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This article might also be entitled “What possessed me to try and perform all of Mendelssohn’s organ works?” I can remember well working on the...
It hardly seems possible that twelve years have gone by since we began the Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival! We have experienced outstanding...
Some thoughts on ornaments II
Last month I shared some ideas about a general approach to playing ornaments and how to practice towards playing them...
A recipe for success
A couple months ago—the January issue to be exact—I quoted an article from the newsletter of the parish in which I grew up:...
10 years ago in the March 2000 issue of The Diapason
Cover: T. R. Rench & Company, Trinity United Methodist Church, Racine, Wisconsin
Third...
Ruth F. Kehl died October 27, 2009, in Delmar, New York. She was 94. A lifelong member of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Albany, she...
Kegg Pipe Organ Builders,
Hartville, Ohio
Christ Episcopal Church,
Eureka, California
It has often been stated that the most important stop of an...
Goulding & Wood, Inc.,
Indianapolis, Indiana
Opus 28 (1996) and Opus 49 (2009)
First United Methodist Church, Rocky Mount, North Carolina
From...
Prologue
For some, musicology can offer captivating moments. What has happened at a certain place during a certain time? Changes in organs remind us...
According to his birth certificate,
Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin was born on February 22, 1810, a date confirmed by the composer’s father in a sworn...
Led by Marilyn Mason and Gale Kramer, the University of Michigan Historic Tour LVI began on the Mediterranean in sunny Barcelona, then traversed...
The Bedient crew returned to the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, this fall to install four organs that were damaged by flooding last year. (...
Some thoughts on ornaments I
The playing of ornaments is one of those areas that many—maybe most—students find intimidating. This is only partly...
Advent in New York
Today, as I write this column, is the third Sunday of Advent. The Organ Clearing House is installing an organ in Manhattan, and my...
10 years ago in the February 2000 issue of The Diapason
Cover, Martin Pasi and Associates, St. Augustine Catholic Church, Spokane, Washington
Kristin...
Sister Marie Theodore Girten, OP, died November 3, 2009, at St. Dominic Villa, Sinsinawa, Wisconsin. Sister Marie Theodore made her first religious...
Fabry, Inc., Antioch, Illinois
First Presbyterian Church,
Lincoln, Illinois
Nestled in the geographic center of Illinois, Lincoln enjoys having the...
Rieger-Orgelbau,
Schwarzach, Austria
Cathedral Church of St. Peter, Regensburg, Germany, 2009
It was an exceptional privilege for us to have been...
The organbuilder’s viewpoint
Investing in research is foreign to most organbuilders. The pipe organ is a traditional instrument, for which it is...
On a recent trip to Pesaro, in the region of Le Marche in Italy, where I went to work as an accompanist with singers and visit some historic organs,...
