Friday,
February 8, 2008 7:30 p.m.
Clarence
Dickinson Festival
A festival
concert of organ and choral music written and arranged by the American
organist and composer, Clarence Dickinson, who was active in a lengthy
career as organist-choirmaster at Brick Presbyterian Church, New York City,
founding director of the School of Sacred Music at Union Theological Seminary,
and founding member of The American Guild of Organists. This concert
will feature a wide variety of music dating from the Sixteenth Century
to the mid-1950s, all music re-discovered by, or written by, Dr. Dickinson,
who was known as the “Dean of American Church Musicians.” This
concert is co-sponsored by William Carey College, which houses The Clarence
Dickinson Library, Dr. Dickinson’s own personal library, from which music
for this concert has been chosen.
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