August 2008
In 2007 Marilyn Mason celebrated her 60th year of teaching at the University of Michigan. She has taught at the university since 1947, making her the longest-tenured faculty member in the institution’s 190 years. On March 12, at Hill…
Dobson Pipe Organ Builders,
Lake City, Iowa
St. David’s Episcopal Church,
Wayne, Pennsylvania
Faced with rapid growth in the late 1990s, St. David’s Episcopal Church in Wayne, Pennsylvania planned to replace a worship space erected in 1956…
Cornel Zimmer Organ Builders, Inc., Denver, North Carolina
Media Presbyterian Church, Media, Pennsylvania
From the senior pastorIf one were to remove all that was sacred from the library of the great music of the Western world, one would…
Introduction
This article is the second in a series exploring the role of the King of Instruments in American culture. The first article, “The Mortuary Pipe Organ: A Neglected Chapter in the History of Organbuilding in America,” was…
Entartete—“degenerate”—was a derogatory term used in Nazi Germany to characterize art works deemed to be “un-German” or “impure.” The word itself originated as a biological term to describe a plant or animal that has changed so much that…
This & that
As I mentioned in last month’s column, this month I will provide a sort of miscellany or potpourri of brief thoughts, ideas, and anecdotes that will amount to “light summer fare,” but which I hope will be interesting. Some…
Organs aloft
A good friend worked with me for several years as a tuning assistant. He’s a grand singer with lots of theater experience, and is music director of a nearby church where he presides over an ambitious choir program—one of those…
Herbert E. Nuechterlein passed away May 22, just days before his 90th birthday, which the family did celebrate in his honor as planned. The funeral followed on May 27 at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, where he had long served as director of…
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