[Magdalen] Hymnals and Perspective.

[Cantor03 at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/12/2015 2:21:40 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
jguthrie at pipeline.com writes:


And  then he'd say -- that's great, because while you're singing it, I'll 
be  
playing something else  altogether.">>>>>>>>>
The opening session of the biennial American Guild of Organists
some years ago in Minneapolis was held in the mammoth Central
Lutheran Church at the edge of downtown.  The late McNeil  Robinson,
a well known improviser on the organ, was playing the 110 rank
Casavant pipe organ.  It was obvious from the first hymn that  the
large massed choir on risers behind the altar had never experienced
such liberties with hymn accompaniment.  Frankly, it looked like  they
thought he was daft from their facial expressions.
 
Luckily his eccentricities were taken in stride by the organist  delegates
who sang through it all with great vigor.
 
 
 
David Strang.