A Gerre Hancock album
This impressive volume comprises a selection of 11 pieces by Gerre Hancock, who was for 33 years Organist and Master of Choristers at St Thomas's, Fifth Avenue, New York. It includes meditative voluntaries, postludes and preludes, and flashier showpieces, suitable for either liturgical or recital use. As well as new editions of original organ repertoire, the volume contains Todd Wilson's new transcriptions of three pieces from Hancock's first LP of improvisations. The organ-writing is highly idiomatic throughout, revealing a French influence in its often beguiling harmonies, and will be attractive to performer and listener alike.
This impressive volume comprises a selection of 11 pieces by Gerre Hancock, who was for 33 years Organist and Master of Choristers at St Thomas's, Fifth Avenue, New York. It includes meditative voluntaries, postludes and preludes, and flashier showpieces, suitable for either liturgical or recital use. As well as new editions of original organ repertoire, the volume contains Todd Wilson's new transcriptions of three pieces from Hancock's first LP of improvisations. The organ-writing is highly idiomatic throughout, revealing a French influence in its often beguiling harmonies, and will be attractive to performer and listener alike.
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A <strong>Gerre</strong> <strong>Hancock</strong><br />
Organ Album
A <strong>Gerre</strong> <strong>Hancock</strong><br />
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Organ Album<br />
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First published 2022<br />
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ISBN 978–0–19–355229–6<br />
Music and text origination by Andrew Jones<br />
Printed in Great Britain on acid-free paper by<br />
Caligraving Ltd, Thetford, Norfolk
Contents<br />
Introduction<br />
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Air 1<br />
A Meditation on ‘Draw Us in the Spirit’s Tether’ 5<br />
A Paraphrase of ‘St Elizabeth’ 8<br />
Fanfare on ‘Antioch’ 12<br />
Prelude on ‘Slane’ 14<br />
Toccata 18<br />
Variations on ‘Ora Labora’ 35<br />
Palm Beach hymn tune 42<br />
Variations on ‘Palm Beach’ 44<br />
Three Cincinnati Improvisations<br />
I. Improvisation on ‘Lobe den Herren’ 53<br />
II. Improvisation on ‘Grand Isle’ 58<br />
III. Improvisation on ‘Ar hyd y nos’ 62<br />
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Introduction<br />
Born in Lubbock, Texas, in 1934, <strong>Gerre</strong> <strong>Hancock</strong> remained a proud Texan even as his career took him northwards.<br />
A graduate of the University of Texas and Union Theological Seminary in New York, he also studied at the Sorbonne;<br />
he took organ lessons with E. William Doty, Robert Baker, Jean Langlais, and Marie-Claire Alain, and studied<br />
composition and improvisation with Nadia Boulanger and M. Searle Wright. Early in his career he was Assistant<br />
Organist at St Bartholomew’s Church, New York, and then Organist and Choirmaster at Christ Church (now<br />
Cathedral) in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he also served on the Artist Faculty of the College-Conservatory of Music at<br />
the University of Cincinnati; he also taught at the Juilliard School and Yale University. For thirty-three years, from<br />
1971 to 2004, he was Organist and Master of Choristers at St Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, New York, after which<br />
he and his wife, Judith <strong>Hancock</strong>, returned to Texas to teach the organ and sacred music at the University of Texas.<br />
A superb recitalist, <strong>Gerre</strong> <strong>Hancock</strong> was considered the leading American organ improviser of his time and<br />
performed at numerous events worldwide, as well as achieving widespread acclaim with the choir of St Thomas.<br />
His improvisational and compositional style displayed a strong French influence while remaining grounded in a<br />
distinctively American musical vocabulary.<br />
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I first encountered <strong>Gerre</strong> <strong>Hancock</strong>’s service-playing during the summer of 1970 at Christ Church in Cincinnati,<br />
and it opened my teenage ears to what service-playing could truly be. That same summer <strong>Gerre</strong> made his first<br />
commercial recording of improvisations, on the large 1957 Holtkamp organ which was then in Christ Church.<br />
Clarity, inventiveness, and variety of texture make these concise pieces models of hymn-based improvisation.<br />
After hearing them for the first time in many years, Judith <strong>Hancock</strong> remarked on their youthful freshness. <strong>Gerre</strong>’s<br />
death in 2012 prompted me to finally transcribe a few of these gems, and I am delighted at their inclusion as a<br />
‘bonus feature’ in this volume, which brings much of <strong>Gerre</strong>’s published organ music back into print under one<br />
cover. I recorded the Three Cincinnati Improvisations on the superb Murray Harris organ at St James Episcopal Church<br />
in Los Angeles (Gothic G-49330-31, double CD).<br />
In 2013 I had the privilege of recording all of <strong>Gerre</strong> <strong>Hancock</strong>’s published organ works on the organs (chancel and<br />
gallery) that he played for so many years at St Thomas (Raven OAR-951, double CD). In the words of Judith <strong>Hancock</strong>,<br />
‘Years from now, when the organ heard on this recording is no longer at St Thomas, this CD will assist our memory<br />
of the uniquely thrilling and beautiful sounds of that instrument—sounds that were so closely associated with<br />
<strong>Gerre</strong>’s own playing and composing.’<br />
I hope you will find the music in this book both practical and educational in providing a window into the unique<br />
musical style of its composer. <strong>Gerre</strong> <strong>Hancock</strong> will be remembered by all who knew him as friend, mentor,<br />
inspiration, and ultimate cheerleader for church musicians across America and around the world.<br />
TODD WILSON<br />
Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, Ohio<br />
September 2021<br />
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Sw.: Solo 8'<br />
Gt.: Foundations 8', 4'<br />
Ch.: Flutes 8', 4'<br />
Ped.: Soft 16', 8', Ch. to Ped.<br />
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Dedicated to Jane and Ben Baldus<br />
on the occasion of their twenty-fourth wedding anniversary<br />
A Meditation on ‘Draw Us in the Spirit’s Tether’<br />
Based on a melody by Harold W. Friedell<br />
I: Foundations 8', 4', III/I<br />
II: Solo 8'<br />
III: Foundations 8'<br />
Ped.: Foundations 16', 8', III/Ped., I/Ped.<br />
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for The Rev. Robert Scoggin<br />
and the Fellowship of United Methodist Musicians<br />
A Paraphrase of ‘St Elizabeth’<br />
GERRE HANCOCK<br />
I: Solo Flute or Flutes<br />
II: Solo Stop<br />
III: Soft Foundation 8' (Celestes)<br />
Ped.: Soft 16', 8'<br />
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Fanfare on ‘Antioch’<br />
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to Robert Stevens Baker<br />
Prelude on ‘Slane’<br />
GERRE HANCOCK<br />
I: Foundations 8', 4', III/I, II/I<br />
II: Foundations 8', 4'<br />
III: Foundations 8', 4'<br />
Ped.: Foundations 16', 8', III/Ped., II/Ped.<br />
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Commissioned by St Paul’s School, Brooklandville,<br />
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Toccata<br />
GERRE HANCOCK<br />
I: Foundations 8', 4', III/I, II/I<br />
II: Foundations 8', 4', III/II<br />
III: Foundations 8', 4', Reeds 8'<br />
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in memoriam Lewis Bruun<br />
Variations on ‘Ora Labora’<br />
(Based on a hymn tune by T. Tertius Noble)<br />
GERRE HANCOCK<br />
I: Foundations 16', 8', 4', III/I, II/I<br />
II: Foundations 16', 8', 4', Reed 8'<br />
III: Foundations 16', 8', 4', Reed 8'<br />
Ped.: Foundations 32', 16', 8', 4', Reeds 16', 8', III/Ped., II/Ped.<br />
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I: Flutes 8', III/I, II/I<br />
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I: Foundations 16', 8', 4', Reeds 16', 8', III/I, II/I<br />
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III: Foundations 16', 8', 4', Reeds 16', 8', 4'<br />
Ped.: Foundations 32', 16', 8', 4', Reed 16', 8', III/Ped., II/Ped.<br />
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Latin, 12th-century<br />
Edward Caswall, trans.<br />
Commissioned by the Association of Anglican Musicians Conference<br />
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Palm Beach<br />
Hymn 777.777<br />
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Commissioned by the Association of Anglican Musicians Conference<br />
and dedicated to the AAM 2000 Palm Beach Conference<br />
Variations on ‘Palm Beach’<br />
GERRE HANCOCK<br />
I: Foundations 8', 4', III/I, II/I<br />
II: Foundations 8', 4'<br />
III: Foundations 16', 8', 4'<br />
Ped.: Foundations 16', 8', III/Ped., II/Ped.<br />
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II: Solo 8'<br />
III: Foundations 8'<br />
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I: Foundations 16', 8', 4', Mixture, Reeds 16', 8', III/I, II/I<br />
II: Foundations 16', 8', 4', Mixture, Reeds 16', 8'<br />
III: Foundations 16', 8', 4', Mixture, Reeds 16', 8'<br />
Ped.: Foundations 32', 16', 8', 4', Mixture, Reeds 16', 8', III/Ped., II/Ped.<br />
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I. Improvisation on ‘Lobe den Herren’<br />
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III. Improvisation on ‘Ar hyd y nos’<br />
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This impressive volume comprises a selection of pieces by <strong>Gerre</strong> <strong>Hancock</strong>,<br />
who was for 33 years Organist and Master of Choristers at St Thomas,<br />
Fifth Avenue, New York. It includes meditative voluntaries, postludes and<br />
preludes, and flashier showpieces, suitable for either liturgical or recital use.<br />
As well as new editions of original organ repertoire, the volume contains<br />
Todd Wilson’s new transcriptions of three pieces from <strong>Hancock</strong>’s first LP of<br />
improvisations. The organ-writing is highly idiomatic throughout, revealing<br />
a French influence in its often beguiling harmonies, and will be attractive to<br />
performer and listener alike.<br />
<strong>Gerre</strong> <strong>Hancock</strong> studied at the University of Texas, Union Theological<br />
Seminary, New York, and the Sorbonne, with teachers including Jean Langlais<br />
and Nadia Boulanger. He held church appointments at St Bartholomew’s,<br />
New York, Christ Church Cathedral, Cincinnati, and St Thomas, Fifth Avenue,<br />
New York, where he achieved international acclaim as Organist and Master<br />
of Choristers from 1971 to 2004. Widely active as a recitalist, conductor,<br />
and composer, he was also on the faculty at the Juilliard School and Yale<br />
University. His renown as an improviser at the organ led to the publication of<br />
his textbook, Improvising: How to Master the Art.<br />
OXFORD ORGAN ANTHOLOGIES INCLUDE:<br />
A Bach Organ Album<br />
A Finzi Organ Album<br />
A Grieg Organ Album<br />
A Jongen Organ Album<br />
A Leighton Organ Album<br />
A Mathias Organ Album<br />
A Purcell Organ Album<br />
A Saint-Saëns Organ Album<br />
A Vaughan Williams Organ Album<br />
A Verdi Organ Album<br />
A Walton Organ Album<br />
Cover image: St Thomas, Fifth Avenue, New York<br />
William T. Van Pelt<br />
ISBN 978-0-19-355229-6<br />
9 780193 552296
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