Michael’s Music Service announces new offerings.
Alexander Russell was director of music and organist for both (New York & Philadelphia) Wanamaker stores and music professor at Princeton University and brought over Vierne, Dupré, and others for their first American concerts.
In preparation for the release of Russell’s St. Lawrence Sketches, Michael’s Music Service is offering a download of John Tasker Howard’s booklet on Russell, with comments on his music up to 1925 (it was one of the Studies of Contemporary American Composers booklets issued by J. Fischer & Bro. to increase awareness and interest in American composers).
Click on:
http://michaelsmusicservice.com/books/Howard.AlexanderRussell.shtml.
Also available is a YouTube video of Erica Mundy playing Jeanne Shaffer’s Partita On Schmücke Dich, at http://michaelsmusicservice.com/music/Shaffer.SchmueckeDich.html.
September 16, 2010
THE DIAPASON
