Voluntary on “Old 100th” (2002)

Thomas Allen LeVines (b. 1954) — Voluntary on “Old 100th” (2002) for organ

“Enter into God’s gates with thanksgiving, and into God’s courts with praise” — Psalm 100:4

American composer (Thomas) Allen LeVines (b. 1954) was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and Stetson University. His teachers included George Crumb, George Rochberg, George Perle, and Paul Langston. Noteworthy influences in LeVines’s continuing studies have been Ghanaian drumming with Torgbui Midawo Gideon Foli Alorwoyie and Japanese gagaku with Sensei Suenobi Togi. LeVines’s music has won national and international recognition, including an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters award and commissions in the U.S., Europe, and Japan. His writing fuses musics as diverse as Japanese court music, West African drumming, and birdsong within a Euro-American compositional tradition. International prizes have included the Bashō International Festival Commission (Japan), the Netherlands American Foundation Commission, and the Concours International de Composition de Musique Sacrée (Switzerland). He is Professor of Music Composition at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. (allenlevines.com)