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Thomas Murray
12+ albums
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Thomas Mantle Murray (born October 6, 1943, in Los Angeles, California) is an American organist, known as an interpreter of Romantic organ music. He was a professor of Music and university organist at the Yale School of Music from 1981 until his retirement in 2019. He is also Principal Organist and Artist in Residence at Christ Church in New Haven, Connecticut. Life and career: Thomas Murray studied organ with Clarence Mader at Occidental College. He studied choral conducting as well, and graduated with his B.A. from that university in 1965. The next year, he won the National Competition of the American Guild of Organists.[3] From 1966 to 1973, he was organist at Immanuel Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles, and from 1975 to 1980 he was choirmaster and organist of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Boston. In 1981, he joined the music faculty at Yale University, becoming university organist in 1990. He retired from that position at the end of Yale's 2018–19 academic year. Murray has also been active as a concert organist for more than 40 years. In the United States, he has appeared as a soloist with the Pittsburgh, Houston, Milwaukee and Portland Symphonies and with the National Chamber Orchestra in Washington, D.C. He has also performed in most European countries, South America, Australia and Japan, and was featured as a soloist with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra at the Lahti Festival in Finland. Thomas Murray is best known for his performances of Romantic organ works and tr
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Imperial March, Op. 32
592A.D. 1620, from Sea Pieces, Op. 55
233La fille aux cheveux de lin
214In the Hall of the Mountain King
185Longwood Sketches: Dewdrops
176Reverie, Op. 20
167Selections from Harmonies of Florence, Op. 27: March of the Medici
138Longwood Sketches: Sunshine
129Selection from Water Music: Hornpipe - Aria - Allegro Maestoso
910Organ Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 65: I. Allegro moderato e serioso
8albums
The Symphonic Organ, Vol 1 - The Newberry Memorial Organ at Yale University, USA
The Longwood Gardens Organ, Volume 1
The Symphonic Organ, Vol. 1
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The Transcriber's Art
Edward Elgar at Woolsey Hall
Mendelssohn Six Organ Sonatas, Op. 65; Organs: 1854 E. & G. G. Hook, First Congregational Society, Unitarian, Jamaica Plain, Mass.; 1857 W. B. D. Simmons, Most Holy Redeemer, East Boston, Mass.
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Fanfare! - A Whirlwind Tour Of 30 World Famous Organs
Grieg & Franck: Symphonic Masterworks (Arr. for Organ)
Music of Schumann and Mendelssohn on the Schoenstein Organ
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Thomas Murray's Album
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Edward Elgar Music for Organ
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An Evening With Edwin H. Lemare