May 2011

Lewis & Hitchcock, Inc.,
Beltsville, Maryland
Wesley United Methodist Church, Vienna, Virginia

J.H. & C.S. Odell,
East Hampton, Connecticut
Scarborough Presbyterian Church, Scarborough, New York

The history of American choral music can be traced through the expansion of musical settings of liturgical words into the secular arena

Introduction

To honor the two most significant events in Mexican political history, the IOHIO (Institute of Historic Organs) presented its grandest festival yet, October 21–27, 2010 in Oaxaca, Mexico

Buxtehude and Boëllmann—final thoughts (for now)
For the last year I have looked, in as much depth as space seemed to permit, at the process of studying and learning two contrasting and, I hope, complementary pieces—the Praeludium in E Major, BuxWV 141 by Dietrich Buxtehude, and the Suite Gothique, op. 25 by Leon Boëllmann. This month I will share a few thoughts about this project as a whole; then next month I will turn to something new.

Organ tuning, temperament, and temperature

Another member joins the harpsichordists’ century club

Nancy Jane Blair, Rodney Alan Giles, James Noel Grenhart, Hugh Allen Wilson