February 2009
The Community Chapel on Squirrel Island, Maine, has completed its first summer organ resident program. The island has approximately 100 summer residences, whose families arrive at the beginning of each summer by ferry from Boothbay Harbor…
French Eclat in the Roanoke Valley, Thomas Baugh, organist; 2004 Fisk organ, 32 stops, Christ Episcopal Church, Roanoke, Virginia. Raven Recording OAR 850,www.ravencd.com.
It is always interesting to me to hear a recording of a modest…
The Organ Music of Gerald Near; Steven Egler, organist; 1997 Casavant, 61 ranks, Central Michigan University. Disc 1: Choraleworks (complete), disc 2: Suite in Classical Style and Sonata in F-sharp Minor. White Pine Music, WPM 203,www.…
Fabry, Inc., Antioch, Illinois: Memorial Chapel, The Culver Academies, Culver, Indiana
Fabry, Inc., Antioch, IllinoisMemorial Chapel, The Culver Academies, Culver, IndianaThe nucleus of this organ is Möller Opus 8168, a 54-rank organ…
Parkey OrganBuilders,
Duluth, Georgia
Church of the Good Shepherd,
Lookout Mountain, Tennessee
From the builderOur first contact with Church of the Good Shepherd was with John Wigal, choirmaster/organist, in early 2006. After receiving his…
Introduction
Clarence Dickinson (1873–1969) had one of the longest and most influential careers in the history of American church music. The first installment in this series of Dickinson’s own writings, Reminiscences, appeared in the July…
Professor Marilyn Mason’s Historic Organ Tour 55 last July featured visits to Budapest, Vienna, Salzburg and Prague, all enchanting cultural capitals or significant cities of the former Hapsburg Empire. Participants, greeted by our…
Practicing I
When I was a graduate student at Westminster Choir College in the early eighties, there was a piece of graffiti written over the door leading to the basement corridors where the organ practice rooms were found. It said: Take…
What’s in a name?
or,
Say what you mean.
JULIET:
O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou, Romeo?
Deny thy father, and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.
ROMEO [Aside]:
Shall I hear more…
10 years ago in the February 1999 issue of The Diapason
Donald Broome honored for 20 years as tonal director, Austin Organs, Inc.
Amy Johansen appointed university organist, University of Sydney, Australia
James Mellichamp appointed Dean,…
Betty Jean Taylor Bartholomew died October 11, 2008, at the age of 84 in Eugene, Oregon. Born in Eugene on December 10, 1923, she had a career as a piano and organ recitalist and church musician in five states before returning to Oregon in…
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