Brian Mann improvises a wonderful version of "O Come All Ye Faithful," based loosely on a published score which had become a cherished Christmastide staple at Menlo. Here he puts a big old Brian stamp on it!

Christmas Festival Weekend 2002
Menlo Park Presbyterian Church

It was Brian at his most skillful improvising a different postlude for each of the 5 weekly services...how did he do that? He routinely hinted at famous film scores, having been a longtime fan and student (USC Film Scoring degree) of the genre.

(The percussion part was also improvised by Kent Reed each week)

The organ is a 117 rank equivalent Allen Organ (appropriately nicknamed "Big Alice" by Tom Hazleton, organist during its first iteration) and one of the finest and largest digital installations in the country—designed by Christian Elliott.

Brian Mann is a composer, pianist, organist, creative, video producer, pastor, and missionary and lives in Texas with his wife and two children.

There will be more to come...