December 2007
Casavant Frères op. 3837 (2005)
The Brick Presbyterian Church in the City of New York
A brief history of Brick Church’s Casavant organ
Ever since my first encounter with the Cavaillé-Coll archives at Oberlin during my student days there in…
Sublimity flashing forth at the right moment scatters everything before it like a thunderbolt…
—Longinus
As scholars and musicians celebrate the music of Buxtehude three hundred years after his death, I ask myself, as an organist, how…
What a special trip the Marilyn Mason University of Michigan Historic Organ Tour 54 this past July 9–22 was, tracing the cities and churches limning the lives and careers of J. S. Bach and Buxtehude and, among others, the organ builders…
Parts 1 and 2 were published in the October and November 2007 issues of The Diapason, respectively.
Improvising and composing
Under the rubric of ‘Performing and Recording’ I sought to clarify Walcha’s concept of the relative places of the…
Pedal playing, part II: opening exercises
Last month I closed by stating that there are three reliable ways of finding notes at the pedal keyboard with accuracy, namely: 1) finding notes absolutely, in relation only to your position on the…
The convention of conventions
Conventions are big business. Tens of thousands of like-minded people gather in huge hotels and exposition halls for orgies of sales, parties, seminars, and exhibitions. Poking around the Internet, I found…
Carillon composition competition
On the occasion of the 750th anniversary of the city of Rhenen, The Netherlands, and the 50th anniversary of the Van Bergen carillon in the St. Cunera tower, the Cunera Carillon Association is very pleased…
Lucien Deiss, C.S.Sp., died on October 9. His funeral was celebrated on October 13 at Seminaire des Missiones in Larue, France. Best known to Roman Catholics in the U.S. through his scriptural songs such as “All the Earth,” “Keep in Mind…
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