August 2009
Lewis & Hitchcock,
Beltsville, Maryland
Chevy Chase United Methodist Church, Chevy Chase, Maryland
Like the Sound of a Great Amen(So begins the description of the church organ in the booklet prepared for the dedication of the new…
A. E. Schlueter Pipe Organ Company, Lithonia, Georgia
New Orleans Baptist Theological SeminaryMonday, August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall. The levee system failed, and over 80% of New Orleans was flooded. For weeks, portions…
Vital music-making is the heartbeat that animates André Isoir. Honorary organist at the church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris, Chevalier of Arts and Letters and recipient of the National Order of Merit, André Isoir has received the…
Eleven years have passed since the Midmer-Losh organ in Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall was last heard, when the ACCHOS CD/01 was recorded on November 3–4, 1998. The Atlantic City Convention Hall was renamed Boardwalk Hall and was closed…
Intervals, tuning, and temperament, part 2
Last month I wrote about some of the fundamentals underlying the art of keyboard temperament: aspects of the nature of musical sound and of intervals, the overtone series, and the so-called circle…
It’s a colorful world
A couple years ago I was driving across Virginia to visit a church whose people were hoping to acquire a pipe organ. My destination was a tiny hamlet across the Rappahannock River from Tappahannock (nice ring to it).…
The best medicine
Sing Alleluias forth (or seventh, to be exact!). This summer’s light-hearted read to top all others has arrived in the pages of Mark Schweizer’s latest liturgical mystery, The Diva Wore Diamonds, just published by St.…
John C. Campbell died March 4 in Abilene, Texas. He was 73. A long-time teacher and organist, he began piano study with his mother at age eight; his father acquired a two-manual and pedal Estey reed organ for their church, and Campbell…
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