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12.10.08

October - Sarabande for the Twelfth of any

Many astute organists (Stephen Cleobury and his minions at King's College, Cambridge, England; John Scott and his assistants at St. Thomas, New York; and Rob Lehman at St. Michael and St. George, St. Louis . . . surely there are others . . .) have remembered to play Howells's marvelous "Sarabande for the Twelfth of any October" today.

Howells included this movement in his Partita for organ as a tribute to Ralph Vaughan Williams, who was born on this day.

Alas, alack, I do not play this piece as of yet, though it is my life's goal to perform all of the organ music of Howells.

Sunday, October 12, 2014 here I come.

Update 14 Oct 2008: Osbert Parsley does the math and finds that 2183 is the next Vaughan Williams anniversary year where the Twelfth of October falls on a Sunday

Labels: Howells, King's College (Cambridge), St Thomas (New York)

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