March 2006

Bedient Pipe Organ Company, Roca, Nebraska: John Griffen Residence, Seattle, Washington
Marceau & Associates Pipe Organ Builders, Inc., Portland, Oregon: St. Mark Lutheran Church, Anchorage, Alaska

Goulding & Wood, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana: Second Presbyterian Church, Roanoke, Virginia, Opus 43 (2005)

The fifth British Organ Music Seminar, led by Christina Harmon and Cliff Varnon, took place in England and Wales from June 24–July 3, with John Hosking, noted British concert organist, as guide.

Situated next to the famous Isle de la Cité, the Isle Saint-Louis in Paris, France, is known for its quaint shops and delicious Berthillon ice cream. Bernard Aubertin’s organ case shines brilliantly in the Saint-Louis-en-l’Isle Church.

Surprisingly little is known about the composer William Walond. Walond did, however, publish two volumes of organ voluntaries, his Opus 1, Six Voluntaries for Organ or Harpsichord (1752), and his Opus 2, Ten Voluntaries for the Organ or Harpsichord (1758).

In September 6, 2005, six young organists participated in the eighth annual Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival/USA in Wethersfield, Connecticut.

We were invited by the World Congress on the New Evangelization to perform concerts in Portugal during the congress November 5–15, 2005. Seven artists took part in the tour: Donald and Lucy Baber, Donald Fishel, Joan McKay, Andrew Meagher, David Troiano, and Marilyn Mason.

Rollin Smith’s The Aeolian Pipe Organ and Its Music contains plenty of facts about the company’s history. The stories about the early twentieth-century organists who played on, composed for, and recorded on the Aeolian Organ form a fascinating picture of the styles and opinions of early twentieth-century virtuosi—many of whose names are familiar to us today.

Scott Sward