An organ recital in progress: part 102

Dear SMM Community,
 

The next part of my online organ recital is here, and I hope that you enjoy it. I offer up these musical meditations as part of our parish efforts to find ways to keep you connected at this time. Recorded on my house organ, the instrument is a musical facsimile of the great 'Father' Willis organ at Salisbury Cathedral.

Today, I present Joseph Bonnet's Romance sans paroles.


Joseph Bonnet (1884-1944) was born in Bordeaux and took up his first church appointment at fourteen. He was appointed organist of St. Eustache in 1906, and toured England and America extensively as a concert artist. Fleeing occupied France in 1940, he settled in New York, and later created an organ department at the University of Rochester. A few years later Bonnet moved to Canada, where he lived the rest of his life in Quebec.



With best wishes,
Andrew Adair
Director of Music