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January 8, 2009 by Christopher Born.
This week I was especially surprised in chapel. As we were exiting, completely out of left field, I got to hear Maurice Durufle’s “Prelude sur l’introit de l’epiphanie.” I know this piece so well, that it took me about 30 seconds to notice it was actually playing–this time, not in my mind.
The way the piece starts out is so bold and unapologetic; Durufle wastes no time getting to the theme of the piece. Where I work, we have a very nice Cassavant Freres organ, with great sounding principal; while it was designed mainly to handle Germanic baroque music, it has some very French mixtures and reeds, and some horizontal trumpets. The organist interpreted Durufle very well and made my grey January day a much happier one.
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