Epiphany Suite

Cover art This is one of my earliest synthonic works—a programmatic piece depicting the life of Jesus from beginning to end (at least here on earth).

I still like it. For better or worse...

A Piece of Epiphany

L2:40

Proclamation

In the Wilderness

March deLion

Fanfare

Passion’s ’our
Dawnsong/Sonrise

This suite was written on and recorded using:

A Casio CZ-5000 synthesizer
A Roland TR-505 drum machine
An old, out-of-tune, rented, upright piano

It was recorded and mixed on a Tascam 246 Portastudio 4-channel cassette recorder in the spring and summer of 1988, in Kaiserslautern, West Germany. [What can I say? That was all the equipment I could afford at the time.]

More recently, the work was recovered from old cassettes and digitally remastered for this collection.

“Praise Him with trumpet sound... harp and lyre... timbrel... stringed instruments and pipes... loud cymbals...”

...and synthesizers?

“Praise the Lord!”

— Psalm 150
The Bible

The music of Charles O. Beck

Epiphany Suite