leaderboard1 -

Carolyn Shuster Fournier premiere

September 18, 2018
Carolyn Shuster Fournier at the choir organ of Soissons Cathedral, France

Carolyn Shuster Fournier performed the world premiere of Alice R. Lesur’s unpublished Offertoire en la mineur (Offertory in A Minor), opus 9, on the Jaquot Jean-Pierre & Sons choir organ at Soissons Cathedral, France, in a concert July 7 that commemorated the end of the First World War. Also participating in the program was soprano Magali Léger and trumpeter Nicolas Debacq. Alice Thiboust-Lesur (1881–1980), the mother of composer Daniel-Lesur (1908–2002), had studied composition with Charles Tournemire. She had composed her Offertoire in Beauvais, France, in March 1915, while she was a nurse for wounded soldiers during the war. The performance also included works by Jean-Charles Gandrille, Francis Poulenc, William Bolcom, and Bernard Wayne Sanders. For information: http://shusterfournier.com.

Carolyn Shuster Fournier at the choir organ of Soissons Cathedral, France