An Anthology of American Organ Music, Vol. 2 - The Nineteenth Century

American Organ Music vol. 2 liner notes

Most Americans, even those possessed of a knowledge of the music world, were, on the whole, inclined to discount the possibility that a composer of American origin could produce anything of importance." Compound Roger Sessions' sentiments with the general disinclination of the 19th-century composers to deal seriously with the organ as a medium of expression, then witness the incredulous surprise that marks one's discovery of a tiny but flourishing organ culture in the United States during the last four decades of that century...Yet the best of the repertory fully deserves performance today, for it has about it a certain straightforward integrity and solidity which makes it viable and attractive.