"The Sounds of Worship"

©2020 Tierce de Picardie / Music in the “Elevator”

 

“The Sounds of Worship”

     As a very young college student, the Chairman of the Music Department (whom I later discovered was both an Organist and Choir Master), invited me to take an Organist position for a congregation in Scottsdale, AZ. Years later while studying Pipe Organ privately, I realized there is nomenclature which properly explained sounds emanating by air flow through each pipe. Indeed, “Diapason 8’” was not the sound of “a cloth diaper swishing around in a diaper pail”. 😊

  

     When contemplating appropriate terms to describe those who are Organists, Choir Directors, Musicians, Soloists, and/or Choir Members, the nomenclature encompassing all in the myriad sounds of Congregational worship are as varied as the pipes in the Pipe Organ ranks...

     Therefore, not to exclude anyone - including the worshippers - this year’s 2020 tierce de Picardie Award goes to those participating in any musical capacity, often nameless, who willingly contribute to the Sounds of Worship in our beloved Communities.

Photo: via Wikimedia Commons - Pipe Organ Metropolitan Museum of Art / CCO 

Meet The 2020 Polar Music Prize Winners

  

Meet The Following 2020 Polar Prize Winners:

Opera Singer Anna Netrebko and Songwriter Dianne Warren

Anna Netrebko - Polar Music Prize 2020 Official Announcement

(Polar Music Prize, YouTube; February 10, 2020)

Dianne Warren - Polar Music Prize 2020 Official Announcement

(Polar Music Prize, YouTube; February 10, 2020)

Present and Former Laureates

Polar Music Prize - The Laureates 

https://www.polarmusicprize.org/the-laureates/

     Update

Polar Music Prize Ceremony and Banquet Postponed To 2021
https://www.polarmusicprize.org/polar-music-prize-ceremony-and-banquet-postponed-to-2021/

‘Deaf’ genius Beethoven was able to hear his final symphony after all

Image:  Ludwig von Beethoven by Friedrich August von Kloeber (1793 - 1864)

‘Deaf’ genius Beethoven was able to hear his final symphony after all: The one thing everyone knows – or thinks they know – about Ludwig van Beethoven is that he composed some of music’s greatest masterpieces while completely deaf.

(feedimo.com; February 3, 2020)

Video

Beethoven 9th Symphony-Movement IV- “Ode to Joy”

(FolsomGreatMusic, YouTube; September 2, 2012)