Magnificat - Dorothy Papadakos

 

 

Recorded by musicians of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Philadelphia, PA Director of Music, St. Martin-in-the-Fields: Lyn Loewi Featured jazz pianist: Aaron Graves Soloist: Valerie Gay Recorded on November 1st, 2020, as part of an All Saints’ jazz Evensong. 

Dorothy Papadakos is a charismatic and multitalented artist. She is well-known for her compositions and her silent movie improvisations, and in 1990 became the first female Cathedral Organist at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Her works combine jazz and classical idioms, reflecting her own performance experience and interests. This Magnificat, from a setting of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, originally for organ and choir, was commissioned by St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire for their Sesquicentennial.