Hymn Tune Vermont. Almighty Father, who dost give

Three more hymn tunes by the Australian composer and organist Dr A. E. Floyd. Vermont, Keston and A Child’s Prayer.

VERMONT. Almighty Father, who dost give, the words by John Howard Bertram Masterman (1867–1933) who was the first Anglican Bishop of Plymouth from 1923 to 1933. It is in the Australian Hymn Book, 1977, no.541. Floyd may have travelled out of Australia but he probably would not have been very familiar with this type of organ. Here the neo-baroque Alfred Führer organ (1979) of the monastery church of Riddagshausen near Braunschweig is used. One verse introduction then four verses.

Alfred Ernest Floyd was born in Aston, Birmingham in 1877 and after education and work in the UK came to Australia in 1915 to take up the position of organist and Choir Director at St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne. He is an inheritor of the English Cathedral Tradition as he was for a number of years assistant at Winchester to Dr G. B. Arnold a pupil of S. S. Wesley. He was at St Pauls for 32 years resigning in 1947. He wrote a number of anthems, hymns and voluntaries. In 1948 he was the first musician to be awarded an OBE for services to music. As well as being a music critic for the Argus, he presented Music Lovers Hour on ABC radio for 24 years. He died in Melbourne in 1974.
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Quote from “Goodbye ’til next time”: A critical biography of A.E. Floyd by Dr Ian Burk
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‘A.E. Floyd had the ability to make music interesting and accessible to the musical public. By the 1940s, he was a household name in Australia particularly as a result of his music broadcasts, which always ended with the words ‘and now I’ll say goodbye ’til next time’. Under his direction, music at St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, enjoyed an international reputation for excellence.’