thanksgiving Corona Sabbath.
Music for Thanksgiving
If you’d like some music to accompany stuffing the turkey here’s two playlists…same music on both, just that one is just audio (SoundCloud) and the other video (YouTube).
Holy Mana
https://soundcloud.com/hilton-kean-jones/holy-mana
My setting of an old early American hymn tune. It’s sung to a number of different texts.
Sea flowers from Meditations & Reflections
NCH #418 My Faith, It Is an Oaken Staff
Sunday Morning Music: Elephants Piss in Fear
The title of this movement from Time Grown Old – Images of the Mahabharata, that I composed back 1995, is a literal translation of an actual phrase from the Mahabharata. The entire four movements form a concerto for pipe organ, percussion, and electronic sound. This recording is me as organist, with the University of South Florida Percussion Ensemble, Robert McCormick, Director. It was recorded recorded at the Bayshore Baptist Church, Tampa, Florida.
To listen to today’s Sunday Morning Music, click HERE.
If you decide later you’d like to listen to all four movements, click HERE. Should you listen to the entire piece, please note that movement 2 begins EXTREMELY softly.
ST ANNE with descants plus 3 chorale preludes on the tune
The tune name of this famous Hymn is St Anne. The words are equally famous: “O God, Our Help in Ages Past.” Seems like an appropriate text for these days.
This rendition has all 6 verses as found in NCH #25. There’s a very short intro and the first verse begins when the trumpet enters. Hang on to your part because starting in verse 3 the descants begin (there’s 4 verses with descants)!
Here’s a link to three chorale preludes for solo piano I composed a couple years ago that are based on ST ANNE. They’re audio streaming (nothing to download). You can hear the famous melody used in various ways. For instance, in the slow movement, it’s the top notes of the accompaniment.
(To listen to preludes, click on following link, then the “play” button)
https://soundcloud.com/hilton-kean-jones/sets/3-preludes-on-st-anne-for-solo
And…you’re welcome to download the score HERE, for free. Of course, every composer hopes maybe somebody will feel like playing a piece if there’s a free score on offer!