February 2018
Nunc Dimittis
Robert Malcolm Speed, 87, died June 18, 2017, in Des Moines, Iowa. Born in Knoxville, Iowa, he played piano and harmonized tunes before starting school. By age 15, he was accompanying musical events in Knoxville. Soon…
Performance
Something that has been on my mind for a while now is the relationship between being a player and being a performer. This has been on my mind in one way or another for most of my adult life, but it has recently come to the fore…
We’re working on it.
This is a lovely moment to be writing. It’s about 7:00 on a Tuesday morning, and I’m sitting at the dining table in our house in Maine, with a nice view down the river. It’s 19 degrees and snowing, with wind from the…
The Art of the Harpsichord: Two Texas Treasures
In mid-June 2017 the Dallas Chapter of the American Guild of Organists hosted its most recent regional convention, an event that attracted a record number of registrants. In addition to…
This article is a continuation of a feature in the August 2015, June 2016, and July 2017 issues of The Diapason. This essay was delivered as a lecture for the Midwinter Pipe Organ Conclave on January 19, 2015, in La Grange, Illinois. The…
A unique figure in the story of the American organ is John Leonard Hinners (1846–1906), who perhaps epitomizes the late nineteenth-century entrepreneurial spirit in the face of the closing frontier (Figure 1). He is something of a musical…
In 2018 there are several composers whose anniversaries can be commemorated, albeit some of the precise birth and death dates are not known for certain. Several names below need no introduction, but there are also quite a few lesser-known…
Trinity Lutheran Seminary,
Columbus, Ohio
Bigelow & Co., Inc., Organ Builders, American Fork, Utah
Bigelow & Co., with significant assistance from Oyster Pipe Works, Ltd. (Louisville, Ohio), has completed an extensive rebuild of…
Russell & Co. Organ Builders, Chester, Vermont
Zion Lutheran Church,Appleton, Wisconsin
From the Builder
The organ that preceded the new instrument began its life in 1903: a two-manual, 19-rank tubular-pneumatic instrument built by…
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