February 2019

Schoenstein & Co., Benicia, California

Saint John’s Episcopal Church, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Selling the idea

Case Organ Company, Inc.,

Verona, Wisconsin

Bishop O’Connor Chapel,

Holy Name Catholic Center, Madison, Wisconsin

The Case Organ Company has completed restoration and relocation of Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1204. The organ was installed in Bishop O’Connor Chapel at Holy Name Heights, Madison, Wisconsin. The instrument was blessed at a choral dedication recital with Lessons and Carols sung by the Madison Diocesan Choir and organ solos performed by Glenn Schuster on December 19, 2017.

This festival existed before America was even invented,” exclaimed Roy Massey, organist emeritus of Hereford Cathedral and nine times conductor-in-chief of the Three Choirs Festival. We were standing beside the statue of Edward Elgar, in a corner of the cathedral gardens. For each festival at Hereford, Ruth Massey places a wreath of flowers around Elgar’s neck, and then stops by every day to water it. The Three Choirs Festival is an annual summer event shared between the Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester cathedrals.

The fifty-eighth annual organ conference at the University of Michigan celebrated women’s contributions as performers, composers, educators, and builders of the organ, harpsichord, and carillon. Distinguished guest artists and lecturers from North America and Europe joined University of Michigan faculty, students, and alumni in presenting an impressive range of events, beginning with the annual improvisation competition and concluding with the restaging of three choreographies by the American modern dance pioneer, Doris Humphrey, set to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.

In 2019 there are several composers whose anniversaries can be commemorated, albeit some of the precise birth and death dates are not known for certain. Several names below need no introduction, but there are also quite a few lesser-known names listed here whose compositions are well worth exploring. No claim is made for completeness, and there is no guarantee that every edition is readily available and in print­—there may well also be editions by other publishers. Publishers’ websites have been given where known.

Stephen Gothold, 77, died December 5, 2018. After graduating from Whittier College, Whittier, California, Gothold went on to receive a Master of Arts degree in music from Occidental College, Los Angeles, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He also studied at the International Bach Academy in Stuttgart, Germany, with Helmuth Rilling. Other teachers include Richard Lert, Daniel Lewis, Robert Shaw, Frank Pooler, Rodney Eichenberger, and Charles Hirt.

Jane Clark: “D’un goût nouveau:” the influence of Evaristo Gherardi’s Théâtre italien in François Couperin’s Pièces de Clavecin

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Wendy and I live in a building with about two hundred households. We are mostly anonymous neighbors; just a few fellow residents are casual acquaintances. The people we chat with the most are the other dog owners, and we are more likely to know the dogs’ names than their owners’. Farley the goldendoodle is a cheerful and friendly guy so he attracts a lot of attention in the elevators and lobby.

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