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Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral,
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Inspired by Italy: Encounters with Italian Historical Organs, Their Surroundings, and Their Music
The sights and sounds of Italy offer more inspiration than any score or treatise—they provide clues about the spirit of the music, where words and musical notation fall miserably short
What if I told you that there is surviving Italian organ music as splendid as Giovanni Gabrieli’s In Ecclesiis and as ethereal as Gregorio Allegri’s Miserere? A few months ago, I would not have believed it either. In fact, I was under the impression that compared to Italy’s glorious tradition of ensemble music, its organ music was of lesser importance, and its historical organs were pretty but small.
The Great Organ of the Cathedral of Monaco
The new Thomas organ of Monaco is a completely new instrument in a resolutely contemporary façade
François Couperin’s Organ Masses at the University of Michigan
For the first time in Ann Arbor, the complete organ works of François Couperin were performed on two evenings by students of Professor Marilyn Mason
On Teaching
Gavin Black describes the practice technique of purposely leaving notes out of the texture of a piece
In the wind . . .
In our field, there are many great teachers at the ends of the careers, but happily there are equally great young people taking their positions and continuing their traditions
Nunc Dimittis
Ronald Cameron Bishop, Jr., William Lusk Brice, Paul E. Engle, Bart Ferguson Harris, Thomas Hunter Russell
