Tim Mahon wrote: >Weeks ago I scribbled the above words ["Benediction"] on a piece of paper >after hearing the work on the radio and deciding to try find it. Finding >the paper today, I can't find the music!! A cursory search of the Grove >entry and other resources in my own library reveal nothing similar (could >I have misheard Benediction for "Invocation", I ask myself?) and I wonder >whether it is a movement from one of his stage works or something equally >grand. > >Does anybody out there have enough knowledge of Alexander MacKenzie's music >to help me out? Undoubtedly it was his work entitled "Benedictus." It is available on a Hyperion CD (#66764) along with some other of MacKenzie's orchestral music, including the "Twelfth Night" Overture (which I just heard last week on radio station WOMR in Provincetown, Mass.), and his more well-known overture to "The Cricket on the Hearth." John Dalmas [log in to unmask]