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June 2010

Part I was published in the October 2009 issue of The Diapason. The third volume in this cycle of Bulgarian organ composers was published in July 2009, followed by the fourth and fifth in September 2009, and the sixth in January 2010.…
Nichols & Simpson, Inc., Organbuilders, Little Rock, Arkansas Moorings Presbyterian Church, Naples, FloridaThe new Nichols & Simpson organ for Moorings Presbyterian Church is the first pipe organ that this congregation has ever…
Sebastian M. Glück, New York, New York Park Avenue United Methodist Church, New York, New YorkLocated at one of the busiest urban intersections in the nation, Park Avenue United Methodist Church built their present neo-Byzantine building…
Part 1 of this interview was published in the March 2010 issue of The Diapason. Charles Dodsley Walker celebrated his 90th birthday on March 16. He is a Fellow of the American Guild of Organists and is the founding director of the…
The 16th National Choral Conference’s theme was “Rekindling Music Together: Finding Our Common Voice.” The American Boychoir, host for this conference since its inception in 1987, is an uncommon group of voices, trained and shaped year-…
Buxtehude BuxWV 141 – Part 1: Getting to know the piece This month we begin the process of working on the Praeludium in E major, BuxWV 141, by Dietrich Buxtehude. As I mentioned last month, there is a good edition available online for free…
Wind I’m a nut for a good wind. We live by the ocean, and I never tire of the feeling of the wind coming off the water bringing fresh air and all the good tidal smells into the house. I love to open the sliding doors that face the water…
Martha Novak Clinkscale, American musicologist and researcher in the history of the early piano, died in Dallas on April 24 from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Born in Akron, Ohio (June 16, 1933), Dr. Clinkscale held piano…
10 years ago in the June 2000 issue of The Diapason Cover: Hellmuth Wolff et Associés, Ltée, Opus 43, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa James Russell Brown appointed vice president of administration, Music Institute of Chicago…