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A Most Agreeable Man: The Sound of Lyman Foster Brackett’s Music
January 3, 2011
In 2003, Longyear Museum Press published A Most Agreeable Man: Lyman Foster Brackett by Peter J. Hodgson. The book looks at the career of Lyman Foster Brackett, the compiler of the first official Christian Science Hymnal, who was appointed to the task by Mary Baker Eddy. As chairman of the hymnal committee and music editor for the project, Brackett wrote 99 original tunes for choir and congregational use, and selected all the other music in the 1892 hymnal.
The book includes an accompanying CD that enables readers to hear many of Brackett’s lovely old tunes, sung by a small group around a piano in the manner of a hymn sing, as workers in Mrs. Eddy’s household might have sung them. The Sound of Brackett’s Music, including his settings of three poems by Mary Baker Eddy, is performed by Catherine Hedberg, soprano; Catherine Hammond, contralto; David Norton, tenor; Matthew Johnsen, bass; Natalie Blake-Weber, flute; and Peter J. Hodgson, piano.
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