Performer of the Year (II) #8845
…Marilyn Mason plays American music at New York City's Riverside Church.
ALEC WYTON: Dithyramb (1960)
EDMUND HAINES: Suite for Organ (1947)
WILLIAM BOLCOM: Gospel Preludes, Book IV (1984) [Sometimes I feel like a motherless child; Sweet hour of prayer; fantasy on O Zion, Haste and How Firm a Foundation]
ROBERT LUND: Variations on Hinunter ist der Sonne Schein –Catherine Rodland (competition winner)
WILLIAM ALBRIGHT: Organbook II (1971)
MICHAEL McCABE: Flourish and Chorale (1987)
Dr. Marilyn Mason has commissioned an average of one new work each of the forty years she has been on the faculty of the University of Michigan. She was honored for her accomplishments by the New York City chapter of the American Guild of Organists, who selected her as 1988 International Performer of the Year. This program also presents a performance by the winner of the 1988 International Organ Competition held at the University of Michigan in October.
