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Start with two world experts on French organ building and organ music, add seven qualified, eager American organists, stir them together with extant...
Repertoire, part 2
Last month’s column was in large part an argument in favor of letting students work on whatever music they want to work on: that...
Is your refrigerator running?
There’s an urban legend that tells us that Alexander Graham Bell placed the first phone call because he had spilled...
Michael James McGrew of Denver, Colorado, died August 15 at the age of 60. Born October 5, 1948 in Denver, he received a B.A. degree in English in...
Fabry, Inc., Antioch, Illinois
First Presbyterian Church,
Racine, Wisconsin
Located in one of southeast Wisconsin’s oldest settlements, First...
Introduction1
With the installation and voicing of the wonderful new Fisk Opus 133 tracker organ in the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe, New...
C. B. Fisk, Inc.,
Gloucester, Massachusetts
First Presbyterian Church,
Santa Fe, New Mexico
From the organbuilder
Since its incorporation in 1961,...
One of America’s leading concert organists, Todd Wilson is head of the organ department at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He also teaches at...
It’s interesting to think back about the Barckhoff Church Organ Company located in Latrobe, Pennsylvania in 1899, and picture the many German...
While quite substantial in quantity, Bulgarian music for organ has been largely unknown, due mainly to lack of access. It had not been published...
For over half a century, Robert Glasgow (1925–2008) imparted his mastery of the pipe organ to generations of eager students, holding teaching...
Repertoire, part 1
The issue about which I have gotten by far the most inquiries since I started writing this column is repertoire: that is (...
Special delivery
The Bath Iron Works (a General Dynamics Company) is about fifteen miles from where we live. Located on the shore of the Kennebec...
Dona Lee Brandon died June 16 in Davis, California. She was 81. She began organ study while in high school and earned a bachelor’s degree in music...
Introduction
For more than forty years, Oswald Gleason Ragatz served as chairman of the organ department of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana...
Martin Ott Pipe Organ Company, St. Louis, Missouri
First Presbyterian Church,
Ypsilanti, Michigan
From the builder
In the spring of 2007, I made my...
Berghaus Pipe Organ Builders, Inc., Bellwood, Illinois
La Casa de Cristo Lutheran Church, Scottsdale, Arizona
Opus 224 (2008)
From the organbuilder...
Tan shoes and pink shoelaces . . .
You can spot him a mile away. Red checked pants, a striped shirt, paisley tie, and a cute little wool cap with a...
A century-old slice of music history arrived on the campus of Campbellsville University in central Kentucky in early 2007, when a Farrand & Votey...
The Swedish Organ Society (Svenska Orgelsällskapet) came to the United States October 16–22 to attend concert highlights of the Eastman-Rochester...
