December 2019
Quimby Pipe Organs Opus 76, recently installed at Dunwoody United Methodist Church, comprises 100 ranks distributed over five manual divisions, playable from a four-manual and pedal console. The completion of this instrument represents the…
More than a century and a half after his birth, Ernest Martin Skinner (born January 15, 1866; died November 27, 1960) is still acknowledged to be one of the most innovative of American organbuilders. Skinner created instruments that…
Embracing new, creative approaches, a groundbreaking initiative, “Playing and Preserving: Saving and Activating Philadelphia’s Historic Pipe Organs to Advance Music and Community,” aims to generate public support for the preservation and…
Breathtaking
My father was, among many other things, an ardent and slightly kooky baseball fan. He grew up in Cincinnati watching the Reds at Crosley Field and started a lifelong relationship with the Boston Red Sox when he was in seminary…
The Art of the Fugue, part 7
I begin this column with an account of something that happened in a recent lesson, something surprisingly germane, by complete coincidence, to what I had already been planning to write about this month. I…
Giving thanks from A to Z, part 2: Moving to Dallas (1970)
During late spring of 1970 I was invited to present my Hugo Distler lecture and a masterclass on his organ music at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In conversations with…
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