August 2013
Robert Clark taught at the University of Michigan from 1964 to 1981, and at Arizona State University, Tempe, from 1981 until his retirement in 1998. One of his most noted achievements as a performer was his recording, Bach at Naumburg, on…
Russell Meyer & AssociatesOrgan Builders,Bridgeton, New Jersey
The Catholic Communityof St. Charles Borromeo,
Skillman, New Jersey
The Catholic Community of St. Charles Borromeo is a large parish located in Skillman, New Jersey, seven…
Orgues Létourneau Limitée,
Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec
Opus 125
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church,
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
From the builder
Whether organbuilder or organist, most of us savor the process of planning for a grand instrument with…
Introduction
During the travels of his virtuoso years, Franz Liszt liked to try out and even perform on various organs throughout Europe.1 However, it was only after his move to Weimar in 1848 that he was in regular contact with other…
Robert Clark taught at the University of Michigan from 1964 to 1981, and at Arizona State University, Tempe, from 1981 until his retirement in 1998. One of his most noted achievements as a performer was his recording, Bach at Naumburg, on…
Experts
In a suburb of Boston, there’s a three-manual Hook & Hastings organ that I rebuilt in the 1990s. It’s an electro-pneumatic organ built in the 1920s that had received a full-blown tonal revision in the 1960s, when American…
Organ Method XI
I ended last month’s column with the suggestion that experienced keyboard players who are using this book to begin their exploration of organ playing could now feel ready to bring to the organ any reasonably simple two-…
Toni Desiree Hines died January 19. A native of Jackson, Mississippi, Hines worked in Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia; in the latter city she was organist in residence and program coordinator at the Traverse Arts Project from 2007 to…
