Paean: Gloria in excelsis Deo

Although the piece is not notated as a dialog, the structure makes the use of the chamades against the HW plenum too tempting...

Allen Orton Gibbs (1910-1996) was born and educated in Alabama and active in both the Pittsburgh, PA and Birmingham, AL areas for many years a church musician and composer. She wrote many commissioned choral anthems and a number of organ compositions that were collected and published in 2008 in a "Complete Organ Music" volume by Zimbel Press (dist. Subito Music).