![]() The Mag/Nunc pair is as fine as any by an American, and the plaintive Elegy touches heartstrings, too. Though many of the works have been published, two items, which were not, should be: a brief organ Lullaby, with its aura of Delius’s Walk in the Paradise Garden, and the moving soprano solo setting of Psalm 121. Texts are set clearly and without complication, harmonies and melodies are chaste and effecient, yet also confident and reassuring, and everything is accessible to Sunday singers and worshipers. ![]() Active in the AGO and maintainer of exemplary programs at the churches he served, Friedell left a small body of useful compositions that reveal a sure hand and a full understanding of the needs of the liturgical church. Bartholomew’s Church and as an inspiring faculty member of the School of Sacred Music at Union Theological Seiminary, Friedell was one of the notable East Coast American church musicians of the mid-10th century. Respected and appreciated for his dozen years of service to New York City’s St. Produced by Frederick Hohman (available from Zarex Corporation: 80 Stephen’s Church, Richmond Neal Campbell, organist and choirmaster Deborah Cuffee Davis, assistant organist (1951/66 Aeolian-Skinner), with Robert Murray, violin, and Melba Williams, Harp. ![]() IN THE SPIRIT’S TETHER: Choral and Instrumental Music by Harold Friedell (1905-1958). The following review by Michael Barone appeared in the September 2000 issue of The American Organist:
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