Articles Tagged with Organ

Harvard-Radcliffe Reflections, op. 203

Organ Postlude for Harvard College Class of 1971 Reunion Memorial Service

starting with a fugue on the letters

HArvArD-rADCliFFE rEFlECtionS: “worSt ClASS EvEr”

then quoting “Fair Harvard,” 10,000 Men of Harvard,”

“Change the World, It Needs It” and “Let’s Change the Woild”

prem. by composer, Harvard Memorial Church, Sep. 22, 2011

(3’21”)  Posted on YouTube at

Requiem for Hiroshima, A, op. 101

setting of text by Lee Baxandall (1959, rev. 1988-9) 25′

for SATB Soli, Chorus & Orch

chamber orch version: shakuhachi, fl./picc., cl., tpt,

koto, perc., pno, vn, va, vc, cb

in 6 movements:

1) Dies Irae (THE DEAD CRY OUT)

2) Mors stupebit (WHO MAY JUDGE)

3) Liber Scriptus (THIS IS WHAT WAS DONE. THIS IS WHO WE WERE)

4) Lacrymosa (THE KILLED)

5) Rex Tremendae (THE KILLER)

6) Libera Me (NO REST)

last movt previewed Union Theological Seminary

CALC 25th anniversary 7/22/90

entire work previewed w/Solo Octet & Piano, WQXR 8/3/90

premiere: Riverside Church 8/5/90

w/Voices Saintpaulia, Inoue Chamber Ensemble,

& Solo Quartet of the Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus

conducted by Geoffrey Fairweather; broadcast WBAI 8/7/90

prem.w/Solo Octet, Piano & Organ: 9/3/95

Malverne Community Presbyterian Church (LICA concert)