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Organ Recital: CARSON COOMAN in Washington D.C. (Video)
Organ Recital – National City Christian Church, Washington D.C.
May 17, 2024: Works by Karen Beaumont, Philippos Tsalahouris, Carlotta Ferrari and Thomas Åberg (Toccata No. 9)
Organist: CARSON COOMAN
Listen to the concert on YouTube
HANNA-MARIA STRAND, Mezzo-soprano and orchestra: By the Sea at Night
Mezzo-soprano HANNA-MARIA STRAND, LUNDS NYA KAMMARORKESTER under JOHAN-MAGNUS SJÖBERG
Original recording 2011. Audio restored 2024.
Sheet music: SVENSK MUSIK – Swedish Music Information Centre
SHARON LIND performing: Late Winter for piano, spoken word, soprano/mezzo-soprano
New song with lyrics by John Gracen Brown – LATE WINTER (2024)
For piano, spoken word, soprano or mezzo-soprano (2 different versions).
Photo: Sharon in SNOW!
Recorded April 2024.
Read more about Thomas Åberg’s collaboration with the American Poet John Gracen Brown.
Sheet music published by SVENSK MUSIK – Swedish Music Information Centre.
Previous recordings with SHARON LIND; From premiere 2002; By the Sea at Night.
New recording: CARSON COOMAN playing Fantasy A-Minor
Recorded March 2024
”Judge Not One Another” – OLYMPIA HATZILAMBROU, Soprano, CARSON COOMAN, organ (video)
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
Read more about:
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) – Sheet music FREE DOWNLOAD!
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.
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.
Original version for solo organ
Version for solo piano
Crazy pieces – ”Orrr…”
”Orrr…” in a version for string quartet (1996/2015)
Recorded at concert in Allhelgonakyrkan, Lund – October 1, 2021.
STÅKKVARTETT EKMARK: Ekaterina Spitsyna – violin; Anna Sundborg-Dodelinger – violin; Jessica Strid – viola; Lisa Ekmark – cello.
Sound & Video: Stefan Klaverdal
Other versions of ”Orrr…”
For organ (1996/2001) – listen on YouTube
(Carson Cooman playing + the story behind the piece)
Special about the organ version – if you want to be funny, the organist can play the piece on TWO instruments at the same time.
For piano/one pianist (1996/2020) – listen on YouTube
(Thomas Åberg, playing)
For piano/two pianists (1996/2021) – listen on Soundcloud
(synth version)
Sheet music to all versions available through SVENSK MUSIK – Swedish Music Information Centre or contact the Composer.
YouTube updated: Festival Voluntary (1994) – The Composer playing
Engelbrektskyrkan, Stockholm
Kära jul, så kom du hit! (Christmas song in Swedish) Text: Wivianne Wigren
Julsång med piano eller orgel
Musik: Thomas Åberg
Text: Wivianne Wigren
Noter FREE DOWNLOAD
Tryckta noter kan beställas hos SVENSK MUSIK – Swedish Music Information Centre.
Denna melodi av Thomas Åberg är komponerad 1992 finns även publicerad av Noteria-Norbergs Musikförlag med text av Gunnar Hjorth (Klockklang) och Marianne Bokblad (Vinternatt på jorden). Tack Noteria för fint samarbete med denna tredje version ”Kära jul, så kom du hit!” som publiceras av SVENSK MUSIK!
Wivianne Wigren är också novellist och barnboksförfattare. Läs om hennes bok Bruno och Ottos draksaga hos Bokus