Alan Morrison was featured May 9 on OneComposer.org for their monthly webcast featuring music of Florence Price. He gave a lecture/demonstration of the compositional process of her Passacaglia and Fugue that was recently published by ClarNan Editions (see December 2020 issue, page 8). He then performed the piece along with other shorter works including Pastorale and Cantilena. The video recordings were made at Trinity United Methodist Church, Atlanta, Georgia, which houses 1912 Austin Organ Company Opus 362. The organ was chosen for this project to capture an authentic tonal representation of how the music would have sounded with Price’s specific registration suggestions. This summer, Morrison will record two of her major works, First Sonata for Organ and Passacaglia and Fugue, along with other character pieces.
On May 15, Morrison performed the dedication concert of the new organ by Dobson Pipe Organ Builders, Ltd., Opus 97, located in the John and Alice Butler Hall in the Heritage Center of the University of Dubuque, Iowa. The concert included solo repertoire and orchestra/organ works featuring the Columbus Symphony of Ohio, conducted by Rossen Milanov. The concert was performed in front of a partial audience and live-streamed on the Columbus Symphony YouTube channel.
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