Chorale Prelude on 'O Sacred Head Now Wounded'
For Organ solo (1987)
by Ron Hannah

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Duration: about 4 minutes

    Here is an unabashed and loving ripoff of JSB, for organ. The pedals play 'O Sacred Head Now Wounded', while the manuals do an affectionate, and, I hope, not too literal homage to 'Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring'. It was written for the 50th wedding anniversary of Russell and Joy Travers, my in-laws, and a recorded synthesizer version was played at a family gathering in honor of that occasion in 1987. It has since found favor among a few organists as a prelude and/or postlude, which is just where it belongs.

It is published by Conners Publications.


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