August 2017
Nunc Dimittis
William Thomas Farrell, III, died April 27. He was born May 20, 1934, in San Antonio, Texas. He attended San Antonio College, studying organ performance with Donald Willing.
Farrell’s interest in the organ would change from…
August interlude
I have decided to take a partial break from my sequence of columns about helping students to develop fingerings and instead write about a few miscellaneous matters that have been on my mind. These are all small but…
Installation
My son Michael works for an architectural fabrication company in Boston that manufactures design elements for buildings, such as corporate logos with programmed LED displays, sophisticated signage, and art installations. They’…
Christmas in August
For a Texan yearning to make a summer escape from the hot, humid city to the coolly refreshing mountains of New Mexico, generally an August reference to Christmas would signify the request for both red and green chile…
F
rozen fingers, schnitzel and potatoes, too much bread, four-cheese pasta, train platforms in the cold,Blitzeis . . . but then that remarkable sound! This past January eleven students and four faculty and staff from the Oberlin…
Editor’s note: Part I of this article was published in the July issue of The Diapason, pages 17–19.
Mouth heights
Mouth height, or “cutup,” as it is more commonly called by voicers, is the primary means of adjusting the timbre of a pipe…
Marceau Pipe Organ Builders,
Seattle, Washington, Opus 35
University Lutheran Church,
Seattle, Washington
Marceau Pipe Organ Builders has completed their Opus 35, a three-manual and pedal organ of 25 stops, 27 ranks, and 1,714 pipes for…
American Organ Institute,
University of Oklahoma,
Norman, Oklahoma
Oklahoma History Center,
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
A part of Oklahoma history, the Kilgen theatre organ originally installed in the studios of WKY Radio in Oklahoma City…
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