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Washington National Cathedral organist Benjamin Straley plays a Christmas afternoon recital of traditional and familiar holiday favorites on the Cathedral’s great organ. $10 recommended donation.
Repertoire
Final from Symphonie No. 1
Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
Gigue – Go, tell it on the mountain
A.D. Miller (b. 1972)
Partita – In dulci jubilo
James Vivian (b. 1974)
Nöel étranger
Louis-Claude Daquin (1695-1772)
Selections from The Nutcracker Suite
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), tr. Frederick Hohman
iv) Overture Miniature
v) Marche Characteristique
vi) Russian Dance
Bring a torch, Jeanette Isabella
Keith Chapman (1945-1989)
Sinfonia from the Christmas Oratorio
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Pastorale – Gesú Bambino
Pietro Yon (1886-1943)
Improvisation on Two Christmas Carols: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen and Sussex Carol
The Sussex Mummer’s Christmas Carol
Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961)
Carillon de Westminster
Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
[h=3]About Benjamin Straley[/h]Benjamin Straley is Organist and Associate Director of Music at Washington National Cathedral. Prior to this appointment, he was Organ Scholar at Trinity Church (Episcopal), New Haven, as well as Director of Music for the Episcopal Church at Yale.
Upon the completion of his undergraduate studies with Marilyn Keiser at Indiana University, he entered the Yale Institute of Sacred Music in 2008, where he studied with Martin Jean and Jeffrey Brillhart. In 2010, he became one of the few Americans in the history of the Haarlem Organ Festival invited to compete in its world-renowned contest in improvisation. He holds both Masters in Music and Divinity from Yale, as well as a Diploma in Anglican Studies from Berkeley Divinity School.
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