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Dramatizing the world's music

Month: December 2011

The size of the contribution

Posted on December 6, 2011September 27, 2016 gordonkaltonwilliamsLeave a commentPosted in American culture, Dramatizing the world's music, My blog

A number of musicians have lived in Savannah. Lowell Mason was here for a time, organist at the Independent Presbyterian Church. I know him mostly for the hymn, Watchman, used by Charles Ives in his Fourth Symphony. So too was the composer of Jingle Bells, who, I see here, served for a time in the […]

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