This work is based on an original hymn tune
God Offers Christ to Mend the Earth and written for the Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn, New York. My grandfather, Louis West, was for over 40 years a choirmaster and organist for one of its satellite congregations, the Mayflower Mission.
Chorale & Prelude is in three parts: a simple statement of the entire hymn, a middle section that becomes increasingly fast and capricious, and a final presentation of fragments of the tune.
It was premiered on November 13, 2005 at the Moscow Conservatory, performed by Constantin Volostnov.
