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
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