May 2011
Lewis & Hitchcock, Inc.,
Beltsville, Maryland
Wesley United Methodist Church, Vienna, VirginiaWesley United Methodist Church of Vienna, Virginia, has a Wicks organ that was installed in 1966 and enlarged in 1971. The organ had begun to…
J.H. & C.S. Odell,
East Hampton, Connecticut
Scarborough Presbyterian Church, Scarborough, New YorkI remember receiving my first phone call from Scarborough Presbyterian Church in late January 2005. I was delighted to have the chance…
How did choral music start in the United States?
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.
—Walt WhitmanLeaves of Grass1
Prologue
Unlike political history, American choral music did not immediately burst forth with significant…
Introduction
Religious conflicts brought about the Thirty Years War (1618–1648), which devastated Germany. Reconstruction took at least one hundred years,1 encompassing the entire lifetime of J. S. Bach. The Treaty of Westphalia (1648),…
The eighth International Organ and Early Music Festival took place October 21–27, 2010 in Oaxaca, Mexico, with the theme, “Celebrating the Bicentennial of the National Independence and the Centennial of the Mexican Revolution.” To honor…
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…
The temperamental organ
Winter was coming to an end, and at Fenway Park, fabled home of the Boston Red Sox, and the facilities manager was working down his checklist of pre-season chores. This would be the second year of the new ballpark…
Another member joins the
harpsichordists’ century club
Virginia Pleasants, harpsichordist, clavichordist, and fortepianist, celebrates her 100th birthday on May 9, 2011. Born in Ohio, she attended Wittenberg University and completed her…
Nancy Jane Blair died November 6, 2010. A native of Knoxville, Tennessee, she graduated from Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, and earned a master’s degree in church music from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth…
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