Månad: september 2023
”Judge Not One Another” for soprano and organ (video from Harvard Memorial Church)
Harvard Memorial Church, Harvard University
Sunday Service, July 23, 2023, 11 am
Thomas Åberg: Judge Not One Another – Romans 14:7-10, 15: 1-7.
CARSON COOMAN, Organ
OLYMPIA HATZILAMBROU, Soprano
Listen to live recording on YouTube
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Thomas to Carson before the premiere:
”I want a picture of you and Olympia – but nothing too serious. More like my motto as composer – Feel free – Have fun!”
And here it came – I just love it!!!
ZOOM-conversation with CARSON COOMAN (video on YouTube)
Recorded August 2023
Vocalise version of Toccata No. 20 ”Distant landscapes” (Synth-demo)
For Choir and Piano
Thomas Åberg about his new version:
Some time ago American concert organist JAY ZOLLER wrote to me about my organ piece Toccata No. 20 – Distant Landscapes:
”I have given much thought to the subtitle “Distant Landscapes”. Many people in Maine where I live think of the ocean when they hear this term – the vast distances stretching off as far as you can see. The interesting thing for me is that, having grown up on the prairie in Wyoming, I see in my mind the great distances with its undulating surfaces; I can hear the birds calling from the grasses and even see the antelope grazing a couple miles off across the landscape. There are a multitude of things happening out there which you hear in the music, but cannot see, even the warning rattle of a nearby rattlesnake!”
(Jay Zoller)
This statement became the starting point to me to write this vocalise version of my toccata with JAY ZOLLER’s impressions woven in as fragments.
Link here: Listen to Synth.demo on SoundCloud
Download sheet music for free (PDF):
Publisher
Also available to order as printed copies from: Svensk Musik
The Diapason
In June 2023 I found out that Jay Zoller’s letter to me also was published as a review in the organist magazine The Diapason, December 2020, Page 21.