TRANSCRIPT: June 3, 2020
MID-WEEK MUSICAL INTERLUDES #5

Hi, my name is Melissa Givens, Assistant Professor of Music at Pomona College in Claremont, California, and I'd like to welcome you to “Mid-Week Musical Interludes,” our podcast series featuring an array of glorious new and not-so-new works as recently performed by faculty, guests and students of Pomona College. For more information on the music from our podcasts please visit us at pomona.edu/musicpodcast, and music podcast is all one word.

This week we present two organ selections performed by College Organist William Peterson, on The Hill Memorial Organ, built by C.B. Fisk. The first is Alexandre Guilmant’s Choral, Opus 49, Number 3, which we then followed with Jacques Ibert’s Choral: Justorum animae in manu Dei sunt. Both selections are from William Peterson’s 2018 CD entitled “Recital at Bridges Hall.” We thank Loft Recordings, LLC for permission to use these excerpts, and we hope you enjoy them!

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE PODCAST:

The Department of Music at Pomona College has been given free license by Loft Recordings to use tracks from the CD LRCD-1140 “Recital at Bridges Hall,” William J. Peterson, organist for the summer 2020 podcast “A Mid-week Musical Interlude.” 

Credits:
“Recital at Bridges Hall,” William J. Peterson, organ
Loft Recordings LRCD-1140
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The CD was recorded in Mabel Shaw Bridges Hall of Music located on the campus of Pomona College, 150 E. Fourth St., Claremont, CA.


Read about William Peterson at https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/william-j-peterson


CD LINER NOTES BY WILLIAM PETERSON:

As a composer, Guilmant wrote a staggering amount of music, most of it for organ, including multi-movement sonatas, stately marches, character pieces, and many works based on plainchant. The compositions heard in this recording were published in L’Organiste pratique “The Practical Organist,” 5e livraison, Op. 49 and in L’Organiste liturgiste “The Liturgical Organist,” Op. 65, a collection which includes about sixty works, most from the 1880s and 1890s, based on plainchant.

The first public performances of Ibert’s compositions took place in the first half of the 1920s (the Lamoureux Orchestra, conducted by Paul Paray, performed Ibert’s Escales in 1924). The critic René Dumesnil wrote in 1930 that Ibert was one of the most accomplished musicians of the “war generation.” At the head of his Choral Ibert included the phrase “Justorum animae in manu dei sunt” and the source of this quotation as “Sap. III, 1.” The first verse in Chapter 3 of the Wisdom of Solomon (The Books of the Apocrypha) begins with the words: “But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God.”