September 2008
Glück New York,
New York, New York
Leon Lowenstein Memorial Auditorium, Congregation Emanu-El, New York, New York
The Fox Memorial Pipe Organ began its career as M. P. Möller’s Opus 9718 of 1962, designed by Dr. Robert S. Baker in…
Berghaus Pipe Organ Builders, Inc., Bellwood, Illinois
St. John’s Episcopal Church, Norwood Parish, Bethesda,
Chevy Chase, Maryland
From the organbuilderSt. John’s Episcopal Church, Norwood Parish, is located just minutes away from…
Thom Miles plays the restored 1866 Koehnken & Co. organ at the Isaac M. Wise Temple, Cincinnati, Ohio. Thom Miles, organist. Arsis CD 157, www.arsisaudio.com; available from the Organ Historical Society ($15.98 plus shipping), www.…
The history of church choirs in Nigeria is interwoven with the arrival of Christianity in Nigeria, which dates back to the mid-nineteenth century. The early missionaries from the United States and Europe settled mainly in the southwest (…
The first installment in this series, “From the Dickinson Collection: Reminiscences by Clarence Dickinson, Part 1: 1873–1898,” was published in the July 2008 issue of The Diapason.
Introduction
On March 28, 1893, Clarence Dickinson, age 19…
When the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester opened its doors in downtown Rochester, New York in 1921, its benefactor George Eastman made sure that the first class of organ students had facilities that were state of the…
Counterpoint I
This month I will begin a series about the teaching of the playing of counterpoint on keyboard instruments. There are several reasons why this is an important subject, one that can and should be considered as something…
Shiny side up
The work of the Organ Clearing House involves trucks. Lots of trucks. We rent trucks when we are working on projects small enough to fit into a single truck body. And we have a trucking company in Nevada that we call when we…
John W. Eitzen died May 6 in San Diego; he was 79. Born and raised in Mountain Lake, Minnesota, he received a bachelor’s degree in music from St. Olaf College and a master’s in music education from the University of Iowa. After teaching…
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