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Mickey Thomas Terry
In Black and White
The work of African-American organ composers is a powerfully compelling story in music and on our next Pipedreams broadcast we’ll explore its diverse nature. With performer and commentator Mickey Thomas Terry, we’ll visit the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Saint Patrick’s Church, and the National Presbyterian Church (all in Washington, DC). Here we’ll listen to largely unknown creations by Thomas Kerr, William Cooper, Noel DaCosta, George Walker and Eugene Hancock.
We’re highlighting music for organ with African percussion, and organ solo settings of African-American spirituals, music for church services, and pieces for the concert hall. It’s a multi-faceted discovery, spelled out In Black and White the African-American organ art, this week on Pipedreams.
Program Broadcast dates:
- February 5, 2001
Links and Resources
Organ Music in Print by Black Composers- The ECS/AGO African American Organ Series
- MorningStar Music Publishers
- African-American Organ Composers
- Mickey Thomas Terry
Music played in the program
THOMAS KERR: Selections from Suite Sebastienne (Theme & Cantus; Frolicking Flutes; Reverie for Strings; Procession of the Gargoyles) -–Mickey Thomas Terry (1964 Möller/National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, DC) American Public Media recording
EUGENE HANCOCK: Sometimes, I feel like a motherless child.
WILLIAM B. COOPER: 2 Pieces (Toccatina; Pastorale) –Mickey Thomas Terry (1970 Aeolian-Skinner/National Presbyterian Church, Washington, DC) American Public Media recording
NOEL DaCOSTA: Generata for Organ and Strings (1958); Ukom Memory for Organ and Percussion (1981); Spiritual Set (1974) –Lorna McDaniel, organ; Newman Baker and Dill McDaniel, per (1979 Rieger/First Unitarian Church, Wilmington, DE) Adama LP-001 (out-of-print)
NOEL DaCOSTA: Triptich (1973) –Mickey Thomas Terry, organ (1994 Lively-Fulcher/Saint Patrick’s Catholic Church, Washington, DC) American Public Media recording
GEORGE WALKER: 3 Pieces (Elevation; Jesu, wir sind hier; Invokation) –Mickey Thomas Terry, organ (1970 Aeolian-Skinner/National Presbyterian Church, Washington, DC) Albany CD-136
EUGENE HANCOCK: 5 Spirituals (We are climbing Jacob’s ladder; Swing low, sweet chariot; Go, tell it on the mountain; My Lord, what a morning!; Joshua fought the Battle of Jericho) –Robert Scoggin (1958 Möller+Sipe rebuild/Christ United Methodist Church, Rochester, MN) PIPEDREAMS CD-1002