Pipedreams originated as a discrete series of fourteen broadcasts (offered January-April 1982), with content primarily derived from concerts recorded during the 1980 A.G.O. convention. These programs, produced at Minnesota Public Radio and distributed by American Public Radio (now PRI), were made possible in cooperation with National Public Radio. Funding came from the Corporation of Public Broadcasting, the Dayton Hudson Foundation, the Episcopal Choirmasters Handbook (John C. Grant), and Mr. & Mrs. Wesley C. Dudley (the Dudleys, thankfully, having continued as program underwriters through the entire history of Pipedreams).

A Healey Willan Tribute

…choral and organ music by the ‘Dean of Canadian Composers’, to commemorate the centenary of his birth (1880-1968), recorded during the American Guild of Organist’s 1980 National Convention in Minnesota.

Program Broadcast date:

• January 24, 1982

Listen to the program

8204 Part I 43:40

8204 Part II 33:09

Music played in the program

Part I

HEALEY WILLAN: 5 Organ Preludes on Plainchant Melodies (1951)

WILLAN: Prelude No. 1: Aeterna Christi munera

WILLAN: 3 Motets to Our Lady: I Beheld Her; Fair in Face; Rise up my Love.

WILLAN: Prelude No. 2 Christe, Redemptor omnium

WILLAN: Gloria Deo (1950)

WILLAN: Prelude No. 3 Ecce jam noctis

WILLAN: Missa Brevis No. 4 in E (1934)

WILLAN: Prelude No. 4 Ave Maris Stella

WILLAN: What is this lovely fragrance?

Part II

WILLAN: Prelude No. 5 Urbs Hierusalem beata

WILLAN: 2 Christmas Songs of the 14th Century; Here we are in Bethleham; Hodie!

WILLAN: Hymn-Anthem, O quanta qualia

WILLAN: Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue for Organ

–John Tuttle (1928 Welte-1964 Möller-1983 Gould & Schultz/Episcopal Cathedral of Saint Mark, Minneapolis, MN); Elmer Iseler Singers, Elmer Iseler, conductor (recorded 6/19/80)