February 2017

Nunc Dimittis

The A Team:
Antoinette Vischer’s
Commissions for Harpsichord

Why it matters.

Disjunct Motion III

For reasons that were random and fleeting, I did not write columns for November 2016 or January 2017. Thus these three columns on disjunct motion have themselves been presented in a disjunct manner . . . .

We first saw the much-altered 1875 Steer & Turner organ at First Baptist Church in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota, in 2003. There were dead notes, some pipes were leaning and about to fall over, the pedal wiring included a number of jumper cables as well as dead notes, and the stoplist was somewhat bewildering.

Turning nineteen is a pretty awesome event—exploding horizons, new responsibilities, new friends, leaving home for an exciting new place to live, long-held goals coming within range, and dreaming ever bigger for the future.

This is the third installment in a series of articles that will offer ideas for enriching service playing.

Buzard Pipe Organ Builders, Champaign, Illinois, Opus 44 

Grace Episcopal Church, 

M. P. Rathke, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, Opus 8

Newtown United Methodist Church, Cincinnati, Ohio