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Rieger-Orgelbau GmbH, Schwarzach, Austria; Musiikkitalo, Helsinki, Finland
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L’Orgue Mystique: A Liturgical Symphony
Richard Spotts is the author of Charles Tournemire’s L’Orgue Mystique: La Haute Mission, published by the Leupold Foundation (theleupoldfoundation.org), from which the quotes in this article are cited. In Lent 2026, he will be performing the complete L’Orgue Mystique at Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church, Chestnut Hill, in Philadelphia, in a seventeen-part recital series on the church’s Aeolian-Skinner/Russell organ. For more information on the book and the event, visit richspotts.com.
A solemn declaration to embrace a calling
Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival Hartford 2025: High School Division Competition
Alan MacMillan is a Connecticut-based organist and composer whose works have been published by Paraclete Press, Augsburg, and Lorenz. He has served on the board of the Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival Hartford since 2022.
If one had attended the competition portion of the twenty-eighth Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival Hartford blindfolded this year, it would have been difficult to tell that the contestants were teenagers, all still in high school; such was the level of accomplishment of the three finalists who performed on Saturday morning, September 27, 2025, on the Austin organ of Trinity College Chapel.
