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Trumpet Tune (the actual title is indeed in English) is dedicated to Jonathan Dimmock, who commissioned it for the organ of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. There is not a large body of repertoire for the enormous and distant major reed at Saint John the Divine (the State Trumpet); so specially written or improvised works are required to make full musical use of it. The composer was enthusiastic about the challenge of writing for such a rare, powerful combination of full organ and State Trumpet (or, as the late E. Power Biggs once termed it: “The loudest sound this side of Hades!”).

Trumpet Tune confronts the performer with the unusual dilemma of how to maintain a musical pulse and still allow for the nearly one-second delay between the time the big reed speaks from beneath the large Rose window in the West end, and the time it is heard at the console some 500 feet away. For the recording engineer, an entirely different problem arises. If each end of the cathedral is set up with microphones to yield immediate images of both the full organ or the State Trumpet, there is also the arrival (nearly one second later) of sound from the other end of the building. The murkiness and confusion resulting from that would be highly unmusical. To solve this problem and to attempt something unlikely to be duplicated in future recording projects, microphones were positioned at the point half-way down the nave where the sound from the main organ and from the State Trumpet arrive simultaneously. What results is a wide-angle sonic snapshot of the entire cathedral from its heart.

—Jonathan Dimmock & Christopher Greenleaf

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from French Masterworks from St. John the Divine, released January 23, 2023

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Jonathan Dimmock San Francisco, California

Jonathan Dimmock (www.JonathanDimmock.com) is an internationally renowned concert organist. He is the Principal Organist of the Legion of Honor Museum, Organist for the San Francisco Symphony, and Director of Music at Congregation Sherith Israel. He was Organ Scholar of Westminster Abbey. and worked at 3 cathedrals - St. John the Divine (NYC), St. Mark’s (Mpls), and Grace (San Francisco). ... more

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