{"id":5626,"date":"2022-09-05T16:45:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T21:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alzand.com\/?p=5626"},"modified":"2022-09-29T14:59:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T19:59:55","slug":"new-solo-organ-work-let-down-the-scale-of-music-from-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/?p=5626","title":{"rendered":"New Solo Organ Work: Let Down the Scale of Music from the Sky<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nL<\/span>et Down the Scale of Music from the Sky<\/i> is a major new work for solo organ commissioned by the American Guild of Organists<\/a> for the 2023 Ronald G. Pogorzelski and Lester D. Yankee Annual Competition<\/a>, written to be premiered on the Pogorzelski\/Yankee organ<\/a> at Indiana University Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

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Pogorzelski\/Yankee organ at Indiana University Pennsylvania.<\/p><\/div>The work borrows music from Henry Purcell\u2019s Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis<\/i>, the composer\u2019s so-called \u201cEvening Service,\u201d written for mixed chorus. The beginning of the organ work presents two short and plaintive phrases, drawn from the Purcell, which together form a gently descending scale. This gesture is used as a sort of repeating refrain in the piece, a \u201cground.\u201d The work\u2019s title is taken from an encomium by poet John Dryden, written in 1695, entitled An Ode, On the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell<\/i>:<\/p>\n

The Heav\u2019ly Choir, who heard his Notes from high,
\nLet down the Scale of Music from the Sky.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let Down the Scale of Music from the Sky is a major new work for solo organ commissioned by the American Guild of Organists for the 2023 Ronald G. Pogorzelski and Lester D. Yankee Annual Competition, written to be premiered on the Pogorzelski\/Yankee organ at Indiana University Pennsylvania. The work borrows music from Henry Purcell\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5626"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5661,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626\/revisions\/5661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}