Alastair Stout - Shall We Gather At The River (2005)

Sound sample - movement 3 - performed by Alastair Stout.

American Folk Hymn Studies: Shall We Gather At The River

Organ solo

5 minutes

Written for Sharron Schaefer.

The work is included in the compilation, Marilyn Mason New Organ

Music Composition Competition: Anthology of Award-Winning

Compositions, published at the Region V (Detroit) convention of the

American Guild of Organists, June 28-July 1, 2009.

“Shall We Gather At The River, is a serious, multi-faceted meditation.

Stout has a terse, sometimes tartly-flavoured style. Always worked out with economy… there is no want of expression or immediacy in his works.”