December 2021
Gordon Sibley Auchincloss
Gordon Sibley Auchincloss, 79, died June 11 in Norfolk, Virginia. Born July 28, 1941, in New York City, he was a graduate of the Lenox School, Lenox, Massachusetts. After serving in the United States Navy as a…
Our installation of this organ was scheduled to commence on March 16, 2020. As stay-at-home orders and other government measures came into effect, these plans changed. However, this was hardly the first detour for the mighty Möller on its…
C. B. Fisk, Inc., Opus 133
The C. B. Fisk, Inc., shop, located near sea level in Gloucester, Massachusetts, had to carefully consider the delivery of their Opus 133 to an altitude of 2,127 meters (6,978 feet) at First Presbyterian Church,…
Editor’s note: Part 1 of this series appeared in the June 2021 issue of The Diapason, pages 18–19; part 2 appeared in the July 2021 issue, pages 12–14.
The first and second articles of this series examined the first thirty measures up to…
Pioneers in American Music, 1860−1920, The New England Classicists, by Barbara Owen. Leupold Editions, a division of the Leupold Foundation, Colfax, North Carolina, 2021, xvi + 303 pages, 55 black & white illustrations, discography,…
Mechanical failure
This morning while doing errands with Wendy, I noticed a lug nut on the tarmac next to our parked car. The inside thread was stripped bare, even shiny and smooth, and while the outside should have had six corners and six…
B. M. C. Durfee High School, Fall River, Massachusetts
The newly refurbished 23-bell instrument of B. M. C. Durfee High School in Fall River, Massachusetts, is distinguished by its status as the only carillon in a public high school in the…
J. S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, by Colin Booth, harpsichord. Soundboard, Book One, SBCD-218, $16.98; Book Two, SBCD-219, $16.98. Available from ravencd.com andcolinbooth.co.uk.
Colin Booth, harpsichordist and harpsichord maker,…
Further thoughts about rhythm, part 2
Continuing from my September column, I offer here a few additional anecdotes and ideas relevant to rhythm and the teaching of rhythm. In my next column I will explore the question of how to teach…
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