September 2022
The masked organ man
After installing more than seventy new pipe organs and dozens of rebuilds and renovations in almost every condition and environment I could think of, a new challenge was thrown into the mix, Covid! Installing a pipe…
David E. Wallace & Company, LLC, Gorham, Maine
Saint Rose of Lima Catholic Church, Jay, Maine
It is always an exciting moment when the music director of a parish church contacts our shop in search of a pipe organ for their worship…
This past summer 2022, we witnessed the last musical moments of the great organ at Chartres Cathedral. At the end of August, scaffolding was built to take down the entire instrument—the pipes, the console, all the mechanical elements, and…
Editor’s note: Part 1 of this series may be found in the May 2022 issue, pages 20–21.
Introduction
In this, the second in a series of articles exploring various aspects of the art of improvisation at the organ, we hear and learn from Mary…
Editor’s note: Part 1 of this series appeared in the June 2021 issue of The Diapason, pages 18–19; part 2 appeared in the July 2021 issue, pages 12–14; part 3 appeared in the December 2021 issue, pages 16–18; part 4 appeared in the August…
Music in the mountains
Last January, Wendy and I moved out of our apartment in Greenwich Village and into a house in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Stockbridge is a town with two thousand residents in the Berkshire Mountains about five miles…
A new edition of Mattheson’s Fingersprache
Die Wohlklingende Fingersprache (The Melodious Talking-Fingers), by Johann Mattheson, edited by Colin Booth and Matthew Brown. Soundboard, 2020, 70 pages, with preface in English and German, $37.…
The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America (GCNA) announces results of its 2023 Franco Proposal Contest. Thirty-three submissions were received for this first proposal-based composition contest. Submissions included prior works by the…
James Cameron Taylor, organ builder in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, died June 29. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 25, 1948, his early motorcycle travels in the 1970s led him to apply for work at Andover Organ Company where he worked closely with…
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