July 2006

Bedient Pipe Organ Company, Roca, Nebraska--St. Agatha Church, Upper Arlington, Ohio

Glück New York Organbuilders, New York, New York: Union Church of Pocantico Hills, Tarrytown, New York

The latest in a series of new concert hall organs was recently inaugurated to great fanfare in Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center. The instrument was built by Dobson Pipe Organ Builders, Ltd. of Lake City, Iowa.

Thomas Trotter has made his mark with a dazzling, effortless technique and compelling interpretations.

As the world celebrates 250 years of Mozart in 2006, many of us will also be celebrating 100 years of E. Power Biggs (1906–1977). The happy coincidence of yet a third anniversary, the semi-centennial of Biggs’s A Mozart Organ Tour, the landmark recording released by Columbia Masterworks in the month of July 1956, gives us an ideal place to start the party.

Pipe organ building is one facet of modern life where they do make ’em like they used to.

Nunc Dimittis: Jim Angell

William A. Hansen, Steven Williams