DAVID ASHLEY WHITE
TRIPTYCH
for organ & brass quintet
DAVID ASHLEY WHITE, composer
David White has served as professor of composition at the University of Houston's School of Music. His large catalog of compositions includes works for band, orchestra, choir, solo voice and various chamber ensembles. White's vocal pieces are in current editions of the Episcopal and the new Methodist hymnals.
Triptych (1979) was commissioned by Houston organist Alison Rudd and is patterned after the Baroque concerto grosso style. The "Prelude" sets a quiet, lyrical mood. The emphasis is on solo lines which are passed from one instrument to another. The "Capriccio" is characterized by rapidly changing meters and more angular melodic lines in its outer sections and flowing cantabile material in the middle portion. The concluding "Hymn" is a theme and variations, with the theme first heard as an offstage trumpet solo. This movement is based on an original hymn tune for the Advent season.
David White has served as professor of composition at the University of Houston's School of Music. His large catalog of compositions includes works for band, orchestra, choir, solo voice and various chamber ensembles. White's vocal pieces are in current editions of the Episcopal and the new Methodist hymnals.
Triptych (1979) was commissioned by Houston organist Alison Rudd and is patterned after the Baroque concerto grosso style. The "Prelude" sets a quiet, lyrical mood. The emphasis is on solo lines which are passed from one instrument to another. The "Capriccio" is characterized by rapidly changing meters and more angular melodic lines in its outer sections and flowing cantabile material in the middle portion. The concluding "Hymn" is a theme and variations, with the theme first heard as an offstage trumpet solo. This movement is based on an original hymn tune for the Advent season.
Brass Maryland Concert Series
Great Music in Great Spaces
March 1991 performance
BALTIMORE'S
OLD ST. PAUL'S CHURCH
Founded in 1692
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Donald Sutherland, organ
Annapolis Brass Quintet
Robert Suggs, trumpet; David Cran, trumpet;
Sharon Tiebert, horn; Wayne Wells, trombone;
Robert Posten, bass trombone
Great Music in Great Spaces
March 1991 performance
BALTIMORE'S
OLD ST. PAUL'S CHURCH
Founded in 1692
____________
Donald Sutherland, organ
Annapolis Brass Quintet
Robert Suggs, trumpet; David Cran, trumpet;
Sharon Tiebert, horn; Wayne Wells, trombone;
Robert Posten, bass trombone
David Ashley White
Triptych (1979)
1) Prelude 2) Capriccio 3) Hymn
Duration: (14:00)
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DONALD SUTHERLAND, organist
Donald Sutherland has performed with orchestras, chamber ensembles and on solo recitals throughout the United States and Europe. At the conclusion of the 2015-16 academic year, Sutherland retired from full-time teaching at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
He had served on the Peabody organ faculty since 1986, where he was coordinator of the program. In 1997 he was given the Excellence in Teaching Award by the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association. An active member of the American Guild of Organists, Sutherland served three terms as national secretary. He is the music director emeritus at Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church in Bethesda, Maryland, where he served in the music ministry for 25 years.
Donald Sutherland has performed with orchestras, chamber ensembles and on solo recitals throughout the United States and Europe. At the conclusion of the 2015-16 academic year, Sutherland retired from full-time teaching at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
He had served on the Peabody organ faculty since 1986, where he was coordinator of the program. In 1997 he was given the Excellence in Teaching Award by the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association. An active member of the American Guild of Organists, Sutherland served three terms as national secretary. He is the music director emeritus at Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church in Bethesda, Maryland, where he served in the music ministry for 25 years.
GIOVANNI GABRIELI (1553/6 - 1612)
No composer is more closely linked with polychoral music than Giovanni Gabrieli. He was surely not the first to compose in the polychoral style, but it was really Gabrieli's hand, as both composer and teacher, which shaped the antiphonal revolution, and it is he who stands as the unchallenged head of the Venetian School.
Surprisingly, the widespread familiarity of Gabrieli's name and its close association with brass is often more of a burden than a benefit to the brass quintet; the entire corpus contains but a single five-part canzona! Let brass players join forces with the organ, however, and the matter appears in quite a different light. With adequate forces at hand -- and, lest there be any mistake, brass and organ constitute adequate force -- there is no body of repertoire approached with greater joy and enthusiasm than Giovanni Gabrieli's polychoral music, the music which truly heralded the dawn of the golden age of brass.
No composer is more closely linked with polychoral music than Giovanni Gabrieli. He was surely not the first to compose in the polychoral style, but it was really Gabrieli's hand, as both composer and teacher, which shaped the antiphonal revolution, and it is he who stands as the unchallenged head of the Venetian School.
Surprisingly, the widespread familiarity of Gabrieli's name and its close association with brass is often more of a burden than a benefit to the brass quintet; the entire corpus contains but a single five-part canzona! Let brass players join forces with the organ, however, and the matter appears in quite a different light. With adequate forces at hand -- and, lest there be any mistake, brass and organ constitute adequate force -- there is no body of repertoire approached with greater joy and enthusiasm than Giovanni Gabrieli's polychoral music, the music which truly heralded the dawn of the golden age of brass.
Giovanni Gabrieli
Two Canzoni from Sacrae Symphoniae (1597)
I. Canzon primi toni
II. Canzon duodecimi toni
Donald Sutherland, organ, and the Annapolis Brass Quintet
March 1991 performance in Baltimore's Old St. Paul's Church
To listen Tap Below
Duration (07:29)
Two Canzoni from Sacrae Symphoniae (1597)
I. Canzon primi toni
II. Canzon duodecimi toni
Donald Sutherland, organ, and the Annapolis Brass Quintet
March 1991 performance in Baltimore's Old St. Paul's Church
To listen Tap Below
Duration (07:29)
FOSTERING BRASS CHAMBER MUSIC
The score and parts for David Ashley White's Triptych for organ and brass quintet and Giovanni Gabrieli's Canzona primi toni and Canzona duodecimo toni, along with the entire ABQ music library, are available for research and performance from the Oberlin Conservatory.
For direct access to the Annapolis Brass Quintet Special Collection @ Oberlin
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The score and parts for David Ashley White's Triptych for organ and brass quintet and Giovanni Gabrieli's Canzona primi toni and Canzona duodecimo toni, along with the entire ABQ music library, are available for research and performance from the Oberlin Conservatory.
For direct access to the Annapolis Brass Quintet Special Collection @ Oberlin
Tap Here