SA choir with organ
accompaniement
SKU:
MN.CH-1355
Composed
by Dale Jergenson. 21st
Century. Laurendale
Associates #CH-1355.
Published by Laurendale
Associates (MN.CH-1355).
UPC: 765844006280.
Latin.
Having
performed Maurice
Duruflé's Messe Cum
Julilo for men's voices
and organ many times I
always thought it would
be fitting to write a
similar mass, but for
women's voices and organ.
As in the Duruflé work,
Missa Lux et origo is
based on Gregorian Chant.
Sometimes the vocal line
follows the chant
exactly, at others it
deviates but always in
the style of... keeping
the Gregorian character
throughout. I am pleased
that the premiere
performance is to be
conducted by Jeannine
Wagner, daughter of the
famed Roger Wagner, at
whose feet I learned what
I know of Gregorian
Chant. -Dale
Jergenson.