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Lauck Pipe Organ Company,
Otsego, Michigan
Opus 61, 2009
Karl Schrock Residence,
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Through the years, we have had the pleasure to...
John-Paul Buzard Pipe Organ Builders, Champaign, Illinois
Maxwell Street Presbyterian Church, Lexington, Kentucky, Buzard 2009–2010 renovation
Hayes...
Part 1 was published in the October issue of The Diapason, pp. 22–25, and Part 2 in the November issue, pp. 26–29.
Prelude in E-flat Major (BWV 552/1...
Gloria in excelsis deo, et in terra
pax hominibus (“Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to all people”), Luke 2:14, was likely the first...
Performance artists are most often remembered after their deaths through the compositions that they leave behind. Organ students learn to play works...
Joan Hult Lippincott was for many
years the head of the organ department at Westminster Choir College of Rider University, the largest organ...
Boëllmann Suite Gothique Part 3:
Menuet Gothique
This month’s column focuses on the Menuet Gothique, the second movement of Boëllmann’s Suite...
The upper class
I’m thinking about virtuosity these days. Last Tuesday, October 10, the New York Times published a tribute to Joan Sutherland...
Caroline B. (Casort) Stone died May 24 in Endicott, New York. She was 80 years old. Born in Coffeyville, Kansas, she studied organ in high school and...
Buxtehude BuxWV 141 – Part 3: Practicing the first fugal section
This month we return to the Buxtehude Praeludium in E Major, BuxWV 141, looking at...
Juget-Sinclair Organbuilders,
Montréal, Québec, Canada, Op. 35
Musée de l’Amérique française, Québec City, Québec, Canada
In the 1980s, Québec...
Berghaus Pipe Organ Builders, Bellwood, Illinois
St. Jerome Catholic Parish, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin
Berghaus Pipe Organ Builders has built a new pipe...
Part 1 was published in the October issue of The Diapason, pp. 22–25.
Wir glauben all’ an einen Gott
[We all believe in one God]
(BWV 680–681)
The...
Studying with one of the greatest organists of all time was a remarkable privilege in my life. It is already more than thirty years since André...
Presented July 11, 18, and 25, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival’s International Organ Series included performances by Marilyn Mason with soprano Brenda...
In its sixtieth year, the Sewanee Church Music Conference continues to offer a well-planned week of choral rehearsals, organ repertoire and anthem...
Buxtehude BuxWV 141—Part 4:
Free writing and trillo longo—mm. 51–59
This month’s column is about just a little bit of music—the third overall section...
Appreciating depreciation
When a business owner purchases a machine, it becomes an asset of the company, and its value is spread out over a period of...
Unusual scales at a recording session
We’ve heard tell of “June bugs caught in a screen door” or “skeletons copulating on a tin roof” as descriptive...
Martha M. Bowlus, 91 years old, died September 9 in Ventura, California. Mrs. Bowlus served as organist at churches in Ohio, Chicago, and at St....
