The American Music Teacher, April 1st, 2002
A Franciscan Pastorale (based on St. Francis of Assisi's All Creatures of Our God and King), by Franklin D. Ashdown. H. W Gray/Warner Bros. Publications (15800 N. W 48th Ave., Miami, FL 33014), 2001. 7pp., $3.95. Intermediate.
The stately lines of Lasst Uns Erfruen ("All Creatures of Our God and King") receive gentle and refreshing treatment here at the hands of ASCAP-winning composer Franklin Ashdown, who shapes the hymn tune in sometimes unexpected but thoroughly effective ways, characterized by the use of continually shifting sonorities and slow but steady increases in registration, dynami...
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