Thanks for sharing this recording. Our parish organist was playing this as I walked into church to prepare for choir rehearsal yesterday, and I made a note of the composer so I could find it afterwards.
Just thanks, man. I grew up in once-paradisiacal Phoenix, a 5-min walk from Trinity, where David Johnson thrived. And on an intact EM Skinner--since butchered then insinuated (could not help the delicious malaprop from *Some Like It Hot.") Seriously: this has to be the best of the prolific genre by David Johnson. There are some quite astonishing harmonies that within tonal theory just barely break the bounds and enter into Modernism. Don't you just r.e.s.p.e.c.t that? No Modernist indulgence whatever! Kinda like shutting up rather than risking stupidity. That was David! And yet: breathing high sophistication. I must get this one out and learn it. ....knowing the trap, ie, easy-enough notes but the need to live with them long enough to make due justice to "Taste." And with Johnson, you need to take all that time so as to avoid "meh." Am half cringing, but venture anyway: I recorded his Eb and put it on here. Am also ok with a shot at Gerald Near and Hugo Distler. Stuff for organ fanatics, for sure. But you might enjoy. Cheers, Mark (currently Slc Utah)
Thanks for sharing this recording. Our parish organist was playing this as I walked into church to prepare for choir rehearsal yesterday, and I made a note of the composer so I could find it afterwards.
Easily one of the most gorgeous modern works for organ, shows the colors of the organ. Mmm, mmm, mmm! And played so masterfully!
Golden age of Lutheran modernism. I just can’t get enough.
Just thanks, man. I grew up in once-paradisiacal Phoenix, a 5-min walk from Trinity, where David Johnson thrived. And on an intact EM Skinner--since butchered then insinuated (could not help the delicious malaprop from *Some Like It Hot.")
Seriously: this has to be the best of the prolific genre by David Johnson. There are some quite astonishing harmonies that within tonal theory just barely break the bounds and enter into Modernism. Don't you just r.e.s.p.e.c.t that? No Modernist indulgence whatever! Kinda like shutting up rather than risking stupidity. That was David! And yet: breathing high sophistication. I must get this one out and learn it. ....knowing the trap, ie, easy-enough notes but the need to live with them long enough to make due justice to "Taste." And with Johnson, you need to take all that time so as to avoid "meh." Am half cringing, but venture anyway: I recorded his Eb and put it on here. Am also ok with a shot at Gerald Near and Hugo Distler. Stuff for organ fanatics, for sure. But you might enjoy. Cheers, Mark (currently Slc Utah)
Good diagnosis! :)
There is one "dislike." Evidently that listener must've been suffering from otitis, or excessive exposure to Justin Beiber,