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Psalm 150
Craig Phillips
Craig Phillips has become one of America’s most accomplished composers of sacred music. Here is a delightful setting of the great praise psalm with choir and organ. More advanced choirs will find this piece a gratifying challenge with its rhythmic playfulness and harmonic changes. A typically colorful organ part completes teh wealth of delights awaiting the listener. This would serve well as an anthem in church as well as a concert.
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The 1979 BCP furnishes the text for this exuberant piece, composed for Ed Rieke and the choir of St. Mark’s, San Antonio, for the parish’s sesquicentennial. It begins in an ebullient 9/8, mingled with bits of 6 and 12/8, and with occasional sixteenth-note “snaps” keeping listeners, singers, and organist on their collective toes. The regulation organ-trumpet solo appears on cue at the “blast of the ram’s horn,” a flash of pedal ostinato underlies the “resounding” cymbals, and the “loud clanging cymbals” call for virtually full organ. The opening “Hallelujah” section returns, even more enthusiastically, for a triumphant close (though I suspect some choirs’ passes might wish that their final long note were an octave lower than the middle C the composer calls for).
THE JOURNAL of the ASSOCIATION OF ANGLICAN MUSICIANS
Volume 20, Number 8, October, 2011
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