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opera singer (1896–1961)
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2012-02-22 15:47:18
[…] until 1905 when a new law designed to separate church and state resulted in the de-funding of many Roman Catholic music programs. For this program an orgue de choeur, set up in the Mission Church’s chancel and played by Heinrich Christensen, was provided by a digital instrument whose core was digital recordings of the pipes of the famous 1897 Hutchings organ in the back gallery (the grand orgue), played by the basilica’s Music Director, Glenn Goda. Thus, Sunday’s audience had the rare privilege — in this country — of hearing this repertoire performed in the type of physical configuration for which it was conceived. Likely the most famous piece written for choir and two organs is Louis Vierne’s Messe Solennelle, completed in 1899 when he was assistant to his teacher Charles-Marie Widor at Saint-Sulpice, but not premiered until 1901, after Vierne had gone on to become titulaire at the grand […]
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