Stuart Forster announces the publication of his book Hymn Playing: A Modern Colloquium, available from MorningStar Music Publishers at www.morningstarmusic.com/viewitem.cfm/item_id/90-44.
Forster surveys available resources on hymn playing, and then presents twenty aspects of hymn accompaniment, which are discussed by David Cherwien, Mark Dwyer, David Erwin, John Ferguson, Peter Jewkes, Stephen Loher, Walden Moore, Bruce Neswick, John Scott, Jeffrey Smith, and Tom Whittemore.
Stuart Forster, Director of Music and Organist at the Episcopal Church in Harvard Square—Christ Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has performed and recorded as soloist, accompanist, and conductor, and has written orchestral transcriptions for the organ, more than 100 hymn arrangements, and choral anthems.
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