LIVE: Hollins, Shows, Alain, Duruflé - Caen / Hauptwerk

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[00:10:50]Well, hello folks and welcome to my home in southern Ohio. I'm Jerry Martin and that was A Song of Sunshine by Alfred Hollands. Isn't that a wonderful piece of music? Um, it is just hard not to have a smile on your face after that.

[00:11:08]Well, welcome everybody. Uh, this is something of a dress rehearsal for me, but it's also an opportunity to hear this music and this virtual organ in two separate locations.

[00:11:21]Um because tomorrow uh I will have the opportunity to play at let's see there we go technical issues. There we go. So tomorrow I will be playing at uh our uh Sciota Catholic Consortium. Uh this is our sacred summer uh concert series and my gratitude to Patrick Torscell for organizing all of this. Now there is a link for this in the description. Uh so we will be using this very organ in a live space uh with the real acoustic of St. Mary of the Annunciation. Uh so you'll get to uh hear what that sounds like and it really sounds very very good. Um thank you all for being here.

[00:12:07]I'm seeing a great number of folks in the chat. Uh I know it's a sunny summer day probably everywhere you are in the world right now. We're seeing a lot of uh summer weather. So hopefully you're staying cool.

[00:12:19]Speaking of which, we have the elements of creation here. We had sunshine. But since this is a sacred music program, we're going to move into kind of a central mystical or spiritual section.

[00:12:33]And after all of that sun to cool us off, we need a little bit of water. And our next piece comes to us from friend and friend of Sciota County and of the channel and all of us, young Mr. Aaron Show. Uh we're going to hear a new piece entitled Washed and Renewed uh from his organ music for baptismal celebrations book. There's a link for this downstairs as well. Uh this is a new book available on Auguxburg Media Fortress and I believe uh he is preparing a video where uh we'll get to hear all of this music by the master himself. But we're going to have one number today just to set the scene and it really does paint a wonderfully uh evocative uh picture. Uh this piece washed and renewed um really takes advantage of the harmonic flute which is a beautiful uh sound that these caval instruments have. So let's have a listen and then I will check in with the chat after that. I hope you enjoy.

[00:14:08]Sorry with this folks. I just had a message from one of my producer friends who is letting me know that one of my behind thescenes piece of technology is not working, but it is now. So, let's hear washed and renewed.

[00:19:17]Well, folks, that was washed and renewed by our friend Erin Shaz, who I think I saw just appear in the chat. Um, but again, certainly plug especially to all of my organist friends that are out there. Um, be sure to uh check out his new publication. Really, really fantastic stuff. Um, just wonderful just that effect of flowing water through that piece and I think a wonderful contrast to the sunshine of Afford Hollands we had on the way into door.

[00:19:49]Well, I think it's time for me to say hi to some folks here in the chat. And thank you, producer team. Just making sure there are no other error messages.

[00:19:59]Uh, this little machinery that works behind the scenes was misbehaving. So, top to bottom here, no particular order except maybe Aaron Chow. Hello there.

[00:20:09]Good to see you and thank you for watching Renewed. Andrew Loose, how are you doing today? Cam and Kristen, thanks for tuning in. Daniel, great to have you with us. And Georgie, thank you for tuning in. Jeie, good to see you. We need to all get caught up in person soon and and make some music here in town.

[00:20:28]Jez, great to have you with us. John Ruiz, thank you for tuning in. Maurice, please do save some of that cream tea for me. I'll be dropping by later. Nigel Gun, good to see you. Rasbuzz, thank you for tuning in. And Robert Varnner, hello. I see Ru is here. Hello. And Stuart Gascal. Uh well, again, thank you all for being here today. Um and yes, Cam, Star Wars, because why not? Star Wars meets Star Trek. You know, uh sometimes we we just have to do all the things.

[00:21:03]Well, uh let me switch back over here to uh tell you about the next segment. So I have two pieces uh that very much complement each other and there is a lot uh in the story of the music and how it's interwoven.

[00:21:22]So we're going to hear litines by Jia Alan and many of my organist friends uh will be very familiar with this but this is perhaps his most famous piece.

[00:21:33]Certainly it's an organ showpiece. Uh but a litany uh is uh a prayer of the church. Um many of the traditional uh Orthodox and Catholic churches will know these. Um it's a prayer that has a kind of a call and response or an invocation and a response and it allows folks to enter into something of a meditative state. And Alan offers us this piece and he has an annotation at the top in French, which I'm not going to read. But the English translation is, "When in distress the Christian soul can find no more words to implore the mercy of God, it repeats times without end the same fierce faith prayer. Reason reaches its limits and only faith can continue the ascent."

[00:22:27]So, tomorrow in the space, um, Patrick and I are going to work with the congregation. We're going to have some audience participation, and we're going to have a little litany to set the stage as we head directly, uh, into this. It's kind of hard for me to do it just by myself, but thanks to the power of something I prepared earlier, I did borrow a little bit of the litany of the saints from the recent conclave at the Vatican. So, I'm going to use that to set the scene just so that you can hear what this sounds like and imagine being in that mystical space as we head into Alan's litines.

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[00:29:22]Well, folks, isn't that a fantastic piece of music? Um, and you can certainly imagine, you know, divine praises, a congregation, uh, working, you know, feverishly, increasing in intensity there. So, that brings us to the next piece which pairs so perfectly with this and works so well on this instrument. Um, and it's a piece that's very dear to me. However, I only got around to learning it this year and it is long overdue.

[00:29:58]So, let's move over to this view so we can chat a little bit about Alan and Durule.

[00:30:07]Um, one moment here while I get all of that correctly. I need that and I need that. There we go. Now you can see me.

[00:30:15]So, Jean Alan, who wrote that piece and wrote a lot of uh music for the organ, some of which is very experimental, really just wonderful stuff. Uh, he was experimenting with different sounds and different colors. But unfortunately, he was taken from us entirely too young. He died in the war and Maurice Dulele was one of his teachers and it's a testament to how impactful this all was that Derule left us a very small number of really curated works and one of those is his prelude deugan uh which is a piece of music which is um as I said it is just really beautiful and I hope you enjoy it but I'm going to teach you a little bit about what makes this piece special and how creative uh Derule was. Uh so first of all it's on the name of Elan. So the first question is how do we spell a name uh using musical letters? There are only you know A B CDE E F G and then we're back to A.

[00:31:24]In Germany, we have an H as well or H uh which is B natural and that was actually allowed RL to develop a cipher which he used to spell the name Hayen in a minuette. So Dule borrowed that idea and if you keep repeating the cipher you end with something that looks like this. So A L becomes D. A is A of course I is A and N is F. So there you go. Every letter uh in the alphabet gets a note.

[00:31:57]So now we have a musical motif uh which is here.

[00:32:07]So that piece every time you hear that in this piece of music and you'll hear it a lot.

[00:32:15]You're going to hear it over and over throughout the piece. This is Derule spelling out the name Alam and he uses it to great effect in the fugue which outside of the works of Bach is perhaps the greatest fugue ever written for the organ. It is just an amazing piece of music. Um, so it also gives us a chord that's a D minor chord which is the key of the whole piece is based on that theme except at the very end you'll hear it moves into D major because we are celebrating. Um, and there is one more tribute which is the reason I played litines first because if if you're new to the piece litines, that melody has been going around in your head for a little while now and you're going to hear it uh in the prelude and fugue. I kind of imagine that the prelude is a young and vibrant Alan uh who discovers the litines theme and then it suddenly changes as we lose Alan and we hear the lity's theme in its purest form stated very melancholically almost as a lament and then we transition to the fugue which opens with Alan's name um very stately almost a funeral cartage but then we hear the light coming and this is the theme of the program to glor glory. Uh it's as if we are getting closer and closer to the divine eternity. Um just you know the fire and frenzy of litany is coming full circle in this piece of music. So you can tell I'm excited about this. I'm going to do my best to play it for you.

[00:33:51]I hope you enjoy.

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[00:47:06]There you have it folks, the prelid a few nom by Maurice Dule.

[00:47:12]Just an amazing piece of music. And today is the dress rehearsal for tomorrow. So, for sure I'll clean up a couple of spots, but probably other spots uh will emerge in live music. But that is something I'm just so happy to uh have and we'll continue to uh to work on. just it's so amazingly written and I hope you enjoyed that sequence uh where we kind of entered the spiritual realm with Aaron's piece washed and renewed and then moved into litines the prayer of the church directly from that into this wonderful tribute by Maurice Dule.

[00:47:49]Well, I've got one more for you folks.

[00:47:52]Uh the number that is going to close out the program is back to Alfred Hollands and we are going to leave the space with his concert over tour in C minor. You may have heard me play this before, but it works really well on this instrument.

[00:48:11]So without further ado, here is Alfred Holland's concert over tour in C minor.

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[00:55:24]Well, folks, thank you for spending just about the last hour with me. I hope you enjoyed this music. I have certainly thoroughly enjoyed playing it. Um, I think the theme has come together really well, and I do love the the Holland's framing. And doesn't Khan do such a good job um of uh being an English Oregon?

[00:55:48]Well, here is just the final promo. If you are in the southern Ohio area, please do drop by. Uh this is the next three concerts in the series. Of course, I am tomorrow. Um and for those friends who can't be here in person, we will be live streaming. But thanks to Patrick Torscell, the final uh performer there, uh we have this Hickford setup, the pipe organ at St. Mary's is currently out of commission. Uh but we are very fortunate to have Patrick uh with all of his talents in town and he has taken this instrument with I think eight monitor speakers and two big subwoofers and actually placed them around the pipe chambers of the organ. Um now on this performance you were listening to the actual acoustic of Cob in St. Mary's all of that uh recorded reverb is trimmed away so we will hear the natural acoustic of the building and it's amazing to hear it come to life. So again thank you all for tuning in. Um hopefully I'll see some of you maybe in person tomorrow or maybe in the live stream and uh I will be back to usual uh next month. So, thank you again for tuning in. Be sure to uh let me know in the comments what you thought and we'll catch you on the next one. Take care.

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