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Létourneau Pipe Organs worked closely with the cathedral’s architect, Craig Hartman of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, to develop the organ’s visual design, through a process of discussion, collaboration, and at times, mutual compromise
Létourneau Pipe Organs,
Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada
Opus 118 (2010)
Jehan Alain: His Life and Works
On February 3, 2011, Jehan Alain would have been 100 years old
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 3 février 1911—Saumur, 20 juin 1940
A Skinner Centennial—Opus 190 at Grand Avenue Temple: United Methodist Church, Kansas City, Missouri
The original Grand Avenue Temple Methodist Church opened at Ninth and Grand in Kansas City in 1870. This was a Victorian Gothic brick church with an imposing spire, and it had a two-manual-and-pedal Marshall Brothers tracker organ. The congregation had outgrown this church by the early twentieth century, so in 1910–1912 a new and much larger neo-classical church of poured concrete with brick facing was constructed on the same site. A contract for the 44-rank, four-manual-and-pedal organ was signed with the Ernest M.
In Memoriam: Jacqueline Englert-Marchal—23 September 1922–21 April 2012
Jacqueline’s childhood memories of her parents’ home, 22 rue Duroc in Paris’s Seventh Arrondissement, included frequent encounters with famous leaders of the musical world. Her father André Marchal was already a highly regarded concert organist and teacher, and her mother, Suzanne Greuet-Marchal, was a singer of note who also taught at the Institut des Jeunes Aveugles.
