THE DIAPASON AN INTERNATIONAL MONTHLY DEVOTED TO THE ORGAN, THE H:tRPSICHORD AND CHURCH MUSIC
Sixty-Ninlll l't!ar, No. 3, Wllole No. 819 A Scr.mloll eillelle Publication ISSN OO12·2l78 FEBRUARY, 1978 Dom Bedos in English
a reVieW by Willard Riley
"I)mu n,-~Ios in English" has :nrivcd. 1>ucs I·ro(essor Ferguson'5 IICW tran,'!· Its appt.'ar:l1Icc is a great c\'cnL in (he lation ITIcet the \'arious purposc.'S or all public:ttioll of organ literature in Eng these potenlial readen? Judging fmlll lish, coinciuing neatly with the hicen lIi!'i tr:lllsiator's preface, this at 1("3,st ill: tennial ;mnh'crs:tl)" or the comptctinn n£ \\'hal he intcnds, for he wriit'S, Ihe original work by the imlL'fatigablc This munumental lrealise ' , , con Bellcdictine monk ami his COIlOlhot";ltOrs.1 tinul.'S to oHer a wcalth of usd.. 1 in· The format of the newly-puhlisheli rormation tu laymcn, musicians, ;:Ind transJ:lIion is mOllument:tl. nol to men· crartslllen. We keep faith with the tioll the pricel Since the £irst edition is spirit of the cra in which it was writ· limited to one thousand copil'S. fOl" tcn, hy translating this unique work which about 340 suh5nihcr~ arc listed intn English.- (cleven of WhOUl orden"t more than Un\\' rcliahly doc'S Thc Org/IU·I'ui/dr.r - A" l"t,.,."ado'lQl Mo","')' IJ~fI()lt!clIO ,lie Orga", the Harpsichord and Church M ,uic 0lliri.1 Jormml of tI,e American imlitute of Orgallbuilders f)n ]ltM f)AAUll FEBRUARY, Iste FEATURES For many years. the treatise L'arl du lact~ur d'orgues by Dom Beclos de Dom. Bedo_ ill ElsCjUa1l. _ a rerie. DOROTHY ROSER Ce.lIe~ has for serious stude~LS been a )e~endary sourCe of infonnation on organ by MUan! JUley 1. 10.12, 14·15 bUilding and performance In the late eighteenth century. Until recently, how Alli,'an' Edi,.r The Orqcm Worn oj r.nx M.ad.... o!m ever, its wealth of infonnation remained only a legend to all but a few-even lartboldy. pa:rl I WESlEY VOS those of us that were fortunate enough to be ahle to consult an original edition Dr Douglaa 1.. lud.r 40& or facsimile were mostly unable to read its origimll French. Now a full English Th. fOlIa! Eyolutlon 01 lb. E. M. SJdJuMr LAIRY PA1ME. translation has been published and it merits the thorough review which begins ."".... pan n by Doratlly J. BoId.n .")1 ...... tkI.o.d on the cover of this issue. For this. we have heen fonunate to obtain the services JAMES McC1IAY. of a writer who is expert in both the subject maHer and the language. The TC VICTOR vicw should be vital to those who already own the translation and to those who REVIEWS wnu, Cltoral M.,.Jc might yet buy it, as well as to others interested in the subject. MlUlc for V olC'M aDd Ol'9an by Jam.. McCray HUDSON LADD, Last July, our cover story by Dorothy Holden sparked a substantial amount • N.w Orqem Recordillg 3 Carillo. of inquisitiveness, when she explored the tonal work of E. M. Skinner. 'Vc arc 'o,.;,n Cor... pleased to publish a continu::uion of her work, based on a forthcoming book in Harp_lebaM Rec:onllD9_ .".,..,.n'. J by Larry PaIaa.r DALE CARR the current issue. This series will continue in future issues. • Granme A trurd feature this month is the beginning of a series of 4lrticles which will EDITORIAL 2 LARRY JENKINS survey the organ works of Mendelssohn. ~fosl organists arc familiar only with 10"""" this composer's six sonatas and three preludes and fugues, but this initial article LEI'TEIl TO THE !:PITOR 2 dealing with the earlier works reveals the existence of a number of other organ , , •• -$7.50 wooo, which remain virtually unknown. NEWS 2 ,r,.-$.3.00 Comp.Utloll 2 SIn". 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Md'eridls lor re&/,ep' should Tedch wished certain composers had written, but which they did not write. It aU mOlt rcac:h III before the 10th of the lile ollice by tl.e lsI. started with Mr. Goodfriend's search for a mythical trumpet concerto b)' month pr 2 THE DIAPASON Music for Voices and Organ by James McCray Anthems for Lent and Easter Etult:r A'It1It~m. Philip E. Raker, Ox· parts in C . but a Db \' c~inr' i!'; also fonJ U. Pres.... 04.215, SO¢. SATR and :wailahle (98·2322). o'lfoln. (M. This joyful work features the organ· Jems Christ ;1 }lise" J·odny. arr. Jean ist C\'CII more than the choir. which is Pasquet. Elkan·Vogel. 362-05224. 40r. orten in unison or two parts. The organ SATn, soprano descant, org3n. optiOlml material COlIsislo; of bus)' reclIrring six- brass and congregation. (E). 1(.'Cnth ·lIotc passages with ~;nlo areas be· This familiar Easter lUehNI)' receives a tW(''C1i lIle n'tM5 and at the cnd. The simple Slr.light.(on\·ard seuing: with registration is included. :md expression three or Ihe rour '"crscs in unison. There markings arc clearly articulated. There is some allcrnatiol1 of choir and congfL' arc modulations and changing meters ga.tion. and mell's and women's '"Olces. throughout. This is a delightful anthem The fourth ,'ersc has a soprano descant. that will add greatly to the Easter SUIl' The organ music is in hymn style, with day scr\'icc. The choral parts will not be all of the ,"erses following generally the dimeult 10 learn but will be challeng . ame SCHillg-. The optional hl"3ss inchulL~ ing when !lung with the organ accom· music for two trumpets and two tHUlI' paniment, hCC:lUSC the t\\'o are so lotall}' hones and is included in a separatc mdependent of each other. Highl}' tee· score at the end, in transpoSition. ommended. This would be a useful "ersion for those choirs with limited pcr50llllel who ehr;slJ Whose Glory Fills lilt: Skies. alT. still need a "big", festh'c E:'lster morn· Gerhard Krapf, Augsburg Publishing ing anthem. House. 11-1818, 45¢. two·part mixed voices. organ and option;);1 congrq; .. · 'J"~J/ebm~ Fodne S'IIIL (Darkness "'cll tion (E). o'er the Earth) . Leonardo Lt."O (I&J8- The (E) in this raling applies only 1i4.J ) , Alexander BlOnde, Inc .. An 422. to the choral music. This anthem is flc ' ( 110 price ghen). SATll and keyboard. signed for an accomplished organist and (M .) • certainl), features him/her. There arc This motel has been edited and a r three ,cnes. The fin;t is in tlllisOIl . the ranged with a keyboard part by lotm ~oond SA/Tn in unaccompanied alter. Kiugsblll"} ; the English "enion is paced nalions with the argall, .. nd the third as first, aoo\e the Latin. The keyboard a homophonic (our· part settinJ1: which realization is ,cry simple. ermiU lhe congn.ogalion to slUg the This text is suitable for Cood Frida}' Clymn lune. ,\ choral or lrumpet descant and tells of Christ's death on the Ctn~~. is pro\'ided for the Ihird verse. This is The mllsic rflr thc chorus is homophonic a beautiful setting of Juhanll Werner's and. in those areas where the tellor scc (1777- 1822) hymn. Raa.dwlI. Excellent linn ha!'i heen expost.'Cl as a solo, King!';' music for a small church choir. hur)" has acldl'il an octa'"C unison for the alto section. for thuse choiu having ;t With Hil Stripel We (Ire Henled. Joseph weak tcnor seclion. Roff. Shawnee Pres..~ , ..\ ·5739. 40¢, SA1'B and oq,ran. (M .) . 0", 'r"nt llIeeding Lamb. Undine Smith Using the harmonic ruinor to pro\'lde Moore, Aug:\lmrg Publishing House. the necessary chromaticism, Roff treats Il·05!ii, ·I!i(,. SAT" unaccompanied the suffering of Christ ill a slow tempo, (M·) . and mOves to a faSler tempo and the Moore, who stands as one of the best relative major for that section of thc spiritual arrangers, elllphasitc."S the so· Dr. Alexander Schreiner, chief organist of the Morman Tabernacle in Salt anthem which concerns the title line. prano in her latcst spiritual. The dloral Lake City, retired on December 31 aftcr a 53· year career of playing at the The music is designed for a church parts arc generally a background for the famous Utah edirice. Official announcement of the retirement was made by choir: the organ responsibility is for top ,"oice with somc moments of dh'isi the First Presidcnc), oC The Church of Jcsus Christ oC L-ttter-day Saints, which support and generally tJoublcs the choral in all sections. Except for tlle high A lines. in the soprano. all ,ocal ranges are quite noted that this was by Car the longest tenure or any organist of the Tabernacle suitable fol' most chnin. There arc sc'"cn since its dedication 110 years ago. At ti,e Lamb's Hig" Feast IVe Sing. Set· pages with the hulk of work repeated A native oC Nuremberg, Germany, Alexander Schreiner jmmigrated to Salt ting by S. DrumlllontJ Wolff. Concordia III a second H:rse. This is a slow, serene Lake City at the age of eleven and was soon nllmed a church organist there. Publishing 1"lousc. 98.2300, 40¢. SATB spirtual with limited syncopation, but A£ter study with Tabernacle organist John J. McClellan and graduation from two trumpets, organ aud congregation. well worth cousidcration by both church high school, he became a theatre organist; hc later wcnt to Europe, where he (M) . or school chllirs. This setting has six ,"erscs and an studied with both Vicrnc and '''idor. Upon return, he took up regular assign ill!'itrul11clllal introduction. The settillgs Todn)' ;s SalvatiOfI Come. Ra)'mond ments in Salt Lake City. From 1930 to 1939, he was lccturer and organist at the ;,ltcrllalc bChH.'C1I a unison seuing. lISU' Ha.an, G,I.I\. Publications, G·2I1S, 35¢ University of Calirornill at Los Angeles, spending eight months per year there ally for the congregation, and a four· SA'I'U and -I handbclls (E). and playing at the Tabemacle the remaining four. He earned both B.A. and pan \C1"Sion for the chonts. The trum· This te"t J:\ suitable IIOt only for Ph.D. degrees at ule University or Utah, and rceeh'ed honorary doctorates from pCL'i either double the hymn tlllle or Eastcr, but also for Christmas or even Utah State Unh'crsity and from the University or Utah. He worked closely with function as a descant. Thc organ music general usc. Its character and length also the late G. Donald Harrison in the dcsign and installation of the 189.rank is in a homophonic block style with make it appropriate as an introit. so the Aeolian-Skinner organ, built for the Tabernacle in 1948. He is well-known for some melodic ornamentation. The set· !l5¢ im'cstmcnt will provide the choir ting ;s well cOllstructed aud would lJC dirCf:tor with mall)' possibilities" Thc the playing of daily recitals there and ror weekly broadcasts on cns, a series uscful for most church choirs; however men and women sing in altcnl3lion anti which has been continuous since 1929. two uf thc sellings arc for unaccompa· calion for most uf it. then there is a In retiremcnt, Dr. Schreiner anticipates devoting time to composition, read nied choir. which might he difficult for jo)ful alleluia in fOlll' parts at the end. ing, and writing. He and his wHe Margaret, who were married in 1927, will sOllie groups. The score has the trumpet rhis is simple yet 10\ ely music. continue to reside in Salt Lake City. New Organ Recording This is a one·of-a·kind recording, in with many of Mr. Harrison's other arll1 is the Illost avant'garde, but with. e\'ery way outstanding. The technical wllrks. there arc ddillite Oriental influ· OUI the extra dimension of percussion. ffuatity oC the engineering is stunning: cIICt~. which make a fascinating com· To me, neither is as arrcsting in overall unobtrwi\,e stereo sound from clean. hination and CCllltrast with the thor· sound as the concerto, but both arc quiet surfaces" The pad. aging is good. Hught}· Westl'rn Orgall sounds. The usc well· worth hc;);ring, and the Adler has e"\:ccpt for the usc of a Slightly out·or· of !';uch a large baltery of instruments considerable impact. focus co,'er picture aud the lack of an having considerable noise-making po. This record is ;);n e"tr;);ordinary com. organ specification; it includes succinct tential may cOllVe), the wrong imprcs. bination of excellence ill composition. notes on the music, with the composers' sion to someone who has not heard this performance, and recording. Everyone own remarks about their works (or or· piece. Although there art: forceful and interested in "ital organ music should bran and percuMion. The organ em· dramatic spots, there are also many hL'at" it. ployed m3Y not appear to be the ulti· diminuth"c and ,·cik'Cl sounds. M}' fa\'o· - Arthur Lawrence mate for such use, but it is a completely rite is the opening of the third move Lou Harrison: Concerlo for Organ adequate "chicle this performer and ment. a largo: cciesta, x)')ophone, piano, with Percussion Orciu:stra (1973); Sam these piec~. , wind chimes. and tube chimcs allemate uel Adler: Xenia, a Dialogue for Organ with soft organ stops on a C#;·C·E·Dt and Percussion (1972); ll;ud Cooper: The major work is the Harrison can· motive which is reminiscent of the Variants for Organ (1971-72). D.nid ttrto, which combines many percussion B·A·C·H figure. but more exotic. It is Craighead, organist; MlIUer·Rosal~ or· instrulll~ nl.S , usual and unusual, with a colorful work. goIn (19a9, 1975-'77) at Pomona Coll~t, organ, in [he IUm"emc: nts. Some of the Claremont, California; with Los Angeles instruments were built specifically for The Adler and Cooper pieces were Percu55ion Ensemble, William Kraft, it: large cubc·like wooden drums and both heard at Ia.'!t year's mid·winter UfJ conductor (in Harrison), and Gordon lu ge gas cylinder bells. Others arc ,\GO collcla,'c, whell the same pedonn. "Stout, percu55ion (in Adler). Crysuli more tradilional, altllOugh not in this en played them at accidental College Ra:onb Stereo S858; a'"ailable [rom combination: piano, glockenspiel. ,'ibra (sec the February 1917 issue, p . 4). Crystal Record Co., P.O. lIox 6566., Los phone, cclesta, and chimes, as well as Xellin is much denser but less continuo Angdes, CA 90065 ($Cj.95 + 50¢ ....tag.) . instrument'! without fixed pitch. As ous than the Harrison piece, while Ydri· FEBRUARY, 1978 3 The Organ Works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Part I by Douglas L. Butler In the period hClWCCIl Johann Sebas 1) I'relude in I> millor, dated Novem· A light, homophonic Davor prevails in a The compo5Cr's Passacaglia in C minor ti.:1.11 Bach (1685·1750) allll Felix Men ber 28, 1820, I.IV-V-IV hannonic movement in the (C-4/ 4), da.ed May 10, 182!, 'land. delssohn Banholdy (1809-47). organ lit 2) I'rclude in D minor [1820?1. series of expositions. in the shadow of Bach's well-known erature in Germany was in a state of 3) Minueno in G Major [1820?]. Other student fugues include Fugue l'assacgalia in C minor (BWV 582). decadence, while UIC piano gr:adually 4) Allegro in E Major [18201]. in G minor (C-4/4), dated December without the closing fugue. emerged to dominate keyboard wriling 5) Fugue in D minor (I). dated De 5, 1820. three: voices in open score, afler 1770. The organ, which reigned cember 3, 1820. which has a hymn-lite subject (E".:lrnple 15,) supreme as polyphonic instrument of the 6) Fugue in G minor, dated Dec.cm (Example 4.) 'I he eight· measure theme remains un Cem,.. n Baroque. saw a consideruble ber, 1820. with i'-' countersubject changed through 21 variatiolls, and is decline in prestige. The organ as musi 7) Fugue in D millor (U-doubJe). (Example 5.) only interrupted by one eight-measure cal imtrumcnt also underwent ndical dated January 6, 182t. and Fugue in D mmor (11. (C-4/4). transition. Eleven \'ariatioll5 have the changes in comparison with its Baroque dated January 6. 1821. a double fugue theme in the bass, and five variations prototype. I Prelude In D minor (C- 4/ 4). dated with a first subject h.:lve the theme in an upper or middle Three clement" (rom this period of November 28, 1820, probably the first register. R. Werner statt.os Menddssohn's decadence are Qnied through to the or· organ pica of the composer's childhood. (Example 6.) and a second SUbject theme may ha\'e hccn modelled on g::m m1l5ic of Felix Mendelssohn Bar based on a four-nolc motif, Bach's lYTC, I, Prelude in B minor .holdy: (Example I.) (Examp'le 7.) (BWV 829).8 Mendelssohn's awareness proceeds, after an introductory pedal cast in a light, trio-like te"ture.' of the Bach model can be dearly seen I) Qualities of improvisation and point, simply and conservatively in a The composer's principal musical by comparing the (irst eight measures quasi-virtuoso style. .hree·part lorm: A (1·56), B (57·10-1) , teacher was earl Friedrich Zeiter, a mus of the fCspccth'c pilssacaglias. 2) Desire for more and varied lonal A (105·52) without structural surpri5eS. ical conservath·c. director of the Berlin The composer's imitation of Daroque color. A stetdlY Prelude in D minor (C- S;ngaktlde",ie. the city's foremost institu practice em be (utlher seen in the org:m S) The char3clcr pit:Cc and the "relig 4/ 4) , lI820J, recall. the old Baroque tion for choral music. Zeiter presented chorale Die Tugellti tI1;rd durc/,'s Kreulz ious Adagio.":a inIOn.:lUon·lIke prciludien (16th-note fig the composer to Johann Wolfgang von gei1bd (Virtue is practiced through the ,nation and block· like hannonies) , while Goethe as his beSl pupil. Subsequently Cross) , a chorale lmrtita with three vari jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn a cheedul MinueUo in G Major (3/ 4) . the composer spent many hours in the ations. The chor:J.lc tunc first appeared Banholdy (1809 .... 7) was born into a [1820], recalls die lighter salon style or Goethe home playing Hach on the piano in J.A- Frcylinghausen's Ge;slreiclles Jewish family of marked cultuml. in Mozart's lime. and discufoSing rhilosophy and religion Cesancbucl" "bile, 1764. Mendelssohn tellectual and fi nancial prominence; he The Allegro in E Major (C - 4/ 4) , with the sage a Weimar. afparcntly used 'he \'('u ion he found in had the: advantagrs Ulat posh ion and [182O>}, a S(.."Cond incomplcte score, pro The composer's youthful Fantasia and 1\ .G. Fischer's ellornlmelodiell der (Van affluence could offer_ The composer" ceeds .:ngely with rapid manual figura Fugue (incomplete) in C minor was gd isc/,etl Kirche"gemei"dell ••. Gotha probably composed in the period 1820- home environment centered in engaging tion, supported by long-note values in I., 1820: II, 1821 :' inlcllectual, musical, and aesthetic in the lowest bass voice. These long tones 2!J.1 The Fantasia opens with hymn-like volvement among larents, children and suggest the use of foot pedals in view harmonies (E"mple 14 .) visiting artists an scholars. The com of tJleir supporting role and register (Example 8.) The dloralc text is .:l typical product poser learned the piano quickly in his placement. The score is really a sketch followed by an Adagio (six measures) of Gennan Lutheran PictlSm: ule first studies with Ludwig Berger, a pupil of showing several motiFs, nOlle of which is and an Allegro (20 measures) with im stanza gh'cs the mood of ule chorale: Clementi imd John Fiehl, who lived in deve1o~. provisational.like sea I i c figuration Berlin aha 1815. By age eleven (1820) Numerous unidentified fugues for or throughout. The Fugue's subject the composer had composed a ,onatine, gan (or strings) are housed in the 9.) Virtue is protclicni lhrough the cro. bKaUM (Example without it she cannot exist. If she (Yirtue) is a drawingroom opera. a psalm, and sev · Deutsche SlaatsbibliotJu:k, Musikabtej is carried only through one four-pan not tried again and again, one will not notice eral organ pieces. lung, Berlin." At least three of these expOSition. her IiSht. She h.. to show her .Irensth in The exa(l number of picces composed fugucs appear to be from the composer'. Andante in D Major. San/t (C-4/4), burins Ihe crou by which Ihen the an in the period 1820-21 is difficult to as childhood. dated Mar 9, 1823, is a pleasant "relig subdue him [the ,k1lil) wilo Italb lIer early ccltain due to conflicting infonnation in Fugue in D minor (I), (C - 4/ 4) , ious AdagiO" which shows the composer's .nd talc. modern sources. According to general tlaled December 3, 1820, three voices III early inclination toward individualistic stylistic considerations and manuscript open .score, has the following subject style and soft cantilena qualities in lyric The composer gives Die Tugend _ .• indications,l seven works for organ can (Example 2.) ism. Tllis piece (49 measures duration) in .:l four-part harmonization in open be attributed to the composer's 1820-21 from which its countersubject is dCTived. is buill on three short motives: score. Variation I. dated July 50, 1825. output: (Example ! .) (Examples 10, II 12.) opens with vor;mitation cantus finnus n I<~. i ,... .- r ., -R- . 1::4-* h"" ~~P:l.1. a& 4 J J l J J IJnJ JJ) I] av::H=Jld dld.J Jli dlJ J JlrrlGI Q THE DIAPASON The Prelude in C minor was originally 'luarter notes in common time: Varia- ~ h~ r.> ~ published by P.:ucnon's of Edinburgh, 110n iv, eighlh noles in 6/ 8. Variation i Scotland. Paterson's. now in London, has places the theme in thirds in the tenor iPS Cl d I J J Irr rl rJ J I- eI J rrle r Ie dr If' :1 published a reprint or the original edi with an eighth-note figuration in the ~, tion, with newly added editorial mark soprano; the pedal merely provides har· ings by Ivor Atkins. The only American monic support. for thcir unfolding. Vari ~. (f) ~ f>, edition to date appears to be contained ation ii places the theme in the soprano, in Altman's "Three Unfamiliar Organ with a triplet eighth-note figuration giv [dldJJIJdIJJIJJI-JlaJJiJdIJJIJ JI Compositions by Mendelssohn." en to the bass; the pedal is silent ror this Following thc opening of the Leipzig variation. The dynamic marking for thc Conservatory (184'). Mendelssohn con first two \'ilrialions is piano; Variation ducted a concert ICason in London. ii, forte. treats he theme In an aucrti\"c. ~d ~ While he was in London, Mr. Coventry )'ct free. fashion. with the lower three ij 0) .J IJ J Ir rr PJ J 1- rII' q Ir po IJ J I" I of Messrs. Coventry ;md Hollier. mu!l: ic "oices in quarter-nolc figuration_ Vari:J publishers. London, askctl him 10 com tions i·iii are perConncd segue. Va riation pose a set of three organ pie~. or Vol· iv is ba.scd on :l variant of Ihe opening untaries. The composer lert England five notes of the :Jnuanle Iheme_ The &,Jl ~ff~l~ ,,·;Ih this commission in mind. composer creates ::t pleasant d ialogue in J The summer of 1844, the composer m. 8-11, and 24·28 between d,l\'iers I fI9z~tg: JIJ J JI1 q iJ'JlJIJplJi toot. his family for an extended holiday and II. at Soc1en, ouuide Fr.mkfurt. in the heart The cocJa. m. 29-37, an almost exact of the Gennan countryside, From this repeat of the 0renitlg material (m. -1 -6). period of relaxation and shortly there has a adenlia movement to the tonic, J J J Jjl after come several organ pieces which rather than the dominant as in the open rrfrjTn hJ Jim JJ I; JIj oJ: ~ are separate from the Six Sonatas. Opus 19 ing version'" R. Wemer refers to the 65, begun during the same period. These Andante with Variations as a comely. separate piea.'S were net included in "chamllng" impromptu, not unlike Opus 65 becausc they were of a diHer Schubert's Opus 90. i, and Opus 142. iii, ent fabric than the more weighty Six The Allegro. 4/ 4. D minor. daled jul)" 119;~F{rttH!Pm etJf&ttrltfrrIr Ii Sonatas: 25. 1844, is wriuen in strict rugato style: I) Andante. 4/4. F Major. dated july &"It;:" 21. 1844. (Example 20.) )f&1~ ~ 2) Andante with Variations, (C - 4/ 4). D Major. daled july 23. 1844. A "great building up leads to a shoft, 5) Allegro. 4/ 4. D minor. daled july chomle·like episode. upon which a atrict W "'-r~ , 25. 1844. fugue in D Major follows, with a rather (( ~-' 4) Allegro in B-Fla! Major (C-4/ 4). dull (matten) theme: "'" .~ J ~ -J- J ., datct! December 51, J844. - (Example 21 .) Andante. 4/4. F Major, dated july 21. 18<14, a trio texture. The manuscript appears to have been '" lost in World War II; app;ucutly it ne,' (Example 18.) er wa! published. tr~auncnt (m. 1.9) (allowed by a bass for the expaUlJion of this style mnlin is a "dear, comfortable" (R. Werner) treatment of the canlus (innu! in the uum in Six Sonatas. Opus 65. composition, the ch.:U';!cter being similar The last of the scpar.lte 18 .... organ ~dals to the end. Variations II and III, The composer's next organ worb 10 the Allegretto, Sonata IV. Opus 65_ composition•• lhe AII.gro (C-4/4). B dated August 2, 1823, fUTther exhibit wcre three organ fugues, dated July l~- The tWO upper \'oices wea\'e their matc Flat Major, dated December 51, 1844, is Baroque revival slyl~. , Jariation II pre 18, Frankfurt. The first, Fugue in E rials, supportt."d by the pedal in slow a strai~htforward "Son~ without Words" sents various canonic treatments, while minor.11 alia breve. dated july U, 18~9. motion; ollly at the end of the piecc in which the melody 11 initially heard Vilriation HI presents the canlus firmu! was wriuen on two staves with pedal does the pedal take up the main theme. in the upper voice, accompanied by re in dl0rds and single upper notes in live written :u tlfe low bass line of the stave. The whole creates the atmosphere of a pealed chords in the left hand and bass; ly. eighth-note, toccata-like figurations. The subject of the fugue. "Song without 'Yords."" it is "as an organ composition a thor The composer's sister, Fanny, was to The Andante with Variations, 4/4. D oughly strange piece'''' be married to WiJhcm Hensel October (Example 16.) Mal-or, dated july 25, 1844 is a themc Acconling 10 L. Alunan, the original ~. 1829. The composer wrote a wrdding constructct! on the resolution of the wit 1 variations. tranuil and gentle. manuscript of the Allegro in B-F1mt Ma piece for her wedding. This piece did leading-tone figures 10 the tone, ::t half The andante theme is a simple. naive jor was In the Prussi;m State Library, not arrive in time ror Fanny's wedding. step away. generates a quality of motion .ong ronn (ABA) : Berlin. but was lost in World War II. 50 she wrole a piece for her wedding. not unlike a perpetual motion fugue. (Example 19.) Altman Itales in his prefatory remarks: Prelude in F, which is now housed in with it! preponderance of Allegro-alia R. \\'erner compares this Andante to .. It was one among the nine numben the Library of Congress, Washington. brcve eighth-note figumtion. The fllgue Song without Words, No. 11. and the which Mendelssohn mentioned in a let D.C. procttds wilh thr~ successive exposi unpublished chorus originally intendw ter to the publishCT Novello in London. While on a Swiss-Italian tour (185t tions. fonowed by ahern:lling subjcd for the or.uorio £lijtJh, " He will open December 17. 1844. Mende15$Ohn wanled !2) • the composer wrote a NlIchspjel in entries and episodes, with a short coda_ the eyes of the blind,"" to complete a cycle of twelve composi. D Major, 1831-32. Thill work, with the In comparison with the fugues of OpU! Each variation has a continuous fig tion!, a task which remained unfinish signature of the composer, is contained 57 , Fugue in E minor shows a reCinemmt uration: Variation i. ci~hth notes in ed."lIlil on the last manuscript page (side) of of the composer's fU1foI1 teChnique in a common time: Variation h, triplet eighth the chorale cantata W,r glauben in einetl new directness and economy of material!. notes in common time: Variation iii. (Continued overleaf) CoU, to which it dOC! IIOt belong. The The subject of thc Fugue in C Major, second part of the composition is a alia brc\'c. dated July 1-1. 1859, Frank fugue wfth the subjecc furt. is the same as the subject of the final fugue of Sonata 1I. ii. Opus 65, but (Example 15.) the treatment of the SUbject is quite dif ferent in the JaUer. W.L. Sunmer and R. 'Verner maintain Fugue in F minor. 6/8. Lento, dated that Son3ta n, iii, Opus 65 is a revision july 18. 1859, Frankfurt. stands in bold of the composer's Naclupiel in D (Or contrast to the other two fugues which gan pleno). R. Werner further states arc Allegro. alia breve, with much acth'e that the: original manuscript is in the figuration. Fugue in F minor is 6/ 8, @Nit"J 3D J r @Et fj bi J JJ IPi rirIU possession of the Cicilienverein, Frank movement. This fugue. one of the com· nwI$t furt am Main.'o poser's most lyrical creations for the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy married organ. was [UbUshed by Stanley Luas. Cecile jeanrenaud March 28, 1837. He Weher an Company in February, wrote his mother April 10, 1857. Frel 1855.12 The composer s:lcrifices neither bourg-lm-Breisgau: "1 mmposed at Spires fonn nor expressivity in Fugue in F it Jal?IIJjjJ9rr~rr @JJJml@ij~l · [Speyer] three o'1l"n preludes. which I minor. The subject hIlS a gently flowing think you will like; .• •" The varfow (flutour. wich the harmonic impUcation ')(..1' .- movements of Opus 37 were written be· I, V. I. IV, I. The composer handlC3 the tw«:n 18!!!! and 18!!7: subject..,...,: with pliancy and hannonic Ii Fugue In D minor (Fugue Ill) March (Example 17_) 29, 18!!!!. Berlin. (written for Mr. Novel ~ n;;F.fi lo) The fugue protteds with a series of two Fugue in C minor (Fugue I) Decem· expositions (0 4). two episodes. and ber I. 1856. Leipzig_ panfal entries, with Coda. The written Fugue in G Major (Fugue II) Decem out c:aden13. or interpolated nourish in ber I. 1856. Leipzig. m. 68·70 an be related to the tradition Prelude in D minor (Prelude I) April of the early Bach organ Cugues.13 • +- 2. 1857. Speyer_ While the composer was working on Prelude in G Major (Prelude II) the score for inddental mwic to Anti April 4. 1857. Speyer. gone, he wrote Prelude in C minor for o'1l"n. C- 4/ 4. dated july 9. 1841. Leip Prelude in D -minor (Prelude III) ~ ~ April 6. 1857. Speyer. zig.'· Earlier Mt. Henry E. Dibdin of Edin Opus 57 was dedicated to Thomas Au· burgh had ~uestcd the composer 10 wood. organist of St. Paul's Cathedral. writc for him a long measure psalm London, from .796 to his death in 1858. lunc. The composer wrole to Dibdin As a whole. Opus 57 can be Ittn as it July 9. 1841, from Leipzig: E~1J :f!~ rcvival of the Baroque cr.Ih of mmposi. tion. The composer, however. poun the _ - • I enclose che paRt! of yeur album of V~ .ll" rv' r, rlrF nlr i "new wine" of early 19th-century Ro whidt r have ",riceen a liule Prelude lor tH1I'an, which I composed chis way on pur m:lUticism into the "old skins" of Ba· pose_ I was MJ'TT. I could noC have written roque Conns. Opw !!7 makes an impor aaclly wfut you de.irnl me to do. but I do tant mntribution in rescuing German not know what a lon8 nllCUure psalm tUDe organ music from Its recent past period meant • • • Excu.e me the~lore i( you re- of shallow decadence. and paves die way ccived lOaacthilll ebe thaD you wished.1I FEBRUARY, 1978 IS Appointments areo a nd possesses 1I 1973 mechanical action organ built by the Wast German firm of Deflef Kleuker. In lIddition to working with the choirs, soloish and instru mentalists, the position invol ... es adminis hllron of an annual recital sories. Dr. Spllcht holds the BMus degree from Oberlin College, the MMus degree from Syracuse Univenity, and the OMA degree from the Ellstmcn School of Music. His or gan study has been with loo Holden. Arthur Poider, Will Helldlae and D4vid Craighetld. He olso studied organ, harp sichord and baroque performance practice with Gusta... leonhardt, as 0 Fulbright scholtlr. Jo Deen Blaine has recently accepted the position of music associate/orgllnist at ,Westbury Baptist Church. Houston Telas. Ms. Blaine was pra... iously orgtlnist Neil Larson hlls been eppointed orgen at First Baptist Church and ~eybolltd in· ist-choirmaster of Christ Church Cathe structor at Oral Roberts Uni ... ersity in dral in Louis ... ille, Ky., effedi ... e Jan. e. Tulsa, Oklahoma. She recei... ed her bache· He had been auociate organist.choirmas Meredith Elaine Ba~.r hos been appoint lors and mosters degrees from the East ter of St. Bartholomew's Church in New ed orgeonist-choirmaster of Christ Church. mon School of Music, whore she WllS e York City since 1974. Episcopol. in Monhlluet, NY. She leoves student of Russell Saunders. In louisville, Mr. Larson will dired the o position as ouislan. ot the Church of cathedral's choir of men end boys, and the Heavenly Rest in New York City. She its orchedra. He will elso be in charge eorned BMus and MA degrees ot Queens of the noon-day concert series, which College, CUNY, where her argon study ministers to the downtown aree. was with Charfes Dodsley Walker and Paul Maynard. She olso holds the AAGO ond ChM certificates. At Christ Church she will direct on acti"'e music program. including a boy choir, e girls choir, ond on adult miled choir; she will play a )_ manual Casavant argon installed in 1971. Daniel Hathaway was installed (IS direc tor of music tlnd organist of Trinity Epis copol Cethedrol in Cle... eland, Ohio. et services on Dec. II. A 9raduate of Hllr vord College lind the Episcopel Theologi cal School, he comes to Cle ... elend from Groton. Moss., where he was head of the arts department ond organist-choirmaster of Groton School. At Trinity Cathedrel, Mr. Hathoway Allan Willis htls been eppointed to the ha ... e responsibility for de... eloping a will organ and church music faculty of Ohio wide-rtlnging music progrom centering State University, Columbus, where ho suc around the 25-voice professional choir lind ceeds Wilbur Held. His teoching duties two new organs built by Flontrop. The include organ, hymnology, liturgies. choral larger of the orgllns WIIS dedicated in a repertory lind supervision of field work. Dec. II program which included the cath He is also serving as organist of Upper edral choir and the Opus I chamber or Arlington lutherlln Church. chestra. Mr. Hathaway played the Pou· RUSIell Helleuon has been appointed A neti... e of Minneapolis. Mr. Willis orgonist at Temple Emanu-EI in Dalla s, lenc concerto and 5010 organ music by ,ecei... ed unde'graduate tlnd 9,eauete Bach and Sweelinck; tha choir and or Texes, tlnd choirmaster-orgonist of St. An degrees from the University or Minnesota chestra joined in worts of Brahms Vaughon drews Episcopal Church in GUlnd Prairie. and the School of Socred Music, Union Williems ond Bach. He recei... ed the BMus degree from the TheologiclIl Seminary. He is presently a Uni ... enity of North Carolina at G reens Thomas Spacht, professor of organ and condidote for the DMA degree in organ boro, lind the MSM degree from South uni ... ersity organist at Towson State Uni Lewis Kirby has been appointed direc performonce at the Uni ... ersity of Michi ern Methodist Uni ... enity. where he se rved ... ersity, Beltimore, Md., ha'S been appoint tor of choral and keyboard publications gan. From 19M to 1974, he WtlS orgtlnist as chopel assisttlnt to Robert Andenon ed director of music. tit St. John's evan at Shownee Press. Mr. Kirby pr. ... iously choirmaster of Trinity Presbyterion Church, ond Uoyd Pfauhch. His organ dudy has gelical lutheran Church of Parkville, 1I served as tlssociate rector lind director of St. Louis; United Congregational Church, been with Robert Andenon. Kathryn Es . Baltimore suburb. St. John's is one of music for Christ Episcoptll Church, Cor Bridgeport, Conn.; ond Fin. United Meth. key, and Robart B. King. the lorgest congregations in 'the Baltimore ning. N.Y. odist Church, New Heven. Mendelssohn Organ Works for organ categorically all "religious Adagio." IR. Werner, op. nl., p. U •• 1t1bitl., p. 119. See abo F.E. Kirby, A SItOt' Hislo,., 01 K.,. 'Vendrey, 01'. dl., p. 272. lIAndante with Variations, D Major, appc:an (continued from p. 5) 604,tI MwiC' (New York: Ftte Pn:II:. 1969), p. tDAt the time of writinr, the location of the to have been lint published by Novello, Lotldoll, 229. manuscript is Dot known to the present writer. 1898. For a modern performaneet edition ice L. Mr. Altman's modem performance l'J'be preseat writer wu allowed to view vad USee HinriclueD, "Three OrpD Fupet,u p. Altman, "Mendelssohn and Hummel-Two Aa edition of Allegro in B~Flat Major, con ow of the F.M.B. maawcriptl ill • photo 6 THE DIAPASON The Baldwin Master At Last organization. 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O. the special musical Master Organ Box 2525, Dept. C, and acoustical needs G ·td Cincinnati, Ohio of your congregation or Ul 45201. Baldwin~ Reviewed by Larry Palmer Recordings of interest to ha1"p'ichord. For the bud~et·minded, there is no wbich Sergiu r..UCl. violinist, plays the h15 sa:m to appear 3.t an ever-ina-cas reason to dcspalfl The Musical Heriuage Bach Sonala 1'1 in G (BWV 1019) with ing r.ltc {rotO record companies ma Society (new address: Musical Heritage Albert Fuller at his 1973 William Hy· jor, minor, and modal! A Jarge slack Society Building. Oakhurst, New jersey man harpsichord and Busoni's "iolin of new discs has accumulated over the 07755). has issued volume three or the Sotlala 2 with David Goluq at the Stein past months, so the lime seems at hand complete works for harpsichord of Fran way. For the Bach work Luca uses all (or a listing of some top Ilhoiccs for f\Ois Couperin, played by Kenneth Gil gut strings, lowered pitch (and lhere· one's record dollars or want list!. bert (MHS S656{7/B/9). This set join. fore lowered tension). and a baroque At tlle ,'cry top of the heap I would the earlier iSSUC5 of Books I and n, bow; using the same violin with the place tJIC newest recording of J. S. Jea\'ing only Book IV to make tlle usual stccl strings, modem bow, and nach's six. Bnmde"b,ug Cancer-los, per project complete. The English transla modem pitch for thc Busoni. Luca Oil· formed by a distinguished group of tiol1 o( Georges Beck's nOles on the lows the Jistener to hear the difference Nethcrl:mds·bascd early music players pi(."ces is very nearly worth lhe price that strings, pitch, and bow will make. conducted by masc.er.harpsidlordist Gus o( the records; the playing is exemplary; For all six of these exceptional Bach lav Leonhardt (ABC Classics. Sean the harpsichord. a 1008 Hubbard copy SOflalas for Violin and Obbligato Harp Series. AB 67020/2). The two· record set of the Boslon Hemsch mentioned sic/lOrd, J recommend the luminous read is packaged in a sumptuous way, delight above. ings of Sigiswald Kuijken and Gustav ing the eye with an 86-page facsimile There is fine playing of the first book Leonhardt (BASF·Harmoni~ Mundi ACore of bach's aUlogr:aph manuscript o( harpsichord pieces by Chambon· KHF 21955. 2 discs) . The instruments of the cnnccrtos. ;1Od delighting the niercs on anolher Musical Heritage So· used here are a \'iolin of the 17th·cen· ear with impeccable, unforced, musical ciety disc (MHS 3557) whh Lionel tury r.[aggini schoo) and Leonhardt's and stylistic perfonnances. LeOnhardt ParLY. the young Chilean harpsichordist, 1962 Skowroneck harpSichord, after uses his Paris Dowd harpsichord. play 015 performer. His instrument is a 1973 DI11ckcn (1745). Thc playing is that o( ing in four of the works, while Bob Dowd tuned in meantone temperament. two superb musicians totally at home van Aspercn takes over the keyboard Part}' pla}'s with warmth and eleg:mce, in the baroque style. continuo duties in the remaining two. and shows a clear undeRtanding of Harpsicllord M,LS;C of Handd is Also available in the same series is the dance rhythms. He geLS a chance played by Edward Pa.rmentier on 3 1975 the complete Sonatas and Par';'a for to demonstrate this undersuanding par Dowd harpsichord (after Blanchet) on pieces (or her grnndda."ghte~ (R~becca), Traverse Flute U. S. Bach), played by ticularl}' in the many courantC5. Cham a disc available from the Publications As a family undertakmg thIS might ap Frans Brueggen with Leonhardt at the bonnieres' prC£erred dance-ronn (I3 of OUice, Firestone Library, Princeton. peal to senne, although all put togetltcr harpsichord (instruments by Skowron· the 29 movcments in the five suites are New Jersey 08540 ($10). Here i ••n 1t i! perhaps more a documenl o[ a. cclt and Rubio). (AB 6iOI5/2). and courantes.) unusual repertory: o\'crtUJes to operas certain style of playing, now largely solo fCCOI'dings by LeOnhardt of harp· An absolutely stunnin, package b and oratorios in 18th·century keyboard out o( (avor. than o( anything else. Mrs. .ichord pieces by Duphly and For the tluee·record set compnsing lhe com· transcriptions as well as two fugues (G Jonas pla)'S a large concert harpsichord queray. plete solo harpsichord works of Ram Minor and A Minor) from the Six hy Eric Hen: her feet are nearly as The remarkable Pieces de Claveci" eau. played by Kenneth Gilbert (Archiv Fugues or ,loluRla,,),s for 'he Organ or busy as her hands. Her old·world ac· of Louis Couperin have not been well· 2710 (20). Three period instruments HarPJicl,ord; these contmpunloll works ccnted verses an: quaint, but her per served by recordings until the present are used: 2-manual instruments by jean were 3150 used by Handel as Choruses formances or two Scarlatti Sonatas sent (leonhardt's Frendl Harpsichord Mas Claude Goujon (1749). jean Henry for his oratorio Israel in Egypt. The me scurrying to the music to see if I terpieces issued in this country as Vic Hcmsch (1761). and Nicolas Dumont perronnanccs are apt and stylish, the had. indeed. mIssed Westminster Chimes trola VICS 1370 is the notable exce{'tion; (1696). reworked by Pascal Taskin music unhadmeyed. the harpsichord in Domenico's Sonata in II, K. 429. this disc contains lhe D·Major SUite o( (1789), The accompanying booklet, rich and full·toned. tilled, by Mrs. Jonas "The Bells." I Louis Couperin i1S well as the popubr rrom its vivid cover reproduction of For the instruments o( Georg Zahl had not, became it is an addition which Tombeau de Mr. de Blaucrocher). Alan Avid's ponrait of the composer through (an instrument maker (rom rhlOcgg. she makes midway in the work. Also Curtis has recorded four suitcs (G the infonnativc notes and pictures of the near Munich), J recommend the record curiolL'; is the strandoby·strand dying Minor, D Major, A Minor. F Major) three historic Jnstruments used. is a joy, ing Ruland Goel:. P '(Jys Harps;chord away of the (ami~iar Sonata in E •.K. for Archiv (2533 325). and he remedies as is the superb and balanced playing and "irgintd (MusiClI Heriuagc Society, 380 which she titles "Cort~·Fesuve any prcvious neglect by orfering ideal and the exceptionally.rine pressings of MHS 5461) . Here are pieres by Cabe· l'ar~tJe," Severnl short piano pie<:CS perform:lI\ces of these magnificent the three discs, Everything unites here z6n. Frcscobaldi. Scar1;ttti, FrolJerger, (Pastorale by Paul Ben·Haim, two of works, Including superb realizations o( to make this one of Lhe most outstand· and Fran{ois Couperin (Ordre 25) the "Enrantincs" by Ernest Bloch) as the problematic unmeasured preludes. ing releases of harpsichord music to be played on copies of the one· manual in· welt as more familiar works by Ra As Wilh most of the recordings to be acquired anywhere, anytime. strument by Jerome of Bologna, a FJem meau, Daquin. and Ha.ndel are included mentioned in this listing. the instrument I'laying with drive, pcrtonality. mu· ish,style virginal, and a two·manual in this pmgrall1. chosen ror Curtis' recording is abso· siClUty. :md real distinction marks the harpsichord a(ter Hans RUckers, all The brilliant Fantasy for Harpsichord lutely rirst-rate: an anonymous lith· Rameau set by England" brilliant young built between 19;0 anLi 19;5. The in by William Penn has been recorded for century French in~trumellt (signed harpsichordist. Trevor Pinnock. I h~ve struments rcally sound superb. although Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI 367) "D.F.') from the collection o( M. Yan· heard only one or the three discs (CRD the p!aying is not to be recommended by Karyl Louwenaar (Florida Suale nick Guillou o( Paris: it is tuned in 10to) which includes the Suites in A as hight}'. Goetz does not employ jJetite University. Tallahassee) using a Kings mc~ntone tuning (all major thirds are Minor and E Minor played on a David ,rott's as passing toncs in (he Couperin ton harpSichord. This is exciti'.'g mu· pure) • Rubio harp5ichord (after Taskin), but works. uses llie old Bra.hms-Chry!ander sic (duration, II and one·haH mID utes) • French literature in general has been 1 can recommend it highly - especially edition (obvious for its wrong transcrip excitingly pla}'ed and beautifully re remarkably represented on disc in the if one does not wish to purchase quite tion o( several notes in La Mtue ,'ictor corded. past yearl Consider the following records all the Rameau works at oncel ;t:use), :l1ld has a disturbing tendency Among Benjamin Brinen's la ~t com· ror }'our "sounds of historic instru Pinnock's recording (eRD 1025) of to play far too many or his ornaments poSitions was the stark dramatic an· ments" ccll«tion: P;~ces de Claut'cin the ubiquitous TTial of Hdrmon'1 Gnd before the beat. When the sounds of tau Phaedrn, opus 93, composrtl by composed by j. Henry d'Ang1ebert and Irlvtmlion, nos. 1-4. better known a.s the instruments die away. one is aware janet Baker and lirst perronnet.l by her M. de Chambonnicres, perfonned b}' "The Seasons," by Antonio Vivaldi. of cheerful birds .inging in the Ger· at the Aldeburgh Festival in 1976, In Edward Smith on the Henri Hemsch goes immediately to lhe head o( the man countryside; this. together with this work. inspired at least in part by harpsidlord (175G) or the Museum or list or aavilable recordings of this oft David Greene's inane notes, gives a the .. alian cantatas of Handel. Brinen Fine Arts, Boston (Titanic 8); Kennell, played work. Directing the English Con· folksy atmosphere to the whole under has uscc.1 harpsichord in addition to Gilbert playing a superb _ one - manu~l cert (rom a fine Flemish harpsichord by taking. But the instruments. these strings and pcrcwsion. It Is a work of harpsichord by Albert Dehn (1768) III Adlam·Burnett and with Simon Stand· !Dund lovely. great power. and it marks only thc works by d'Anglebert (Harmonia Mun agc playing a baroque violin with vervc Another curiosity is Lislen Rebecca, second time (so far as I know) that he di HMU 941) and Gilbert playing the and grace. Pinnock shapes a viual and ti,e Harpsichord Sounds (Sanjo Music. used the harpsichord (the other was Call""" h'rpsichord (1774-1777) rrom fascinating reading o( this work. His HJ 1001, available from P.O. Box 16422, in his opera If Midsummer Night's the l'~ris Coruervatoire collection, in continuo imention is a joy to hear. San Francisco. CA. 94116) , poetry wril Drt'aru>. P'latdra has been recorded hy worla by Marchand. Duphly, and For An intercsting disc is Bach BILSon; ten and recited by Hilda jonas. who al Dame janet and is available on English queray (Harmonia Mundi H~IU 940) . (rmlJypIHmaled). Delos DEL 254M, on so selected and perfonned h~rp.sichord Decca SXL 6847. Youngstown State University - Bliss Hall Youngstown, Ohio 20 Stops - 27 Ranks Mechanical Key and Stop Action Ronald L. Gould, Professor of Music SCHLICKER ORGANS Buffalo. N@w Yorla 14217 .•- _ ~~ -. /11 Member A.P.O.B.A. '1 ,L 8 THE DIAPASON John TImothy Johnson played this in· The premiere of the Concerto for Harp augural recital on the Thomas Wolf Italian sichord and Orchestra by contemporary harpsichord belonging to Richard Persons. Clech composer Viktor Kolobis took place Raleigh. NC. on October 2l: Toccoto II. -..fJarp:Jic~orJ r!ew:J in Zurich on March 2 1. with Zuzana Ru Book II. Frescoboldi: Suite in A minor, lickoV4 and the Camerotll Zurich, con chorale Poriita "Freu' dich sehr, 0 meine du cted by Roto Tschupp. Seele," Boehm: Unter den linden gruene. Sweelinck; Sonatas. K. l. 20S, 209. Scar George Lucktenberg, professor of harp. latti. RlIflilel Puyana was harpsichord soloist Linda Khodavi played this program as sichord at Converse College. Spartan with the london Philomusicll lit Queen part of her DMA program in horpsichord burg, SC 29l01. has onnounced 0 Euro Virginia Pleasants, london, played a Elizabeth Ha ll on December 7 in Haydn's at the Conservatory, Univers ity of Mis pean harpsichord study-tou r for J une 1-20, series of recitals in the United States in Concerto in 0 Major. souri·Konsas City, on December J 8: Suite 1978. Planned are visits to the instrument October. At St. Thomas Episcopal Church, of pieces in various keys, l ouis Couperin ; collections in Edi nburgh, -the Hogue. lon· Camden. ME, she played this progrom A-R Editions, publishers of the Recent Preludes and Fugues in E Minor and Ma don. Brussels, Antwerp. and Paris, 05 welt on a harpsichord by John end linda Short Researches series of music. has a new ad jor from "Aria dne Musicae," J. K. F. as to b ui lders and some privote collections. ridge: Portita in B-flot, Bach; Toccoto, Air dress: liS West Gorhom Street, Madison, Fischer: Concerto in E for horpsichord Three hours of music hidory credit will be and Variations from "The Nightingole," Wisconsin 53703. and strings, BWV 1053, Bach; Sonotos. lIvoilable through Converse College. For Poglietti; Sonotas, K. 27, 21. 8 ,Il, Scor Soler and Scarlatti; Ausgefallane Einfoelle. additional information, contact Dr. luck lotti; les Soupirs, l 'Entretien des Muses, Victor Wolfram, University of Oklo ho· Wolter Haacke: Continuum. ligeti. ten berg ot the College, or telephone him les Niois de Sologne, Romeou. With mo, Stillwater, pillyed this progrom on 01 (8031 585·6421 0' (8031 583-8231. Mordo Ferritto, violist, ot Champoign December 8: Prelude and Fugue in A, The Collins fami ly gave a horpsichord County librory, Urbana, OH, on October WTC, II, French Suite in G, Ba ch: Ordre program at Virginio's Bruton Parish Church, Number.symbolism in the works of Bach 13: some Rameou and Poglietti, plus Son 24, F. Couperin; Partito for Harpsichord Williamsburg, on December 27. The pro received men lion in Andrew Porter's re atas in B·flat by Vivaldi, in E-flat by Dit {19541, Halsey Stevens. gram: Sonata for Four Hands, J. C. Bach; views for The New Yorker of December tersdorf. and in G minor by Bach. At The Concerto in G Ma jor for Viola and Con 5. 1977. He recommends the article by Blanche Winogron played the ineugurol Gunno Klingfors (Number Symbolism in College-Conservatory of Music, University concert on the Adlom·Burneit virginals at tinuo, Telemonn; A Fancy for Two to Ple:y, of Cindnnoti, on October 16, e fortepiono Tomkins; Variations on "Three Blind Mice," Bach's Cantatas I in the accompanying the University of Montevallo, Al. on No notes to volume 17 of Das Kontotenwerk, program: Copriccio, Sonota in E-flet, no. vember 17. The instrument, a copy of the John Thompson; Sonata in F for Flute 59, Haydn: Fontosio end Rondo, W. 5S, ond Continuo. lelemann: Variations on Telefun~en's complele Bach cantata proj 1611 Ruckers virginals in the Antwerp ect-in-progress. C.P.E. Bach: Five Etudes, Cromer; Rondo Museum, belongs to Betty louise lumby. "Ah! vous diroi-je, me:mon," K. 265, Malo opus 51. no. 2, Beethoven: Six Etudes, art; Sonata in B-flat, K. 358, Mozart. Ms. Winogron's program was drown from Features ond news items for these pages Cromer. In london, on December 20, she the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. In oddilion played 0 progrom of works from Muzio larry Pal mer was joined by Barbaro are always welcome. Please address them to the recital, on elhibition of period to Or. Larry Palmer, Division of Music, Clementi's Gradus ad Pornassum at the dance steps and a master class were held. Thiem. 'cello, and Arkady Fomin, violin, Purcell Room, using a Clementi grand for the traditional New Year's Day con· Southern Methodist University, Dollas, TX piano, circa 182l, fro m the Adle:m Burnett Arthur lawrence played the dedicatory cert at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray 75275. collection. red tal for the Dickson Memorial Harpsi mond Entenmonn, Dallas. The program: chord built by Arthur Holbardier of Toccota in E minor, BWV 914. Bach; Joseph Payne, Boston. ployed two he: rp Downers Grove, Il. at St. Michael's Sonata in G Mojor, BWV 1027, 'cello and sichord recitols in london at the Purcell Church, Barrington, Il, on November 27. harpsichord, Bach; Sonata opus 25, no. Room on October 25 ond November 4. His program: Choconne Rondeau. d'Angle. l, for solo 'cello, Hindemith; lambert's Titled collectively 'The Art of Suite," the Fireside, Fe ll owes' Delight. Hughes' Ballet TENTH ANNIVERSARY bert; French Suite in E·fiot, Bach ~ La programs consisted of Pii\ces de clovedn d'H' ,icourt, Bolbostre: Sonatas, K. 208, llambert's Clovichord), Howells; Dances by louis and Frant;ois Couperin and Ro 209, Scarlatti. from Capriccio, Opus 85, Richard Strauss. June 11-24, 1978 meau, plus English Suites 5 and b, Boch ; The harpsichord, after Jacquet, by John ond the six French Suites of J. S. Boch David Roblou played this redtol in the Shonddge (1 9741. played in the order I. 4, 2, b, 3, and 5. crypt of St. J ohn's Church, Smith Square, The ORGAN/ HARPSICHORD The harpsichord, after the Couchet/Tas l ondon, on December 1: "The Bach Fam The reported Harpsichord Concerto SEMINARS attract professionals and kin of 178l. was built by Michael Johnson, ily" : Proeludium and Fugue. E-flot, Son commissioned from Gilln.Corlo Menotti students by creating a unique musical Fontell Magna, 197b. oto. J. C. Bach ; Inventions and Sinfonios, for the Scottish Baroque Ensemble's pro J. S. Bach: Fugues e:nd Po lOl'l aises, W. F. gram at lost year's SpoJeto Festival never experience through two weeks of The SMU Early Music Consort presented Bach i Rondo and Va riations on " lo Folia," moterioliled. The ensemble had to fjght daily master classes, lccture-demon· Musick of Sundrie Kindes from England C.P.E. Boch. several obstacles during its visit, accord strations, and concerts. in Perkins Chapel. SMU , on November lb. ing to Conrad Wilson's article in "The The program: Eshlm pie, c. 1340; Conduc. Richard Birney Smith was harpsichord· Scotsman": one eight·seoter bus to trans tus: Angelus ad Virginem, 14th century; ist with the Te Deum Consort for this port the 16-member ensemble from the BERNARD LAGACi:: Quam Pulchra Es, Dunstable; Nolo mor program, "The Glories of France," ot St. Rome Airport to the festivlll, lost music, tem pecatoris, My Bonnie loss. Morley; Christopher's Church. Burlington, ond St. and no appearance or word of the new MIREILLE LAGACi:: The King of Denmark's Goliard, two set Poul's Church, Dundas. Ontario, on De work, which the composer hod promised tings of lachrimae. Dowland; lochrimae cember 2 and 4: Prelude 4. F. Couperin; for the fifth concert. After the third figured for harpsichord by Sweelinck, Choconne in F, Chombonnii\res: Echos, program hod been played, Menotti told ROBERTA GARY played by Janet Hunt. The harpsichord, a flute troversiere solo. Hetteterre: Sonoto them that he hod a solution: why not one·monual Italian, after Ridolfi. by Rich in A minor, Bk. II I. boss viola do go mba use 0 Conti lena and Scherzo he had writ Inquire ard Kingston. and continuo. Morais: Sonata II, flute and ten for harp? He thought it would take DUNCAN PHYFE. Din.'Ctor continuo, Blavet; 3i\me let;on de ten little time to arrange it for harp ond Three Decades of Elliott Carter was the i\bres, F. Couperin; and two performances strings - never mind that the ensemble ORGAN/HARPSICHORD title of a program at the longy School of Concert 5 {Pii\ces de clovecin en con hod no harpist. A harpist visiting the SEMINARS of Music, Combridge, Moss., on Novem certI. Romeou - one as harpsichord festival was pressed into service, and some Paul Mellon Arts Center ber 22. Included wos a performance of solo, and one with flute, viola do gamba, work. at least. by Menotti, got played on 'Vallingford, Ct. 06492 the Sonata for Flute. Oboe, Cello, ond and harpsichord, both performonce possi the program. Still no word concerning I'hone (203) 269·7722 exL 331 Ho,psichord (19521. b ~ ities suggested by the composer. the harpsichord concerto. BUILDERS and PLAYERS a Harpsichord Symposium June 11 to 17, 1978 Lectures, Demonstrations, Private Instruction, Concerts; Displays by p~ fessional Makers & Kit Builders. F OT details write: Harpsichord Symposium Music Deparlmenl Macalesler College SI. Paul, MN 55105 St Lawrence University HARPSICHORD WORKSHOP, 1978 DANIEL HELEN JAMES JUNE In addition to the French tw~m.nual instrument, We are now producing a fine, PINKHAM KEANEY NICOLSON 11-17 .ingle-manual harpsichord. Orden being taken for 1978. ",(0).00. "CONTINUO, its practices and problems be featured Blehanl Klnalloa nal1lllebordJ. Dtipl. D. Hit Mala Bt., ~anu. TIIUI '15:01. Telephone will (21t) 'In-IIH. "WORKSHOP CURRICULUM includes lectures, demonstrations, master classes, and concerts "FINE INSTRUMENTS FOR DAILY PRACTICE including makers such as Dowd and Herz "UNDERGRAOUATE AND GRAOUATE ACADEMIC CREDIT with additional prg. ANDERSON H. DUPREE Margaret H_d ject and credit surcharge Clavichords "RURAL SETTING delightful, pleasant groves harpsiehord maIe.r "AUDITOR'S DISCOUNT AVAILABLE 580 West Cedor 7 Comstock Street Write for a brochure: PloHeville, Wisconsin Germantown, Ohio 45327 M_rth. N. Johnson. UnTvenity Or9.nlsi (513) 855-7379 53818 D• .,.rtment of Music" St. L.wrenu Uniyerslty, c.nton, New York IJil7 FEBRUARY, 1978 9 Dom BCdos in English Anti dcapitc B&los' ICCmingly Dicken· some gt!llUine irnprovemenl3. "The ttrtainly makes acMe from a keyboard sian ;tbhonence of the (ull stop (.). 1 Grand Plcin'Jeu mun be treated sn i performer's poinl of view_ As for .ing. (continued from p. I) know of almost no passage in the whole owly and majestic-ally" (gravement " mg a piece of mwic, "Ta, la, tao la, ta, work whose meaning is not absolutely rnajestutlweme"l) , is emended to, ... _ • " c.... this seems to allude to the articu· EDITORIAL POLICY dear. given a reasonable understanding must be trralcd witb gravity and ma lation syllables employed in Frcnch of the terminology and the context. An jesty:' Notable worsenings of Douglass' wind instrument tUlDl1 from earlier in Our English langu::Ige shows us some afPropriate English-language prose mod choice of words are not absenl. how the eighteenth century. I' e would be a writer who knew how to e\'er. not the least of which is lhe chap. thing of lhe extent to whidt organ~ BMos' technical nomenclature is prob building is separated from everyday lake (ull advantage of both descriptive ter title it.sclC: "The principal, ordinary ably easier for the la.y French reader to life. aUr lexicographers nceded no and exprcs5h'c features of contemporary combinations of organ stops" (Les pr;" understand than tJl e literal English cOO$Cious dcliheration to cxclude org:lII language in order to make complicated cipaux milanges ord;tra ;,es ties jeux de cquh'alcnts arc for the laymen among nomcnclature from smaller-sized die. technical ideas (ully comprehensible to /'orgue), ending up in thG form, "The tis. His soupope, for insta.nce, COrTes· tion:trics, since they hiudly ever cot' the 101)' rc:uJcr - someone on the order principal combin::ltiolls of frequently. ponds to Ihe more gcnernl term va lve ercd it at ::Ill , even in tbe most exh::lus uf C. S. Lewis, for instance. used organ slOps." which is downright as well as to 11allet. By the same token, th'e ones. B)' way of contrast, my vel)' Why purposely put unnecessary ob f::llse . Finally, Douglass gave some plausi. /Upol refers not just to the slips of modest desk. dictionary in French ron slaclcs ill Ole reader'. path? Instead of ble but imprecise rcnderings which Fer wood let into the bottoms of winddlest tains Ilot only the o\'envhelming majority writing, "A pipe can be luncd precisely guson leaves untouched_ Bedos' phrase ch::lnnels to make them ::Iirtight. but to uf technical terms dted by B&ios in only If it $peak well," which we recog Ime harmon;e sll,vie can only mean. "a any let· in patch or plug used by a AFO (counting many for which only nize as grammatical but which atill jolts smooth hannonic progression," in the woodworker to CO\'i~r something over. 50mcwhat morc generalized delinitions liS from concentration on the message music theorist's sense. whereas both When Bedas introduces a Jess common arc gil'en. of course) . but :tlsa a re by ,hlue of its oddness, why not use Douglass and Ferguson are content to tenn (such as abrege. rollerboard) . he lIIarkabl}' good schematic iIIustrntion of a nonnal indicath'e (". . • only if it call it "a consistent musical effect." usuaU)' takes pains to define or describe a Irader orgoltl with slider chCSl3I' Liv $JH!n/u well" ? Since similar jolts occur When all of the various changes are con it ltefore moving 011. Would that the ing t)ficfty in Francc only strengthened many hundreds of times throughout sidered together, the result shows no t1"3l1sl::llor had done as muchl The read Illy impression Ihat only a \'ery small the translation, this is no slUall objec ~ clear tenden9" to\\'ard improvement. cr does ha\'c some recourse in the form portion of lhe J\merican popul::lce havc lion. Elsewhere (as in justifying the Eithcr translation is serviceable; neither, of the "Alphabetical lable of contents" a metaphysical awarcllt.'Ss of the org::ln translation o[ titles of Latin works inspired. ::It the end of the text, ::Ilthough Fergu~ equal to that of the Frenchm::lu in the cited by BCcJos in his Preface: on the The chapter on the pinning oC organ son does not mention this in his transla street. This also helps to explain why it hiStory of thc organ). Ferguson auumes barrels (Ch. IV, Part IV) is remark tor's preface. Here arc most of the puz· hi such a hu~c task 10 produce a trans that their "scnse . . • is [= be?J of ably lucid in tral15l::1tion. Thank Godl - zling English tenns keyed 10 the French lation "keepmg Caith with the .pint" grcater interest than their form."'· for it contains a matchlessly detailed ones which elicited them. Included also of the original. To do the job right reo Wasn't that c\en truer of his case? Wh:ll description and analysis of clementaT)' are translations of Bedos' definitions quires courngc and cre::ltivity. of Ferguson's insistence on spelling re petfonllancc practice principles wbidl from the original \'cuion of this $CC' As an olljcct of tr::lnslation. AFO is inforcc, "reenforce," or of inserting hy ha\'e always eluded notation by ttan· tion, together with bis references to a nightmare. It describes nn arcJlaic phen, witbin all tethnical tenns rom d::lrd means. This Lime, the collaboration paru of the tcxt and v:trious other com· tradition using ::Irch::lic technical temli pounded of two words. even the infini between Ferguson and Douglau (tJle ments. Since certain English equivalents nol~. a.rchaic unils of measurcment, tivc:s of verbs compounded Wilh preposi laner acting here onl)' as expert read. cannot be found in any standa.rd Eng arch:l.lc scicntiric Connulations, ::Iud not tions {"cut. up") ? er) secms to h:n'e been neatly as for~ lish dictionary I have yet found (e.g., 1C':lSl , somewhat ::Irchaic prose. How to Chapter 4. in Part III of OD gives tuitous as the olle between Bedas ::Ind sporuel). a few more translator's foot make it comprehcnsible 10 the modem us a glimpse of Professor Ferguson" Ellb'l'amcllc which produced this chap· notcs to darify them would not Imve rl.':lder. ::Ind layman, ::It that~ Professor editorial judgment from another angle, ter in the first place. Like most readers, been wasted. Fcrguson has undcrtakcn an cnonnous inasmuch as it appcan he proceeded by I ::Ilways used to skip this part entirely. As for the names of hand tools and msk, :lIId no matter what the: short re\'ising a pre\'ious translation, rather on the assumption it could only hal'e woodworking practices, one common comings of his results, we arc all better than by starting out fresh with the ori been frholous. On the contruryl It is source of variant nomenclature in any of{ for his hal ing donc it. nut I do ginal. This is lhe celebrated chapter in c\'ery bit as ~rious as the rest o{ the 1::Il1gllage is the confusion between {unc feel he has made his n::u)cl"5' lask un· which BOOos nd\'ises the organist how work, and with !)U the unique informa tiollal and dC5Criptive names. A certain nL'Ccs.s31"i1y difficult by cenain editorial 10 combine the stops and use them to tion it Il3s In offer roncerning the JUU kind of saw with close·set teeth :wd ::I decisions. For one thing, I strongly di ... their maximum eUect. The model tmns· sic itself, it deserves to be paid closer reinforced back, used for slmping ten· agree with his interpretation o[ Dedos' lation, by Fenner Douglass, appean; anention. ons, could be called either a back sa w style. It hi normal for French expository antong thc ::Ippendices to the latter', The dislinction in Engramelle', (scie d tlos) or ::I tenorJ saw (sde ,; pl'ose to makc liberal usc or subjunc ~ 'rhe La"guage 0/ lhe Cl(Jjs;cal French I:rcnch between the longer and tJle It'rlOn) . But back S::IWS can be used for th'es, nearly as lUuch today as two hun Organ,lI l»redictably. Ferguson ch:wged shorter duralion, by the way, is between other purposes. just as saws fashioned dred )'cars ago, BCtlos' I:llIguagc is not a number of \'erbs to the subjunctive; tenut' and lnelce. i,e •• between the nOle in othcr wa)s ca.n be mcd to ronn tell ncarl)' as ardlaic in this respect as Fergu~ " If therc is n pedal part • . ." bc!comcs destined to be /,eld, and that destined OilS. (In fact. the workers I got to know 50n makt.'5 it sc.'cm in his translation. "If thcre bf! .. . •" etc. Then there arc to be IUcrely louciled or stro1ced, which in France all prefcrred 10 use ::I bow r===WESTMINSTER==~ THE EUROPEAN ORGAN CULTURE ORGAN TOUR II TO HOLLAND, NORTH AND SOUTH GERMANY AND AUSTRIA Joan Lippincott, Coordinator with HARALD VOGEL, Director of The North German Organ Academy and KLAAS BOLT, Organist of St. Savo Church, Haarlem Demonstrations, recitals and programs of early music (performances by vocal and instrumental specialists in Renaissance and Baroque performance practices) on the most important historic organs between Amsterdam, Lubeck and Innsbruck. July 20 - August 3, 1978 Price of the Tour: $1,250.00 from New York Two graduate credits available at no additional cost For Brochure and Application, write or call: Daniel Pratt, Director of Summer Session Westminster Choir College Princeton, NJ 08540 (609) 924-7416 10 THE DIAPASON saw on the rare occasions when they ad\'ice any less essential: it merely mako made tenons by hand.) ProfeMOT Fer· r-- it 50 much more desirahle to couch it gnson's vague reference to "British WIll· in terms clearly nnderslandable to lay d~s liOurces" little 10 guide us, so we ~ persons, who makc the uilimate deci· 3TC IcCt with a rnfl of unexplained siol1s. terms whose meanings aTe not self· Thcre arc some precinus little pas.'iagcs evident. worth quoting because they remind m Where a more common English of nooos' human fallihilil )'. Thus, in cquh'alent uf a commonly understood the footnoles (0 the WeinJ;artcn stopltlll!: Frellch. word would have done just as Whell 1 saw this otg;ln in 1751 . I was welI 3 S the English org:mbuilder's jOlT' nut able to inspect thc ranks inside gon, why not choose the former? I am ---, the ca~. as Mr, Gahler was 50 thinking or flipot = sponsd and o£ leagues away. and he alone had the pioller (usually spelled pinuler). which kel's. Most of these stops arc unfa· could just as well be cheep. peep. or miliar to me. The builder has since cllurp as chil/. 'Vhy leave thill obstacle scnl PIc the list. but it is gh'cn in iu the way of the reader not privy to Genllan, which t do not undcntand. the mc:ming of the organhuildcr's "in" t rcqucsh.. 'f1 M. Riepp, a Gcnnan,hom word, eMff1 Where should the reader builder, to gh'e me the French names tum ahcf he has tried in vain to find for these stops. Hc replied that since eI,;f/ in the dictionary? he has always built .,'rench,stylc or· Am [ the only one who wonders how gans (ha\'ing settled ill France), he we c;J.n be sure what the metric equiv. h:u never studied German stops. and alents are or the pied dt! Roj and the (~ not recognize a number of them. livre7 - who looked in vain for a note He ga\'e me, in French, the names he telling where Fenner Douglass' trans· Plot. LII frDm Dorn 16cIos! shewllHJ pIa.,... with wi, oed sworll at 4-manllal orpn, wi" was able to undcfltand. I reproduce lation of PL III, Ch. 4. was pUblished? assistant pllrnpl", "'IIIHhld D.nOWS. the list as scnt to me. - or who looked for some mention in which tells us a great deal in \'ery few the trnnslator's preface of Christhard organbuilders and the roles each should In his own (OlIlext. Bedos bats the ques· words about the other two gentlemen, Mahrenholz' various studies on B&fos be given in the proccs, of delennining tion back aud forth from one to the as weill'· Elsewhere, we find this tidbit and his work?1J Such scholarly niceties how an organ should be built. Except other party in the dispute, favoring the of another sort; "Note that since glue arc perhaps not ~n{ial to a (mmla' for the un(ortunate choice of l~ H"g to side of the organbuildcr (i.e,. the "me· is inclined to tum SOllr. onl)' men lion, but surely they would hal'e helped translate verifier- (determining whether chanic'") all the marc strongly because should prepare il." (With women show· many readers, e\'cn just by giving them somelhing is as it should be, or 35 it "the public" was more inclined to lislen ing increasing interest in the manual more confidence that Ferguson himself is claimed 10 be: certify, inspecl, corrob to the organist's side instead. You can trades, where would we be without our had mastered the topiC, Few laymen or orate, justify: an action to be considered almost hear something of Ralph Nader modern white gluell) 11 students have that information at their in its legal as well 35 its physical in 8&105' position, inasmuch as he in· To the extent that the translation or fingertips. aspects). the translation here is less \'okes the judgment of "the public" as 011 be judged suc~srul, this would Many of the passages I most enjoyed cumbersome than elsewhere, though it the ultimate arbiter of this class of dis· secm 10 be alm05t entirely to Professor in the original text are also among Ihe still hiUlJ1y seems like muh'e English. pUle. nUL who was "the public?" Those Ferguson's credit. since with thc strik· easiest to read in Professor Fergu50n 's The topics are so engaging however that III command or suHicient resources to ing exc;cption of I'art -I, Ch"pler 4 (ror traml:1tion. T hese usually stand out for once you can cease to be aware of the pay Ihe organbuilder, of course, which which he adi,nowledgC5 the help of Fen· \'isually because of tJle unaccustomed mode of expression as a separate entity. traditionally meant clerics and arislo· ncr nouglass as expert reader), it ap· absence of numerals, h::dia and the vari· To try to convey the issue in Chapter cracy. There is an observable progres pean he received pretio u5 Iiule wilor· ous symbols used 10 key lext to illus II by an;llogy. it is as though you were sion in the introductory paMagc5 to the ial help. On the other hand. although I trations. It gDC' without saying that a about to buy a certain expensive used successively published parl!l of AFO, ha\'e tended to lay all my complaints perceptible change of style t4lka place C1 r, but wanted assurance th ..t it was in which I think belies how the ACldemy to his acoount as well, surely the pub· between these few snatches of moral. good condition before you went ahead. managed to gently persuade Bblos to lishen must take consider:tble responsl C!thelic and historical commentary, on Assuming you had no Friends who were include the bourgeoISie in his concep hility fo r shortcomings in the publica one hand. and the technical description. professional test drh'ers, whose opinion tion of " the public."1a Nowadays. since tion. Que would think the Sunbury Pre" The best examples of the freewheeHng ought you to take more seriously - most organ contracts are approved by could have provided more editorial as· style are the Foreword to Part III and that of a qualified. experienced me· whole series of committees and coundls, 5istance in refining the text and check the long introduction to Chapter II of chanic. or that of }'our teenage son, who lhe public for BCclm' message is much ing it (or accuracy. Ihe same pan,l4 both of which deal with hn.III nc\'er handled a wrench but will more inclusive and represcntath'e. I do Ihe rC'Spct:th'e merits of orp.nists and probably drive the car more than you? not htlie\'c: Ihis makes the Benedictine's (continued overlea/) ). T ;.. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ AEiD Seattle !7B ~ ~ fealuring ~ ~ Activities for the Morning Hours ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Dr. Erik Routley Four Lectures • Tuesday-Friday ~ ~ Church Music in the Late 20th Century: A Personal View ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 19 Four-hour Seminars 28 One-hour Workshops ~ ~ From which you may elect up to B hours of class on these topics ~ ~ ~ ~ 15 Aspects of Church Music and Art ~ ~ ~ ~ 14 Specific Areas of Performance Practice ~ ~ 8 Publishers' Reading Sessions ~ ~ ~ ~ 6 Technical Classes on Keyboard Instruments ~ ~ ~ ~ 4 Professional Discussions ~ ~ ~ ~ Some classes will require advance reservation due to space limitation. Detailed class descriptions and ~ ~ advance reservation lorms will appear in the ollicial AGO SEATTLE '78 Convention Brochure which ~ ~ ~ ~ , AGO/RCCO members will receive In March. Admission to all classes Is included in the basic registration , . lee. Regular lee $75, $65 lor Student, Senior Citizen or Spouse. . June 26-30, 1978 Plan to attend I , r- T , Edith C. McAnulty, Registrar • 2326 Bigelow Avenue North Seattle, Washington 98109 .,..., ~ -g~ ... +~ ~+ ..... r-, .... ~ I...... A...... ~ IT...... r-, .... ~ ,..'. r- ..... TTTTT ...... " ...... TT ...... ,...... T ...... ,..."..". .., ....., .r-, ...... FEBRUARV, 1978 11 Dom Bedos in English the era In which it was written •.NO doubt it would have taken more. t!me (continued from p. 11) to disco\'er a more rational, Intelh~ble nomenclature for contempomry Enghsh. speaking readers. but if ever a litemry Joltall1l Pachelbel VERBAL ACCURACY undertaking called for such an effort, surely "Dedos in English" was it. If the "The Celebrated. Canon" Examples of out-nod-out inaccumcy. task was too great for Professor Fergu· though present. are few. The nomen son he might have served us better by cI:uure of the different types of saws, givIng us some of the original .French found in #5~. cnnn~t be rig.ht ••!he in brackets or footnotes, leavmg us Canon in D Major original text 15 the simpleu enes, Les better prepared to Fend for ourselves. grandes &: petiles Scies d relendre: Ie! In any case, let the reader be warned. 'ides d d~b iler, d tenon &: tournantes. The wary may wish to co~sult the Dfl This Ferguson translates as follows: renreiter reprint of the onginal Frenc? " Large and small rip saws; cro5scut.~a.ws. text frequently for purposes of compan· to wit: tenon saw and frame saw, Im 1T plying that the tenon saw and the son. • • I The original version for three violins The change in Bedos' dengnation 0 frame saw are both crosscut saws, and accidentals, making them all arrear .as and continuo in fact arc the only crosscut saws the sharp. (Bb = A#. Eb = D# • beb.. craftsman n ~ hal'e- . According to my ignorance of traditional musical theory. own experience with European hand 11 which was still important to the sense Score and 1 each of parts, No. 97AA4297 $9.00 10015. I suspect the true description, of of Bedos· exposition. In the non·circulat· 8blos' I tnns are as follows: ing temperament he recommended for d reftmilre - Saw o( heavy·frame Soc tuning the organ. Eb is the tone w~ich comtruction ("frame saw'" with a forms a true major third with '!: h~e. coarse· toothed blade; used (or rip·· wise, Bb, with D. The other . major ping. thirds" that could be approximated Score, No. 97AA5178 $4.00 Sele d di biter - Saw of nonnat bow using these pitches are no more in tune construction and somewhat finer Violin 1, No. 97AA5179 $1.25 than theIr .pellings imply (Bl Eb. F~I teeth, (or culling planks to length. Bb ) . Dedos' more accurate enhannoDlc Violin 11, No. 97AA5180 $1.25 Scie d tenon - Smaller saw, bow con· designations serve to confinn that the Violin III, No. 97AA5181 $1.25 struction, fine teeth, for making "wolf" is not tuned as the fifth, G#/ D#, tenom: nol a back saw. but that its second term is. tuned E.b Scie lournanle - Lightly built, deep. CellolBass,- No. 97AA5182 $1.25 in reference to Bb (whkh ID turn. 15 throated bow construction: fine, tuned as a fifth with F). The resul.ung narrow blade; lIsed (or cutting spelling 01 Ihe woll. (G#/ Ebl. I. enlnely curved shapes. ("Coping saw'1 consistent with its out·of·tuneness. Fer· Organ Arrangement, No. 97AA5415 $2.00 Now since all of these saws are in a guson·s spellings. though they look bet· sen~ frame saws, it hanUy does to single ter from the point of view of modem out the sde tournanle for that designa· equal·tempered enhannonic indifference, tion. Furthermore. the latter two types are really misnomers.- of saw. since both will be used to saw Arranged and edited for organ by end grain at least occasionally, should S. Drummond Wolff not be thought of strictly as crosscut ACCURACY OF NUMERICAL saws. Rather. thq- form separate cate DATA CONVERSIONS gories. BMos' approximation for pi sets tim A more striking puzzle is this pas sage: "In the organ. the tenn bel/ows its to the accuracy we can expect of designates not only a certain number pipe scale tables. Since he used S.l4, of bellows· but the space where they we know we cannot depend on more are housCti.""· Does the translator's foot th:ln three significant figures,- or four. at the most. Since metric equivalenu lIP note clarify this double talk? Nol It reads, "Dom Bblos' instrument. typical derived from BMos' data cannot possibly 35~ ICIUTI1 .."1_ "w_ be more accurate than his own measure SAlOl' LOUII. __ &:111. for the period, has no equalizer, or 31. u..J1JOCI reservoir." Here is my reading of the ments, the conversion calculations to ~x· original: "In the organ, the tenn Sou!· tra decimal places are not only fuUle fierie designates not only the system of but downright misleading. bellows which supplies it with wind, Furthennore, the smallest unit of but also the bellows chamber." The measurement Bedos actually wed to whole sentence could just as well have describe pipe scales was W ligne, imply been suppressed in the translation. for ing a standard error of measurement why should the reader really care to greater than ± W millimeter. Any met· know the meaning of this particular ric equivalents not rounded off to the French noun. if he didn't also care nearest 0.5 millimeter are therefore about the hundreds of others which making undue claims of accuracy. even were translated without any comment when they contain fewer than three sig whatsoever? nificant figures. No pipemaker would Much more common are ambiguous be concerned with this kind of numeri words and phrases used in place of clear· cal accuracy, anyway. On the other hand, er expressions in the original. The ani Mahrenholz found several inconsistencies mal hide used to cO\'er the tops of of a greater order among Bblos' figures, most of which he was able to account pallets is call.ed penu blanc!,e i? #3f!G. for as plaUSible results of very simple meaning onhnary organbullder 5 white leather. In the corresponding dcscrip. errors.- It would be comforting to dis. tion in #588. where Bblos simply uses co\'er that the individuals who carried the word peau, Ferguson decides to call out the metric conversions for OB had it skin. Surely it would be more recog. considered Mahrenholz' comments and nizable as leather. responded to thei~ logical conscque~ces Then there is the whole arsenal of in preparing thClr own presentation, terms used to describe characteristics of but they did not. They did not even consistently incorporate all of the cor pipe speech - and what a ~wi1dering array they arel 'Vhen a reed pipe growls rections published by Bblos himself. because it has a flat spot or some other MO$t of the figures throughout this irregularity in the curvature of its chapter are correct, however, and the tongue B&los calls this nfler (growl reader who heeds B&los' own instruc· ing)." 'Ferguson wants to call this dou· tions about rounding off (d. #46) is bUng down, but he also calls it buuing.... not likely to be deceived. llll:.%itig. on the other hand. is also the The scale stick. measurements for windchest construction It present a dif word to describe the proper sound of ferent sort of conversion problem. Here the Cromorne (cTIlcher) ,m which is not the same thing at all. the implied standard error of measure ment is ± !-1! ligne. so we should ex· Overblowing is used to render the pect rounding off to the nearest 0.2 cm. original outrer ("exaggerating," i.e .• On the other hand, since two parallel speaking too forcefully) ,m wh~reas over blowing in the sense of speakmg a par columns of equivalent figures appear on tial is translated as speaking the octave the page, each with its respective tota~, one is tempted to go several extra dea· (octavier)!5I or. qu;nting !,bove pitch mal places in order to make the totals (quinter, speakmg the third harmon· prove out. In other words, the right ic) 2S in the respective cases of open and hand total should approximate as near sto~ped flues. I am willing to suspend ly as possible the product of the left disbelief no longer when Professor Fer· hand total and the conversion factor. guson tells me, ostensibly on Bbl~s' ~u The conversion team once again dis thority, that a stopped nue can qUIDt played an excess of zeal in publishing below pitCh" (nasarder, to speak the figures which imply much more ac· twelfth too strongly in relation to the fundamental).- SimUarly unfortunate curacy than can be justified. Taken with the proper grain of salt, however, expressions abound. individual entries on both sides of all Whatever the intrinsic merit of the the scale stick. representations appear British sources who presumably fur nished these outrages, their chOices of to correspond correctly both with each words, repeated in this context, hardly other and with the original. In reckon ing the totals, the team made another make for a clear and accurate transla· tion of ilFO in faith with the spirit of (continlUd, page 14) 12 THE DIAPASON Here & There The Hymn Society of Ametlu will hold The New Grove, or 6th edition of Groves its 1978 nationol convocation on April 23· Dictionory of Music and Musicians. will be 2S in Wj nsfon·S~le m , NC. The Society publishad in 0 20-volume set in spring h OI also ,.Iellsed a progress report on 1979 and promises to be a landmork in its " Dictionary of American Hymnology" Enqlish·language music ,eference work which when completed will contoin more Informotion ohout reduced prapublicotion then 2,000 000 entries. Thus fer, about prices is now ovtliloble from Grove's Dic ~ 750,000 first lines of hymns hove been in tionories of Music. Inc., 718 Notional Press deled from 4.000 hymnals. ApprOlimetely Building. Woshington. DC 2()()-45. Phone I.BOO hymnals remain to be indoled. There (te ll 1, •• 1 800·424·51 12 e, 12021 737.0034. MUSIC WORKSHOPS is now enough moterial on file for 2,800 Chamber Music June 26·August 11 Jazz t mprovisation and biographies of hymn.writers. Clara Siegel Arranging July 31·August 11 AH index moterial be computerized, will Jonathon Rennert ond Russell Soundel'$ Opera Workshop June 26-August 11 Tom Boras end completion of the project is planned were the recitalist ond ledurer. respec Frank Pullano Group Piano for Children. for 1984. wah pUblication the following tively, for a joint moeting of the Ottowa Guitar, Beginning and Ages 5, 6; and Ages 7, 8 yeer. Further infarmelion 8bout the Dic Centre RCCQ !lind Syrocuse and St. the Intermediate July 3·7 July 24·28 and July 31-August 4 tionery, end the April convocolltion, ctln lawrence AGO chopten. which took ploce Neil Anderson Stephen Covello be obtained from the Executive Director. in W.tertown, NY, in lote Odober. Mr. Recorder July 31·August 4 The Hymn Society o f Am8rice. Wittenberg Rennert ploved works Boles, leighton. Suzuki, Beginning/Intermediate/ by Jean Thomas and Colin Sterne Univ8nity, Springfield, OH "SSOI. Haydn. Bruhns , Bach. FrOinck, end Mes Advanced JuIV 10-14 Orff·St.hulwerk August 7-11 siaen; Dr. Sounders spo~e on performance Anastasia Jempelis The N.tional Shrine of the Immaculat. prodice. Music for Young Children Rida Davis Concuptlon, Washington, DC, has an JulV 17·21 ; JulV 24·28 and Choral August 13-18 nounced four concerts for its 1917-78 mu Julv 31-August4; August 7·11 Paul J. Christiansen sic guild series. The initiel program, "A Blanche Altshuler Renaissance Christmas," took place on James Litton is on 8 four month lelllvo Organ July 17-21 NINE WEEKS OF OPERA • PLAYS • of absence as orgo nist end director of Dec. 17.18; the others are es fol lows : an Frederick Swann SYMPHONY· POP CONCERTS· music at Trinity Church, Princeton. NJ . organ recital hy Daniel Roth on Feh. 2-4 , New Music Workshop JulV31·August4 LECTURES· SPORTS on argon recitol by Pi. rre Cochereou on During his leave he will prepare a procti eel performing edition of 15th-century Tom Boras For 197B Summer School Catalog. wrile: Apr. 28 end a chorel progrGm ("The SchOOK Olliee English carols. This edition will include 0 Splendor of Venice" I by tho Oratorio So Chautauqua Institution daty of Washington on May 12. Each pro-. detailed history of the carols .Iong with Bolt 2B. Dept. 01 gram will begin Gt 8:30 pm. suggestions os to perfonnonce. Chautauqua, N.Y. 14722 Hlilroid Pysher, essociote orgonist at The Verdi Requiem was performed on Trinity Church, will taht Mr. litton's re November 20 by the Westchester BGroque sponsibilities during the leave. However. Mr. litton will continue os director of Chorus under the direction o f D. DeWitt Wasson, at North Yonkers Community music at Princeton Theological Seminary throughout the curront tl codemic year. Church, Hastings-an-Hudson, NY. The performonce was G memorial for G eorge Blaha, a former boss soloist of the group, who was killed in en automobile tlccident. Robert Andenon performod argon re dtols in early Jonuary ot the Notionol Mic.h ••1 Sc.hneider will be ortist·in-rad Conservatory of Music ond the Ig lesia 91 donco at Washington Univel'$ity, St. l ouis Espiritu SMto in Mexico City. He also from February 20 throu ~ h April 30, 1978. go!l ve II se ries of mosterclo ssos at the can· Ha will pley savara1 re' ltob end will con servo tory hefo re retu rninq to his reguler duct e ,eminor in Romentic argon liter position 8t Southern Methodist Univer otu,e. sity in 001105. CHURCH MUSIC WORKSHOP February 24,25, and 26, 1978 OnAWA UNIVERSITY Ottawa, Kansas 66067 Workshop Leaders WILBUR HELD, Organ and Adult Choir MILLICENT DAUGHERTY, Vocal Solo Literature MARGARET ATHEY, Children's Choir OTIS J. MUMAW, Handbells Other Events Organ Recitals, Festival Worship, and RUTH KERR ORGAN SCHOLARSHIP AUDITIONS For registration and hOUSing information, write to: RODNEY ALAN GILES Ottawa University Box 43 Prof. Hans HOMlbOck hos sen. this illustration as a sUfPlement '0 his artfcle Oft Motarf'. Ottawa, KS 66067 Clockwerk pieces I No .... mber 1977). If Is .he ".41I1nln, 0 til. Fa.tasr. 1(.60', from a Inall ... suipt copy HI ",a GeMnlChaft ftr M.stkfre ••d., VI.,UMI Irepnducad tllro.. h ft.. co.rtes, of tho' h,,'ltutIOft). For musicians, clergy, and laity CG'k.eknd CG'~ dC§.((J. VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY CHURCH MUSIC SEMINAR ~~~~ MUSIC AND THE IDENTITY OF THE CHURCH CG'~~CG'~ April 26-23, 1978 ~ st, ~ 1 -2, 1.973 William Albright Gordon Lathrop CHURCH MUSIC IN AMERICA PAST § PRESENT § FUTURE Carlos Messerli Ray Robinson CONFERENCE LEADERS WORKSHOP LEADERS and many more Anthony Newman, Organ A. Robert Chapman, Handbells Daniel Hathaway, organ Lectures, workshops, concerts, exhibits, and dally worship Gregg Smith, Choral Fritz Noack, Organ Builder Elaine Shakley, Orf! Instruments Information from Office of Continuing Education For information contact: Nellie Louise Schreiner, Secretary Valparaiso University 1533 Parkhill Road Valparaiso, Indiana 46383 Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44121 219-464-5313 216-381-9187 FEBRUARY, 1978 13 Dom Bedos in English publitation will help to inspire in still more readers the same yearning that its (contitJUt!d from p. 12) French language counlerparts have ("hdted in me and many others. for error in judgment. Instead of adding artistic integrity and excellence in up each column separately and then everything having to do with the organ. comparing these results with each othf'f in relation (0 the com'crsion fa( lor NOTES ST. JAMES (and with Redos' published total'. in CATHOLIC order to check for errors, they SC't!ID to I. For a fine .umming,uII uf the value o( Didos' ha\'c assumed the correctn~ 01 Bhlos' trealise, ~ "Dom Bidos and L'a" du Fat: CHURCH addition. using his totals and 1:lcir prod Uur d'Orlues," by the late Edward W. Flint, ucts with the conversion factor in place in The DiaptUolI, March 1976, p. 5 ad pasJim. of the true totals of the mlumos. The Included is an annotated list of chapter headings plus background information on the aeries, De Riverton, result gave the imprcssirm of gibberish, snipliollS Ju arls d meliers, published in only partly remedied by entries in the Paris from 1761-1788 under the auspices of the Illinois "Additions and Corrections," for the A&aJem;e Royale des Sciences, and of which simple reason that some of Redos' pub. L'Art Ju facleur d'or,ues ronned part. lished totals were falsel- A great deal Sevrral small mistakrs slipprd by in this o[ error. is wasted on insignificant detail poslhmnous publication. Bedos' prinler was onr in these metric equivalents, while at the L. F. De La Tour, not L. F. Lalour. TIle "ngraver who signed roughly half of the 137 same time several gross errors slipped plates in Bedos' Ireatise was De La Gardette, through unnoticed. One might add that not de Ia Gaudette; other engravers and print. the only conceivable reason for convert en were rnponsib!e for publishing olher lides Highland, Illinois 62249 ing each and e\'cry little measurement in among the Desrnp,;ollS, which numbered 78 those scales would be in order to spare in all and were published in several more parts Pipe Organ Craftsmen Since 1906 the organbuildcr time in building a than that. Although John Adams' complete windchest. But since the rigures which set o( DucriPlioJU, given to Harvard Univer sity in 1789, was indeed bound in eighteen result are so clumsy to work with, most volumes, there was hardly any standard group craftsmcn would probably prefer some ing o( tides among patrons of the series, as other method of reproducing these di· Ihe many different binding arrangements of mensions. nedos' treatise make clear. (For more in(onna tion on this point, lee "Aulour de I'idition ,\CCURACY OF THE PLATES uriginale de I'Art du facteur d'OflUeS," by Dominique ellailler, RenauJan&' d, I'orlue. 3 (Aulumnc 1969), pp. 21-25.) Finally, the name ,\s far as dimensional stability is con· of the other Benedictine occasionally claimed c.:med, the facsimile reproduction of 10 IIr the author of L'art Ju faeteur d'or,ues Hcdos' engra\'ed plates are worth liter was Jean.Fran'iois Monniol or Monniotte. nol ally no more than the paper tlley were Manniula. printed on; they will expand and con 2. Orlan-Builder (DB), preambles to Parts 1 tract with every change in relative hu· and 2, pp. 2 and 69, respectively. midity, just likc the paper used to take 3. "I( by chance this work of mine, although intended for amaleurs and (Sic] apprentiers, the original impressions. Bedas apolo· should reach master organ-builden in Paris, gizcd for an enor in the length of the Ilerhaps they will place their own advantage Prcslant scale (plate 19), which accord. and the inlernt or the craft ahead or their ing to his description,a amounted to a long-standing habib." (DB. p. 182, #896.) reduction of about 0.7%. Measuring 4. Internal evidence abounds to show the extent thc facsimile of this same plate in the to which Bidos noted the practices of other French builders. Consider hb long discussion re\'iew copy, I found an error three of the equipment and methods in usc for cut. times as grcaU Similar checks, both on ing pipe: metal. (OB, PP. 179-182, #870-896.) Ihe review copy and on the original 5. In his article #!H6 (DB. p. 191). BedO! re NCORPORATED plates at Harvard, showed a mean reo veals somelhing o( hb own attitude towan! duction of about I % in both copies. Six the past through hb admiring description of Mechanical and Electro-pneumatic Action Organs some ra'iade pipes made by a Flemish builder H.Q_rstawn, M.ryl.nd 21740 Phone: 3DI - 733.'1000 months from now, when the air in most North American homes and li· in 1623. He continues, "My intenlion ••• is not to encourage builders 10 imitate them in braries will be more humid, I am sure detail: • • • I wish only 10 show how im el'erybody's copy will be much more portant it is that pipes be made substantially, nearly "correct," only to shrink again Ihat the mouths be sturdy, and to suggest that next winter. lacquer is an eU«tive means of preserving the At Harvard I made a three· way com· brightness and polish of the pipework." TIlere parison of Ihe illustrations, using the upon follow fully detailed instruclions for lac original AFO, the review copy of OB quering organ pipes. 6. DB, p. xxii. and the 1963·1966 Barenreiter reprint of 7. Reprinted in AFO. (Kassel, Birenreiter, AFO. How shall I describe it! Despite 1966), Vol. 4, P. xxxii (at the end of the their reduccd scale and the consequent Table des Chspj'reJ). tendcncy for cross· hatching 10 appear 8. Chailley, Dominique, op. nl., pp. 21, 22. as patches of solid black, the plates in Chailley knoWl of only one surviving copy of Uarcnreitcr's AFO nearly upslaged both this earlier note. Ihe others. They contain the fewest 9. PeW LArolUJe; Jietimulaire enr:ytlopIJiqN' pour tous. Paris: Librairie Larousse, 1966. bmken lines and othcr ineglliaritics, Partie langue, art. "orgue" and passim. from which I can only sunnise that 10. DB, p, xxii. either uncommonly clcan originals were II. New Haven: Yale Univenity Press, 1969, photographcd 10 make the plates, or pp. 203·215. Although the quoted comparisom the publisher did some cxtremely finc are all drawn from tlte first two paragraphs, retouching. OU's plates are superior to they are typical of the entire chapler. in both Barenreiter's onl}' insofar as thcy arc on ,;enions. 12. See Detty Bang Mathrr, In'erpretation of bettcr paper and their greater scale French Mwic from 1675 to 1775, for Wood· makes it easier 10 pcrceh'e dclail with wind and Olher Per/t>rlllerJ, New York: Mc out a magnif}'ing glass. On Ihe olher Ginnis and Marx, 1973, where malerial rrom hand, they show many morc brokcn, ir· this chaplrr of AFO is quolrd alongside instruc. regular and e\'cn missing lines than tions gleaned from a host of wind instrument either of the othcr selo;. This is often tuton o( the prriod, a'ihough EngrameDe's qUite noticeable, largcly bcC".l1Ise the Tonotednie is citrd much more frequently there than AFO, as the authority on barrel whileness of the paper discouragt.'S the pinning. Engramelle's atlcmpls to pin down e}'e rrom ignoring snch faults as easily Ihe subtlest nuances of cuntemporary keyboard as it can with the other two editions. prdonnancc practice srem still not to have Hut the o\·crall qualit}' remains breath· gollen the attention tllt!Y deserve, probably taking. because of our modern metaphysical auump· tion that music and mechanics do not mix. The betic I acquaintcd I become with Thul writC"S Steph.. n I'reslon, in a review of AFO, the more strongl}' I feel that it InterpreltZtiorc in &rl7 Musie. 111:1 (January should bc within reach of every serious 1975) : "It is one of the shortcomings of the student and admirer or the organ. No· approach Ihal what begins as an exhortation where else docs there exist such an ex for the instrumenta'ist to copy the singer be haustivcly detailed, }'et timeless, treat· comt'S 100 fr .. quently an example o( what the mcnt of the art. Its fundamental value mechanical-organ makers practiSftl. There is should be cxpected to prevail in any too much of an accent on a theorelical ap· proach which mUllt Irad, inevitably to artistic adequate translation, and I think OB sterilily in prrformance." The reader who can hears out this assertion. It is more than o ..· .. rcome these prejudices stands to gain many adequate, alheit not exactly eloquent. new illsights fmm a carelul reading o( En It descn'cs to be bought, read aUen· gr.unel:e', chapter in AFO or DB, which Bi· th'cly and pored over time and again by dos claims is somewhat more developed than any urgan enthusiast who can afford the the cOl'TeSponding presentation in Tono'echnie. 13 . - - , "Die Labialmensuren des lkdos," cxpense (unless he reads French con· appendix 10 Die Bere&hnun, der Or,e/pftifen. £identl)', in which case the advantages meruuren vom Mi"e1al,,, bis AIr Mitte des 19. of thc nrio\l!l facsimile reprints are ]QhrAunderls, second unrevised edition, ( Kas uudcniable) . sel; Birenreiter, 1968 [fint edition, 1938]), pp. Now that we ha\'e our Dom Bedos in 77.a8. English. it is up to the rest of us to --, " Begleitwort" to AFO, facsimile reprint takc ad\'antage of it, accepting Bedos' edition (Kassel: Barcnreiler, 1963·1966), 10- catt'd ~fter the plates in Vol. I, with separate example as a challcnge to us to clarify pagination, 1-8. our own esthetic goals and refine our 14. DB, pp. 253-254 and 269-271 . respectivel,. tcrhnical procedures so as to accomplish 15. Part 4 is almost exclwively concerned willi those goals more perfectly. 1 hope this inuruments for secular music.making. whereas 14 THE DIAPASON the olh", three pam deal wilh clturch instru- • ments. Since the clientele for the fanner class Here & There of instruments would have been found laqely among tile bourgeoisie, and Bedos maka il A Church Music Workshop has been quite clear that the intention of writing Part -4 did nol originate with him ( OB, p. 289), announced by Ottawll University, to ta~e it s~ms as though some of his liternry ad place Feb. 204·26 on the campus of the miren, memben of the Aeadlmi. Royale dn KlIns.,s institution. leoders will be Wilbur SdenUI or otherwise, may have had to keep Held, organ lind adult choir; Millicent after him quite peni5tently to get him to Daugherty, vocal solo literature: Margaret accede 10 the interests of this class of readen. Athey, childrens choirs; and Otis J. Mu Yet even here he justifies his efforts by refer rv ring to "5eVerni parish priests, ICaUered maw, handbells. Other events will include throughout the countryside," who " leek di organ recite.ls, festival worship, and organ CONCERT version in manual occupations • • • With the scholarship e.uditions. Futher informe.tion help of the present trt'atise," he saVt, "they may be obtained by writing Rodney AI.,n OP.GANISI'S may turn their indwtry and entertainment to Giles, Otte.wo University, Box 43. Ottawa, the adornment of the Lord's howe, and the KS 66067. enrichment of his service." SUn!ly these wen! not the only persons eagerly awaiting the ap A conference for musicians. clergy, and Ilearnnce of Part 41 laity will be held April 20·23 lilt Volparaiso 16. on, p. 2-19. n. Whereas mdos' isnorance of the natUn! of southern German organ ItOps University. Entitled Music and the Identity ARTS~~ a nd tbeir nomenclature is sllrely innocent, that The Organ Historical Society is offer of the Church, it will include lectures, claimed by Riepp was probably either feigned ing offi cial T-shirts to members and others workshops, concerts. exhibits, and daily or wholly intentional, since the laller was a worship. Among the featured personnel IMAGE~ serious competitor of Gabler'l. Many of the who send $04.045 to society headquarters LTD. at P.D.B. 209, Wilmington, OH 45177, will be Willillm Albright, Gordon lothrop, stops in the Weingarten creation are biurre, Carlos Messerli, .,nd Ray Robinson. For represenred by however, 10 say the least - 50 perhaps Riepp stating size - small, medium, large. or never did come 10 know what they were. Cf. edra large. The 100% cotton shim are tan further information, please write Office of Phillip Truckenbrod I'eter Williams, Til. EllropelJlt O"a.. , 1450- with a silk.screened blue OHS emblem, Continuing Education, Valparaiso Univer. 1650 (BrlJinlree, Mass.: Organ Liternture Foun an 1824 Lemuel Hedge orgen case for. sity, Valparaiso, IN 046383; (219) 0464-5313. RAGNAII, DJORHSSON (kelond) dation, 1966), pp. 79-83. marly loc"ted "t st. Paul's Episcopal ALDEPJ DOWGEP. Gwilzerlondl 17. Ibid., p. 85. Church, Windsor. Vi. The Clevel.,nd AGO Chapter will hold a DAVID DP.UCE.pj.YHE (England) 18. Due 10 the devastating erruts of two world Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Church Music NICHOlAS DANDY (England) wan and the Depression, craftsmen in Frnnce Olivier Messiaen will be honored on Conference on March 31 and April 1-2; RAYMOND DAVEWY (CarlOClo) anll Germany wert' relleated:y deprived of the theme is "Church Music in America: JEAH·lOUIS Gil (france1 power tOOg during the fint hall of our cen his 70th birthday (December 10, 1978) P.ODEPJ GlASGOW HM) tury. The older generation of worken still ae by performances of his complete works Past & Present & Future." Conference DOUGlAS HAAS «anode) live in organbuilding, or at least the ones I in a series of concerts sponsored by the le.,ders will be Anthony Newman, organ: IUCHARD HESCHKE (lISA) met at Koenig'1 in Alsace and Gerhard city of P"ris in November o!Ind December. Gregg Smith, choral : and Fritz NOlld, or· AUGUST HUMEP. (Austria) Scillnid'l, in Bavaria, depended entirely upon Participants will include outstanding g.,n builder. Workshops will be led by DAVID HURD (lISA) band tools as their means of production dur A. Robert Chapman, handbells; Daniel NICOlAS KYNASTON (England) ing tlte period immediately following World French soloists o!Ind groups such as Hathoway, organ; and Elaine Sha~ley, DOUGlAS LAWRENCE (Ausnoliol War II. Although they have since taken to l'Orchestre de Poris, l'Orchestre Notionol HUW LEWIS <'M:l~) machine production with a nngeance, they de France, ond others. Orff instruments. For further information, contact Nellie louise Schreiner, secretary, HEINZ LOHMANN (Germany) still rt'gard as commonplace many of tile tools Messiaen and his wife, the noted pilmist MAIInN UlCKEMGe FE~RUARY. 1978 1~ The Tonal Evolution of the E.M. Skinner Organ Part II bv Dorothv J. Holden Around 1906, Ernest M. Skinner de- Several olher recent tonal develop· first English HOTn appeared in the Skinner's first 32' Sub Bass was .intra- velopcd Ihe rirst of his orchestral imita- ments of Ernest Skinner were included Choir dh'ision of the Skinner organ at duccd with the Skinner organ buill. (or live SlOPS, the Orchestral Oboe. Skinner in the City College of New York organ. the Church of Christ, Congregational St. Thomas Church. New York Cllyl. stales in his 3t1tobiogmphy. which ap- The Cirst example of his !l2' BombartJc Church in Norrolk. Conn., which was (opm #205) • in 1913." . peaTed In the March I. 1951. issue of appeared In this instrument.· Unlike built in 1910. The dC\'clopment of this Shortly after this time. the Kleme Tile Diapason, that the creation of the most 32' Bombardcs. which are con- stop was inspired by a solo pa!\Sage Enahler made its (irst 3.ppearance. in Orchestral QIJoc was inspired by "some structed entirely of metal, the Skinner "played on the English horn. beginning the organ :It Fourth Presbyterian Im'ely measurC5 on the oboe in 'r3.fSifal' Bombarde has wood resonaton in the the third act of 'Parsifal' ' .. and is de· Church, Chicago, 111 .- (opus #210), •.." It is aptly describctJ in the Skin- lower two oct3\'cs.' The resonators one !cribctJ in the Skinner brochure as hav- also built in 1915.n The Kleine En:ahler ncr Organ Company brochure, Tilt: quite large in SCJ:le. Examples seen by ing "the mournful covered qu:dity pc- consists of two r:mb of small·scaled Sh;nn~ Organ, as h:lving a "plaintive the writer have ranged in diameter culiar t~ its orchestral prototype." Enahler pipcsD with one rank. tuned pastoral quality." According to the from about 12" x 12" to IS" x IS", de- The Skinner Celesta, which was "based sharp so as to fonn a ttlesle With the abo,·c·mcntioned autobiography. the pending on the size of the instrument in principle on the orch~tral instru- other rank, which is tuned to unison (irst example of Skinner's Orchestral and of the building in which it is 10- ment of that namc.... made its £irst pitch. It has a very lovely and subtle Oboe was placed in the organ at Tomp- cated. These Bombardes are very full known appearance in the Skinner organ sound, and generally only appears in kins Avenue Congregational Church, and resonant in sound and can be felt at Sage Chapel, Cornell UniverSity, in the Choir divisions of large Skinner or- Brookl)'n (opus #145) , which was in- as much as heard. Ithica, N.Y. gans o( 50 ranks or more. stalled in 1907.1 Howcver, it also ap- The Tuba Mirabilis presumably made The Skinncr organ at the Cathedral By the mid-teens, the Skinner organ pears in the specilicalion of a slightly its first appearance in the Skinner at of St. John rhe Divine was, as previous. was a radically diffefCnt instrument earlier opus, that of the Skinner In- the Cathedral of St. John the Divine,' Iy mentioned, also built in 1910. This from that which was built by the finn dOllied in the Great Hall, Cillo College which was built around 1910.' However, instmment W35 distinguished by the in- in 1906. Typical of larger Skinner of New York (opw # 135), in 1906,' as can be secn in the above IprcUica.- troduction of sever.tt of Skinner's new church organs at this lime was the rour- tion. a Tuba Mirabilis also appean in tonal developments. Among those SlOpS lIlanual instrument built for Central £. M. Skinner Organ - Great Hall the City College of New York Skinner. were the French Trumpet, Gamba Ce- Methodist Church, Detroit, Mich., in CoJl~ge of the City of New York The Tuba Mirabilis is an extraordlnar- leste, and 52' Violone.10 As stated before, 1915. This instrument was described on Opus #135 - 1906 ily loud and brilliant reed stop of the the Tuba Mirabilis was supposrdly fint p. I in the December I. 1915, issue of trumpet family. Its construction and used in this installation, and has been "rile DiaJHuon as being "one of the GREAT voidng are based on the Willis exam- described earlier in this article. Also in finest Skinner organs in the country." 16' Df:apason pies uling :a very high wind preseure, this instrument is the £irst known ap· Further quoting (rom this write·up, 16' Bourdon which is generally about 20 inches. Thil pc:arancc of the Flugel Hom, also called which announced the dedic:ation of the S' first Diapason stop was wed only in Solo divisions of Cor d'Amour or Como d'Amour. Central Methodist Skinner on Novem· 8' Second Diapason larger Skinner Installations. The French Trumpet is somewhat ber 9, 1915, it Slales that "In drawing S' Third Diapason Also appearing In the City College of brighter than the wual Skinner trum- up the specifications Mr. York- had in 8' Gross F1o 16 THE DIAPASON 8' French Ham conl3.in, a good rep~ntatfon of Skin· note of th~ contra bassoon.... ICrved 8' Orchestnl Oboe SOLO ner's tonal development5. Perhaps this as Ernest Skinner's inspiration for the 16' Ophicleide 8' Philomela (Ped.) Instrument's chief Import:l.no: is that It creation of this stop. 8' Tuba 8' Gamba is the only known Sizeable Skinner of The fint known appearance of the 4' Clarion 8' Gamba Celeste it5 vintage In existence which is in its Heckelphon~ was In the Skinner hi· S' Tub. Mirabilis 8' English Horn original tonal design. without changes stalled In Grove P3rk Inn. Asheville, 8' French Hom or additions, and is still in i15 original N.C. (opu. #295), in 1919.- The Skin· ANTIPHONAL S' Orches.ra Oboe (Ch.) installation. ner Co. brochure has these comments, 8' Diapason 8' Clarinet (Ch.) A close ex3min3tion of the tonal describing the Heekelphone and giving 8' Cor de Nuit 8' Tuba Mirabilis schemes of both the Central Methodist some idea of the inspiration for Iu 8' Flute ~Ieste Tremolo and First Unil3ri:lD-Univemlist organ. creation: _ __ 8' Vox Humana gives evidence thot, by 1915. the chorUI "The Hcdc~lpbone Is a rare orches·-.• 8' Tromba ECHO work of the Skinner organ had under· tral imtrument. It is sometimes called Tremolo S'Diap:uon gone a slight change since the building a baritone Oboe. It is only used so far'o PEDAL 8' Concert Flute of the imtnlment [or the City College a.! known to the writer, in Rich3Td 32' Diapason (resultant) S' Cor de Nuit of New York. The Gn::lt flue chorus Strauss' operus S310me and Elcctra. It 32' Bourdon 8' Quintadena now seldom went beyond the 4' Octave. is simil3.r 10 the English Hom in charac 16' Diapason 8' Viol d'Orchcstre and the Swell was often lacking a 4' ter, but has four or five times the 16' Bourdon 8' Vox Angelica n Clarion. AIMJ, by this time, Ihe diapa. power of the later. ]t appean only in 16' C.mb. (Ch.) 4' Flute sons tended to be somewhat bigger and the solo manllal of large instruments." 16' Lieblich Ceo.ck. (Sw.) 8' Fluget Horn heavier than berore, and the chorus The creation of most of Ernest M. 8' Octave 8' Vox Hum3na reeds were darker anti less brl1liant in Skinner's orchestral imimtlve .tops had 8' Cedaekt e:athedrnl Chimes tone. A few 13rger Skinners or that d:ly b«n complcled, for all practical pur S' S.ill Ced.ck. (Sw.) Tremolo did have a very complete Great chants, poses, by 1920. Among the we:alth of s' Cello (Solo) which would inc1ude a 2-2/!' Twelfth, orchcstf:ll color which now appeared in 32' Bombardt: PEDAL (Augmenlcd) 3. 2' Fifteenth, plus a mixture of 111 most Skinner organs of any pretension 16' Ophldeide (Solo) 32' Resultant or tv ranks. Stand3rd eqUipment for during the 1920s was 3 4' Unda Maria. 16' P05aune (5w.) 16' Diapason the 3verage Skinner Swell included an 8' (Continued overleaf) S' Tub. (SoIOl 16' Violone Diapason (or two), a 4' Octave, and a ., ______4' Clarion (So 0) 16' Bourdon mix lure 111 of the cornet type, plus Cathedral Chimes 16' Lieblich Gedeckt (Sw.) chorus reeds at 16', 8'. 3nd (sometimes) 16' Dulciana (Sw.) 4'. The Skinner cornets of 1915 were As can be secn from this stop liJt, S' Octave of larger scale and voiced to be louder the Central Methodist Skinner contained S' Cello (Solo) and more aS5C1"tive than those appear mon of the numerous tonal develop. S' Cedeck' ing in Skinner organs built around ments which came (rom Ernest Skin 8' Still Cedeck. (SlY.) 1906. ner's creative mind over the preceding 32' nombarde Th~ bte teens law the introduction deatde. 16' FagoUo (Ch.) of several more of Ernest Skinner's new It is unrortunatc that the Centnl 16' Contra Posaune (5w.) stops. The Grosse Gedeckt presumably Methodist Skinner was rebuilt, with ex· 8' Tromba (Sw.) made its first appearance in the organ tensive tonal changes, additions, and 3t Second Congregational Church, Holy revoicing. in the early 19605. Most The First Unitarian Universalist or oke, Mass." (opus #!22), which was other comprehensive Skinner organs of gan is not quite typiClJ of the mid· ins13lled in 1920.- However, this stop the mid· teens have likewise been re teens Skinner for several reasons: un appean seveT31 yean earlier in the Solo built or replaced in recent years. How like most Skinner organs of its size. it division of the Skinner inst::alJed in Car ever, we do h3.ve one surviving Skinner has no 4' Octave on the Great. ]n ract, negie Music Holl, Pittsburgh, Pa. (opm rrom th3.t en which managed to es· there are only rour ranks of pipes th3t #270), in 1917.- Turning again to the cape the fale of so many others of its actually belong to the Great division. Skinn~r Co. brochure for a description, \'intage, that being a fair-sized four the rest of the Great stops being bor it states: manual instrument which was installed rowed from the Swell and Pedal divi "The Grosse Gcdeckt is very lecuJiar in Church of Our Fathers Universalist sions. The Echo organ, which consists In its construction. The sO'QUe mouth Church (now Fint Unitarian-Univen3. of ten ranks of pipes, is uncommonly of the pipe is about mid-way its length. list) of Detroit, Mich., in 1915. The large, being in this inst3nce bigger The SClle is large, but the amount of specification of this Skinner is 35 fol· than the Solo org3n. Another depar wind given it is somewhat limited. 10 lows: ture from the usual in this organ is that the tone is one of quiet fullness. E. M. Skinner Org:tn - that the 32' Romb3rde is exlended from It is very useful in 13rgc instruments, Opu. #232 - 1915 the Swell 16' Controt POS3.une rather both to give body to a mass of tone, First Univers:alist Church - Church of than being taken from a unit reed in and also as a solo voice." Our Father. Detroit, J\.lich. the Solo or Pedal divisions, as is cus The wliler once had the opportunity CREAT tomary in most Skinnen. One particu. to try out a Grosse Gedeckt in the Solo 16' Bourdon (P~d.) 13r1y unusual ract ilhout this instrument division of the Skinner in 5t. Joseph's 8' First Diapason is that all of the S' Oi3pason basses are R. C. Cathedral in Columbus, Ohio. 8' Second Diapason m3de of open wood pipes, a practice When used with the tremolo for a 1010 S' Philomel. (Ped.) unknown in any olher Skinner organ, to melody. it has a most beautiful singing 8' 'V3.ldOole this writer's knowledge. Aside from quall.y. 8' Enahler this one occurrence. Skinner Diapason Skinner's first 16' Orchestral Bassoon S' Ceded. (Sw.) bas.scs were 31ways made of zinc. 8' Moline (Sw.) W3.S placed in the organ installed in Aside from tJl~ curious departures the Sk.inner factory studio. Boston, 4' Flulc (Sw.) from the usu31. tlle First Unitari3n 8' Tuba (Sw. Cornopean) M ...." (oput #290), in 1919.- "The Universalist organ is still a good ex opening notes of Duhs' 'Sorcerer'1 Ap SWELL ample of the mid·teens Skinner, in that, prentice,' 3nd Strauss' 'Thus Spake 16' Bourdon like the Central Methodist organ, it ZaT3thU51ra,''' played "on the boltom 16' Duldana 8' Diap3son 8' Gedeckt 8' Salicional 8' Voix Celestes 8' Spiuflute 8' Flute Celeste Do you know why? 8' Aeoline S' Vnda Maris 4' Octave More than 20,000 new organs the world over have 4' Flute 2' Flautino been equipped with "VENTUS" blowers in the past Solo Mixture JJI 20 years, 16' Contra. Pos3une 8' Cornopcan There are good reasons for it. 8' Flugel Horn 8' Vox Humana Excellent performance, small dimensions, extremely Tremolo silent operation, patented wind channel with auto CHOIR matic flap closing, no maintenance, 8' Diapason 8' Concert Flute May we invite you to place a trial order with us 8' DuJcbna for experiencing on your organ why most of the 8' Kleine Erzahl~r II well known organ builders use the advantageous 4' Flute "VENTUS" blowers for their famous instruments. 16' Fagotto 8' Orchestral Oboe Sale only to organ builders, 8' Clarinet H3rp Harp Sub Tremolo AUG. LAUKHUFF The world's largest Suppliers 9lIuJ. 9buIman for all pipe organ parts Pip. OlGan Build., o 6992 Weikersheim, 2742 An. H West Germany h,t Wo,lh, fuol 76105 f.I •. j.17) .536.0090 FEBRUARY, 1978 17 . Tonal Evolutton SWELl.. 32' Born banlc 16' Bourdon 16' Trombone (CD"tinued Irom 1,. 17 ) 16' Dulciana 16' Posaune (Sw.) S' Diapason I 16' Fagotlo (Gh.) S' Diapason II 16' Hed t26 South 5th St.• Minneapolis, MN 55415 Since 1193 M.mber APOIA f7 East Main II., ColumlKls, OM 43215 D24 B..... ny Blvel., La Artttt. .. CA toCIS1 156 W.odl..... s_ AUG~Q~B!i 2tC11 TNnI A...... SMttI., WA "121 Horlfonl, eo._ 0610$ 18 THE DIAPASON • T. Scott Buhl11Dn, "Ernest M. Skinner~ Or pn Builder." TA. Am"i,""" Or,"ltu,. vol. 8, no. 5 {May, 1m), p. 183. THE MESSAGE 'In earlier Skinnen, the 32" Bombude W1U wua1ly an exteRiion or the Solo Tuba which was unified 10 play at 16', 8', and 4' pitches. THE BELLS ... Latl'r on, it was rcnl'rally laken from an inde- pendc:nt Prdal 16' Trombonr, which waa uni· fied to 8' and, IOflll'limes, 4' pilch. The message of bells i~ .. ~ .. n"~"" , • T. ScoU Buhrman, "Ernest M. Skinner: Or· Iheir pure melodious nole" .1 ...... pn Builder." TA, Am,.,ic,. Or,,,,,;II, vol. 8. your neighborhood. town nn. 5 (Aboy, 1921) , p. 183. produce pusonal response • Th, Di"JoaJolt. January I, 1911. inSide all 01 us. That response t T. Scull Buhnnan, "Ernest M. Skinnrr; Or. makes bells an effective W8ylO gan Buildl'r." TA, Am,ri,oll Or,,,nu', vol. 8, reach your communlty. no. 5 (May, 1m), P. 183. I.T. Verdin Company offers ill • Ernest M. Skinner, autobiotraphJ. Tit, Di.pa· unexcelled line oj handbells. cast S"". Mareh I. 1951. bronze bells and electronic bells. • Ernest M. Skinner, witorial. 1'11, Diopm"It, Each of these musical instruments AUglillt I, 1933, p. 21. are based on Ihe precise art 01 bell I·T. Sc:ott Buhrman, "Emelt M. Skinner: Or. making and old world tfattsmanships 1211 Builder." TA~ Am,rieQII Or"",u,. vol. 8, 10 provide the ultimate in beauty and no. 5 (May, 1925), p. 183. sound. I.T. Verdin is renowned for It Jcfrenon Ave. Presbyterian Cburch, Detroh, excellence in quality and service Mich. (opus DO. 415, 1m). since 18-42. lJ Ernest M. Skinner, " Jnvl'ntion. and Tonal Devclopml'nu." Til, Dicpru"n, Fl'bruary I, III I I 19-16, p. 11. 2021 Easl.m Avenue, U T. Scott BuJ,rman, "ErneSt M. Skinnl'r: Or VERDIN pn Buiklcr." TII~ A""neo" O"""ut, vol. 8, COMPANY Clnclnn.lI, Ohio 45202 (513) 221-8400 --- no. 5 (May, 1925), p. 183. II "Four Manual for Williams College." Th_ Dic/HUo", October I ,1912. "T. Scott Bubrman, "Ernest M. Skinner: Or· gan BuDder." Til_ Amennll Or,allut. vol. 8. no. 5 (May, 192.5), pp. 182-183. RAYMOND H. CHENAULT II Ibid. P. 183. I . M. SldlUler reed DIp" CI.ft .. rhJht): " Trinity Lutheran Chwdt, Detroit. Mich. M. Mus. FCM Rlcltallst Orchestral OItH. E-Vll'" Horn, F.... ' tlorn. (opus no. 808, 1930). FNftch Hora, I·T. Seott Buhrman, "Ernest M. Skinner: Or· Organ lit - Cholnnastar gao Builder." Th. Am,ri"." Or,allul, vol. 8, All Saints Episcopal Church, Atlanta, GI01'II8 no. 5 (May, 192!1), p. 183. Most of the I;lfger instruments built tt E. A. BroadW;\lJ. "The Skinner and Aeolian· by Ernest Skinner during the latc teens Skinner Opu Litt." B"JI". O"on Club N,ws. and early 1920:5 were veritable symphony Idl". July &: Aug., 1912, p. 5. Margaret Melvin orchestras and were particularly well .. T. Scott Buhrman, "£radt M. Skinner; Or 'mited for the performance of orchestral pn BuUdcr." Til. Am,riton Or,.JliJI. vol. B, no. 5 (May, 1925), p. 183. tran!i<'riplions, which, as indicated by DICKINSON ft E. A. Boadway. "The Skinner and Arolian. the ~l. P:wl Auditorium organ dedica Skinner Opus List." Botlon Or,olt Club N,w· Univ.rsIty .f ltIukviU. tion rcowl progrnms, oflen comprised. ',u". July It Au,.. 1972. p. 5. touilvm. Boch Society the grcaler pfarr of org.:m recital music • Described in Part 1 or thit article ,critJ. Calvory Eplscopol St. Francf ....n·thHt.W. Epi.. pal played in th ...tsc days. It is interesting • Fntnw L. York waI orpnist of Central to note that must of Skinner's orchestral Methodilt Churd:l at the time thia Skinner iniuHve stops were inspired by the Will buUt. Il T. Scott Buhrman, "Ernt:st M. Skiaaer: Or.. hearing of some symphonic work. Ernest gan Builder." Til. Ameri,olt Or,,,"ul, vol. 8, Skinner himself ataled: no. 5 (May, 1925) . p. 183. "What I have done in creating the • E. A. Boadway, "The Skinner and Aeolian DAVID HEWLETT Skinner Dlpn is due almost wholly to Skinner Opul List." BOlh,,. Or,II" Club N,w a love of music. plus a mediocre inven Itll", July a: Au • •, 1972, P. 8. MARSHALL BUSH tive faculty. plus an unbounded belief • Ibid., P. 6. 1M Con.ervatory .f Mu.ic in the orchestra and so under the atim· ~ T. Scott Buhrman, "Ernat M. Skinner: Or W1MIteIter, ...... Ph BuDder." Th Am,rirlUll Or'''''"t, vol. 8, ...... ulus of some great orchestral or oper· N.O.C.s.A. :uic work I have worked out all of the no. 5 (May, 1925), p. 183. 1ft E. A. Boadway, "The SkInnu and Aeolian. urchcslml colors ;:IIId have included them Skinner OPlll Lbt.'· Bolio,. Orl"" CI"b N.UJS in the Skinner Organs.''U 'mn, JuI, It Au,. 1972, p. 1. Ernest M. Skinner had now succeeded D Ernest M. Skinner, autobioJl3pby. TA, DUlp" R in incorporating a racsimile of virtually lOll, March 1. I~I. E every instrument of the symphony or .. E. A. Boadway, "The Skinner and Aeolian .JOHN HOLTZ Sunner Opus LUL" Bo" n C/wb N,WJ' 1 chcstr.L in the tonal resources of the 0"". T" Skinner orgall, and he did sn whh a de """_ July a: Au •. , 1972, p. 7. Faculty: HARTT COLLEGE, Unlvenity af Hartford a. B. A. Boadya" "The SlLinnu and AeoliaJt. A gree of SUCCl.'SS unequaled by any other L Skinner Opu LiaL" B"ll"" Or,.,. Club N.WI· 5 Organist: CENTER CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, Hartford organ builder of the day_ Id'.r. jul, a: Aul'•• 1972, p. 7. • Tn. Dioptuo .. , October I, 1921, p. I. FOOTNOTES • St. Paul Dispatch, Sal. September 15. 197'. 'E. A. Broadway, "The Skinner and Aeolian· .. T. Scott Bubnnan. "Erndt M. Skinner: Or Skinner Opus Lisc." BoJlolt 0""" Cl"b N,WI san Builder." TA. Am,riua Or,onul, vol. 8, I,,,,,, J\lI, .t AUI., 1972, p.3. no. ~ (lb.y, 1925), P. 182. 'Ibid. C Cop)Ti,ht 1918 by Dorothy J.Holden GEORGE MARKEY Records Markey Enterprises 201·762·7674 ~~.~ LAWRENCE Recitals 42 Maplewood Avenue Instrudion Maplewood, N.J. 07040 '~~(~~0 ROBINSON ~ ~~ ~~~'/ MARILYN MASON ". YIR&INIA COMMONWEALtH UNIVERSITY CHAIRMAN, DEPAITMENT OF ORGAN ~~ ~';/' . IICHMOND, VII&INIA UNIVERSItY OF MICHIGAN ANN ARIOR "Mia Moton pl..,ecI wlf" au.,.rIty ami '."",., clamon.,,.,,., ...... ".r .atro.rellnart ladlity ••• H Dft Mol .... R.. hI." Odell., 5, 1'" sDlly slttde WDmer ••••g.o. ch.m • Dir.ctor of Music C.rillonneur CHURCH Of PHILLIPS ACADEMY ST, JOHN THE EVANGELIST Beacon Hill Bosion Andover M.... _THOMAS MURRAY ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL BOSTON 02111 J. MARCUS RITCHIE Gruensteln Award Spon.or ORGANIST AND MASTER OF THE CHOIRS CHICAGO CATHEDRAL · OF ST. PHILIP CLUB OF ATLANTA 30305 WOMEN Represented by Arts Image Ltd. ORGANISTS Box 670; South Orange. N.J. 07079 Ann Taylor. President Founded 1928 FEIlRUARY. 1978 ' 19 New Organs MULlER PIPE ORGAN CO. ORGAN SERVICE· J. E. Lee, Jr. 1365"'._1._ KNOXVIllE, ttNNESSU :17",1- lox 2061 Frituc.h. Organ Com~ny.· Allentown. ToIotI•• Ohio 43614 Pennsylvania; "l'Idar contract to the RrI' 419412-6761 Tunlna .. MaJntetHUKIi • Rebuilding Congregational Church, Spence" Ma1le· COftlUftallb chUleth. l manual .nd pedal. 38 ranb: electro-pneumatic .ction. Includ.. some pipewor. from 1899 Emmons Howard in drument. Specification by Robert Wuest. hoH of the firm, In coll.boration with DO IT YOURSELF PIPE ORGAN KITS / Custom .p.dnC,lIoM for church or Rev. Carlos Straight and Mrs. Richerd resldelle., comple'e Of parts, fun In mim ~tmtt!! Fowler. strudiOft. by .... bU"'.d oroan bullde,.. PIP£ORCANS -Robert Wuedhoff, member, Am.rt~n Institute of Organbuilden. COLKIT' MFG. CO. P.O. lOX 112 Ratondo~ Dc.ip. Senk:. Hiler staflOft, Iuffalo, ' N,Y. 14223 GREAT (216) 382-9396 Quint 16' 61 pipes Principol S' 61 pipes PIPE SOUND Flute S' 61 pipes conault Octave <4' 61 pipes WITHOUT PIPES EDWIN D. NORTHRUP Koppel Flute <4' 61 pipes Fifteenth 2' 61 pipes Build a complete pipe sounding B.A., J UB. D. Fo urn it"re IV 24<4 pipes electronic orlan by using DEVTRONIX 2475 LEE BOULEVARD Chimes ea~y to nsemble kits, CLEVELAND.OIDO 44118 SWELL To hear this masnlficenl sound, send $1 Bourdon 1&' &1 pipe5 f« your Demo r«ordlbrochure, TEL. (216) 932-4712 Gededt S' &1 pipes ~c--- V'M)la S' &I pipes 32' - 16' Electronic pedall lor pipes Viola Celeste (TC) 8' -49 p'pes Spin Pri ncipal 'I' &I pipes Ie Capture combination action Flu te 'I' £1 pipes Dept. 18 Principal 2' £1 pipes 5871 Amapola Dr, Plein J eu III 18] pipes Sene R. Bedient Co" lincoln, Nebraska; FagoHo 16' 49 pipes .~.. -- San Jose, CA 95129 under contract 'A Grace United Methodist Trum pet 8' £1 pipes SAN FRANOISOO Church, Lincolni completion sch.duled for Clarion 'I' &I pipes April 1978. 2 manual and pedal, 15 stops; Tremulil nt suspended mechanical action. In free. LOUIS F. MOHR & COMPANY CHOIR standing oak case. Manual compass 56 {enclosed} ORGAN notes, pedal 30; unison coupl.rs. Single Rohr Geded:t 8' £f pipes wedge~haped solid-ribbed b.llows, with Dolce 8' 61 pipes MAINTENANCE wooden wind Itunbj 80 mm pressure: Dolce Celeste 8' 49 pipes Itemulant aff.ding whol. organ. Metal Flute d'Amour -1' £1 pipes 2899 Valeatble An. pipes of hammered I.. d alloy; stopped Hazard 2.2/3' &1 pipet DElAWARE ORGAN COMPANY. INC. metal flues with soldered caps, open metal Blocl: Flute 2' &I pipes New Yorl< 58, N. Y. Tea ',]/5' &I pipes 252 Allmon Ave, flues cone tuned. Temperament aft.r Kirn Krummhorn 8' &I pipes TelcpboDCl SEdgwIck 5-5628 berger III; 2M HI (CI at 70· F. Replaces t.,ullwalldD, New Y.,k 14150 Tremulanf EmeqeDC)' Service Yeady CoDtracti organ destroyad by fir. In 1973. Can· 1716' 692-7791 strudion commelKed wilh blCKk-casting 'EDAl Harpl - Chimea - Blowen ceremony, in which matal fram pipes of Relultan. ]2' 12 notes &pert OwethauUDI fotm., imtnlment was maltad dawn far P,inclP411 '" 12 pipes reed block of Trompet low C. Jourdan '" )2 pipes ".4. Or,.. ",.,m, JI..... tI JI..., P,inciP411 " 32 pipes MEMIEIl A.P.O.IA. Flu te S' 12 pipes B"'n J,lwU" GREAT Choral Bilss 'I' 32 pipes BaUrdOA J" (1 · 12 from Su bbad Flute -4' 12 pipes Prilestilnt 8' Super Octave 2' 12 pipes Rohrflot. 8' Mixture II 64 pipes ! Octave 'I' lombarde 16' ]2 pipes o Odave 2' Trumpet 8' 12 pipes VISSER-ROWLAND Sesquialtara 11 (two positions) ClarioA <4' 12 pipes R Mixture III-V G Trompet 8' 713/688'7346 A 2033 IOHANNA A·2 SWELL N 5~. Symtof 0/ Qua/;ly Gededt ,. HOUSTON 77055 Spietnote <4' P Octave 2' Quinte I·I/l' ~ JEROME B. MEYER &SONS Intematiooal Society of Organbuiklers 231t SO. AUSTIN ST. PEDAL E Subbas 16' 5 MllWAUIn. WIS. 51207 Octave a' (I - 12 from Praesta"t) Trompet a' (Gre.t) WALTERS ORGAN CO., INC. (305) 857-1411 Custom Built E. H. Holloway Corp., Indianapolis, Ind.; Greenwood Organ Company, CharlaH., built for Fint Methodist Church Crown PITMAN and UNIT CHESTS NC: under contract to St_ James Baptist Point, IN. 2 manual and pedal, 27 stop1. 2027 Palmrldp Way Orlanda. Fla. 32809 Church, Rocky Mount, NC. 2 manual and Rex Brown is organist-choirmaster. pedal; electro-pneUMatic action. Specifica. tion prepared by Mrs. James Bailey, Builden of Fine Tracker and church organid, and Norman A. Green. GREAT wood, of the firm. Lieblich Gedecl:t ,,' Principal 8' Electro·Pneumatic Pipe Oraans Hoh! Floete B' GREAT Dulciane B' Inqulrlts are CordlaUy Invlttd Principal a' 61 pipes Octave <4' Ho hlf ute 8' 61 p'pes Lieblich Gedecl:t 'I' Yi ~e D' Gambe a' (Swell) Blocl: Floete 2' W. ZiIDIDer & Sons Prest ant 'I' £1 pipol Foumiture III (22-2&-29) INCORPORATIID Flute -1' 12 pipes Trumpet 8' DoubleHe 2' 61 pipes Chimes Member APOBA Mixture III (19·22·2&) 18] pip" Trompetle 8' 61 pipes; Mailing Addre ••: P. O. Box 520. Plnevllie. N. C. 28134 Chimes 21 tubes SWELL NAnoNS FORD ROAD' CHARLOrn, N. C. Gedeckt 8' Salicional 8' Vot. Celesta 8' SWEll Principel -1' Bourdon '6' (TC) 49 pipes Flule Hermonic 'I' GedecU a' 12 pipe. Octavia 2' J usttn ergan ~tpes Vi ole D' Gamba 8' 61 pipes larigot 1-1/3' Viole Co!este " (TC) -49 pipes Scharff II (2&-29) P,incipal 'I' &1 pipes Hilutbois B' Gadedt 'I' 12 pipes Tremulant 15 East Elizabeth Street Nasard 2·ur 61 notes Ffilgeolet 2' i2 pipes Saint Paul, Minnesota 55107 liIrigot 1·1/3' 61 notes PEDAL Orchest,al Oboe a' £1 pipes Principill 16' Phone (612) 722·2054 Tremolo Subbass '" lieblich GedecU 1£' Octave 8' The World's ' Finest Pipemcrker PEDAL Bourdon 8' Bourdon 16' 32 pipes Chotal Bass -1' Send $2.00 for Catalog Bourdon .' 12 pipu Schweiqel 2' Atrie 4' 12 pipu Rauschquinle II Octavin, 2' 32: pipes FaQott 16' THE DIAPASON SWEll liebli(h GedecU 16' 12 pipes G.iCJen S' 61 pipes Rohrqededt S' 61 pipes .tIRlrlJlltl liori.lf Gambe 8' 61 pipes mrntktt OOrgmt iluilber this Vail Celesta 8' (TC) 49 pipes Principal'" 61 plpes pub6cation is Flauto Traverso 4' 61 pipes ItJII z. &at JJam 11000 Nasat 2·2/3' 'I pipe. JJam. lImmrnt 05641 Floutino l' " pipes Qvailable in larigot 1-1/3' 61 pipes Minure III 183 pipes Trompele 8' " pipes microform Oboe 8' 61 pipes JULIAN E. BULLEY Clarion 4' 61 pipes Tremulont New Organs - Rebuilding Service SINCE 1906 CHOIR 1376 Hanard IIvd.-Oayton. OhIo 45406 Geded.' B' 61 pipes 513·276-2'81 Ooke S' 61 pipes oolc. Celeste S' (TC) 49 pipes Koppelflote ~' 61 pipes Slider seals for slider chests. SpifIfiote 2' 61 pipes SesQuialiera II 122 pipes Verschue ..n B.V. ------P1eu. send m. addlllonallnlormalion.. Krummhorn S' 61 pipes University Microfilms Roh,.,halmei 4' 61 pipel Pipe Organ Builders Tremulant International Harp Heythuysen (Ll 300 North Zeeb Road The Nelherlands Dept. P.R. PEDAl Ann Arbor. MI4Bl06 Resultant 32' 32 notes Open Wood 16' 32 pipeli U.S.A. 6ourdon 16' 11 pipes lB Bedford Row Pri ncipal 16' 32 pipes QUALITY PIPE ORGAN Dept. P.R. Roche Organ Company, *Taunton. Mass., Gede(kt Ill' (Swell) London, WCl R 4EJ Op. 20; built for First Congregational Principal 8' 12 pipeli England Church, Fairhaven, M.ss., 2 manual end Bourdon S' 12 pipes RESERVOIRS Name ______pedal, 22 stops, 26 ranb. The indrumenf Gedeckt S' (Swell) cont.ins many ranb of 19th.centu:r pipes, Princi pal ~' 12 pipes 1365 So. Detroit Ave. In5I1\ullon ______as well .s r.built manual and pede chests, Ged. , U '" (Swell ) Street ______SpitzfJote 2' (Choir) ToI,do, Ohio 43614 and fills" e.la ... Hook ciI'e whkh ha, Midure III 96 pipe! Clly ______b •• n empty for over 50 years. Since "II Posoune Ill' 12 pipes Slate Zip _____ the original ca'e pipes er. mining. new Trompete S' (Grea., 419-382-6761 ones have been provided. Th. attempt Chimes (Great) has been mad. to simulate whet may hev. b.en th. original instrument. The m.nual compass is 58 notes, whil. th.t of the Sherwood Organ Company Inc. ped.1 i1 lO. V.rtical rows of ivory.faced rosewood dr.wnobt engraved in script 85 Longdale Avenue reflect th. period charecter of the in· White Plains, New York 10607 strument, and the divided menual stops .. ,. also in the tradition of the time. (914) 946-7990 (212) 582-4240 Specificattons end I.yout of the .11. I Sarvlc. M.chanlcal and Tonal Rebuilding New Orpns mechanical action organ were prepar.d by Matthew·Mich ••1 BeUocchio, tanal di· rector of the firm. N.gotiation, with the church w.r. carri.d out by F. Rob.rt ORGAN LEATHERS Roche. Miss Elitabeth Hadings was the org)n committ. e chairman. '. 'I 1\' '1 IIMatthw-Mkhael Bellocchio, F. Robert ~.i Roch., memb.rs, American Institut. of . I • WHITE, SON COMPANY Organbuild.n. 592 E:uo F1nt 5 ..... South -. M08ICh_IU 0I!1Z7 ! : Wf '''" mn ,,,II I GREAT Bourdon 16' (GG) SO pipes I Open Diapason 8' 58 pipes WANT A PRACTICE ORGAN? Stopped Diaposon ban " 12 pipes (10 Sioppod Diapason treble B' '" pipes PEMBROKE PIPE ORGAN kI. I.... ' Ouldona S' (TC) "6 pipes i. ,~ " :/ 1 'I Send .,amp for brochure Oelove '" 58 pipes I .. I flute '" sa p.pes THE ORGAN LOFT TweHth 2-2/J' sa pipes EPSOM, N.H. 03234 TeI.6Q3..7J6.4716 Fifteenth 2' sa pipes Rem.mll ... : If It doe. NOT have piP", It .. NOT an organ Sevenleenth 1-3/5' 58 pipes u Millure III " 174 pipe. TMlmpet 8' 51 pipes Swell to Great A. David Moore and Company. POM fret, Vt; rebuilt for Fitst Congregation.1 Church, West Haven, Ct., from two 19th BERKSHIRE ORGAN COMPANY INC. SWELL Opa" Diapason 8' 58 pipes century organ' located through Orga" 68 SO. BOULEVARD, WEST SPRINGFIELD, MASSACBUSETrS S,opped Diapason bOIS S' 12 pipes Clearing House. 2 manual and pedal, II Stopped Liapalon treble 8' 46 pipes stops; mechanical key and stop action, Member: International Societr ot Orcan Builders V,ola 8' (TCJ ,f,6 pipu Manual range 56 not •• , p.dal 27 not.. . Voh: Celestes S' '" pipes Keyboards, action, and most pipework Principal'" sa pipes from mid-19th.c.ntury instrument, uniden + Spitdlute '" 58 pipes tified builder; cas. of Santo Dominga" Piccolo 2' sa pipes Sharp MinlU"e III I' 174 pipes mahogany c.rv.d by Thomas Appleton, abo. 8' sa pipes Boston, 1834. New pipes, including fa .. ade. CHESTER A. RAYMOND, INC. Tremulen' by David Moor •• Werckmeister liteM- erament. Unison couplen. Thoma. Strick .. PIPE ORGAN BUILDERS Cand is organist. PEDAL Open Wood O;aposon 16' JO pipes Rebuilding, Maintenance and Addition. Sourdon '" 30 pipes Swell to Pedal GREAT Great to Pedal Bourdon 16' P.O. Box 55 Princeton, N.J. 08540 Open oiapalOn S' Claribel S' Phone: 609-924-0935 Principal ~. Austin Organ, Inc., Hartford, Ct.; built Twelfth 2·2/3' for Trinily Episcopal Church, Moorestown. Fifteenth 2' NJ. 3 manual and ped"I, 46 stops, 42 Cornet III ,anb; situ.t.d on right sid. of c.haneel, Mixture ttI· IV in building given about 1929 by RCA Cromona S' Victor founder Eldridg. Johnson. Original organ built by Han, 1928. 1930. SW Ell Stopped Diapluon S' GREAT Princ:1pal ~ ' Principal S' 61 pipes Flute 4' OO1R5E nJIR.0JRlUll S(Q)lFlF1Y -Hohlf.ole 8' bI pipes Fin ..nlh 2' COMPANY,INCORPORATEO - Enahler B' 61 pipes Sesquia'tera II Oelavo '" pipes Cymbal 11·111 61 154415 WEST 32ND STREET. P. O. BO)( 11155 • ERIE, PA. 181512 -Harmonic Flut. 4' 61 pipet Hautboy 8' -Ouint 2,2/3' 61 pipes Tnlmulanl Superoctave 2' I.. pipes Fournituro IV 244 pipes QUALITY PIPE ORGAN SUPPLIES -Trompele 8' " pipes PEOAlE ~ Chima Sub Ba u 16' -onclOiOd Tnnnpet 8' FEBRUARY, 197B 21 Calendar SARA ELIZABETH ALVATER Richard o~n QulnteOe ANDERSON Th. deadll... for thil calaMiar i. the 10 FEIRUARY ratorlo Accompanist 10th of the pt'eadl"G mOAtb (Feb. 10 fOf' Ray Bohr; Kirk of Dunedin. FL 811.5 pm OIraclor 01 Madrlpl Sinlen -Colop ~r. Usue). All .venl. are aswmed 10 be Stephen Cushman, 4th Presbylltflan, Chi Woodstock. Vennont 05091 ~,N.C. organ red'ab unleu otherwl.. Indicated. cago, It 12;10 pm and are grCKIped from east to west and north to south within each dote. Calendar 11 fEBRUARY information should Include artist nome or Rober, Glasgow. masterdass; Hartl Cot robert anderson HEINZ ARNOLD event. dote. location. and hour, .lncompl.te lege, Hartford, CT 10 am information will not be accepted. THe DIA· IMD .AGO '.A.O.O. O.M ••. Virgil Fox; Indiana U oud. Bloom Ington, 1607 A WESTWINDS DRIVE PASON regrets that 't cannot cwume ra IN B pm S_th.,.. MetMclht Unwenlty spoMlblllty for the accuracy of ontrl., In COLUMBIA. MO. 65201 the calendar. 0.1.... , .... 75275 RECITALS WORKSHOPS 12 fEBRUARY Robert Glasgow; Immanuel Congregation UNITED STATES al. Hartford. CT B pm East of the Mississippi Rodney Wynkoop; Dwight Chapel, Yol. CHAilom AND WIWAM U, New Hayen, CT 8;30 pm Thomas Bailey Lincoln Lamberqulns. Trinity Church, New· recitalist - conductor 5 FEBRUARY port, RI 4 pm ATKINSON Robert Schunemon, Bach Clovieriibunu Jerry Brainard, harpsichord: chapel, River. AIST PRESaYTERlAN CHURCH Bru.h1 ..., ...... 79/1/6 A·2340 III; 1st Church Congregational, Cambridge, side Church, New York, NY 2:30 pm 2001 II eo ...... MA 5 pm Vaughan Williams Pilgri.s JaurneYJ Sf 0c.aMW., C.Iif.,.. no54 MoedUnc:. Auatria Europe Syntagma Willmantica; South Congrega Bar1holomews Church. New York. NY 4 pm tional/ht Bopliat, Naw Britain. CT 5 pm Mkhaol Moy; Immanuel Lutheran. New Thomas Richner; ht Church of Christ Sci York, NY 5 pm Workshops Recitals entist, New York, NY 4 pm John Wells; SI Thomas Church, New York. Mozart Requ".; SI Bartholame~ Church, NY 5:TS pm ROBERTA BIT600D New York, NY 4 pm Howard Vogel; St Stephens Church. Mill. Peter J. Basch Boch Cantata 1'27; Holy Trinity Lutheran, burn. NJ 4 pm S.M.D .. FAG.O .. Ch. M. New York. NY 5 pm Mary Fenwick. 1st & Central Presbyterian. Wildwood Road 13 Bast View Road Robert ludwig; St Thomas Church, New Wilmington, DE 7 pm Quaker Hill, Connecticut 01315 York. NY 5:15 pm St James Chamber Singers; Cathedral of Ccilifon, New Jersey 07830 Honegger Kina David; Church of the Mary Our Queen. Baltimore, MD .5:30 pm Ascension, New York, NY 8 pm Bach marathon; St Davids Church. Balti Lorry R Roates. all-Bach; SI Johns Church, more, MD 8 pm CHARLES S. BROWN Southampton, NY 4 pm Charles Woodward. Sf Philips Cathedral, Organ - Harpsichord Marianne & John Weaver; Sacred Heart Atlanta, GA 5 pm CHARLES BOEHM North Te ... State University Cathedral. Newark, NJ 4 pm Don Rolander; Coral Ridge Presbyterian, TRINITY lUTHUAN CHURCH Denlon 16203 Navesink Woodwind Ensemble; United ft Lauderdale. FL 4:30 pm HI...... N.Y. 51. John's Episcopal Church Methodist, Red 8ank. NJ 4 pm Bach Out af the Darkness; St Michaels NASSAU COMMUNITY COWOE Dallas Harald Pysher, ht Presbyterian, Red in the Hills, ToJedo, OH 10 am The Denton Bach Society Bonk, NJ 4;30 pm Karel Pauker1; Art Museum. Cleveland, 0"" Cty. N.Y. Peter Brown, Good Shepherd Lutheran, OH 2:30 pm Lancaster, PA 8 pm George Baker; Seventh-day Adventist. John Staver. classical guitar; Cathedral Keltering. OH B pm of Mary Our Queen, Baltimore, MO 5;30 * John Pagett, Dupre Stations of the Croll; JOHN BULLOUGH ARTHUR CARKEEK pm Fountain St Church, Grand Rapid), MI 8 A.B. M.I.M. CIo.M. M.S.M. A.A.G.O. Randall Mullin; Sf Andrews Church, Ar pm ...... DkId_ U",-"" DePauw University Organist lington, VA 5:45 pm lUlher College Choir; hi Presbyterian, ft T...... NowJo.My Richard McPherson; St Pauls Episcopal Wayne. IN 8 pm M."'" "-'" I MI' Cit.rch Gobin Memorial Church Ivy, Charlottesville, VA 3:30 pm David Palmer; R. deetner lutheran, Evans WhIte PIa"''' N.w Yerle G..-Io,_... Doniel Roth. 1st Presbyterian, Burlington, ville, IN 4 pm NC 5 pm Robert Reeves; SI Poul Lutheran, Skokie, Richard Peek, with Dale Higbee, recorder. IL 7 pm Covenant Presbyterian.. Charlane, NC 3 pm William E !Crape, St Philip. Cathedral, 13 FEBRUARY Hobert ClarA Atlanta. GA 5 pm WILL CARTER • John Pagett. Dupre maslerdass; Foul" School M usi<: Mary Costa, soprano, First Presbyterian. Church of Sal.t J.h" the EvaageU't 0/ ft Lauderdale, fL 8 pm tain St Church, Grand Rapids. MI 7,30 pm University of Mlchlgon St Johns Choir of Detroit; SI Michaels In David Hurd; Berea College, ICY B pm Now York City Virgil Fox; W III U, Macomb, IL B pm Ann Arbor the Hills, Toledo, OH 7130 pm Karel Paukert; Art Museum, Cleveland, IH 2,30 pm 1'4 FEBRUARY Robert Glasgow; Central United Methodist, Nicolas Kynaston; Immaculate Concepnon Detroit. MI 4 pm Cathedral, Syracuse, NY B pm Harry E. Cooper Bruce Gustar.on. harpsichord, St Pauls Michael RaduleKu; 7lh·Day Adventist, Col uli~ U-(OkiflllH Episcopal, La Port~ IN 4 pm legeda5e. TN B pm ~tst-CltoIntta5tlT "A Doy for Dancing;" Independent Pres- . . ClantlI C1llll1mlolt MU8. D., F.A.G.O. byterian, BirmIngham, AL -4 pm BfooIt9itld l/illsfllickigrul. ~ Philip Gehrlna. with $chafa Contorum; 15 fEBRUARY RALEIGH, N. CAROLINA Valparaiso U, IN -4 pm Dale Sparlin; Trinity Church, Newport. John Callahan; Bethlehem Center Chapel. RI 12,15 pm to Grange Pork. IL 3 pm Michael Radulesc:u. masterclossl 7th·Day Wolfgang RLibsam. oll·Bach, Mlilor Chopel, Adventist, Collegedale, TN 9 am Northwestern U, 6,vanston, IL .5 pm MICHAEL CORZINE WALLACE M. COURSEN, JR. Kirstin Synnestvedt, CCWO ledure-deman School of Music '.A.G.o. stration; Unit e.d Methodist, Glenview, Il 4 16 FEBRUARY pm Jon Gillock; St Pauls Chapel. Columbia Florida State University CHRIST CHURCH Marianne Webb; Free Methodist, Green. U_ NYC. 12 noon BlOOMfiElD AND OlEN RIDGE, NJ. ville, IL 3 pm Frederick Swann; Wm Patterson Stote Cot.. Tallahassee lege. Wayne. NJ 12130 pm 6 FEBRUARY Richard Heschke1 Reformed Church, Ora Mary Boekman; Mem Church, Horvard U, dell. NJ B pm Cambridge. MA 8 pm Virgil Fox; St Alphonsus Catholic. Grand JOHN COURTER DAVIDSON Frederick Swann; Holy Trinity Lutheran. Rapids. MI B pm EDWARD 8uffalo, NY B pm F.A.O.O. Virgil fox; E Carolina U. Greenville, NC 8 pm ,7 FEBRUARY Recltall.t Dovid Craighead; Harvard U church, Berea Conele Berea, Ky. 4I4G4 7 FEBRUARY Cambridge. MA 8:30 pm Diane Wals~ piano; Church of Ascen Robert Noehren; St Davids Church, Balli· sion hall, New York. NY a pm more, MO 8 pm Robert S Lord, Heinz Chapel, U of PItts Robert Anderson. I Sf Baptist. Mklml, fl burgh. PA 12 noon Robert Oekamp, 4th Presbyterian, Chico EUGENIA EARLE go, Il12:10 pm DELBERT DISSRHORST Concordia College cholrl SI Luke luther T-...C...... C...... U...... , DMA 8 FEBRUARY an. Chicago. Il u.r".nfty .f I.... HarpsIchord RecItals frank Conyerse; Trinity Church, Newport, Performance Proctlce Workshops RI 12115 pm lew. CIty 18 FEBRUARY '0- 15 We" 14th Str .... New ref" N.Y. ID024 faure Mess. bosse; Sf Philip. Cathedral, Atlanta, GA 6 pm Robert Noehren, worbhop. St Oavlds Church, Baltimore, MD 10 am Louisville Both Soc. 8ach Cantatas "" &. KATHRYN ESKEY 9 FEBRUARY 75; Christ Church Cathedral, Louisville, KY Harry Sterling; St Pauls Chapel. Colum 8 pm Th. Unl.erslty of GEORGE ESTEVEZ bia U, NYC. 12 noon Richard WoJdk. "Saturday School" (chair ...... Undine Moore, lecture; Longwood College, training); SI James Cathedral. Chicago. IL North Carollria Farmville, VA 7130 pm 1:30 pm c,*-a.._ ChoIr Ray Bohr; Kirk of DunedIn. Fl 8115 pm .. _...... Bruce GustaflOn, harp&khord, St. Marys - College, Notr. Dome, IN 8 pm *AGO chapter program THE DIAPASON 19 FEBRUARY Thomas Richner. plano; chapel. Douglass James Jallnson Chorale; Fogg Mus.um, College. New Brunswick. NJ 8 pm Harvard U. Cambridge. MA 3 pm Virgil fox; PresbyterKrn Ch~ch. Wayne. EARL EYRIOH I GEORGE FAXON I *Dankll Rothl Trinity Eplscopol. Har1ford. PA 2 pm CT -4 pm Honegger King David, Myron leet. dir; 51. Slephen's Church TRINIlY CHURCH Men & boys choir, music: of Stanford & First Presbyterian. Wllke5-Borre, PA 3:30 pm (Episcopal) Parry: Trinity Church on the Green. New Arnold Sten; Good Shepherd lutheran, Rhode Island Colleae BOSTON lancaster. PA B pm Providence Haven. CT " pm I Wesley McAfee. Temp~ Emanuel. NYC James Dole. US Novol Academy, Anna 2:30 pm polis, MD 3 pm Rossini Stobat Mater; St Bartholomew, Barbaro Kaidy. soprano; Cathedral of Chari•• H. Ph. D., F.A.O.O. Church. New York, NY 4 pm Mary Our Queen, Baltimore, MO 5:30 pm John RaMI; St Peters Episcopal. Boy Shore, German Baroque choral music; Covenanl Robert Finster NY -4 pm Presbyterian. Charlotte. NC 7,30 pm FINNEY DMA , Boehm quintet; St Marks Church. Joc.kson Oon Miller; Coral Ridge Pr.sbyterion. ft Organist in KnW ••ce St. lub'. Church Heights. NY .. pm lauderdale. fl -4:30 pm Houghton Colleg •• Houghton. N.Y. Christopher M King; St Thomas Church, Karel Paukert, Art Museum. Cleveland. OH Son Antonia Houghton Wesleyon Church New York. NY 5:15 pm 2:30 pm I John Pagett, Dupre Stations of the Crou; Dayton Bach Soc. Canlotm 19. 21; Immo· St Peters Church. Albany. NY 3 pm culate Conceptian Catholk. Dayton, OH -4 Robert Plimpton. with chorus; Bryn Mawr pm Presbyterion. PA 4 pm James R Metzler; Trinity Episcopal, Toledo, }obn U. ~tarbart III Mary Fenwick; Trinity lutheran. lancaster, OH 4 pm HENRY FUSNER B.A., M.Mus. I.M.D .• U .O.O. PA 5 pm Donald Ren:r, with William Beger, trum Grace Presbyterian Church lebanon Valley Concert Choir & Cham pet; All Saints Church. Pontiac, Mt .. plIt Flnt .r.... yterJan Church Jenkintown, Pa. 19046 ber Drch; Camp HIli Presbyterian. Camp Kodaly MistQ .r.... is. Durun, Mes.se CUlt, I N.... v1I ... Tann"'" )7UG 887-6117 Hill. PA 7:30 pm jubUo, with Marilyn Mason. orgolll; Zio. I Randall Mullin, all·Dupre; Cathedral of lutheran. Ann Arbor, MI 4 pm Mary Our QUeen, Baltimore. MO 5:30 pm Frouke Haasemonn, contralto. with W Bach Society of Baltimore; Goucher Recital Thomas Smith; 4th Presbyterian. Chicago. Hall. Bahimore, MD 8 pm Il 6:30 pm Robert Glasgow James R Metzler, Washington Cathedral. Margaret Kemper. ht Presbyterian, Deer Antone Godding DC 5 pm field, Il 7:30 pm SdMMII .f Music Peggy Marie Haas, All Souls, Washington, Jay Petersonl MacMurray College. Jack School of Music lishop W. An,l. Smith the.... DC -4 pm sonville. Il .. pm University of Michigan Bess Hieronymous; 151 Presbyterian. Wil 010 .._ City u.tvonlty mington. NC 5 pm 27 fEBRUARY Ann Arbor Jade CrowfOld; St Philips Cathedral, At· Harold Stover; SI Thomas Church. New lanta, GA 5 pm York. NY 5115 pm Atlanta Boys Choir. St Pauls Episcopal, ·NYC guild £ervice; St Paul the Apostle. Jacksonville Beach. FL 4 pm New York. NY 7 pm LESTER GROOM BRUCE GUSTAFSON Madonna Brownlee. Coral Ridge Presby. teriatl. ft lauderdale, fl 4:30 pm 28 fEBRU ....Y Seattle Karel Paukert; Art MU£eum, Cleveland. Choral concertI Eodern Kentucky U, /lalnt Mary'. CoII FEBRUARY, 1978 23 Calendar Thamas Rkhnerl 1st Church of Chrbt Sci· (Continued from perU. 23) entist, 51 Petef"Sburg. fl KIM R. KASLING Karel Paukert; Art Museum. Cleveland. Wolfgang Riibsam. all-Bach; Millar chapel. OH 2:30 pm BRIAn JOnES D.M ..... Northwestern U. Evanston. Il .. pm Faure Requiem; Fairmount Presbyterian. Boston 02181 W ••t.rn Michigan University Wi! iam Porter; Faith Lutheran, Glen Cleveland Heights, OH 4:30 pm Wenesley Congregational Church Fint Congregotlanal Church Ellyn. Il 7:30 pm Herbert Hoffmann; Trinity Episcopal, Te Noble Greenough Dedham Choral & Kalamazoo, Michigan ledo, OH 4 pm 6 MARCH School Society Choral concert, lst Cangregotlonal, Co Frederick Hohmanl State College, Mans· lumbus, OH 8 pm He'd .PA 8 pm Plery of Dani.l; Christ Church, Cincinnati. Virgil Fox. Pfeiffer Hall. Naperville, Il 8 OH 4 pm SHARON KLECKNER pm I Richard 6enedum; Sevtlnth-doy Adventist. James Kibbie House of Hope Kettering. OH 8 pm Presbyterian Church 7 MARCH Mary Ida Yosf; Zion Lutheran. Ann Arbor. Douglas Haas; Immaculate Conception Holy Family Church 51. Paul. MN 55105 MI 4 pm Cathedral, Syracuse . NY B pm Cathedral 80ys Choir, Gothenburg. Swe Recilal. Fort Worth, Texas Douglas 0 HimeS! Heinz Chapel, U af den, Christ Church Cronbroak. B!oomfield Pittsburgh. PA 12 noon Hills, MI 4 pm Dubois Seven Last Word,; United Metho 8 MARCH dist, Carmel, IN IOd5 am James Ttouberf; Trinity Church, Newport, Chicago Chamber Choir, George Estevez HUW LEWIS RI 12:15 pm dir; st Pauls United. Chicago, 7 pm • WILLIAM KUHLMAN • Joy Peterson.; Coogregattoflal Church "eeits's 9 MARCH Quincy. IL 8 pm • Luther C()lIe~f' Douglas Haas; Reformed Church. Orodell, Saint john'. Church NJ 8 pm 13 MARCH Deem'ah, Iowa ;;2101 50 Ea.' Fish.r, Oe'roi', Itt. "201 Ned Rorem, feduro; longwood College, -Thomas Murray; SJ Dominies Church, Farmville, VA I pm Portland, ME 8 pm Terry Charles; Kirk of Dunedin, fl 8d5 Richard McPherson; James Madison U David Lowry pm Hartisonburg, VA 8 pm • RICHARD W. L1TTERST Diane 8ish; Paine College, Augusta, GA School 01 Music B pm 1'4 MARCH Marilyn Mason, Duprt!! StotiDn, of the Michael Corzine; 5t Lukes Cathedral, Or· M. S. M. Winthrop CDlleg<" Crau; Christ United Methodist. Memphis, TN landa, fl 8 pm B pm SEC1IIID CDNUICAllDllAl CHURCH H.II. C.,rolina ock Soulh 2973.1 15 MARCH ROCKFORD. IWHDIS 10 MARCH Marian Van Slyko. wilh oboo & ~prona· Apple Hill Chamber Players; South Con Trinity Church. Newport, RI 12:1 5 pm ' gregational/ ht Bop"", New Britain, CT FREDERICK L. MARRIOTT B pm UNITED STATES Ned Rorem concert; langwood Callege West of the Mf"luippi ORGANIST - CARILLONNEUR Farmville, VA 8 pm ' William MacGowan Roger Wagner Chora:e; Coral Ridge Pre$ 5 fEBRUARY Bethe.daoby·th...sea KIRK.IN.THE.HIUS byterian, ft loud«!rdole. Fl B pm • Jahn Turnbull; Oklahoma City U. OK 5 BLOOMfiELD HILLS. MICH. 48013 Terry Char1eJ; Kirk of Dunedin, fl 8:15 pm Palm Beach, Florida pm Doone College Choir; h t.Plymoulh Con Timothy Albrecht; Wisconsin lutheran HS gregalional. lincoln. NE 7 :30 pm Milwaukee WI 7:30 pm . Dono!d Zimmermann, s t Johns Cathedral. Andrea Hand:ey; 4th Presbyterian, Chi· Denver. CO 4 pm Norman McNaughton cago, Il 12:10 pm Harvey Burgett; St Bedes Episcopal, Mon· ERNEST MAY 10 Pork, CA 8 pm 11 MARCH Ph. D. Youth choir workshop & festival; West Church of St. Frances de Olanta! Richard Enright, "Saturday School" (con. minster Presbyterian, Pasadena, CA 4 pm, 7 UnlYersily of Massachusetts sole conducting); St James Cathedral, Chi. pm New York City cago, Il 1 :30 pm Amherst, Mass. 01002 Chicago Early Music Cansort; st Paul 7 FEBRUARY lutheran. Skokie. Il 7 pm Carl Stop lin; Baylor U, Waco. TX 8 pm WILLIAM H. MURRAY 12 MARCH 8 FEBRUARY Marshall Bush. a ll·Baehs First Baptist Mu •• M F.A.G.O. Quentin Faulkner, Ist.Plymouth Congre· JAMES R. METZLER Keene. NH .. pm • gatianal, lincaln. NE 12110 pm Schiltz MusikaliKhes Exequien; ht Church Carl stoplln, workshop; Boy.or U, Waco TRINITY CHURCH Church of the MMilator Congregational, Cambridge~ MA 5 pm TXom&pm ' lenten anthems & motets; Christ Church TOLEDO, OHIO Chicago, III. S Hamilton. MA 5 pm • 10 FE8RUARY Bach Cantata "; Trinity Episcopal, Hert· Nicolas Kynaston; First Congregational, ford. CT .. pm Hunter TIllman. Temple Emanu-el NYC Los Angeles, CA 8 pm 2:30 pm RICHARD M. PEEK 12 FEBRUARY Verdi Requiem; SI Bartholomew$ Church. Donald Wilkins; Chrbt Church Cathedral, frank a. novak Sac. M.. I . Doc. New York. NY 4 pm HOLY TtlIN1TY LUTHERAN Earnest Jesus Wept; Immanuel lutheran New Orleans, LA -4 pm CHURCH Covenant Presbyterian Church New York, NY 5 pm • Gordon & Hefen Botenbaugh, with in 1000 Eo Morehead Charlotte, N. C. David Hurd; Church of Intercession New struments; Westminster Presbyterian lincoln lOBO ftrain NE 4 pm '. Buffalo, N.Y. 14209 York, NY , ·Nicolas Kynastan; 1st Armenian Presby Michel Chapuis; Alice Tully Hall New York, NY 8 pm ' terian, Fresno. CA 3:30 pm Elft/eda Boum; st Marks Episcopal, Glen· Timothy AlbrechtIThomos Crawford with dale, CA 4 pm MYRTLE REGIER choir; Brahm. Requiem: Incornate Word. FRANKLIN E. PERKINS Thomas Rochester, NY 7 pm Harmon; Chkhester Chapel 1m monuel Presbyterian, La. Angeles. CA ;. pm Ph.D. Moullt Holyoke CoUege Elmore Th. Cro.... composer CDnduding; The ladue Chapel Bryn Mawr Presbyterian, PA -4 pm South Hadley, Mallachu ••th Th. John Burrough. School Carol Procholka. plano; Cathedral of 1~ FEBRUARY St. louis, i.\lssourf Ma~ ~ur Queen, 8oltimore, MO 5:30 pm • A~tane Godding, lectute-redtal; Church ~ 1 ~ mmgIOn Pro Musica; I st Presbyterian. of Epiphany, Richardson, TX 8: 15 pm RECITALS Wllmmgton, NC 5 pm Robin Hewll"; Longwood College. Farm 15 FEBRUARY K. BERNARD SCHADE ville .VA 4 pm George Rlkhfe, lst-Plymouth Congrega S.M.M. ~oydn Harmonl.messe, Co.... nont Presby. tional, lincoln, Ne 12110 pm t1 n tenan, Charlotte, NC 7:30 pm nCOUEGI b sr ... Robe .. A"on, eo THE DIAPASON 19 fEBRUARY Junior choir festival; Westchester lutheran. LInda Hoffer, harpsichord; St Stephens las Angeles. CA 3:30 pm United Presbyterian, Irving, TX 8 pm Jam", Wa lker; St Marks Episcopal, Glen THE DIAPASON A MUST fOR EVERY ORGANIST Baude Moore; St Marks EPiscopal, Glen. dale, CA 4 pm ($1.50 a year-$13.DO for two yean, dole. CA 4 pm 14 MARCH Do no' tend cash 22 FEBRUARY Richard Morris; Municipal Aud. Pratt. KS Mary Murrell Faulkner; ht-Plymouth eon. B pm Send THE DIAPASON for ____ _ year(s) ta gregolional, lincoln, NE 12110 pm 15 MARCH Enclosed Is 24 fEBRUARY Tom Brantigan; Ist·Plymouth Cangrega. Name $, _ ___ Nicolas Kynaston, ht Presbyterian, Tyler, tlonal, lincoln, NE 12:10 pm TX 8 pm Street THE DIAPASON John M Anderson; Gustavus Adolphus INTERNATIONAL College. St Peler, MN 3:30 pm 434 South Wabash Ave. 5 FEBRUARY City 26 fEBRUARY Guy Bovet; Church. NyoR. Switzerland Chicago, III. 6060S Henry Gloss Jr; Christ Memorial lutheran, 5 pm State Zlp ___ Affton. MO 7130 pm Frank Martinez. classical gullar & lute; 8-11 fEBRUARY Christ Church Cathedral. New Orleans. LA Guy Bovet; Church. Nyon, Switzerkmd 4 pm la nd 9 pm Robert Glasgow; Westminster Presbyterian, Carl Staplin lincoln. NE 4 pm 12 fEBRUARY ROLLIN SMITH Ph.D •• A.A.G.O. *Nicolas Kynaston; First Presbyterian. Dol. Jan Overduin; Aeolian Town Hall. Lon Drake University los. TX 4 pm don. Onlario 4 pm Robert Edward Smith, harpsichord; Paci RECITALS University Christian Church lisa Porty,fin t Street. BrooklfD. NY 1121B fic Union College. Angwin. CA 8 pm 1'5·17 FEBRUARY DES MOINES. IOWA Douglas Moorehead; St Marks Episcopal, Guy Bovet; Theatre, LauUlnne. Switzer Glendale. CA 4 pm land 9 pm Music of Mozart; Presbyterian Church. la Jolla. CA 4 pm 17 fEBRUARY ADOLPH STEUTERMAN Orpha Ochse; Chichester Chapel. Imman Nicolas Kynaston; Christ Church Ca:he. Mus. Doc., f.A.G.O. ual Presbyterian, los Angeles. CA 7 pm dral, Ottowa. Ontario. Canada 8 pm Southw.st.rn at M.mphis, R.tired *Robert Glasgow; Cathedral of Redemer. 27 fEBRUARY Calgary. Alberta. Canada 8:30 pm Calvary Episcopal Church, Emeritus Robert Glasgow, masterdass; Westminster Suncoas/jt:::'t Concert Mgmt. & Pro ductlans,lnc . Memphil, T.nn..... Presbyterian. lincoln, NE 10 am 18 FEBRUARY P. O.6374 • Clearwater ' Fl orida' 33511 Guy Bovet; Theatre. lausanne, Switzerland 1 MARCH 9 pm Dana Sloan; ht-Plymouth Congregational, Robert Glasgow. masterclass; Cathedral NORMA STEVLlNGSON lincoln, NE 12.10 pm of Redeemer. Calgary, Alberta, Canada 10 D.M.A. FREDERICK SWANN am 3 MARCH Universify 01 WiKonsin--Sup.rior The Riverside Church Gaylord Carter. King of Kings; Commu 21 fEBRUARY Pilgrim Luth.ran Church nity Church. Garden Grove. CA 8 pm Guy Bovet; Conservatoire, Geneva. Switz· Superior. Wisconsin 54880 New York Cily erland 8130 pm S MARCH Romantic music. choir & instruments; West 22-25 FEBRUARY minster Presbyterian, lincoln, NE 4 pm Guy Bovet; Theatre. Lau$Onne, Switzerland George Norman Tucker Bach MoSl in G, Haydn Lord Nel50n Mau; 9 pm maurice thompson Mus. Bach. St Bedes Episcopal, Menlo Park. CA 8 pm St. Ignatius Catholic Church Junior choir festival; Unlte~ Presbyterian. 24 FEBRUARY ST. LUKE'S CHORISTERS E Whittier, CA 3:30 pm Bach & Handel Festival. Te Deum Series; Kalamazoo Dundas. Ontario 8:30 pm Austin, Texas 78704 Oscar Street; St Marks Episcopal, Glen. BOY CHOIRS dale. CA -4 pAl 28 FEBRUARY Stephen Cleobury; St Bartholomew the B MARCH Great, london. England 5:45 pm Russell Blackmer; 1st-Plymouth Congrega tional. lincoln, NE 12.10 pm 3 MARCH WA-Ll-RO CLARENCE WATTERS Bach & Handel Festival. Te Deum Series; BOY CHOIR 10 MARCH Dundas. Ontario 8:30 pm RECITALS lionel Rogg; lst Congregational. Los An· WARREN c. MIllER - DIRECTOR The Chapel, Trinity College geles. CA 8 pm 5 MARCH Christ Church, Shaker H.ights 22, Ohio Hartford. Connecticut Gordon Jeffery & Alan Barthel; Aeolian 1'1 MARCH Town Hall. london, Ontario 4 pm David Neff; Green lake 7th·day Adventist, 8ach & Handel Festival. Te Deum Series; DAVID A. Seattle, WA 4 pm Dundas. Ontario 8:30 pm C. GORDON Richard Morris; Christian Church, Popu lar Bluff, MO 3 pm 6 MARCH New Orleans Musica do Camera; Christ Guy Bovet; Protestant church. Lugano WEDERTZ WEHR Church Cathedral, New Orleans, LA 4 pm Switzerland 8 pm 2534 W... 118lh SL Eastern Kentucky UniYenllJ Mendelssohn Elijah; 1st-Plymouth Congre Richmond. Keatucky gational, lincoln, NE 7130 pm 10 MARCH CHICAGO 60655 Antone Godding. Dupre Stations of the Bach & Handel Festival. Te Deum Series, Crass; Oklahoma City U. OK 5 pm Dundas, Ontario 8:30 pm Vaughan Williams Mew In G Minor; St Jahns Cathedral, Denver, CO 4 pm 12 MARCH Charles W. Whittaker Faure Requiem; Presbyterian Church. la Durufle Requiem; Bishop Cronyn Church, Recitals Jolla. CA 9 & 10::iO am london, Ontario -4 pm b:::::.rbcrt lubitt * AGO chapter program *RCCO centre program ", Fairfax United Methodist Church Sancaast Cortal1 Management 8. ProdudloM. Int:. P.O. Box 110 fairfax VI'Ilnla 22030' Sa_ 6374 CI ••M ...r . FL 33518 18131446·2914 DONALD W. WILLIAMS DONALD WILLING POCOI2O BDq SlooeRS D.M.A. faculty Zion Lutheran Church STATE ClV I EGE, EAST STROUDSBURG. PENNSYLVANIA 18301 North TOCIs Stat. 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