MIRIAM HYDE, ROBERT ALLWORTH, ERIC GROSS, ANN CARR-BOYD: Vision of Mary Mackillop

Miriam Hyde, Robert Allworth, Eric Gross, Ann Carr-Boyd

Vision of Mary Mackillop

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This collection of Australian works of religious inspiration on the Australian Jade label begins with a 9-minute piano work and includes 3 collections of organ preludes recorded on the organ of the Harvard University Memorial Church, Cambridge, MA

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“VISION OF MARY MACKILLOP” JADCD 1114
Music by Australian composers: MIRIAM HYDE, ROBERT ALLWORTH, ERIC GROSS, ANN CARR-BOYD.
Total duration: 47.21

The late Miriam Hyde’s 1993 performance of her 9-minute piano work “The Vision of Mary MacKillop”, which contains seven recitative style passages, opens this collection of work of religious inspiration on the Australian Jade label.

3 collections of organ preludes by Robert Allworth are magnificently performed by US composer and organist, Carson P. Cooman, on the organ of the Harvard University Memorial Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. They are “Meditations of Early Saints” (1990), “Organ Preludes for Saints and Martyrs” (2001) and “Suite in honour of the 70th Birth of the polish Composer Henryk Gorecki” (2003). Also heard in Allworth’s mandolin duo, “Remembering Walsingham” (1990).

A fine Recessional (1981) for organ by Eric Gross is heard, recorded in Sydney by the late Lawrence Bartlett on the organ of St. Michael’s Church in the harbourside suburb of Vaucluse.

A contrasting secular solo piano piece, “The Escarpment At Sunset” (1999) is contributed by Ann Carr-Boyd, It has the distinction of being performed on a new Australian Stuart & Sons grand piano by pianist John Martin.

The cover illustration is of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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READ ON FOR FULL TRACK DETAILS OF MUSIC AND PERFORMERS

MIRIAM HYDE (b. 1913 d. 2005)
Track 1 – THE VISION of MARY MACKILLOP (1992)
Miriam Hyde - Piano 9’23”
THE VISION OF MARY MACKILLOP for Piano is played by the composer and was recorded at Studios 301 in Sydney, Australia in 1993. THE VISION OF MARY MACKILLOP was composed in 1992 at oxford in the U.K. and completed in Sydney in August of 1992. The music envisages MARY MACKILLOP’s contemplation of a spiritual mission and contains seven recitative style passages which will, in a future orchestral version, be sung by various soloists. A lighthearted passage episode depicts her pleasure at working among children. The climax of the work comes with the awesome pronouncement of her excommunication, after which she searches again for her original mission and reflects modestly on God’s grace and mercy and is later exonerated by the Church.

This composition, THE VISION OF MARY MACKILLOP, was first performed by the composer 19/3/1993 for the National Launch of the MARY MACKILLOP COMMEMORATIVE TOILE at Saint Joseph’s Convent, North Sydney, Australia. This recording is dedicated to the Sisters of Saint Joseph. Sister Margaret T. Cusack from the order of Saint Joseph advised the following information. Mary Mackillop made her religious profession on the 15th August 1867 in Adelaide South Australia. On June 1st Mary Mackillop was blessed by Pope Pius IX in 1873. The rule of the congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart was finally approved by Pope Leo XIII in 1888.

ROBERT ALLWORTH (b. 1943) - MEDITATIONS OF EARLY ENGLISH SAINTS (1990) Tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7
These pieces of music are impressionist evocations of pre-reformation English Saints who were very important in the lives of English people paricularly in the Middle Ages. The cult of these Saints was somewhat reinstated in the Twentieth Century by the Church of England.These MEDITATIONS as well as the subsequent ORGAN PRELUDES have been recorded by Carson P. Cooman at the organ of Harvard University.

ROBERT ALLWORTH - ORGAN PRELUDES FOR SAINTS AND MARTYRS (2001)
Tracks 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13
The music for these Saints is less austere and richer in harmony. The Saints are much more, for the most part, featured in present day worship and are a part of our everyday life in the 21st Century.

ROBERT ALLWORTH
Track 14 – HYMN TO THE MIRACLE OF LANCIANO, ITALY (1989)
In the year 742, in the monastery of Saint Longinus, a priest celebrating the holy Sacrifice of the Mass, having just spoken the words of consecration, noticed that the outer circle of the Host was suddenly changed into visible flesh, also the wine was transformed into visible blood. The flesh and blood are now venerated in the Church of Saint Francis, Lanciano, Italy. 2’14”
This hymn was recorded by organist Lawrence Bartlett on the organ
of Saint Michael’s Church Vaucluse, Sydney, Australia

ROBERT ALLWORTH
Track 15 – REMEMBERING WALSINGHAM (1990)
Walsingham is a place in the Diocese of Norwich in the U.K. The Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, built in the 12th Century, was destroyed by King Henry VIII at the reformation of the Church in the 1500s. The Shrine was rebuilt in the 1920s by a High Churchman Fr. Hope Patten. The composer visited the Shrine in the 1970s and was very impressed with the restored Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham. This composition, recorded by mandolinists Adrian Hooper and Paul Hooper, recollects the composer’s personal impressions.

ERIC GROSS (b. 1926)
Track 16 – RECESSIONAL FOR D.R.P. op.126 (1981)
Composed at short notice for a Memorial Service, held in the Great Hall of the University of Sydney, in honour of the late Professor Donald Peart, this organ work, recorded by Lawrence Bartlett, was a musical tribute to someone who almost singlehandedly worked to promote the cause of Australian and Contemporary music in general, long before it became widely acceptable to do so.

ROBERT ALLWORTH – SUITE IN HONOUR OF THE 70th BIRTHDAY OF THE POLISH COMPOSER HENRYK GORECKI (2003) (6’12”)
17/ PRELUDE FOR THE MOST SACRED HEART OF JESUS
18/ PRELUDE FOR THE FEAST DAY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY
19/ PRELUDE FOR THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
Carson P. Cooman - Organ, Memorial Church,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
This suite consists of three Organ Preludes of a deeply meditative religious character, which is appropriate for the devout Catholic Polish Composer Henryk Gorecki, as a gift for his 70th birthday. Mary Mackillop made her first communion as a child of eight years on the 15th August 1850, the feast day of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

ANN CARR-BOYD (b. 1938)
Track 20 – THE ESCARPMENT AT SUNSET (1999)
The Escarpment at Sunset is the final movement of the Shoalhaven Suite composed by Ann Carr-Boyd in 1999. The Escarpment at Sunset overlooking the Sea and stretching inland in all its wilderness are the majestic cliffs of the escarpment and the great expanses of the Australian bush. This performance is by John Martin at the Stuart and Sons Piano in the Tiger Studios, Neutral Bay, Sydney, Australia.

Total Duration 47’21”

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