by Jim Gallatin | Jan 31, 2019 | Archives, Music
Prelude: Pastoral Milhaud was born in Marseille, the son of Sophie (Allatini) and Gabriel Milhaud. His father was from a Jewish family from Aix-en-Provence, and his mother was from a Sephardi Jewish family from Italy. Milhaud began as a violinist, later turning to...
by Jim Gallatin | Jan 16, 2019 | Archives
Prelude, Sunday at 8:00: Symphonie II ‘I. ‘Praeludium Circulare’ Charles Marie Widor (1844-1937). The first movement of this organ symphony was reworked three or four times over his very long life. This is the final version. It moves through all the...
by Jim Gallatin | Jan 10, 2019 | Archives, Music
Processional: Songs of Thankfulness and Praise was written by Christopher Wordsworth (1807 – 1885), the nephew of the great lake-poet, William Wordsworth. He was educated at Winchester, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A., with high...
by Jim Gallatin | Jan 2, 2019 | Archives, Music
Prelude: The March of the Magi Kings. Theodore Dubois (1837-1924) is a very strange piece. The French elite were in love with everything “Eastern”. Here is The Death of Sardanapalus (La Mort de Sardanapale) an oil painting on canvas by Eugène Delacroix,...
by Jim Gallatin | Dec 12, 2018 | Archives, Music
Prelude: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland [BWV 659]* Martin Luther (1483 – 1546) Based Veni Redemptor Gentium by St. Ambrose [Aurelius Ambrosius] ( c. 340 – 397). Here is a link to the original: Latin.https://youtu.be/1yZr3w7YHuQ. This music is from a large body of...
