June 2017

Nunc Dimittis

Three-score and ten:

Celebrating Richard Kingston

Frank Hastings, of the Weston Hastings

Helping Students Choose Fingerings II

Sitting under a shade tree in his backyard last summer, sipping iced tea with Charles and Birgitta Hendrickson, I asked him about his philosophy of organ building. His immediate answer was, “If I can make them [the congregation] sing, I have succeeded.” To make them sing—what a fine goal!

Bach’s aptly titled Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 903, is a composition for keyboard—clavichord, harpsichord, or pianoforte—that appears to have originated in the course of the composer’s tumultuous transition from Weimar to Cöthen in 1717.

This is the fourth and final installment in a series of articles that offer ideas for enriching service playing.

Glück Pipe Organs, 

New York, New York

Buzard Pipe Organ Builders, Champaign, Illinois

Holy Spirit Lutheran Church, Charleston, South Carolina