February 2010
Kegg Pipe Organ Builders,
Hartville, Ohio
Christ Episcopal Church,
Eureka, California
It has often been stated that the most important stop of an organ is the room in which it is heard. True, but unremarkable. When a church actually takes…
Goulding & Wood, Inc.,
Indianapolis, Indiana
Opus 28 (1996) and Opus 49 (2009)
First United Methodist Church, Rocky Mount, North Carolina
From the organbuilder
One of the greatest pleasures we have as organbuilders is seeing the…
Prologue
For some, musicology can offer captivating moments. What has happened at a certain place during a certain time? Changes in organs remind us sometimes of CSI. Who really knew what was going on? The pastor might be not the best…
According to his birth certificate,
Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin was born on February 22, 1810, a date confirmed by the composer’s father in a sworn statement to the parish priest Jan Duchnowski in April of that same year.1 Thus, this…
Led by Marilyn Mason and Gale Kramer, the University of Michigan Historic Tour LVI began on the Mediterranean in sunny Barcelona, then traversed southern France to Bordeaux on the Atlantic coast via Toulouse and Carcassonne. From there we…
The Bedient crew returned to the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, this fall to install four organs that were damaged by flooding last year. (See the article, “Floods Damage Organs in Eastern Iowa,” by David C. Kelzenberg, The…
Some thoughts on ornaments I
The playing of ornaments is one of those areas that many—maybe most—students find intimidating. This is only partly because it can be genuinely difficult. It certainly can be difficult, although, like most…
Advent in New York
Today, as I write this column, is the third Sunday of Advent. The Organ Clearing House is installing an organ in Manhattan, and my wife Wendy came down for the weekend. We went to a Christmas choral concert last night on…
10 years ago in the February 2000 issue of The Diapason
Cover, Martin Pasi and Associates, St. Augustine Catholic Church, Spokane, Washington
Kristin Gronning Farmer received the Organ Historical Society’s 1999 Distinguished Service Award…
Sister Marie Theodore Girten, OP, died November 3, 2009, at St. Dominic Villa, Sinsinawa, Wisconsin. Sister Marie Theodore made her first religious profession as a Sinsinawa Dominican August 5, 1946, and her final profession August 5, 1949…
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