rulon christiansen
New member
Greetings, members of Magle International. It is a pleasure to join the ranks. I look forward to sharing my love of music, the organ, and French Symphonic Organ Music, in particular, with other members. I am a graduate of the Eastman School of Music where I received a DMA in organ as a pupil of Russell Saunders in 1983, and Performer's Certificate in 1981.
Other teachers include J. J. Keeler, Robert Cundick. I have toured as a concert organist under the management of Artist Recitals, Los Angeles, for many years, until the untimely death of the agent, Ruth Plummer, from a brian tumor. One of my interests is Louis Vierne. I have studied with pupils of Louis Vierne, including the famous American organist, Alexander Schreiner, and the late French organist, Andre Fleury, among others. My research on Vierne has been used in articles and books by such by writers such as the world famous, distinguished American organist-author Michael Murray and my dear friend, the highly respected and prolific author, editor and recording artist, Dr. Rollin Smith. I am published with compositions in the catalogues of H.W.Gray (now Alfred), Shawnee, Jackman, and have over 60 hymn preludes for organ available with WardOrganist.com, an on-line music publishing company. My latest project has been the composition of a "Lyric Symphony" for organ, an organ symphony in 6
movements, following in the tradition of my mentor, Andre Fleury, in a style that combines and balances modality and tonality, chromaticism and diatonicity, counterpoint and homophony, without denying the stylistic influences of Vierne, Fleury, Whitlock, Cundick, Schreiner. This suite and especially the Toccata, was written to give organists, and especially organ students an alternate to the Boellmann Suite Gothique, and yet giving them something of similar substance, yet perhaps easier technical demands. It is nice to join the ranks.
Other teachers include J. J. Keeler, Robert Cundick. I have toured as a concert organist under the management of Artist Recitals, Los Angeles, for many years, until the untimely death of the agent, Ruth Plummer, from a brian tumor. One of my interests is Louis Vierne. I have studied with pupils of Louis Vierne, including the famous American organist, Alexander Schreiner, and the late French organist, Andre Fleury, among others. My research on Vierne has been used in articles and books by such by writers such as the world famous, distinguished American organist-author Michael Murray and my dear friend, the highly respected and prolific author, editor and recording artist, Dr. Rollin Smith. I am published with compositions in the catalogues of H.W.Gray (now Alfred), Shawnee, Jackman, and have over 60 hymn preludes for organ available with WardOrganist.com, an on-line music publishing company. My latest project has been the composition of a "Lyric Symphony" for organ, an organ symphony in 6
movements, following in the tradition of my mentor, Andre Fleury, in a style that combines and balances modality and tonality, chromaticism and diatonicity, counterpoint and homophony, without denying the stylistic influences of Vierne, Fleury, Whitlock, Cundick, Schreiner. This suite and especially the Toccata, was written to give organists, and especially organ students an alternate to the Boellmann Suite Gothique, and yet giving them something of similar substance, yet perhaps easier technical demands. It is nice to join the ranks.