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Birthday concerts in Hamburg
My wife, Rachel, and I flew out of Newark on Thursday, April 23, and landed Friday morning at Tegal Airport in Berlin,...
Intervals, tuning, and temperament, part 3
In the first two columns on tuning I did not refer at all to names of temperaments—neither the rather...
Decisions, decisions
We are rebuilding an organ. It’s about 90 years old. It has electro-pneumatic action. The main manual windchests have ventil...
Aimé Lombaert, a well-known Flemish carillonneur, passed away on October 30, 2008, at age 63. He had just retired from his positions as municipal...
Charles E. Hallman, 81, died on April 18. Born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, he graduated from Springfield Twp. High School in 1948 and served in the...
Counterpoint IV
A student who has worked on a piece of contrapuntal keyboard music in the ways outlined in my last few columns will be able to play...
Lewis & Hitchcock,
Beltsville, Maryland
Chevy Chase United Methodist Church, Chevy Chase, Maryland
Like the Sound of a Great Amen
(So begins the...
A. E. Schlueter Pipe Organ Company, Lithonia, Georgia
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
Monday, August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made...
Vital music-making is the heartbeat that animates André Isoir. Honorary organist at the church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris, Chevalier of Arts...
Eleven years have passed since the Midmer-Losh organ in Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall was last heard, when the ACCHOS CD/01 was recorded on November...
Intervals, tuning, and temperament, part 2
Last month I wrote about some of the fundamentals underlying the art of keyboard temperament: aspects of...
It’s a colorful world
A couple years ago I was driving across Virginia to visit a church whose people were hoping to acquire a pipe organ. My...
The best medicine
Sing Alleluias forth (or seventh, to be exact!). This summer’s light-hearted read to top all others has arrived in the pages of...
John C. Campbell died March 4 in Abilene, Texas. He was 73. A long-time teacher and organist, he began piano study with his mother at age eight; his...
Visser & Associates,
Magnolia, Texas
NamDaeMun Presbyterian Church, Seoul, Korea
The new organ for NamDaeMun Presbyterian Church in Seoul was...
Ruggles Pipe Organs,
Conifer, Colorado
Fairmount Presbyterian Church Memorial Chapel,
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
From the builder
When I was asked to...
Since the beginning of this century, the recital calendar of The Diapason has included numerous listings for Ken Cowan. A native of Thorold, Ontario...
Winthrop University began in 1886 in Columbia, South Carolina as the Winthrop Training School, to train women teachers. Robert Winthrop, chair of the...
Buxtehude’s chorale variations
The number of chorale variations in Dietrich Buxtehude’s organ works is considerably smaller than in the oeuvre of...
Intervals, tuning, and temperament, part 1
In this series of columns, I want to share a few ideas about how to introduce aspects of tuning and...
