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 medical corpsman, he earned a bachelor’s degree from The State University of New York at New Paltz. From an early age Auchincloss was fascinated by the sound of pipe organs and, thanks to his grandmother and an aunt, was able to travel widely with them in Europe, playing many organs.

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 path to Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral.

C. B. Fisk, Inc., Opus 133

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.

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, bibliography, and index, $69 + postage and handling.

Mechanical failure

B. M. C. Durfee High School, Fall River, Massachusetts

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 and
colinbooth.co.uk.

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 rhythm or “counting” in a way that enables a student to connect those concepts as directly as possible with rhetoric and the student’s interpretive stance.