Greg Harrold, Los Angeles, California, has built a new 24-stop organ for the Kay/MacBird residence in Brentwood, California. This organ, the builder's Opus 14, features mechanical key and stop action. The 56-note manuals have bone naturals and ebony sharps. There are two interchangable 30-note pedalboards, one flat/parallel and one concave/ radiating. Wind pressure is 65mm from a single-fold wedge bellows and the organ is tuned in Kellner temperament. The case is of waxed spruce.
Catharine Crozier played a recital and conducted a
masterclass on April 23 and 24 at Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois.
The Friday evening program represented the 20th anniversary recital on The Hart
Sesquicentennial Organ and was presented as The Ruth M. Bellatti Memorial Organ
Recital. Ms. Crozier performed Partita on the Chorale, "Was Gott tut
das ist wohlgetan," Pachelbel; Fugue in E-flat, S.
The establishment of a London museum to honor the life and
works of George Frideric Handel has been subject to a rollercoaster series of
advances and setbacks since the establishment of The Handel House Trust in
1991. Plans to purchase the early 18th-century terrace house at 25 Brook
Street, Handel's home from 1723 until his death in 1759, fell through when an
anticipated grant from the British Heritage Lottery Fund was withdrawn because
a large matching endowment could not be raised within the required time period.
Dave Hunsberger is assistant carillonneur at the
University of California in Berkeley amd Organist and Director of Music at St.
John's Presbyterian Church in Berkeley. He contributes the following report of
activities in Utrecht.
During July, 1997, Janice Beck was scheduled to play nine
organ recitals in four different European countries, a recital every three
days. In fact, she played eight recitals in three countries. This account is a detailed description of that tour, its trials, tribulations and joys.
When an organ builder creates an instrument for his alma
mater, the stage is set for a career achievement and the conception of a work
of art. Such was the case when Charles Fisk built his masterpiece at Stanford
University. In the same spirit, Paul Fritts created the magnificent opus that
was the centerpiece of an International Symposium entitled "The Organ in
the New Millennium" at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington.
