Ennis Fruhauf has announced the completion of Americana, a Symphony of Early
American Hymn Tunes, Four Movements for Orchestra. The individual movements
are entitled Choral on Morning Song; Meditation on Land of Rest; Grand Rondo
on Simple Gifts and Bourbon; and Two Verses and Finale on Wondrous Love.
These four movements have been assembled from existing hymn tune settings
(all available from Fruhauf Music Publications), then adapted and
orchestrated. The full score includes title pages, instrumentation, notes,
and 83 pages of music; performance time is circa 21 minutes.
Fruhauf Music Publications is also slated to release a new edition of
Fantasy on Down Ampney for organ solo, available in January 2009. This
revised version will replace Concordia’s 1991 publication of the same work,
now out of print. Fantasy sets Vaughan Williams’ hymn tune in a
multi-sectional movement that offers three variations on each of the two
structural halves of the source melody; it makes occasional technical
demands on the performer and is moderately difficult.
Visit www.frumuspub.net for detailed information, descriptive pages of
notes, and sample first pages (PDF) for each entry. Postal inquiries should
be addressed to: Fruhauf Music Publications, P.O. Box 22043, Santa Barbara,
CA 93121-2043; telephone 805/682-5727.
December 23, 2008
Fruhauf Music Publications
