Marilyn Mason is one of the most respected professors of organ in the United States during this generation, having taught for many years at the University of Michigan. Over the years she has commissioned numerous works by a wide variety of composers. MorningStar is publishing a series of books that include many of these commissions by composers Beck, Callahan, Hamilton, Langlais, Lockwood, and Young.
Volume One includes:
Prelude by Gregory Hamilton, based on the hymn-tune NEW BRITAIN
Blessed Assurance by Gordon Young
Suite for Organ by John Ness Beck
Quiet Design by Normand Lockwood
Miniature by Jean Langlais
Meditation on a Medieval Hymn-Tune by Charles Callahan based on DIVINUM MYSTERIUM