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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,...
Maurice Duruflé altered his organ works many times from when he composed them in his youth to the end of his life. My intent to know the original led...
Repertoire, part 3: Mailbag
This month’s column is devoted to answering a few questions from readers, arising out of the two recent columns about...
Improbable recipes
My father is a retired Episcopal priest and as long as I’ve been in the organ business—starting as a teenager ostensibly growing...
David R. Davidson, director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra Chorus, died September 5, 2009 in Dallas, Texas, at the age of 60. A native of Hamilton...
Parkey OrganBuilders,
Duluth, Georgia, Opus 10
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church,
Marietta, Georgia
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church made the commitment to a...
John-Paul Buzard Pipe Organ Builders, Champaign, Illinois
Second Presbyterian Church,
Bloomington, Illinois, Opus 37
This instrument of 43 stops and...
The first installment in this series, “From the Dickinson Collection: Reminiscences by Clarence Dickinson, Part 1: 1873–1898,” was published in the...
Paul Otto Manz, widely celebrated organist, dean of American church musicians, and composer of the internationally acclaimed motet E’en So, Lord...
Fifteen years ago, on November 5, 1994 to be exact, I first encountered the work that, thus far, appears to win the sweepstakes as the first 20th-...
Centennial Celebration:
A new beginning
Early in the 20th century, the organ functioned as a community resource. Municipal instruments proliferated,...
