Description
for SSAATTBB and organ Mack Wilberg's Hosanna in excelsis is an adaptation of Johann Pachelbel's well-known Canon in D, P 37 that sets the words 'Hosanna in excelsis Deo' in the carefully interwoven choral part. The organ part may be adapted for piano four-hands with the secondo player doubling the organ pedal part in octaves.
Mack Wilberg was appointed Music Director of The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square in 2008, having served as Associate Music Director since 1999. He is a former professor of music at Brigham Young University, where he received his bachelor's degree; his master's and doctoral degrees are from the University of Southern California. Alongside Wilberg's conducting responsibilities he is active as a pianist, choral clinician, composer, arranger, and guest conductor throughout the United States and abroad. Wilberg's arrangements and compositions are performed and recorded all over the world.