Prayer ofSt. Gregory

By Alan HovhanessArranged for two trumpets in B-flat by Livingston Gearhart

Pianist, composer and arranger Livingston Gearhart (1916 – 1996) attended the Curtis Institute of Music, where hestudied oboe with Marcel Tabuteau, piano with Nadia Reisenberg, and composition with Rosario Scalero. His com-position teachers in France included Nadia Boulanger, Igor Stravinsky, and Darius Milhaud.Under Columbia Artists management for 13 years, the two-piano team of Morley and Gearhart performed over 2000concerts throughout the US and Canada and recorded for Columbia Masterworks and Decca Records. From 1941 to1954, Gearhart made numerous TV and radio appearances on theFred Waring Show, for which he also served as a staff arranger.With his wife Pamela, violinist and conductor, he co-foundedYouth Makes Music, a summer camp in Alabama for young stringplayers.In 1955, Gearhart joined the music faculty at the Universityof Buffalo, retiring in 1985 as Professor Emeritus. A substantialcollection of writings and manuscripts are currently housed inthe SUNY at Buffalo Music Library. Gearhart’s two-piano manu-scripts are held in the Fred Waring’s American collection at PennState University.Livingston Gearhart created the arrangement of the two-trum-pet part to the Hovhaness Prayer of St. Gregory for a youngtrumpet player to perform with his teacher with a string orchestra.This arrangement may be used with both the trumpet and stringsoriginal and the organ reduction, published by Peer International.The arrangement was performed once in Alabama sometime inthe 1970s, and not again until Livingston’s wife, Pamela, thenconductor of the Ithaca College Orchestra, asked Kim and JaneDunnick to play it for the memorial service for retired trumpetprofessor Herbert Mueller. Mrs. Gearhart has generously donatedthe arrangement to the members of the ITG in memory of herhusband and hopes it will be played often, both with strings andwith organ or piano.

This is an arrangement of the trumpet part that works with the accompaniment published by Peer International.

Cover image: Portrait of Gregory I by Francisco de Zurburán, c. 1626. This image is in the public domain.

Copyright © 2011 International Trumpet Guild

Copyright © 2011 International Trumpet Guild

Prayer of St. Gregory

This is an arrangement of the trumpet part that works with the accompaniment published by Peer International.

Copyright © 2011 International Trumpet Guild

Copyright © 2011 International Trumpet Guild

Copyright © 2011 International Trumpet Guild