The Enduring Relevance of the Organ

December 2018

https://www.juilliard.edu/news/137336/enduring-relevance-organ

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"The first half of the concert consisted of music from and paying homage to the Baroque era as well as an electronics-and-visual performance that would have captivated even the most inattentive parishioner. The second half was entirely dominated by the portative organ, which I played. The repertoire consisted of pieces for solo keyboard based on eight chorales from the magisterial third part of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Clavier-Übung; they were each paired with a piece commissioned for this concert, written by an alumnus of the conservatory. Some composers took their cues from the chorale tunes that Bach based his pieces on. Others were inspired by the texts. One composer reimagined one of Bach’s chorale preludes, writing as if Bach lived in present-day Singapore."