"I Was Glad" by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry

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Inaugural Recital of the Rebuilt and Enlarged Austin Organ, opus 629A
Sunday, April 19, 2009

"I Was Glad" by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Ron Ebrecht, Organist
sung by the combined choirs of the Congregational Church of Brookfield and First Congregational Church of Waterbury

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Parry
(b Bournemouth, 27 Feb 1848; d Rustington, 7 Oct 1918). English composer and teacher. He studied at Oxford and with Pierson and Dannreuther, publishing songs, church music and piano works from the 1860s. He taught at the RCM from 1883 (succeeding Grove as director in 1894), also becoming professor at Oxford (1900-08) and president of the Musical Association (1901-8). Among his scholarly interests were Bach and the history of musical style, on which he wrote perceptively. His cantatas Scenes from Prometheus Unbound (1880), Blest Pair of Sirens (1887) and L′allegro ed il penseroso (1890) made a decisive impact for their poetic merit and advanced (Wagnerian) idiom. The anthem I was glad (1902), the choral Songs of Farewell (1916) and many of the unison songs including The Lover's Garland and Jerusalem show a similar regard for text and a fresh lyricism. His forceful personality and social position, together with his ethical views and intellectual vigour, enabled him to exercise a revitalizing influence on English musical life in the late 19th century.

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