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DAVID ASHLEY WHITE'S 
TRIPTYCH

for organ & brass quintet


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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 hymnal and the new Methodist hymnal.

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 a n original hymn tune for the Advent season.

  Triptych (1979)
by
David Ashley White (b. 1944)

Brass Maryland's Great Music in Great Spaces
March 1991 performance
by
Donald Southerland, organ
and the

Annapolis Brass Quintet 
Robert Suggs, trumpet; David Cran, trumpet; Sharon Tiebert, horn
​Wayne Wells, trombone; Robert Posten, bass trombone and tuba

in
Baltimore's Old St. Paul's Church

​To listen Tap > Below: 
Duration:  (14:00)
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(There may be a 10 to 20 sec. delay before sound begins.)
TRIPTYCH by DAVID ASHLEY WHITE
For organ and brass quintet
1) Prelude  2) capriccio  3) hymn

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DONALD SUTHERLAND, organist
Donald Sutherland has performed organ, 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 acted as 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.


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The score and parts for David Ashley White's Triptych ​for organ and brass quintet, along with the entire ABQ music library, are available for research and performance from the Oberlin Conservatory.
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