Wond'rous Machine: A Literary Anthology Celebrating the Organ - Hardcover
Wond'rous Machine: A Literary Anthology Celebrating the Organ - Hardcover
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by Robert N. Roth (Author)
This anthology presents many of the literary expressions from writers who have tried to capture the magic of the organ for more than 2000 years-in poetry and prose, in stories, in factual and fictional accounts, in simile, and in metaphor. Literature by approximately 100 different authors, from Geoffrey Chaucer to Emily Dickinson, to Garrison Keillor, George Bernard Shaw, and Virgil Thomson, among others, are linked with commentary, background, and biographical information. This is a book with a wide variety of moods, just as the organ is an instrument with a wide variety of sounds. All are sure to appeal to the lover of this gloriously melodic instrument.
Author Biography
Robert N. Roth served churches in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Mamaronick, New York, before accepting concurrent positions as organist and choirmaster of the Church of St. James the Less in Scarsdale, New York, and the Free Synagogue of Westchester in Mount Vernon, New York. He has retired to Oberlin, where he continues to play the organ and conduct choirs, as well as compose, edit, and arrange music. He is currently an Affiliate Scholar at Oberlin College. His other publications include a hymnal for children entitled We Sing of God, many articles on church music in various periodicals, and numerous arrangements and original compositions for choral groups.
