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Interview with Thomas Murray behind the pipe chambers in a former were construction, architectural, and Thanks for Andrew Schaeffer’s inter- pantry. This program features works engineering services. I was responsible view with Thomas Murray in the July and transcriptions by Elgar, MacDowell, for purchasing all such services for the 2020 issue (pages 15–17). While some Bach, Seth Bingham, Debussy, Handel, company’s eastern region as well as all of Murray’s recordings were mentioned, Lemare, and Firmin Swinnen, Pierre du such services nationwide (including the there are some on the Direct-to-Tape Pont’s first Longwood organist. The CD territories) for underground fuel tank label (DTR) I’d like to mention. The was a best seller at Longwood for years remediation. My annual spend was in company’s name comes from the until the gift shop stopped carrying all excess of $60,000,000, which I mention requirement that all artists had to play in our CDs after the organ was restored only to demonstrate that I was not mak- complete takes with no editing as in the and the Robert Turner console installed. ing small, insignificant purchases. 78 days. This was later changed. In the Downloads from the CD (DTR8305CD) Soon after a contract has been COVER beginning DTR produced tapes in vari- may be available from the DTR website awarded, the purchaser should inform Peragallo Pipe Organ Company, Paterson, New ous formats before the CD era. (dtrmusic.com). all unsuccessful bidders that another Jersey; Saint Leonard of Port Maurice Parish, I have a Dolby B cassette (SK-277) William Marsh bid was selected. No other information Boston, Massachusetts 18 of Murray playing the Aeolian-Skinner Newtown, Pennsylvania should be conveyed, such as which bid in 1981 at Trinity Church, Boston. This was successful. It is unadvisable procure- Editorial Director STEPHEN SCHNURR recording was licensed from AFKA New organ announcements ment practice to do so. My company and Publisher [email protected] Records and includes works by Rossini, I read with interest Jonathan Ambro- had a strict policy regarding this matter. 847/954-7989 Massenet, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Bach, sino’s letter in the October 2020 issue The selection criteria should also be President RICK SCHWER Thomas, Tchaikovsky, and Souse. Most of The Diapason (page 3). It is not conveyed, but those criteria should be [email protected] of these works are transcriptions. clear to me exactly what information transmitted to all bidders up front in the 847/391-1048 Our first recording of the Aeolian at Mr. Ambrosino would like purchasers letter soliciting bids. As happened with Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, of organs to convey to unsuccessful all large purchases I made, organbuilders Editor-at-Large ANDREW SCHAEFFER [email protected] Pennsylvania, features Murray in The bidders. Please allow me to offer my submitting unsuccessful bids will even- Longwood Gardens Organ, Volume 1, perspective as someone who was a pro- tually know which bid was successful. Sales Director JEROME BUTERA with a picture of the then Möller console curement professional for twenty-five However, it is not the responsibility of [email protected] 608/634-6253 on the cover of the tape inserts (1983 years, fourteen years of which were with the purchaser to convey that information. Circulation/ and the 1987 CD re-release). That con- a large telecommunications company. Thomas L. Scheck Subscriptions THE DIAPASON sole now resides in the organ museum For eight of those years my commodities Key West, Florida P.O. Box 300 Lincolnshire, IL. 60069-0300 [email protected] Toll-Free: 877/501-7540 Here & There Local: 847/763-4933

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Stephen Buzard, director of music for St. James Episcopal Cathedral, Chicago, Illinois, and a member of Left: Mary Morganti cleans the file for Estey Opus 1535, Free Baptist Church, Pitts- The Diapason’s 20 under 30 Class of field, Maine (1917), at the Estey Organ Museum, Brattleboro, Vermont; right: Gussie 2016, directed the cathedral choir in the Bartlett cleans organ files (photos courtesy: Estey Organ Museum) premiere performance of his Isolation Requiem on November 2. The Requiem The Estey Organ Museum, Brattleboro, Vermont, has completed a project of is a work incorporating techniques of cleaning its pipe organ archives of the records of the Estey Organ Company. Housed looping, phasing, and aleatory that could in the builder’s former factory, the records were sitting in boxes gathering dust, soot, Hill Auditorium, University of Michigan, only be performed by a virtual choir. For and bird droppings for decades. Ann Arbor, Michigan (photo credit: Bryan information: saintjamescathedral.org. Mary Morganti, recently retired as director of library and collections at the Cali- Dunnewald) fornia Historical Society, had contacted the museum in 2017 for records on Estey Opus 2886, built for her church, Seventh Avenue Presbyterian, in San Francisco. The The University of Michigan organ organ is being restored by Schoenstein & Co. of Benicia. department 2020 conference, “Creative The following year, while visiting the East Coast, Morganti toured the Estey Collaborations in a Time of Change,” museum and its archives. She volunteered to return in 2019 to help examine, clean, held October 5–10, has archived twelve and arrange some of the materials. The records include 150 boxes of external corre- events for free, unlimited viewing. For spondence, acquired and archived by the University of Vermont decades ago and now information: https://smtd.umich.edu/ on long-term loan to the Brattleboro Historical Society. In addition, there are internal departments/organ/organ-conference/. records, blueprints, wood and paint samples, drawings, and installation notes, aban- doned in the attic of the Estey building when the firm left in 1960. Morganti began the project of cleaning and rehousing the records in archival boxes Postponements in September 2019, and the work continued and concluded with the efforts of volun- teer docents Gussie Bartlett and Barbara Woods. It is believed that two-thirds of the records of Estey’s 3,261 pipe organs survive, including full-sized drawings. Future plans include dedicating an archival room in the museum with copying and scanning equipment. For information: esteyorganmuseum.org. The Chenault Duo (photo credit: Parlee Teague) by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, He has recently composed Commu- The Chenault Duo premiered LLC, Charles Miller, president. They nion Service in E-flat, a unison service Rachel Laurin’s organ duet, Cantabile have performed for numerous AGO (for congregation, small choir, or soloist) à Deux, opus 99, at the Cathedral of regional and national conventions and with available choral parts, and Com- St. Philip, Atlanta, Georgia, in a live- have recorded four CDs for Gothic munion Service in G: The Rosemont streamed recital on October 11. This is Records and plan their fifth organ duet Service, for SATB choir and organ. Both the second duet Elizabeth and Ray- CD in 2021. For information: are available from Cordial, and both are mond Chenault have commissioned www.concertartists.com. accessible and may be particularly use- from the French-Canadian composer ful with reduced musical forces during who was awarded the 2020 American the pandemic. In August, Dunnewald Guild of Organists Distinguished Com- released his Sonata in A for Clarinet and Church of the Transfiguration, Orleans, poser Award. The Chenaults premiered Organ. All of his works are found on his Massachusetts Laurin’s duet, Fantaisie à Deux, opus 88, website, bryandunnewald.com or for the 2019 Atlanta Summer Organ Fes- cordialpublications.com. The Church of the Transfigura- tival at Peachtree Road United Method- tion, Orleans, Massachusetts, has post- ist Church in Atlanta. Both duets will be poned its concert by Thomas Murray, published in The Chenault Duet Series previously scheduled for December 5, by MorningStar Publishers in 2021. The 2020, to December 2021. This event Chenaults have commissioned over 70 celebrating the completion of the organ organ duets and specialize in playing in the church will be fully announced recitals of their repertoire, represented

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Forster was previously to fund the necessary repairs to not director of music and organist at Christ Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts— only keep it in working order, but to the Episcopal Church in Harvard Square—for 21 years. He earned degrees expand its musical possibilities for from the University of Sydney, Yale University, and the Graduate Theological another century of service. Plainfield United Methodist Church Foundation. He has made commercial recordings as soloist, accompanist, and In 2005, the entire church building tower (photo credit: Kimberly Schafer) conductor. For information: www.StuartAForster.com and www.bbts.org. Q was renovated and expanded. Dur- ing this project, the instrument was assessed and determined to be unsta- ³ page 4 ble, while other structural deficiencies large parish. He leaves a legacy of the were found to compound the problem. dual-console, 109-rank Austin organ With the one-hundredth anniversary of (Opus 2777), the Boar’s Head and Yule the chime on the horizon, the church Log Festival involving a cast of nearly spearheaded a fundraising campaign 150, and numerous hymn arrangements to repair and expand the instrument. and recordings. The campaign started with generous, but comparatively modest, donations by church members. Chime artifacts (photo credit: Larry As word of the project spread, two Stephens) Philip Klepfer Gehring large donations were made, one from an attorney who grew up in the church years in the United States Navy as an and fondly remembered playing the ensign. Upon completion of service, he bells as a child. The largest—and continued studies at Oberlin College linchpin—donation came from the and Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, Parks Foundation, which was estab- Ohio, graduating with Bachelor of Arts lished at the bequest of two devoted and Bachelor of Music degrees in 1950. members of the congregation. The During this time, he was awarded prizes successful campaign allowed for the in theory and organ and was a student expansion of the instrument to 18 conductor of the college choir. bells, modification of the chimestand From 1950 until 1952, he served as to match a baton carillon console, organist and choirmaster for Kimball and repair of the structural problems. Memorial Lutheran Church, Kannapolis, Eijsbouts of Asten, the Netherlands, Bells of the tower (photo credit: Kimberly North Carolina. On August 26, 1951, cast the eight new bells to match the Schafer) James Kibbie in Clear Lake, Iowa, he married Betty meantone tuning and design of the Burns. The following year, he began old, while Chime Master Systems of James Kibbie continues his annual graduate studies at Syracuse University, Sugar Grove, Ohio, installed them and tradition of offering free downloads of a Syracuse, New York, where he earned a performed the remainder of the work. recording on his house organ, a seven- Master of Music degree in 1955. His prin- After this initial renovation and stop Létourneau tracker, as an “audio cipal organ teachers were Bernard Wert, expansion, congregants donated addi- holiday card.” This year’s recording, the Fenner Douglas, and Arthur Poister. tional funds in memory of deceased 19th in the series, is Florence Price’s Composition teachers included Herbert loved ones. The Parks Foundation Retrospection (An Elf on a Moonbeam), Elwell and Ernst Bacon. He was a Fellow stepped up once again and donated The carillon clavier (photo credit: Larry available in MP3 format at www.umich. of the American Guild of Organists. the remainder of the funds needed Stephens) edu/~jkibbie. Philip Gehring was assistant professor for five more bells and the automatic of music and college organist at David- playing mechanism. In 2014, these displaying the original chimestand Beverly Jerold Scheibert recently son College, Davidson, North Carolina, additional bells brought the total bell handles and other historical artifacts. authored two articles published by The from 1952 to 1958. He studied organ count to 23, classifying the instrument The carillon complements the active Musical Times: “A 1760 dream for better with André Marchal in France in 1957 as a carillon. Eijsbouts cast these bells, Bellissimo Handbell choir that per- performance standards,” Autumn 2020, under a grant from Southern Fellow- and Chime Master installed them and forms for Sunday services. Q pages 85–99 (an anonymous writer in ships. He would later study with Harold the automatic playing mechanism. —Kimberly Schafer, PhD the Kritische Briefe, probably the J. S. Vogel and William Porter. The carillon is currently played Founder and Partner, Bach student J. F. Agricola, describes in In 1958, Gehring joined the faculty of by guest musicians on special occa- Community Bell Advocates, LLC detail a dream in which he visits a city Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indi- sions and daily on autoplay. The www.communitybelladvocates.com with outstanding music practices and ana. The university’s Memorial Chapel, church honors the original chime by [email protected] large-scale performances, implying that since renamed the Chapel of the Resur- their own are inferior); and “Distinguish- rection, was opened that September ing between dotted notes and notes and dedicated the following year, along inégales,” Spring 2020, pages 61–76. with its large Schlicker organ that would For information: http://themusicaltimes. become an iconic instrument in the blogspot.com/. American Orgelbewegung movement. Quality Pipe Organ There he taught organ, improvisation, and other subjects and served as uni- Building and Service Nunc Dimittis versity organist. 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Frederick A. and Maize N. Reddel Pro- president of the international Lutheran Organ Competition. He frequently from the Gehrings included a freshly fessor of Music at Valparaiso University. church music organization, Ecclesia appeared in performance with his wife, composed canon on a Christmas text. That same year, he was elected an honor- Cantans. His research was published Betty, a violinist who also served on the He and his wife Betty would move to ary alumnus of the institution. In 2010, in various journals, particularly on the faculty of Valparaiso University. Philip Oak Park, Illinois, to be near children the Institute of Liturgical Studies at the subjects of performance practice in the Gehring recorded two LPs: one on the and grandchildren. university awarded Gehring its second organ works of Bach and on contempo- Reddel Memorial Schlicker organ in the Philip Klepfer Gehring is survived by Christus Rex Award for significant con- rary organ literature. As a composer, his Valparaiso University chapel with works his wife, Betty; three children, Kristin tributions to Lutheran liturgical scholar- organ and choral works were published by Schumann, Pachelbel, Barber, and Gehring and husband Walter Miller, ship and renewal. by Concordia Publishing House, Augs- Read; and An organ recital by Philip Thomas Gehring, and Martin Gehring In 1970, Gehring won the national burg-Fortress, MorningStar, Hinshaw, Gehring honoring Dr. Eugene Megerle, and wife Ruth Gehring; seven grandchil- improvisation competition of the AGO, Brodt, and E. C. Schirmer. recorded on the Link organ in the dren and one great-grandchild. A memo- and the following year he participated Philip Gehring performed organ Stadtkirche of Schorndorf, Germany, rial service will be held at a later date at by invitation in the International Organ recitals and presented lectures and and featuring works by Lübeck, Bach, First United Church, Oak Park, Illinois. Improvisation Competition in Haarlem, hymn festivals across the United Pepping, and Mendelssohn. the Netherlands. He was a visiting States, including performances at three After retirement from Valparaiso Allen Jay Sever, 91, died in Minne- scholar at Stanford University. conventions of the AGO, as well as in University in 1989, he remained active apolis on September 29. Born in Kansas Gehring served on the national Canada and Europe. He was repre- as a composer and performer. From City, Kansas, he graduated from the council of the AGO, was president of sented by Phyllis Stringham Concert 1993 until 1996, he served as founding conservatory at Northwestern Univer- the Lutheran Society for Music, Wor- Management for many years. In 1982, editor of CrossAccent, the journal of sity, Evanston, Illinois, in 1951 with a ship, and the Arts, a predecessor to the he was a recitalist and judge for the the Association of Lutheran Church double major in piano and organ. After Institute of Liturgical Studies, and vice Manchester (England) International Musicians. Annual Christmas letters serving in the Air Force, completing a

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Master of Sacred Music degree at Union Theological Seminary, New York City, and studying on a Fulbright Scholarship at the Royal School of Church Music in England, Sever played the organ and directed the choir at West End Colle- giate Church, New York, New York, for more than fifty years. He also played at A Wedding Music Anthology: Fiftieth An- Stephen Wise Free Synagogue for more niversary Edition Florence Beatrice Price than forty years and taught at the Man- hattan School of Music and at Hebrew Augsburg Fortress announces new Women Organists. Union College. He was preceded in organ publications: A Wedding Music Volume 5 includes her Passacaglia death by his wife Kathryn Cozine Sever. Anthology: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition and Fugue as well as six short pieces. All Allen Jay Sever is survived by his two (978-1-5064-6598-2, $39), compiled, organ volumes are edited by Calvert children, Alicia (Eric Johnson) Cozine edited, and arranged by David N. John- Johnson, who also recorded the music and Kirk (Elizabeth Short) Cozine of son; and Ten Chorales in the Schübler in the first four volumes inChicago Organa Europæ 2021 Minneapolis, and two grandchildren, Tradition Arranged from the Works of Renaissance Woman: Florence B. Price Owen and McLean. A celebration of his Johann Sebastian Bach (978-1-5064- Organ Works (Calcante CD0014). Oberlin Librairie announces its life will be held in Minneapolis in Sep- 6921-8, $30), edited by Marilyn Perkins The music can be obtained through Organa Europæ 2021 calendar ($36), tember 2021. Biery. For information: Classical Vocal Reprints: featuring the photography of Pierre augsburgfortress.org. www.classicalvocalreprints.com or 800/ Marcel and accompanying text by Chris- 298-7474. The recording can be obtained tian Lutz, with 13 organs from Belgium, Publishers from Calvert Johnson: Czech Republic, the Netherlands, [email protected]. Slovenia, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland. Payment Hinshaw Music announces new is accepted by PayPal only. For informa- choral publications: Dust I Am (319755, tion: www.oberlin.fr. SATB, $2.55), by Mark Miller; Be Thou My Vision (319765, SATB, $2.55), by Valerie Showers Crescenz; Now the Green Blade Rises (319754, SATB, $2.55), by Bradley Ellingboe; and Love Alone (319762, SATB, $2.55), by Stan Pethel. For information: hinshawmusic.com.

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The Wide Night Sky: Ten Works for Solo Bund Deutscher Orgelbaumeister Organ e.V. announces a new book, Das Große Orgelkalender Deutschland 2021 Buch der Orgel (The Big Book of Pipe OHS Travel-Orgue 2021 The American Composers Alli- Organs) (€19.50, plus shipping), available Dr. J. Butz Musikverlag announces ance announces a new organ publica- in English, German, French, Chinese, new organ publications: Orgelwerke, The Organ Historical Society tion: The Wide Night Sky: Ten Works Japanese, or Korean. The 28-page (with Band II: 8 Kompositionen für Orgel announces its 2021 organ calendar: OHS for Solo Organ ($65). The book contains two foldout pages), hardcover children’s manualiter (2955, €14), by Andreas Travel-Orgue 2021 ($25, $21 for OHS works curated and edited by Brian book features numerous basic illustra- Willscher; Fantasie und Fugue (2961, members), with photography by Len Schober for performance and publi- tions as to how an organ is constructed €10), by Christian Heinrich Rinck, Levasseur. The calendar includes previ- cation and first performed by him on in an organ factory. For information: edited by Tobias Zuleger; and Vier Tran- ously unpublished photographs of OHS February 23 at the Church of the Heav- deutscher-orgebau.de. scriptionen aus dem Klavierwerk (2965, convention organs from Connecticut, enly Rest, New York, New York. The €15), by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and concert is available on Spotify, YouTube, ClarNan Editions announces a transcribed by Martin Schmeding. In Washington, D.C., featuring the work of Apple Music, Amazon, Music, and other new organ publication: Music of Flor- addition, Butz offers its Orgelkalender organbuilders such as E. & G .G. Hook services. Works by Miriam Gideon, ence Beatrice Price, Complete Organ Deutschland 2021 (978-3-928412-89-6, & Hastings, Casavant Frères, Limitée, Thomas L. Reed, Nancy Van de Vate, Works, Volume 5 (CN 114, $35). €9.90), a calendar featuring photographs W. W. Kimball, Farrand & Votey, and Steven Christopher Sacco, and others Price (1887–1953) is noted as the first of organs by Jenny Setchell. For infor- more. For information: are included. For further information: African-American woman successful as mation: butz-verlag.de. organhistoricalsociety.org. composers.com. a classical composer; her first symphony was premiered at the Chicago World’s MorningStar Music Publishers Fair in 1933 by the Chicago Symphony announces a new publication for vocal Recordings Orchestra. A native of Little Rock, she solo: Sing Praise! (40-550, $25). The Acis announces new recordings. graduated at the top of her class at the book is a compilation of vocal solo mate- The Chicago Recital features Isabelle New England Conservatory in 1905 and rial featured in The Weekly, the publish- Demers performing on the organ of made her career in Chicago, where she er’s effort to reach out to churches with Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, Univer- was a member of the Chicago Club of material suitable for the varied worship sity of Chicago, Illinois. The instrument was originally 1928 Skinner Organ Company Opus 634, rebuilt in 2008 by A. Thompson-Allen Co., LLC the Schantz Organ Company to com- 11 Court Street prise four manuals, 132 ranks. Demers New Haven, Connecticut 06511 performs works by Mendelssohn, Tchai- 203.776.1616 kovsky, MacMillan, Laurin, and Reger. www.thompson-allen.com For download and stream: https://isabelledemers.hearnow.com

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seven sonatas. The discs were recorded in the church of Saint-Louis de Saint Étienne, Haute-Loire, France (Londe organ), Temple de Boudry, Switzerland (Felsberg organ), and Temple du Foyer l’Âme, Paris (Blumenroeder organ). For information: encelade.net.

1956 Holtkamp organ, Montgomery United Methodist Church, Belle Mead, New Jersey (photo credit: John Bishop)

The Chicago Recital Gaudete! Carols & Organ Music from Clifton Cathedral

Longing for Home: The American Hymn Tradition

Truth & Fable O Magnum Mysterium: Christmas Music Truth & Fable features The Thirteen from Clifton Cathedral Halbert Gober Opus 5 in its original in performance, directed by Matthew home, the former Lutheran Church of Robertson. The disc features the pre- Hoxa announces new recordings. the Good Shepherd, Brooklyn, Ohio (photo credit: Halbert Gober) miere recording of Daniel Elder’s Absa- Gaudete! Carols & Organ Music from lom along with works by Ravel, Howells, Clifton Cathedral (HS970802) features Amy Beach, Vaughan Williams, and Ste- the choir of the cathedral directed by Industries, the Pedal 8′ Quintadena was phen Paulus. For download and stream: David Ogden, with Ian Ball, organist, changed to an 8′ Bourdon, the Manual II https://thethirteen.hearnow.com. and Catherine Snelson, harpist. Works From the Ground Up 8′ Quintadena rescaled to a Gedackt, and To purchase either disc: amazon.com. by Bach, Poulenc, Mathias, Brahms, a Glockenstern (front right) added by For information: acisproductions.com. Mendelssohn, and others are included. Regent Records announces new special request of Pastor Tony Godlefski. O Magnum Mysterium: Christ- CDs. Longing for Home: The American Halbert Gober Opus 5, a two-manual, mas Music from Clifton Cathedral Hymn Tradition (REGCD509, £10.64) 24-stop organ built for Lutheran Church (HS071027) features the cathedral choir features the choir of St. Peter’s Church, of the Good Shepherd, Brooklyn, Ohio, directed by Christopher Walker and St. Louis, Missouri, David Sinden, which has closed, was purchased by John Gibbons. The disc includes works director, Scott Roberts and Sinden, Holy Angels Catholic Church, Base- by Bach, Handl, Poulenc, d’Aquin, and organists, and Mark Pye, oboist. Com- hor, Kansas. Relocation by Organ Clear- others. For information: posers featured include Dale Adelmann, ing House started on October 28. For hoxa.net/hoxa-recordings.html. Craig Phillips, Martha Shaffer, Frank W. information: organclearinghouse.com. Boles, and John Ferguson. From the Ground up (REGCD539, £10.64), features David Hill playing the William Hill organ of Peterborough Cathedral, UK, the first commercial solo With Great Thanks organ recording of this instrument. The Les Sacrements disc features works by Walter Alcock, Harvey Grace, Healy Willan, Herbert The staff of The Diapason is Editions Hortus announces a new Murrill, and others. For information: profoundly grateful to our subscrib- recording: Les Sacrements (Hortus195, regentrecords.com. ers and to our advertisers who have €15), featuring Grégoire Rolland, stood with us during this uniquely organist, with Choeur grégorien de la memorable year of 2020. Our cathédrale d’Aix-en-Provence, France. Organbuilders continued existence would not be The disc, recorded at St. Sauveur Cathe- The Organ Clearing House has possible without this enduring part- dral in Aix-en-Provence, features a cycle Trios for Keyboard and Violin: Works by completed or is accomplishing several nership of reader and advertiser. of organ works composed by Rolland, Johann Sebastian Bach projects. The 1956 Holtkamp organ We realize this year was especially inspired by chants related to the seven built for the William Scheide residence, difficult for the many businesses sacraments of the Catholic Church. The L’Encelade announces a new CD: Princeton, New Jersey, was modified that advertise with us. 1854/1880/1917 Ducroquet/Cavaillé- Trios for Keyboard and Violin: Works and relocated to Montgomery United We look forward to a bright year Coll/Merklin organ with an 18th-century by Johann Sebastian Bach (3 CDs, Methodist Church, Belle Mead, New for 2021, with many fine pages of case by Isnard was restored by Jean ECL1704, €33). The disc features Jersey. The Pedal 16′ Quintadena was twelve issues to present to you. Stay Dunand in 1972. For further informa- Freddy Eichelberger, organist, and changed to a 16′ Bourdon with twelve tuned, the best is yet to come! tion: editionshortus.com. Odile Edouard, violinist, performing new wood pipes from Organ Supply

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Passing eras My mother’s grandmother died in Boston in 1959 when I was three years old. I have a dim memory of her and of sitting in the kitchen of her apartment in Boston’s Back Bay at the time of her death, where I was served Cheerios with blue milk, food coloring added by her maid. Granny Reynolds was born in 1867 and remembered her grandmother who was born in 1779. As I grew up, my grandfather made a point of reminding my parents and me of that to keep the milky memory alive. Now, in my early sixties in 2020, I can claim to remember a family member who remembers a family member born during the Revolutionary War. Mozart was twenty-three years old. Jason McKown (1906–1989) was an old Skinner man. I met him in 1987 1952 Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1203, The when I was engaged to care for the Skin- Mother Church Extension, The First ner and Aeolian-Skinner organs at Trin- Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, ity Church, Copley Square, in Boston Massachusetts (photo credit: William T. Van Trinity Church, Copley Square, Boston, Black Hill Central Railroad, Hill City, (a few blocks from Granny Reynolds’s Pelt) Massachusetts: gallery organ, 1924 South Dakota, the “1880 train” (photo apartment), where Jason had been organ Skinner Organ Company Opus 573; credit: David Salmen) curator for fifty years. He was eighty-one organist of the church, known to genera- chancel organ, 1956 Aeolian-Skinner years old and spry as a cat, easily nego- tions of students and admirers as Uncle Opus 573-A (photo credit: Len Levasseur) Chaconne in D Minor, and Stephen plays tiating the tall ladders and narrow walk- T. “Peepee” (he called everyone Peepee), the cello. As they sail around the world, boards, but he was eager to retire so he he’d say, “there’s a little problem in the Jason was not generous with his com- they play the classics together deep into introduced me to another of his clients, Pedal Ophicleide.” Some little problem, ments about the original Casavant case the night. Jack distinguished between his The First Church of Christ, Scientist, when a half-dozen notes sounded as one design. I think he would have liked the sea-going fiddle and the precious Amati in Boston, home to the monumental in a stop like that! One afternoon, I was new one. that he kept at home. One night as they Aeolian-Skinner organ with over two- pointing out to Jason how the rows of were tuning their strings, Jack’s steward hundred-forty ranks. transistors on the big switching panels Chapters Killick griped to the steward’s mate, Jason had been caring for that organ compared to the rows of contacts I was My friendship with Jason spans eras. “Scrape, scrape, screech, screech, and since it was installed in 1952, and in order so busy repairing. He shook his head and I was in my early thirties when I knew never a tune you can sing to, not if you to ensure a smooth transition after I was said quietly, “this is for you young guys.” him, and over thirty years after his death, were drunk as Davie’s sow.” Those sto- appointed, the church retained Jason for During those months, as Jason and I value that he was my personal con- ries are rife with adventure and intrigue. six months to help me learn the ropes. I shared lunches and coffee breaks, he nection to Ernest Skinner. I admire his O’Brian was a devoted student of that And some ropes they were. Forty-one told stories from his past. He remem- longevity, diligence, and devotion to the history, writing dialogue using two-hun- ranks of reeds (including a full-length 32′ bered seeing the 32′ Double Open organs in his care, and I was influenced dred-year-old figures of speech, and for 1 Kontrafagott and 5 ⁄3′ Quinte Trompette Wood Diapason from the Hutchings by his respect especially for Mr. Skinner’s this enthusiastic sailor, he accurately and in the Swell), over a hundred ranks of organ in Boston’s Symphony Hall, across genius. Though he knew it was too late dramatically describes the act and art of mixtures (including some harmonic Massachusetts Avenue from The Mother for him to learn about solid-state organ sailing big ships. doozies with 7ths and 9ths), and nearly Church, chain-sawed into pieces and controls, he was open to the new tech- As the wars dragged on toward 1815, fifty independent ranks in the Pedal. It stacked on the sidewalk to make way for nology being installed in The Mother steam-powered ships were being intro- is a model of engineering, three stories the new Aeolian-Skinner organ (Opus Church organ. Stories like the destruc- duced. It was easy for Jack to under- tall and three chambers wide behind 1134, 1947). He remembered talking tion of the old Symphony Hall organ told stand the advantages of steam power, an acre of gold-leafed façade pipes. with Marcel Dupré as the great French of how he had witnessed deep change in allowing a ship to sail directly into the Jason patiently shared his approach to organist prepared a recital at King’s the name of progress. wind or without any wind at all. Guns the instrument, its strengths and weak- Chapel in Boston (Aeolian-Skinner When Jason first worked at The could be mounted facing straight for- nesses, and the history of repairs and Opus 170-A, 1946), asking how often Mother Church, the fifteen-acre site ward and backward, while sailing ships adjustments. We were together at the the Cavaillé-Coll organ at St. Sulpice included the Original Edifice (1894), the were encumbered by sails and rigging organ all day every Wednesday for those was tuned. “Not until the next cleaning.” first church building built by Mary Baker in both those directions and limited to six months, with Jason leading me around Jason was a direct connection between Eddy, the founder of Christian Science; firing broadsides. If your ship had steam as he offered his hints and insights. After Marcel Dupré and me. “The Extension,” the marvelous domed power, you had an immense advantage more than sixty years as a tuner, he was Jason recommended me to a dozen wedding cake of a building (1906) that over sail; if you were sailing and encoun- an accomplished keyholder. or so other churches, one of which seats 3,000; and the Publishing Society, tered an enemy in a steamship, you Shortly before I started at The Mother was especially meaningful. The Con- home of the renowned international were in grave peril. Nonetheless, one Church, Ronald Poll of Salt Lake City gregational Church of West Medford, newspaper, The Christian Science tradition-bound and slightly drunken had been contracted to install a solid- Massachusetts, was home to Skinner Monitor. The site was transformed in admiral lamented loudly about the Navy state switching and combination action Organ Company’s Opus 692 (1928), a 1971 with the construction of the new contemplating losing its skillful sailors to supplied by Solid State Logic. Ron was lovely instrument with fourteen ranks. Christian Science Plaza with three new “a hoard of mechanics.” the brother of Robert Poll, curator of the Jason was twenty-two years old when he significant buildings, including a twenty- Steam locomotives powered railroads huge Aeolian-Skinner organ at the Mor- worked on that installation, under the six-story administration building and a from the early nineteenth century mon Tabernacle, and had just completed personal supervision of his employer, seven-hundred-foot reflecting pool, and through the middle of the twentieth. a similar project there. As Ron started Ernest Skinner. The organ was fifty-nine the entire plaza was paved with bricks. Diesel powered (and diesel-electric) installing the hardware at the various years old when I became the second Jason had been friends with the man locomotives were first introduced switching stations throughout the organ, technician to care for it. Jason was a whose life work was the creation and around 1930. By around 1950, diesel I was still maintaining the extensive direct connection between Mr. Skinner care of an extensive rose garden next to locomotives were more powerful, more electro-pneumatic electrical system for and me. the church along Huntington Avenue. economical to maintain and operate, and its last few months of operation, and I Jason McKown and his wife Ruth When the plaza was built, the rose gar- safer than those powered by steam, and quickly became familiar with one of the were devoted members of Centre Meth- den was destroyed. Jason told sweetly of steam locomotives became a thing of the weaknesses Jason had mentioned. The odist Church in Malden, Massachusetts, the heartbreak of his friend seeing his past. Many engineers revered the ele- machine-formed silver contacts in the where the Bauhaus sanctuary housed life’s work disappear. gance of steam machinery and regretted vertical gang switches were breaking a 1973 three-manual Casavant with a their demise, but today with few excep- and falling like pine needles in the for- harsh angular case design. Jason did Progress tions, steam locomotives are limited to est. There were scores of those switches not much like that organ, but he main- I am a loyal fan of Patrick O’Brian’s historical exhibits and attractions, and a operating windchest cutouts, single tained it until the end of his life with all marvelous series of novels about the troupe of hobbyist organbuilders I know. ranks with independent actions, cou- the care and skill he gave to his favorite British Navy during the Napoleonic Friends of ours have a huge old iron plers, offset bass chests, and the scores Skinner organs. In those days I drove an Wars. I have audio recordings of all cook stove in their kitchen. Susan is a of magical effects found in a huge organ. eight-passenger van; I ferried a carload twenty-one books and often listen to virtuoso with the cooktop lids, lifting When the contacts were manufac- of people from The Mother Church to passages in my workshop or as I drive. them as she converses to drop in a log tured, the bends were formed too attend his funeral in 1989. Captain Jack Aubrey, one of the central or two. She manages different levels of crisply, and the wires broke at the bends, Centre Methodist Church closed in characters, is a skillful and courageous heat from one side to another and has with new failures appearing every week. 2007. The Organ Clearing House sold frigate captain, and his friend Stephen pots of savory smelling stuff simmering What happened when they fell? They and moved the Casavant organ to Salis- Maturin is a physician who travels on away. The hulking thing sure does make got tangled in the contacts below them bury Presbyterian Church in Midlothian, Jack’s ships as surgeon, which serves as the kitchen toasty warm on a cold night, and caused cluster-ciphers of five or six Virginia. A new case was designed and cover for his central activity as a mem- but she uses the modern gas cooktop notes, terrible interruptions to the mar- built by QLF Organ Components, a sub- ber of Naval Intelligence. Jack plays the mounted in the counter for most of the velous playing of Dr. Thomas Richner, sidiary of Lively-Fulcher Organbuilders. violin, well enough to tackle the Bach cooking. Her curmudgeonly husband

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Barnaby thinks food tastes better from and it feels like smart duty to see that as commission a new organ, it takes years the wood stove, but he does not cook, little as possible is spent on lesser organs. for a congregation to embrace the idea ever, and Susan has her way. “Barnaby, If we are going to have fewer organs, they of disbanding. Plan ahead. have another bourbon.” might as well be the best. Most importantly, we must care for Charles-Marie Widor was organist An unwanted pipe organ is among our profession. Colleague organbuilders at Saint-Sulpice in Paris for sixty-three the greatest of white elephants. This and organists must project their work in years. Something like halfway through applies to instruments of high pedigree the music of the church as a rich gift. his tenure the first electric blower was and important historical value as much We have received our talents as gifts. installed on the Cavaillé-Coll organ. as to small, simple, ordinary instruments. It is our responsibility to nurture those By then he had written the ten organ When progress means that a building has talents and share them with the people symphonies that are the backbone of his to go, whatever is inside goes with it. If in our churches, those in the pews, and output, played for thousands of Masses, it is a historical home with a beautiful those around the table at weekly staff hundreds of concerts, hundreds of funer- organ, when time’s up, time’s up. If it is meetings. Make them love what you do. als, weddings, and festivals. He must a spectacular church building, ravaged I am tired of seeing memes showing the have spent thousands of additional hours by time and weather and failing budgets, Dowager Countess of Grantham with at the organ practicing and teaching. whatever is inside goes with it. pursed lips, saying that people who think (photo credit: Félix Müller) Through all of that, the hundred-stop If you learn that a church in your the organ is too loud “don’t have any organ was pumped by human power. neighborhood is planning to close, taste.” I am tired of seeing images of gag generous and worshipful community What a liberation it must have been for encourage them to think right away of stop knobs engraved with “Rector Ejec- with the support and encouragement of him to climb the steps to the organ loft, the artifacts that should be saved. Pipe tor,” or “Cut Pulpit Mic.” They may be the musicians, not an arrogant demand. switch on the power, and play to an empty organs, stained-glass windows, and litur- good for a smirk between organists, but You likely know more about church church using all the wind he wanted. gical furnishings can all be preserved they imply an underlying disrespect that music than those around you, but with There are a number of modern and relocated, but it takes time. If my is not good for our future. your help, they can love it as much as mechanical-action organs built under clas- first contact about an available organ An organist accepting a new posi- you do. That is what honors the links sic inspiration that are pumped by recon- is from the real-estate developer who tion “if there will be a new organ” is between you and the centuries-old pro- structions of ancient human-powered bought the building and plans to gut the an affront to church music. Maybe the cession of brilliance which is the heri- systems, and in the late 1990s I restored interior in two weeks, there is no hope. place should have a new organ, but that tage of our music and our instruments. an organ built in 1868 by E. & G. G. As it takes years for a church to decide to should be the collective decision of a That’s our future. Q Hook (when my great-grandmother was one year old), including restoring the hand pumping system. Yuko Hayashi, the revered long-time professor of organ at the New England Conservatory of Music, brought her organ classes to that NORTH AMERICA’S church so they could experience hand- PREMIER PIPE ORGAN powered organ wind, comparing both sources of wind playing the same passage BUILDING, REBUILDING of music. It is a fascinating study, helping us to understand just how music sounded AND SERVICE FIRMS when played centuries ago, but I doubt many of us would forsake the conve- nience and stability of the electric blower. 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Towards a pedal method pedal playing too awkward: they could it if it is absolutely necessary. It is not the can also tamper with a player’s sense of I recently decided that over the next not believe they would ever get to a worst tragedy that we encounter when rhythm and timing. However, I once had few months, I will work on writing a place where they could be comfortable someone who might have entered the a student who came to me after decades stand-alone pedal-playing method, and with it. In my zeal for playing the organ world of organ playing is turned aside of playing who found every note this much of it will draw on what I have I reacted to this as a tragedy. For some from doing so, but it is a tragedy. way, who therefore made exactly twice written in The Diapason. My columns of the people involved it probably was a What about the practical side of learn- as many gestures with her feet as she from November 2007 through February tragedy, in that they were led into passing ing to negotiate a pedal keyboard? There would have had to, but who was so adept 2008 constituted a discussion of teaching up something that could have become a are three ways to find the next note in at it that it did not create any trouble at pedal playing intended to be read by valuable part of their lives. This stayed a pedal passage: 1) by discerning where all. That is, it did not create hesitation, teachers. The June 2009 column pre- with me and was part of my impetus for that note is in relation to the note that insecurity, or inaccuracy. It did place sented thoughts about use of heels. The becoming an organ teacher. you most recently played in the same an upper limit on her tempos. I need to columns from January through May 2013 Over the last few years I have noticed foot regardless of whether there have continue to consider how to address this revisited pedal playing, this time in a way that my pedal playing has been the most been intervening notes in the other foot; when writing for students. that was directed at students. These lat- robust part of my playing. In juggling 2) by discerning where the note is in Concerning proper organ shoes, they ter columns come close to adding up to harpsichord and organ performance I relation to the note you most recently should be comfortable; they should be the pedal method that I am now contem- sometimes go for as much as several played in the other foot; and 3) by dis- light enough that keeping them up in plating. This version, however, will differ months without practicing organ very cerning where the note is in relation the air is not a burden; and they should from the sum of those columns in several much or playing pedals at all. The first to where you are sitting on the bench. not be inclined to slip off or around in ways: it will be longer and will include time that I then sit down at an organ The impetus for asking students to keep such a way that the player has to clutch more exercises and excerpts from pieces. after an extended time away there is themselves in a specific set posture while at them with the toes to keep them on. In this month’s column I again discuss never any rust in my pedal technique, playing is an emphasis on the second When I was first trying to learn to play pedal playing and pedal teaching. I will in fact it feels well-rested rather than of these. It seems to me that, although pedals I tended to use old-fashioned not canvass all of my specific thoughts creaky. This certainly does not prove that sometimes useful, the awareness of men’s dress shoes. These were uncom- about teaching in any detail, as I have my technical approach to playing is bet- where each foot in itself has been and is fortable and much too heavy. Each of done that previously. I will go through ter than any other approach, but it does going is the most efficient and reliable my organ teachers gave me an indescrib- a summary of some of those thoughts, suggest that it is not worse. of these techniques. I developed a set ably vast amount of help, input, and with particular references to ways I have This reminds me of the situation that of exercises and practice techniques for encouragement, as I have written about somewhat reshaped my approach over prevailed for so many centuries, when training this. over the years. But none of them ever the last several years. That reshaping is getting to the organ to practice was a I will not go through all details here, said anything about shoes. Eventually I probably more “meta” than “nitty-gritty.” difficult enough proposition that most but I do mention some questions that I noticed that my ankles and leg muscles My set of techniques for help- organists did most of their practicing on have and some ways in which I want to were perpetually tired and sore. I tried a ing students to become comfortable manuals-only instruments at home. They rethink things a little bit, or to supple- number of lighter, more supple shoes. I negotiating the pedal keyboard has not then needed to have a pedal technique ment the ways in which I have thought have wide feet, and, in those days, it was changed much. When I was developing that could be called upon as needed on about this in the past. Have I placed too difficult to find anything just right. But these techniques years ago I felt after a short notice. Some organists had access little emphasis on #2 while believing the heaviness was worse than any other certain period of thought and discovery to pedal clavichords, pedal harpsichords, that some others have placed too much sort of compromise would have been. that it worked well; I still feel that. But and pedal pianos, but that was very far emphasis on it? In my own playing I rely For many years now I have played there are details that I have rethought, from universal. Here is a speculative on #1, but am I right to do so? I think organ in New Balance walking shoes. For and there are aspects of somewhat more thought: is there a correlation between so: it seems to work for me. But does my me, they are amazingly comfortable, light, advanced pedal playing to which I want the development of winding systems that personal emphasis on that technique bias wide enough, etc. Thinking of those shoes to give more attention and more space allowed organists to practice without me towards emphasizing it too much in puts me in mind of another big issue. in the forthcoming method than I did in having to enlist an assistant and a boost teaching? What about #3? This is sort What about built-up heels? They can those columns. I also think that I know in the type and level of virtuosity that of an analogue to “perfect pitch”—just assist in heel playing, but they can impede more now than I did when I first began to could be expected of pedal playing? hit the note from scratch. I have always certain sorts of foot crossing. I think that formulate my approach (thirty years ago My approach to teaching pedal play- been a bit distrustful of this, and I have the extent to which built-up heels are or so) or when I wrote my columns on ing arose more or less in sync with my tended to de-emphasize it. I wonder if I necessary is influenced by certain things the subject (seven to thirteen years ago) efforts to improve my own pedal facility should think a bit more than I have in the about foot position and foot flexibility about how to present some of the ideas during and shortly before and after my past about ways of training this sense, at that vary from person to person and also in ways that will engage and help the graduate school years. The foundation least so that it can be an always-available vary depending on technical choices. In greatest number and variety of students. of the approach is that everything about backup. (Playing a note with the heel preparing to write this method, should My earliest memories of my own playing should be physically comfort- when you have just played a different I revisit various different sorts of shoes, attempts to learn to play with my feet able. This highlights the crucial differ- note with the toe or vice versa is a special maybe purpose-designed organ shoes? as well as my early attempts to teach ence between two ways of approaching and important case of #2.) These are now available to fit my wide pedal technique revolve around the something difficult. Pedal playing is, How much does all of this vary from feet, which was certainly not the case notion that pedal playing is difficult. It is along with most music making, difficult student to student? How much does it in the early 1970s! If I do this, I will be difficult. But I also suspected early on, in that it requires a lot of well-targeted vary from one sort of repertoire to another coming at those shoes through a filter of and still believe, that it often presents work. No one should expect to become or from one instrument to another? unfamiliarity that would not be there for a itself to people as even more difficult adept at playing pedals without putting Notice that I am not even mention- student who started out with them. than it is, perhaps in the wrong ways. It in many practice hours; one should ing: 4) looking at the feet and 5) feeling Marcel Dupré wrote in his memoirs seems awkward or unnatural rather than expect to find the process sometimes around for easy-to-find keys and then that he answered the question, “Avec just something that properly requires arduous or daunting. However, there is using them as guideposts for the notes quels souliers jouez-vous de la pédale?” a lot of practice and dedication. I have no reason to expect it to feel unnatural or that one wants to play. I am generally (“With what shoes do you play pedals?”), mentioned here more than once before awkward or to accept it if it does. skeptical about looking. It can sometimes with “with my own.” Various eyewit- that I was a late bloomer as a playing None of the people I have met who work in the moment, but it is danger- nesses have testified that he indeed and performing musician. Thinking back have told me they gave up organ playing ous to use it as a technique for making played in his everyday shoes, not nor- now, I realize that for many years my because they could not get comfortable finding notes seem easy during anything mally changing shoes between walking pedal playing lagged behind the rest of with pedals ever say that they simply did remotely like the beginning learning in and playing. What about this latter what I was trying to do as an organist and not want to put in any work. They say that stage. Every time a student finds a note practice? I certainly know people who harpsichordist. At least all through high they cannot get their bodies to do the by looking, they pass up a chance to consider it to be unacceptable to track school, I found pedal playing awkward things that are required to grapple with become a more skillful and secure pedal outside dust and dirt onto a pedal key- and uncomfortable. And beginning at the pedals or some of the things they had player. Looking can become a habit. And board. But here is a venerable precedent least that early, long before I was any been told were required. Some of this when it is a strong habit it can get dis- for doing so! Is it enough to sort of dust sort of teacher, I encountered people may have to do with being asked to keep connected from the business of finding off the shoes? Is this something that I who told me that they had given up one’s knees and heels together much of the next note. It is not uncommon to see should write about in the method? trying to play organ because they found the time. I sympathize with this concern, someone look down at their feet quickly As much as I always enjoy getting since I cannot sit on an organ bench and still play the wrong note. Looking at feedback from readers, in this case such with my knees together for even a few the feet also creates a perpetual risk of feedback could be especially useful and seconds without experiencing back pain getting lost in the score. It is not impos- interesting. What do you think should and overall physical tension. However, sible that a given player can incorporate be included in a pedal method? Did you I sympathize with what I take to be the some looking as a successful part of happen to read my earlier pedal columns? impetus for directing students to sit in a pedal playing. I need to consider how to Did you find them helpful? Do you have particular position. It is part of a system characterize this situation. anything from your own experience for learning to find notes reliably and Concerning #5, I feel strongly that either learning or teaching pedal playing to be able to play with confidence. The this is a bad idea, except perhaps as an that you think might inform such a book? question is whether this is the best system occasional emergency measure. Any use I would love to hear from you. Q or is necessary for all or any students. An of this technique during the beginning approach that starts with a specific physi- learning stage can actually make it close Gavin Black is director of the Princ- cal requirement like this tends to act as to impossible to get away from needing eton Early Keyboard Center, Inc., a gatekeeper, weeding out people for it. And since it requires extra gestures Princeton, New Jersey: http://www.pekc. whom it does not work. I believe that is and time it can force slower tempos org. He can be reached by email at gavin- the strongest reason for only embracing than would otherwise be necessary. It [email protected].

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Deltiology:1 an Early Twentieth-Century Postcard Tour of American Pipe Organs

By Stephen L. Pinel

Illustration 2: the Newberry Memorial Organ in Woolsey Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

expensive to send. Cards are often used only to type “postcard” into eBay.com to to convey short messages, share memo- locate tens of thousands of cards, cover- ries of distinctive locations, or advertise ing every imaginable topic the world events. Postcards differ from postal over. Postcards are inexpensive, highly cards—the latter refers to those “special” collectable, and an entire subculture has cards issued by the postal service with evolved around them at “swap meets” and the “stamp” already in place. Only the shows of ephemera. The research value post office can issue postal cards. During of old cards is that the subject matter may the first four decades of the twentieth have changed or disappeared,4 and the century, postcards cost a penny to mail, images they display are often not found and were often called “penny postcards.” elsewhere. Stated directly, postcards are While a few postcards were issued primary source documents. during the nineteenth century, it was not There were several types of postcards. until the United States Congress passed The earliest, published during the period the Private Mailing Card Act of May 19, 1900 to 1910, had a small black and white 1898, that private individuals, companies, image on the front, surrounded by a vacation destinations, and ecclesiastical white border. The address was written on organizations were permitted to print the back, and if a message was included, and distribute postcards. Previously, it had to be written on the front of the the United States Post Office held the card beside the image. In March 1907, monopoly. The heyday of the postcard the “divided back” was unveiled. This was between 1900 and 1945, and one has allowed for the message and the address

Illustration 1: the interior of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York City, and Ernest M. Skinner Company Opus 150, completed in 1910 (All cards that accompany this article are from the author’s collection)

n 1984, William T. Van Pelt, then the Van Pelt challenged the members of the Iexecutive director of the Organ His- OHS to search local antique and book torical Society, wrote in The Tracker: stores for postcards showing vintage pipe organs. By the time his article was Concomitant to the popularity of pho- tography at the end of the nineteenth cen- prepared for publication, ten society tury was the blossoming of picture post- members had submitted more than a cards that fortuitously embraced organs hundred cards. Sixteen were chosen to pipe organ kit Proud builders of the and church interiors among a wide range illustrate the article.3 In the thirty-five of subjects. Cards provide the examples we need to study architectonics and the visual years since his article appeared, hun- evolution of organs, as well as traits of con- dreds of organ postcards have surfaced, temporary builders and their instruments. showing a wide variety of instruments by follow In some cases, a card represents the only us on 2 dozens of American organbuilders. facebook! remaining record of an organ’s existence. For context, some fundamentals of postcards may be informative. Cards are An accomplished photographer, Van usually printed on thick paper or thin Photo courtesy of Eric Harrison Pelt had an uncanny awareness of the cardboard and measure approximately pipe organ as an entity of visual art. Like 3½ by 5½ inches. An image appears on fine furniture, painting, sculpture, or the front, while the back is bifurcated—a 16355, av. Savoie, St-Hyacinthe, Québec J2T 3N1 CANADA any other form of high art, organ cases message is written on the left with the t 800 625-7473 [email protected] designed by organbuilders are distinc- address on the right. When mailed, post- Visit our website at www.letourneauorgans.com tive and have identifiable characteristics. cards usually have a lesser rate than first- Cognizant of their usefulness for study, class postage, so they are slightly less

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Illustration 3: a three-manual organ built by John Brown in 1906 in the gallery of the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Rich- Illustration 4: the interior of Old South Church in Boston showing an 1822 organ by Thomas Elliot, as rebuilt by E. & G. G. Hook mond, Virginia of Boston in 1859

Illustration 5: the 1872 organ, likely by Geo. Stevens, East Cambridge, Massachusetts, Illustration 6: the interior of Trinity Episcopal Church, Watertown, New York, show- in the front of the Washington Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Petersburg, Virginia ing Johnson & Son Opus 856, 1898 to be written on the back, but freed the machine gave the impression that the final type, called the “chrome” postcard, organ!” Finally, the style of the stamp entire front of the card for the image. By image was printed on linen. The most came into circulation about 1950. They may help to narrow the date if the post- 1910, postcards began to be published desirable cards dating from the first are published from a color photograph mark is either faint or incomplete. The in color and were immediately mass- decades of the twentieth century were and have a shiny, glossy finish. Chrome post office redesigned stamps every few produced in huge quantities. About actual photographs, published on pho- cards are the type most often found years. The older cards usually have a 1930, “linen” post cards first appeared. tographic paper. Those cards frequently today in souvenir shops.5 one-cent “Franklin,” while by the second Those were printed on card stock with carry high-quality images in keen focus There are many ways to identify and decade of the twentieth century it was a high-rag content, but the pressing of a and are eagerly sought by collectors. The date postcards. Some images are fully one-cent “Washington.” identified on the card itself. Other clues American organbuilders soon realized may be deduced from the postmark, the reward of using postcards for promo- since a card was often mailed from tion. The Estey Organ Co. in Brattle- its place of origin and a date usually boro, Vermont, the Votteler-Hettche accompanies the postmark. Obviously, Organ Co. in Cleveland, Ohio, and the the card must pre-date the postmark. Wicks Organ Co. in Highland, Illinois Moreover, the image may offer clues (among others), distributed organ post- to identify the card. Many of the pipe cards. They were an inexpensive way to organs pictured on postcards during the advertise recent installations and simul- first decades of the twentieth century taneously impressed prospective cus- were new when the cards were issued. tomers. Estey was especially prolific with Organs were expensive, and some organ this method of marketing: several dozen “one of this era’s cards were produced immediately after organ cards issued by the firm have been most adventurous a new instrument was installed. A few gathered over the years. Sometimes interpreters of cards actually declare: “Our new pipe those cards represent an important the classical organ repertoire” NY MUSIC DAILY Subscribe now to receive

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14 Q THE DIAPASON Q DECEMBER 2020 WWW.THEDIAPASON.COM Illustration 9: Estey Organ Co. Opus 505, 1907, in the First Congregational Church, Chelsea, Massachusetts

Illustration 7: organ by Wicks Organ Co., Illustration 8: promotional postcard Opus 8, 1909, installed in the German issued by Votteler-Hettche Organ Co. Ev. St. Petri Church, Okawville, Illinois showing an organ in First Methodist Episcopal Church, Petoskey, Michigan historical record because the organs they illustrate are now lost to history. of Wilmington, Delaware, who opened Some postcard organs are well known. his organ shop in 1887.13 Brown, an Eng- This card (Illustration 1) was mailed lishman by birth, was in business for some from New York City to West Stock- twenty-five years and built many organs bridge, Massachusetts, on April 20, 1929, for congregations in the middle-Atlantic and shows the interior of the Cathedral and southern United States. Located in of Saint John the Divine at 110th Street the cathedral’s gallery with an opulent in New York City. The organ, Ernest fan of radiating trumpet pipes, the case M. Skinner Company Opus 150, com- is reminiscent of the 1869 Geo. Jardine pleted in 1910, is a huge, four-manual & Son organ at St. George’s Episcopal instrument of some 150 ranks6 and was Church, Stuyvesant Square, New York dedicated by Clarence Dickinson (1873– City. Completed in August 1906, the 1969) in April 1911. Since the card was Brown organ is described in detail in issued, the organ has been renovated the Richmond Times-Dispatch, but its several times, notably under the direc- tubular-pneumatic playing action proved Illustration 10: a two-manual organ by W. W. Kimball Co. of Chicago in the audito- tion of Ernest M. Skinner & Son in 1939, problematic.14 Only six years later, the rium, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana and by G. Donald Harrison (1889–1956) organ was rebuilt by M. P. Möller as their in 1953.7 The organ was restored in 2008 Opus 1334, 1912, and the action was con- A circa 1910 card shows a handsome William Goodrich (1777–1833) and by Quimby Pipe Organs, Inc., of War- verted to electro-pneumatic. Later still, 1872 instrument (Illustration 5) in the following the latter’s death, set up shop rensburg, Missouri.8 This spectacular the organ was rebuilt again by the Tellers front of the Washington Street Method- in partnership with William Gayetty vista, photographed from high in the Organ Co. of Erie, Pennsylvania, and ist Episcopal Church in Petersburg, (d. 1839). Stevens’s organs were charac- cathedral, looks down at the chancel today, almost nothing of the original 1906 Virginia.20 The maker of the organ is terized by fine workmanship and stately and choir. It shows the Skinner organ organ remains except for the front pipes. unconfirmed, yet it appears to be the cases. Stevens built another organ for located on opposite sides of the chancel Noted historian Donald R. Traser wrote work of Geo. Stevens (1803–1894) of a Virginia client in 1861: a two-manual at the triforium level and provides a vivid in 2002 that the organ was considered by East Cambridge, Massachusetts. The instrument for the Broad Street Meth- impression of the enormity of the space. Mr. Brown to be his masterpiece!15 case bears astonishing resemblance odist Episcopal Church in Richmond, Another famous postcard organ (Illus- Some postcards show organs installed to the 1871 Stevens organ in the First installed just as the Civil War began.22 tration 2) is the Newberry Memorial decades before. This card (Illustra- Congregational Church, Rindge, New The Petersburg organ remained until it Organ in Woolsey Hall at Yale University tion 4), sent from South Hadley to Hampshire.21 Stevens had worked for was replaced with a two-manual organ in New Haven, Connecticut. A large, Charlemont, both in Massachusetts, was four-manual instrument built by the mailed on October 6, 1910. It shows Hutchings-Votey Organ Co. of Boston, the interior of the Old South Church in Pictures at an Exhibition the organ was opened on June 20, 1903, Boston. Visible in the gallery is an 1822, Martin Baker, organist by a triumvirate of prominent organists: two-manual organ by Thomas Elliot Henry Benjamin Jepson, Yale Univer- (1759?–1832), built in London. Henry A handsomely-packaged sity; Wallace Goodrich, Trinity Episcopal Corrie (1786–1858), an English organ- compact disc of the music Church, Boston; and Gaston M. Dethier, builder, accompanied the instrument St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, New “across the pond” to superintend its from the April 2018 dedication York City.9 The organ had an early type installation.16 Following its opening on of the 100-rank twin-console of electro-pneumatic action designed by November 22, 1822, Corrie remained in Ruffatti organ at Buckfast Hutchings employee Harry F. Van Wart. Boston. After working briefly for Thomas Abbey in Devon, recorded in The success of the instrument earned its Appleton (1785–1872), he settled in April of 2019. maker, Geo. S. Hutchings (1835–1913), Philadelphia and became the leading an honorary Master of Arts degree from maker of organs in that city between Martin Baker’s excellent the university. The card was mailed from 1826 and 1850.17 The Old South organ playing of music by Wolff, J.S . New Haven to Springfield Gardens, was rebuilt by E. & G. G. Hook as their Bach, de Grigny, Jongen, and Long Island, New York, on September Opus 246, 1859, and the projecting key- Widor, in addition to his tran- 10, 1910, only seven years after the organ desk, shown in the card, is the product was built. In 1915, the organ was greatly of their renovation.18 An organ from scription of the Mussorgsky, enlarged and renovated by the J. W. the 1820s would have had a recessed will be a welcome addition to Steere & Son Organ Co. of Springfield, keydesk with stopknobs arranged in To order, visit www.adfontes.org.uk. your audio library. Massachusetts,10 and again in 1928 by vertical columns at the sides. The “new” the Skinner Organ Company.11 This circa Old South Church on Boylston Street 1908 postcard shows the original organ had a three-manual organ by Hutchings, case before it was reworked in 1928.12 Plaisted & Co., Opus 58, 1875, and later A few postcard organs (Illustration 3) still, a four-manual organ by Ernest M. had grandiose cases! This elegant example Skinner Company, Opus 231, 1915. In was mailed from Richmond, Virginia, to 1876, the 1822 Elliot organ was moved Lena, Indiana, on November 7, 1909, and second-hand to St. Mary’s Catholic Builders of Fine Pipe Organs to the World shows a major, three-manual organ in the Church in Milford, Massachusetts, Catholic Cathedral of the Sacred Heart. where it survived until it was broken up www.ruffatti.com ruffattiorgans It was built by John Brown (1851–1912) for parts about 1955.19

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Illustration 11: a photographic card showing a small, two-manual organ built in 1891 Illustration 12: Hillgreen, Lane & Co. Opus 24, 1901, in the First Methodist Episcopal by John Otto of Baltimore in the First Reformed Church, Carlisle, Pennsylvania Church, Port Huron, Michigan by the Estey Organ Co., Opus 1205, Church, Okawville, Illinois. The second unfortunately destroyed with the build- built several hundred small organs for 1913, of Brattleboro, Vermont. (Illustration 8) was the work of Votteler- ing by fire on November 27, 1956.25 the rural churches of Upstate New York. Yet another card shows the sumptuous Hettche of Cleveland, Ohio, and was Occasionally, a postcard showing an His organs were well built, durable, interior of Trinity Church, Episcopal, in installed in the First Methodist Episcopal organ was distributed for parochial pur- and many still serve their congregations Watertown, New York, with its elaborate Church, Petoskey, Michigan. The third poses. This handsome card (Illustration today after a century of use.32 Gothic tracery. The organ (Illustration instrument (Illustration 9) was built by 11) from the First Reformed Church in Plenty of postcard organs are uniden- 6) is Johnson & Son Opus 856, 1898, a the Estey Organ Co., Opus 505, 1907, a Carlisle, Pennsylvania, reminded recipi- tified. Three interesting cards Illustra-( three-manual organ with thirty registers two-manual organ for the First Congre- ents that a “Sunday School Rally Service” tions 15, 16, and 17) were never mailed built in Westfield, Massachusetts.23 Vis- gational Church, Chelsea, Massachusetts. was to be held on Sunday, October 7, and have no postmark or stamp. There ible in the image is a reversed console University organs are also occasionally 1906, at 2 p.m. The organ in the image is no indentifying information. If any with the organ installed in a right-hand represented. This card shows the inte- was dedicated by the noted blind organ- reader of The Diapason recognizes chamber beside the chancel. The instal- rior of the auditorium at Valparaiso Uni- ist, David D. Wood of Philadelphia, on any of those organs, the editor would lation was completed on March 29 and versity in Valparaiso, Indiana. The organ Thursday evening, October 22, 1891.26 It be pleased to receive a letter with the the organ was first used on Easter Day, (Illustration 10), built in 1907 by W. W. was built by John W. Otto (1846–1892) of details. Currently the largest collection 1898. It was later replaced by Skinner Kimball of Chicago, Illinois, was a gift of Baltimore, had two manuals and pedals, of organ postcards is held by the Library Organ Company Opus 457, 1924, and the alumni and was a large two-manual and cost $1,600.27 Otto was the brother and Archives of the Organ Historical was moved second-hand to the Adiron- instrument with tubular-pneumatic of Louise Pomplitz (1836–1924), and at Society at Stoneleigh in Villanova, Penn- dack Community Church in Lake Placid, action. The card was mailed from Val- one time worked for the better-known sylvania. The archivist there, Dr. Bynum New York, where it was installed by Buhl paraiso to Bridgeport, Connecticut, on firm, the Pomplitz Church Organ Co. Petty, would be pleased to receive dona- & Blashfield, a Utica, New York, firm.24 October 5, 1911, and the message reads A postcard mailed from Port Huron, tions of new cards. Johnson & Son organs were of superb in part: “We attend chapel exercises in Michigan, to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on Modern scholars and historians have quality and were among the finer organs this place at 8:30 every morning. I have October 2, 1913, is a fine example of a had a tendency to dismiss postcards as built in nineteenth-century America. only missed two mornings as yet. We are photographic card. The organ (Illustra- trivial, but they remain a significant—and Three postcard organs were promo- nicely settled and like it very much.” The tion 12), built by Hillgreen, Lane & Co., largely untapped—source of information tional materials issued by well-known large piano on the stage looks like the Opus 24, 1901, is an early instrument for the study of early twentieth-century American firms. The first (Illustration 7) work of Steinway & Sons! The Kimball from the firm. The company was the American pipe organs. For the evolution was built by the Wicks Organ Co., Opus organ was rebuilt by Hillgreen-Lane & partnership of Alfred Hillgreen (1859– of case designs, they are essential. It is 8, 1909, for the German Ev. St. Petri Co. of Alliance, Ohio, in 1947 and was 1923), a Swedish immigrant, and Charles only by placing these images side by side Alva Lane (1854–1933). Ultimately, that perceptive historians can note the three generations of the Hillgreen family common traits and the progression of built organs in Alliance, Ohio, between style. The next time you pass a shoebox 1898 and 1973. The case shown here is of old postcards in an antique or book unusually elegant and looks splendid in store, take a moment to thumb through The Diapason this turn-of-the century edifice. Note, in them. You might find the unique image addition to the Methodist communion of an old American pipe organ that is announces... rail, that the choir has seating for almost long gone. Q fifty singers. That is a luxury not many of us enjoy today. The organ had two Stephen L. Pinel holds two degrees manuals with “pneumatic couplers”28 from Westminster Choir College, Princ- and was opened in recital by a Mr. N. eton, New Jersey, and did graduate 20 Under 30 Nominations Crawthorne and other artists on Friday study in historical musicology at New 29 Open: December 1 evening, July 26, 1901. York University. A church musician for Another photographic card shows an forty-five years, he retired from full-time Close: February 1 organ (Illustration 13) in the Presbyte- work in the fall of 2017, but immediately rian Church of Pawnee City, Nebraska. accepted another appointment as organ- Built in 1908 by the Hinners Organ Co. ist and choirmaster at All Saints Church, We will be recognizing 20 of Pekin, Illinois, the Hinners list states Bay Head, New Jersey. He held a Lang- young men and women that the organ had nine registers. The ley Fellowship at New York University, whose career accomplish- Hinners Co. was known for its catalog is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda Music ments place them at the organs. A congregation could order an Honor Society, an honorary member of forefront of the organ, church organ through the mail, and the purchase the Organ Historical Society, and a past music, harpsichord, carillon, included a set of directions so a member of chair of the St. Wilfrid Club of New York and organbuilding fields— the congregation could set up the organ! City. He is the author of several books before their 30th birthday. Many Hinners organs were located in and regularly contributes articles on rural locations in the Northern Plains, par- organ history both here and abroad. ticularly in Nebraska and the Dakotas.30 A third photographic postcard mailed Notes Visit TheDiapason.com for more information and to nominate. from King Ferry, New York, on Novem- 1. Deltiology is the formal word for the ber 24, 1916, shows an organ (Illustra- collecting and study of postcards. Its ety- tion 14) in the Presbyterian Church mology is two Greek words: deltion, a small built by Clarence E. Morey (1872–1935) writing tablet, and logy, to hew or to study. of Utica, New York. The small, two- The word was first recognized by Merriam- Webster about 1965. manual organ, his Opus 247, 1907, is 2. William T. Van Pelt, “Post Card Organs,” Stay up to date on all of the latest industry news and events. recessed into an alcove at the front of the The Tracker, vol. 28, no. 3 (1984): 21–26. room, behind a raised pulpit platform. 3. Ibid. Visit TheDiapason.com regularly. Visible in the cleanly focused image 4. Maurice Rickards, The Encyclopedia are only six stopknobs. Morey worked of Ephemera: A Guide to the Fragmentary in Utica until his death in 193531 and Documents of Everyday Life for the Collector,

16 Q THE DIAPASON Q DECEMBER 2020 WWW.THEDIAPASON.COM Illustration 15: completely unidentified

Illustration 13: a small 1908 organ by the Hinners Organ Co. in the Presbyterian Church, Pawnee City, Nebraska

Illustration 16: completely unidentified

Illustration 14: a small, two-manual organ by Clarence E. Morey, Opus 247, 1907, in the Presbyterian Church, King Ferry, New York

Curator, and Historian, s.v. “Postcards” (New 18. “Old South Church Organ,” Boston York: Routledge, [c. 2001]): 249–50. (Massachusetts) Evening Transcript, vol. 30, 5. Ibid. no. 8,839 (March 26, 1859): 1; and “New Or- 6. “Notes About Town. The new organ of gan at the Old South Church,” (Boston) Daily the cathedral . . .,” The New York Age, vol. 24, Evening Traveller [sic], vol. 3, no. 180 (May 2, no. 15 (January 12, 1911): 4. 1859): 2. 7. The Great Organ at The Cathedral of 19. “Letters to the Editor,” The Tracker, vol. St. John the Divine—Description, History, 14, no. 2 (Winter 1970): 17. Condition—A Plan for Restoration ([New 20. “New Organ Arrived,” The Petersburg York, New York:], Cathedral of St. John the (Virginia) Index, vol. 14, no. 31 (October 8, Divine, [1992]). 1872): 5. 8. Michael Quimby, John L. Speller, Dou- 21. Organ Historical Society, Organ Hand- glass Hunt, and Eric Johnson, “Cover Fea- book (1974): 44–45. ture. Resurgence of a Landmark Instrument. 22. “Broad Street M. E. Church,” (Rich- The Restoration of the Great Organ in the mond, Virginia) Daily Dispatch, vol. 19, no. Illustration 17: completely unidentified Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York 57 (March 19, 1861): 2. City,” The American Organist, vol. 43, no. 11 23. John Van Varick Elsworth, The Johnson (November 2009): 40–43. Organs: The Story of One of Our Famous 9. Edward W. Flint, The Newberry Memo- American Organ Builders (Harrisville, New rial Organ at Yale University: A Study in the Hampshire: The Boston Organ Club Chapter History of American Organ Building (New of the Organ Historical Society, 1984): 151. Haven: Yale University Press; and London: 24. Scot L. Huntington, Barbara Owen, Ste- Oxford University Press, 1930), 19; hereaf- phen L. Pinel, and Martin R. Walsh, Johnson ter, Flint; and Joseph F. Dzeda, “Cover Fea- Organs 1844–1898: A Documentary Issued on ture. Newberry Organ Restoration Nears the 200th Anniversary of his Birth (Cranbury, 2020-2022 Projects Completion,” The Diapason, vol. 107, no. New Jersey: The Princeton Academy of the 11 (November 2016): 26–28. Arts, Culture, and Society, 2015): 150. 86$LU)RUFH$FDGHP\3URWHVWDQW&DGHW&KDSHOĆ&RORUDGR6SULQJV&R 10. “Firm Rebuilding Big Yale Organ,” The 25. Organ Historical Society, Organ Hand- Springfield (Massachusetts) Union, vol. 52, book (2002): 101. Rebuild III/83 Moller/Holtkamp no. 307 (November 6, 1915): 3. 11. “Skinner Organ for Woolsey Hall, Yale 26. “Organ Recital,” Carlisle (Pennsylva- 86$LU)RUFH$FDGHP\&DWKROLF&DGHW&KDSHOĆ&RORUDGR6SULQJV&R University, New Haven, Conn.,” Stop, Open nia) Daily Herald, vol. 6, no. 29 (October 23, and Reed, vol. 5, no. 1 (September 1929): 1891): 1. Rebuild III/33 Moller/Holtkamp 27. “The Organ Accepted,” Carlisle (Penn- 18–19. 7KH)R[7KHDWUHĆ$WODQWD*D 12. Flint, frontispiece. sylvania) Weekly Herald, vol. 91, no. 42 (Oc- 13. “A Busy Organ-Tuner,” Wilmington tober 15, 1891): 3. Rebuild “Mighty Mo” Moller theater organ console (Delaware) Daily Republican, vol. 18, no. 95 28. “The McCormick Memorial: Fine New (April 9, 1887): 1. Organ First Heard in a Recital Friday Eve- %URDG6WUHHW3UHVE\WHULDQ&KXUFKĆ&ROXPEXV2K 14. “Organ Specially Designed,” The (Rich- ning,” Port Huron (Michigan) Daily Times, mond, Virginia) Times-Dispatch, No. 17,361 vol. 30 (July 27, 1901): 5. Build V-manual console with new windchests and more (October 28, 1906): 6; and “View in New 29. “First Recital on the Organ: Affair at the 6W$QGUHZ(SLVFRSDO&KXUFKĆ)RUW3LHUFH)OD Cathedral Showing Great Organ,” TD, No. Methodist Church Last Night was a Great 17,545 (April 29, 1907): 8. Success,” The (Port Huron, Michigan) Daily New III/31 pipe organ 15. Donald R. Traser, The Organ in Rich- Herald, No. 305 (July 27, 1901): 3. mond: A History of the Organs, Organists, 30. Allison Alcorn-Oppedahl, “A History St Simons Island Presbyterian ChurchĆ6W6LPRQV,VODQG*D and Organ Music in Richmond, Virginia, of the Hinners Organ Company of Pekin, from 1816 to 2001(Richmond, Virginia: Rich- Illinois,” The Tracker, vol. 44, no. 3 (2000): New III/38 pipe organ mond Chapter, American Guild of Organists. 13–25. 3OXVPRUHSURMHFWVIRUQHZFRQVROHVQHZIDFDGHV 2001): 92–94. 31. “Death Claims C. E. Morey, 63, Or- 16. Hamilton Andrews Hill, History of the ganbuilder,” Utica (New York) Observer Dis- UHEXLOGLQJDQGUHVWRUDWLRQRIYLQWDJHLQVWUXPHQWV Old South Church (Third Church) Boston, patch, vol. 14, no. 51 (June 21, 1935): 23; and 1669–1884 (Boston and New York: Hough- “C. E. Morey, 63, Succumbs Here,” Utica ton, Mifflin and Company, 1890): 446–81. Daily Press, vol. 54, no. 87 (June 21, 1935): 4. How can we help you? 17. Stephen L. Pinel, “Late from London: 32. T. L. Finch, “Organ Building in Upstate Henry Corrie, Organbuilder, and His Fam- New York in the Nineteenth Century,” The ZZZSLSHRUJDQFRPĆ ily,” The Tracker, vol. 40, no. 4 (1996): 11–23. Bicentennial Tracker (1976): 68–69.

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Peragallo Pipe Organ Company, that was forged in John, Sr.’s days in the Paterson, New Jersey old city. Father Antonio, familiar with Saint Leonard of Port Maurice the Peragallos’ work on new organs from Parish, Boston, Massachusetts decades prior, asked that they come take A long time ago, a young John Pera- a look at his unique circumstances and gallo, Sr., made his way up to Boston see what solutions may be considered. from what was then a much smaller In the late summer and fall of 2018, New York City—a fraction of the size we Frank, John (III), Anthony, and John know today. He served as an apprentice (IV) Peragallo made multiple visits to and installer with the notable Ernest M. discuss the project in greater detail over Skinner Company and had been recom- espresso in the old Italian café next to mended by his superiors to go up to Bos- Saint Leonard’s. ton to gain experience at the big plant. The new pipe organ’s tonal resources A lot has changed in both towns since are fully encased in reciprocal cherry that day, but some things remain the cabinets, reflecting the many architec- same. The North End neighborhood in tural features found in and around the Boston is still teeming with its Italian church. A widely scaled Trompetta de flavor from the old days and even today is Porto Maurizio is positioned en chamade filled with many people coming directly at the center of the organ on a bridge from Italy to share in the American that spans the two opposing cabinets. dream. It is common to walk down the This bridge provides a solid backbone street and hear people conversing in for tone to project down the center axis their native tongue, living a day, not with of the church. the American rush, but with the pace and The new tonal design features many of temperament you would expect to find the original ranks of pipes and includes on the streets of Rome. This neighbor- more than a dozen new ranks to fill its hood also holds many of Boston’s most palette. A new soaring Harmonic Flute historic treasures: the Old North Church, and Oboe are some of the featured Paul Revere’s home, and the infamous solo stops atop a foundation of lush and naval ship, the USS Constitution. These widely scaled fluework that pays hom- monuments lie just steps away on the age to the early 20th-century American Freedom Trail from the parish church of organ sound. The antiphonal division Saint Leonard of Port Maurice. is specifically designed to support the Founded by the Franciscan friars liturgy from the front of the church and in 1873, Saint Leonard’s parish had allows the organist to maintain pace struggled through decades of stretched between the gallery and chancel from resources leaving the church severely the new console position on the floor of impacted by the brutal Boston win- the nave. ters. The pastor of Saint Leonard’s, The new French terraced keydesk is Monsignor Antonio Nardoianni, was also built of cherry. This design was made handpicked by the archbishop to restore to be as compact as the stoplist would this old church, which has been home allow, as its new home would be in the Saint Leonard of Port Maurice Parish, Boston, Massachusetts to tens of thousands of immigrants front of the church near the altar where over the generations. Monsignor went there is an abundance of programmatic many of the crew being away from home about this mission by tirelessly working needs for the liturgical celebration. for weeks on end to see the instrument along with the parishioners to raise the From inception to completion, the to completion. The crew settled into millions of dollars needed, dollar by project took less than a year to complete, one of the homes not far from the dollar with a donation box right outside with a promised completion by Easter of church, with Frank Peragallo cooking the church gate. Along with the local 2019. The Peragallo team brought its full a big Italian dinner each night utiliz- parishioners, the tourists who passed the complement of resources to bear, seeing ing the many great culinary resources church funded its reconstruction over the original instrument taken down and of this neighborhood. This somewhat many years bringing about a new con- shipped back to the shops in Paterson compensated the pain of being on the nection for the visitors and this parish. just as the Christmas season was wrap- road and many hours of hard work. The The efforts of all paid off in the resulting ping up. The design team simultaneously final voicing occurred in late March by beautifully restored Romanesque struc- worked with the parish design team to the Peragallo family, just in time, and as ture that once again serves the Boston develop the final look of the casework promised to Monsignor, for Holy Week faithful to its fullest potential. that would properly fit this grand archi- to begin. The original Laws pipe organ had seen tecture, and after months of designing, Complete with the new organ, years of exposure to the leaks that were the final plan was completed. The fac- the newly renovated space holds a permeating the roof and compromised tory was humming with each component tremendous range of acoustic. One’s much of the mechanism and wood pipe- of the organ being meticulously crafted existence as an individual is noticeably work. The balcony would for the short and assembled in the workshops. A few distinguished upon entrance to this term no longer house the choir due to months later the completed instrument space from the bustling city just beyond accessibility deficiencies, presenting a was carefully disassembled, packed, and the church doors. Making impactful Church exterior new hurtle of how the parish would have readied for transport. music in this acoustic environment is access to its organ. The organ installation team arrived natural and blossoms through Saint see new melodies transpire. It is such After 100 years, the Peragallos found at Saint Leonard’s on a cold March day Leonard’s great dome with many of a pleasure to see that Saint Leonard’s themselves back in Boston, this time and began to erect the instrument. This the well-known organ works, but also is often a place where concert artists building organs under a family banner part of the process is a team effort, with liberates the creative genius that can such as the notable Leonardo Ciampa

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GREAT ORGAN CHAMADES (49 pipes) CHANCEL ORGAN (expressive) 32′ Contre Bombarde wps 16′ Violone wps 8′ Swell Trompetta de Porto Maurizio 8′ Montre wps 16′ Bombarde 32 pipes 8′ Montre 61 pipes 8′ Great Trompetta de Porto Maurizio 8′ Flûte Angelique wps 16′ Basson Great 8′ Violoncelle wps 8′ Cor de Chamois wps 4′ Cromorne Great 8′ Bourdon Cheminée 61 pipes SWELL ORGAN (expressive) 8′ Cor de Chamois Celeste wps 8′ Flûte Harmonique 49 pipes 8′ Montre composite 4′ Prestant wps Couplers (common bass) 8′ Cor de Nuit 61 pipes 4′ Flûte Fuseau wps Great to Pedal 8′ Flûte Conique (expressive) wps 8′ Viole de Gambe 61 pipes 8′ Cor d’ Amour wps Swell to Pedal 8′ Flûte Conique Celéste (expr) wps 8′ Voix Celéste (TC) 49 pipes Chancel Tremblant Swell to Pedal 4 4′ Prestant 61 pipes 4′ Prestant 61 pipes Chancel to Pedal 4′ Flûte Octaviante 12 pipes 4′ Flûte Traversiere 61 pipes PEDAL ORGAN 2 (ext Flûte Harmonique) 2⁄3′ Nasard (g20) 30 pipes 32′ Contre Basse wps Swell 16 2′ Doublette 61 pipes 2′ Octavin (ext Flûte Trav) 12 pipes 32′ Flûte Conique wps Swell Unison Off 3 III/IV Fourniture 183 pipes 1⁄5′ Tierce (g20) 30 pipes 16′ Montre wps Swell 4 IV Cymbale composite II/V Plein Jeu composite 16′ Violone Great 16′ Basson wps 16′ Cor di Bassetto wps 16′ Flûte Conique wps Swell to Great 16 8′ Trompette 61 pipes 8′ Hautbois 61 pipes 16′ Bourdon 32 pipes Swell to Great 8′ Cromorne wps 8′ Voix Humaine wps 8′ Montre Great Swell to Great 4 4′ Clairon (ext Trompette) 12 pipes Tremblant 8′ Bourdon (ext 16′ Bourdon) 12 pipes Great 4 Tremblant 8′ Flûte Conique wps Chimes wps 4′ Flûte Ouverte Great Chancel to Swell

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Trompetta de Porto Maurizio find themselves. Mr. Ciampa’s connec- their time and support to the restora- tion to Saint Leonard’s is beyond just tion of this great edifice and pipe organ. a great performance space but one We also thank the staff of the church, that dates back generations. His fam- the current pastor, Fr. Michael Della ily has been patrons of Saint Leonard’s Penna, who was born and raised in the for over 100 years. Leonard’s constant North End of this great city, and the drive to contribute to the knowledge current director of music, Juan Mesa, and upbringing of new talents in the who continue the work of this parish to organ world is greatly appreciated, and this day. the Peragallo family is honored that he —John Peragallo IV was one of the dedicatory recitalists of the new pipe organ. Peragallo Pipe Organ Company The first dedicatory recital was per- www.peragallo.com formed by David Reccia Chynoweth, organist, on May 24, 2019. Saint Leonard of Port Maurice Parish The Peragallos thank everyone who saintleonardchurchboston.org/ made this project possible—Father Back of console Antonio Nardoianni, Carol and Nick Photos provided by the Peragallo Pipe Ferreri and family, and all who gave Organ Company.

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Chancel to Great 1–4 Swell Accessories Chancel 4 1–4 Great Music rack and light Setter Pedal light MIDI Digital programmable crescendo and bar Pedal MIDI 1 Reversible Thumb Pistons graph (horizontal type) Pedal MIDI 2 Great to Pedal Digital programmable sforzando and indica- Swell MIDI 1 Swell to Pedal tor Swell MIDI 2 Sforzando Swell expression and bar graph Great MIDI 1 Next Great/Chancel Expression and bar graph Great MIDI 2 Previous Transposer Bass Coupler Up Sequencer Down Combination System 53 stops 300 levels of memory Toe Pistons 21 ranks of pipes Piston sequencer with next and previous 1–8 General 1,112 speaking pipes thumb and pistons 1–4 Pedal Programmable Crescendo and Sforzando Wps = Walker pipe sampled voice Reversible Toe Pistons Thumb Pistons Great to Pedal 1–8 General Sforzando The first Roman Catholic Church in New General Cancel Next England built by Italian immigrants

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Hauptwerk (Manual I, Sexquialter II Couplers CD–d′′′) Mixtur B/D IV Hinterwerk + Hauptwerk 8′ Principal 16′ Dulcian B/D (shove coupler) 8′ Gedact 8′ Trommet B/D Pedal + Hauptwerk 4′ Octav 8′ Vox Humana Pedal + Hinterwerk 3′ Nasat 2′ Octav Pedal (CD–d′) a1 = 440 Hz at 18 degrees C 16′ Untersatz Temperament: Kellner-Bach Hinterwerk (Manual II, 16′ Posaune wind pressure: 70mm CD–d′′′) 8′ Quintaden Accessories Builder’s website: www.flentrop.nl. 4′ Gedact Tremulant Learn more about the church here: 3′ Quinta Cimbelstern https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 2′ Waltfloit Vogelgeschrei Dypv%C3%A5g_Church. 1 Dypvåg kirke, Tvedestrand, Norway, Flentrop organ (photo 1⁄2′ Sifloit credit: Dannevig Foto)

Flentrop Orgelbouw, sound. The organ has two windchests, is oak with hand carved ornaments, the to be creative in his or her registrations Zaandam, Netherlands positioned one behind the other—a naturals of boxwood, the sharps of oak and sensitive to explore the beauty it Dypvåg kirke, seventeenth-century solution—to save with ebony covers. The stopknobs are contains. But when played with this care, Tvedestrand, Norway space, two wedge bellows, a stable but ebony. The instrument’s inauguration the instrument will reward the organist The work of Arp Schnitger was flexible wind supply, and a small pedal was played by church organist Hans van and the congregation with a sound qual- the inspiration for the new Flentrop division behind the main case. der Meijden on October 20, 2019. ity that touches the heart. organ in Dypvåg kirke, best suited for The pipe metal was cast on sand. The This organ is a treasure that must be —Erik Winkel, managing director seventeenth- and eighteenth-century key and stop actions are mechanical, played by skillful hands. Its specific style Flentrop Orgelbouw music and with a warm and colorful the manual action suspended. The case and very limited size require the organist

Michael Proscia Organbuilder, providing that client with a rebuilt, Shop personnel: Corley Easterling, Inc., Bowdon, Georgia all-electric, three-manual console with Jesse Caldwell, Mack Hudson, and Alps Road Presbyterian solid-state control from our inventory Michael Isham. Church, Athens, Georgia that better suited that space rather than The Proscia firm offers special thanks Michael Proscia Organbuilder, Inc., retrofitting their extant console. The to several church volunteers and Marvin has completed an organ rebuilding proj- 1972 Schantz console was provided with Pettyjohn, without whose faithful help ect for Alps Road Presbyterian Church, ivory key tops, a luxury now unobtain- the project would not have moved along Athens, Georgia. In 1982, the church able, and was further motivation for us to so smoothly. (then known as Central Presbyterian provide Alps Road Presbyterian Church —Michael Proscia, president Builder’s nameplate Church) commissioned the Schantz a console with elegance. Organ Company to provide an organ to We provided side jamb rocker tablets be completed the following year. The rather than drawknobs. The console instrument of 22 ranks with preparation shell, bench, roll top, and pedalboard for future additions included a two- frame were brought to a local furniture manual, all-electric drawknob console. restoration company that had done simi- The exposed Great division was divided lar work for us with very pleasing results. on either side of the chancel, with the The new coupler/combination action Swell division to the right and Pedal divi- and organ control relay was provided sion to the left as one faces the altar. The by Peterson Electro-Musical Products, chambers are very generous in size with Inc. Worn pedal keys and contacts were tonal egress on the long side via unob- replaced with new components along structed openings, speaking directly into with a portable platform, donated by the chancel. The sanctuary contains some our firm. The departure from a set, per- sound absorbing materials (pew cushions manent position of the previous console and carpeting); however, its rectangular allows for traditional service placement shape, high ceiling, and generous size, and concert position for recitals, etc., part allows the organ full bloom into the room. of the chancel reconfiguration process. From the beginning of our association Fortuanately, in February 2020, just with the church and organist Emma Pet- before the outbreak of the pandemic in tyjohn (April 2011), we recommended the United States, the instrument was completing the prepared-for additions, rededicated as part of an annual church including replacing the mechanical com- celebration. The event was well attended bination action with solid-state compo- with a program that “pulled out all the nents. As time went on, notwithstanding stops” including an organ recital by Dr. the fine craftsmanship of the Schantz Pettyjohn, choir, and handbell ringers. Console, Alps Road Presbyterian Church, Athens, Georgia company, some of the console switches and preset controls became defective and, inasmuch as these were now becoming obsolete, became increasingly difficult to Michael Proscia Organbuilder, Inc. replace. This (and other planned chancel Alps Road Presbyterian Church, Athens, Georgia changes) motivated the church to begin a 3 concise, overall improvement project. GREAT 1⁄5′ Terz* 61 pipes 8′ Principal 32 pipes ′ 1 ′ ′ Our original intention was to complete 8 Principal 61 pipes 1⁄3 Quinte 61 pipes 8 Rohr Bourdon (Sw) 8′ Bourdon 61 pipes 1′ Scharff III (draws Quinte) 122 pipes 4′ Choral Bass 32 pipes the project as outlined above; however, 8′ Holz Gedeckt* 61 pipes 8′ Trompette 61 pipes 4′ Nachthorn (Gt) fate intervened and an opportunity to 8′ Gemshorn (in Sw box) 61 pipes 4′ Oboe Clarion 61 pipes 2′ Octave (ext 4′ Chor Bass) 12 pipes go beyond previous recommendations 4′ Octave 61 pipes Tremulant 16′ Contra Trumpet (ext, Sw) 12 pipes ′ ′ presented itself. Rather than retaining 4 Nachthorn* 61 pipes Sw 16-Unison Off-4 8 Trompette (Sw) 2′ Blockfloete 61 pipes 4′ Rohr Schalmey (Pos) the extant two-manual console, we sug- 1 1⁄3′ Mixture IV 244 pipes POSITIV* Gt/Ped 8-4 gested a rebuilt, three-manual console 8′ Krummhorn (in Sw box) 61 pipes 8′ Quintade 61 pipes Sw/Ped 8-4 be provided along with another division Chimes* (24 tubes) 8′ Salizional 61 pipes Pos/Ped 8 ′ for the first keyboard, specifically a new Gt/Gt 4 4 Copula 61 pipes Gt Unison Off 2′ Principal 61 pipes Reversibles Positiv. As further incentive, we agreed Sw/Gt 16-8-4 1′ Super Octave (ext 2′) 12 pipes Gt/Ped to provide (at no cost) an eight-bell Cym- 2′ Mixture III 183 pipes Sw/Ped balstern, Chimes, and two ranks for the SWELL 8′ Rohr Schalmey 61 pipes Pos/Ped ′ ′ Great division. After some negotiations 16 Rohr Bourdon (ext 8 ) 12 pipes Sw/Pos 8-4 Sfz 8′ Viole da Gamba 61 pipes Cymbalstern* and recommendation from Dr. Petty- 8′ Viole Celeste (TC) 49 pipes PEDAL john to the church’s Session, we received 8′ Rohr Bourdon 61 pipes 32′ Faux Bourdon (resultant) * additions by Proscia an enthusiastic “go for it!” 4′ Principal 61 pipes 16′ Principal (ext 8′ Princ) 12 pipes 4′ Koppelfloete 61 pipes 16′ Brummbass 32 pipes 42 stops, 36 ranks, 2,167 pipes We obtained a Schantz electro-pneu- 2 2⁄3′ Nasat* 61 pipes 16′ Quintaton (ext, Pos) 12 pipes matic, three-manual, drawknob console, 2′ Octave 61 pipes 16′ Rohr Bourdon (Sw) built in 1972, from another client after

20 Q THE DIAPASON Q DECEMBER 2020 WWW.THEDIAPASON.COM Reviews Bert Adams, FAGO PATRICK ALLEN Park Ridge Presbyterian Church Book Reviews My copy of the Harvard Dictionary of Park Ridge, IL GRACE CHURCH The Compenius Organ: Measure- Music describes a toccata as “a keyboard Pickle Piano & Church Organ Systems NEW YORK ments and Descriptions (Compenius- composition in free, idiomatic keyboard Bloomingdale, IL orglet: Opmålinger og beskrivelser), style, employing full chords and running edited by Sven-Ingvart Mikkelsen, passages, with or without the inclusion of assisted by Thomas Lyngby, Eng- sections in imitative style (fugues).” Of lish translation by Gwyn Hodgson. course the defi nition does not stop there, Christopher Babcock Your artist spotlight can appear The Museum of National History at but for many people the term “toccata” on The Diapason website for Frederiksborg, Hillerød, Denmark, makes them think of the famous “Toc- as little as $16 per month St. Andrew’s by the Sea, 2020. Available from: dnm.dk. cata” from Widor’s Fifth Symphony or Contact Jerome Butera, In 2012, the Museum of National possibly the Boëllmann “Toccata” from Hyannis Port [email protected] History at Frederiksborg published The Suite Gothique. Compenius Organ at the Frederiksborg However, some contemporary com- Castle (see the February 2013 issue of posers have been writing toccatas that The Diapason, page 8), a 213-page expand the defi nition of the term. One book in English and Danish containing of the most recent of these is Thomas Dean W. Billmeyer essays by Thomas Lyngby and Mads Åberg’s Toccata Nr. 20 with the subtitle Kjersgaard regarding the history and “Distant Landscapes.” It is unusual in University of Minnesota most recent restoration of the organ. The that Åberg specifi es mp registration con- Minneapolis 55455 • [email protected] lavishly illustrated volume was accompa- sisting of 8′ and 4′ stops on the Swell to nied by a DVD for an added dimension begin, with Great 8′, 4′, 2′ used later. The of illustration. hands switch back and forth on the Great This year, the Museum of National and Swell with stops added or subtracted GAVIN BLACK History at Frederiksborg, with the to bring out certain effects. The dynamic Byron L. Blackmore support of the Johan Otto Wroblewski remains at the soft end of the scale until Princeton Early Keyboard Center Crown of Life Lutheran Church Foundation and the Frobenius Foun- near the end when it builds to ff before 732/599-0392 Sun City West, Arizona dation, has published this supplement returning to p and mp at the end. www.pekc.org focusing on documentation of the organ I have given much thought to Åberg’s 623/214-4903 through text and illustrations. Articles by subtitle “Distant Landscapes.” Many Paul Peeters and Mads Krersgaard draw people in Maine, where I live, think of all the evidence together. the ocean when they hear this term—the The castle organ was commissioned vast distances stretching off as far as you THOMAS BROWN Carson Cooman by Duke Heinrich Julius of Brunswick- can see. The interesting thing for me is CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA Composer and Concert Organist Wolfenbüttel shortly after the turn of that, having grown up on the prairie in Harvard University the seventeenth century, with Michael Wyoming, I see in my mind the great ThomasBrownMusic.com www.carsoncooman.com Praetorius as consultant. Built by Esa- distances with their undulating surfaces; ias Compenius and fi nished in 1610 I can hear the birds calling from the for Hessen Castle, the two-manual grasses and even see the antelope graz- organ of wooden pipes has had at least ing a couple miles off across the land- Your professional card four homes, eventually transferred scape. There are a multitude of things DELBERT DISSELHORST to Frederiksborg Castle, just outside happening out there that you hear in the could appear here! Copenhagen. The organ has remained music, but cannot see, even the warning Professor Emeritus Contact: [email protected] relatively unchanged for over 400 years. rattle of a nearby rattlesnake! University of Iowa–Iowa City or 608/634-6253 The 2020 publication’s text is in Eng- This piece does not appear to be very lish (on the left of the page) and Danish diffi cult at fi rst, but the required stop (on the right). Near the opening of the changes keep you on your toes—not book, it is noted that additional infor- too bad with pistons. However, on the STEVEN EGLER JOHN FENSTERMAKER mation on the organ continues to come nineteenth-century organ that I play, I Central Michigan University to light, and thus, future items of his- fi nd that some of the changes of stops TRINITY-BY-THE-COVE torical interest will be published at the are diffi cult to navigate. Toe studs would School of Music Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 museum’s website. A simple yet elegant be good to have for when you cannot get NAPLES, FLORIDA slipcase measuring 15 inches high, 10½ a hand free. You can expect to have to [email protected] inches wide, 2½ inches deep contains work on this music, especially with the the hardbound volume of text with 83 many manual transitions. Norberto pages and an interior slipcase with draw- I have been learning the music and ings on individual sheets. trying to fi gure out how to make the The book includes reproductions of required stop changes on my organ. I Susan Goodson Guinaldo Aristide Cavaillé-Coll’s proposal for the will have to fi nd an alert page-turner and Emanuel United Church of Christ His Music restoration of the organ in 1895 (costing registrant! Despite this, I have enjoyed Manchester, Michigan See—Listen—Buy 4,950 francs), as well as his employee working on the piece, and I recommend www.GuinaldoPublications.com Félix Reinburg’s daily account of the it highly. Hopefully, I shall be ready to restoration project and description of play it in public soon! the organ upon completion. A picture —Jay Zoller A Professional Card in of Reinburg and another Cavaillé-Coll Newcastle, Maine STEPHEN HAMILTON employee, Jean Lafon, is reproduced. 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The accompanying slipcase contains It has been my distinct pleasure David Herman each drawing from the Marcussen docu- to provide three reviews to date on mentation reproduced to scale, allowing the organ works of James Aylward Trustees Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Music and University Organist the reader to view in detail pipe fronts, (Gregorian Sketches, Sets 1–3, and carvings, casework, and windchest Ten Free Arrangements) for this peri- The University of Delaware Q [email protected] layout. These coordinate with smaller odical. Throughout my observations versions of the drawings in the book and comments regarding his works, four on pages 40 and 41. This publication outstanding characteristics and composi- complements the 2012 book to provide tional procedures consistently manifest Gail Archer a very detailed picture of one of the themselves especially in these fi ve sets. organist world’s oldest organs. First, Aylward’s personal and profes- —Stephen Schnurr sional connections with Gregorian chant www.gailarcher.com LorraineSunghee Brugh, Kim, DMPh.D. Gary, Indiana continue to be a source of musical inspi- Professor of Music Vassar College ration for him. His lived experience of University Organist this music in the pre-Vatican II Catholic Barnard College, Columbia University [email protected] Valparaiso, Ind. New Organ Music Church infuses his choices to shape and (212) 854-5096 Toccata Nr. 20: “Distant land- reshape his chant materials with rhyth- valpo.edu scapes,” by Thomas Åberg, Svensk mic interest and nuance. Promotion 219.464.5084219-464-6796 SOZO Media Musik, 109245, 2019. Available from Second, the composer’s skills from [email protected]@valpo.edu svenskmusik.org. improviser to written score are on full [email protected]

WWW.THEDIAPASON.COM THE DIAPASON Q DECEMBER 2020 Q 21 ANDREW HENDERSON, DMA Reviews WILL HEADLEE Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church e In memoriam New York, NY display in these latter volumes. Although et le Nazard du Positif, 5 et dernier he generally moves to no more than two Couplet du Kyrie; Plein jeu, Premier 1930–2020 www.andrewhenderson.net or three tonal areas per composition, Couplet du Gloria; Petite fugue sur le each statement of the chant demands Chromhorne, 2e Couplet du Gloria; Duo our interest anticipated or preceded by sur les Tierces, 3e Couplet; Basse de free material. Trompette, 4e Couplet; Chromorne sur Richard Barrick Hoskins Third, what has always astonished this la Taille, 5e Couplet; Dialogue sur la Voix Brian Jones e Director of Music & Organist reviewer is this free material that seems to Humaine, 6 Couplet; Trio, la dessus sur Director of Music Emeritus be an organic outgrowth from chant itself. la Tierce et la basse sur la Trompette, St. Chrysostom's Church RINITY CHURCH At times, this music is just a pure joy to 7e Couplet; Récit de Tierce, 8e Couplet; Chicago T [email protected] BOSTON play and hear, while at other times so Dialogue sur les Grands jeux, dernier heartfelt such that I wished the composer Couplet; Offertoire sur les Grands jeux; would pen more works on these themes. Plein jeu, Premier Couplet du Sanctus; Fourth, Aylward provides the organ- Récit de Cornet, 2e Couplet; Élévation, KIM R. KASLING JAMES KIBBIE ist with his registration suggestions, a Tierce en Taille; Agnus Dei, Plein jeu; feature in all fi ve volumes that displays Dialogue sur les Grands jeux, dernier D.M.A. The University of Michigan his great imagination and gift for color. Couplet d’Agnus Dei; Deo Gratias, Petit St. John’s University Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2085 His registrations are designed for larger plein jeu. 734-764-1591 FAX: 734-763-5097 Collegeville, MN 56321 instruments with plenty of color choices, Aude Heartematte is professor of email: [email protected] but as I stated in other reviews, these can organ at the Conservatoire of Strasbourg, be adapted for smaller instruments when organist of Saint-Gervais in Paris, the aware of his initial intentions. church where François Couperin him- David K. Lamb, D.Mus. By comparison to the fi rst three vol- self was organist, and also organist of the Karen Schneider Kirner Director of Music umes of Gregorian Sketches, these latest Billettes Church in Paris, a former medi- Director, Notre Dame Handbell Choir editions reveal a richer harmonic lan- eval monastery that is now a Lutheran Trinity United Methodist Church Assistant Director, Notre Dame Folk Choir New Albany, Indiana guage and greater use of chromaticism. church and is one of the least-known University of Notre Dame 812/944-2229 The composer includes in each volume gems of Parisian architecture. The organ the chant source from the Liber Usualis of Saint-Gervais, where this recording that gives insight to his titles for each was made, was originally built in 1601 of these twenty-two pieces. Some of and has been rebuilt several times. The these chants will be unfamiliar to many organbuilder Thierry made additions organists today, deriving from Vesper under the supervision of Couperin, and A.S.C.A.P. FELLOW, AMERICAN GUILD OF ORGANISTS and Tenebrae antiphons, but there are the organ has retained almost all its origi- others still used such as Pange Lingua nal pipework except for fi ve stops, unfor- 345 SADDLE LAKE DRIVE ROSWELL-ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30076 Gloriosa, Jesu Dulcis Memoria, Salve tunately replaced by Jacques Bertrand in (770) 594-0949 Regina, Alma Redemptoris, Lux Aeterna, 1973. The organbuilder Mülheisen, who and a brilliant toccata on Deo Gratias of also built the organ in Billettes Church, Mass II. gave the instrument a sympathetic resto- I encourage my colleagues to investi- ration in 2001. The Saint-Gervais organ ANDREW PAUL MOORE LEON NELSON gate one or more of these volumes for has rich and distinctive timbres that we CHRIST CHURCH Director of Traditional Music their services and recitals. In each of the have good reason to believe sound very Southminster Presbyterian Church fi ve volumes, Aylward reveals to us how similar to the way they did in Couperin’s SHORT HILLS Arlington Heights, IL 60005 timeless is the music of Gregorian chant, time, which makes this the ideal instru- and he provides music that inspires, ment for recording his music. The organ bridges centuries, and is music of great is not without its surprises. For example, spiritual value. I was astonished by the loudness and —David Troiano pungency of the Voix humaine. LARRY PALMER St. Clair Shores, MI As many readers will know, an organ PHILIP CROZIER Mass is alternated in couplets between CONCERT ORGANIST Harpsichord – Organ a sung line and a line played as an organ ACCOMPANIST New Recordings movement, a practice known as alter- Professor of Music, Emeritus François Couperin: Mass for the Par- natim. The sections comprised Kyrie, 3355 Queen Mary Road, Apt 424 ishes; Mass for the Convents, Aude Gloria, Sanctus and Benedictus, and Montreal, H3V 1A5, P. Quebec SMU, Dallas, Texas Heurtematte, organist. Organ of Agnus Dei, plus a versicle and response Canada St. Gervais, Paris. Raven 2-CD set, at the end—“Ite, Missa est; Deo Gratias” OAR 153, $15.98. Available from (The Mass is ended; thanks be to God). Recitals — Lectures — Consultancies (514) 739-8696 RavenCD.com. Additional organ movements were often [email protected] Compact disc 1: Mass for the Par- included, such as an Elevation and an [email protected] + 214.350-3628 ishes: Plein chant du Premier Kyrie, Offertory, generally the longest move- en taille; Fugue sur les jeux d’Anches, ment of the Mass. 2e Couplet; Récit de Chromhorne, 3e The leafl et accompanying these com- Couplet; Dialogue sur la Trompette et le pact discs is one of the most informative Chromhorne, 4e Couplet; Plein chant, 5e I have ever come across. Besides a thor- $_;v|-@o=THE DIAPASON1om]u-|†Ѵ-|;v et dernier Couplet; Plein jeu, Et in terra ough discussion of the tonal history of Ѵ;Š-m7;u;vŒѴ;u-v|_;‰bmm;uo=|_;bm-†]†u-Ѵ pax; Petite fugue sur le Chromhorne, 2e the instrument by organ historian Jean- u†;mv|;bm‰-u7ĺ Couplet du Gloria; Duo sur les Tierces, Christophe Tosi, it contains a discussion 3e Couplet; Dialogue sur les Trompettes, of the background of Couperin’s organ Clairon et Tierces du G. C. et le Bourdon Masses by Raphaëlle Legrand, profes- et le Larigot du Positif, 4e Couplet; Trio sor of musicology at the Sorbonne. The à 2 dessus de Chromhorne et la basse de leafl et makes it clear that there were in Tierce, 5e Couplet; Tierce en Taille, 6e Couperin’s time very strict rules about Couplet; Dialogue sur la Voix Humaine, how to compose organ Masses, and A gift subscription to 7e Couplet; Dialogue in trio du Cornet very strict rules as to how parish and et de la Tierce, 8e Couplet; Dialogue sur monastic Masses were different. Some les Grands jeux, 9e et dernier Couplet; of these similarities and differences may The Diapason Offertoire sur les Grands jeux; Plein be seen by comparing the movements The perfect gift for chant du premier Sanctus en Canon; listed above. Prescriptive texts included Récit de Cornet, 2e Couplet; Benedictus, the Ceremoniale parisiense of 1662. 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GIULIA BIAGETTI, Cathedral, Lau- Balletto (Il Secondo Libro di Toccate), Treibhaus (Fünf Gedichte von Mathilde sanne, Switzerland, September 25: Valet Frescobaldi; Wondrous Love: Variations Wesendonck), Wagner; Sonata II in c, DUANE SOUBIROUS, Cathedral of will ich dir geben, BWV 736, Wenn wir on a Shape-note Hymn, Barber; Suite op. 65, no. 2, Mendelssohn; Ich steh an St. Mary of the Assumption, San Fran- in höchsten Nöten sein, BWV 641, Pre- Carmélite, Françaix; Fugue in G, BWV deiner Krippe hier, op. 66, no. 3, Karg- cisco, CA, September 6: Praeludium in lude and Fugue in C, BWV 543, Fantasia 577, Bach. Elert; Maria Wiegenlied, Fantasy on Wie C, Vater unser im Himmelreich, Böhm; super Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 713a, schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, op. 40, Rhosymedre (Three Preludes Founded In dir ist Freude, BWV 615, Bach; Trio MATTHEW DION, Cathedral of St. no. 1, Reger. on Welsh Hymn Tunes), Vaughan Wil- on Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, Mary of the Assumption, Fall River, MA, liams; Prélude, Fugue et Variation, op. 18 Richter; Der Tag ist hin, mein Jesu bei August 15: Praeludium in F, Tunder; GEOFFREY MORGAN, Christ- (Six Pièces d’Orgue, no. 3), Franck; Lied mir bleibe, Oley; Twilight, Venus Tocca- Nun danket, alle Gott, BWV 657, Bach; church Priory, Christchurch, UK, Sep- (24 Pièces en style libre, op. 31, no. 17), ta, Williams; Fountain Reverie, Festival tember 24: Radetzky March, op. 228, Vierne; Cantabile, op. 36 (Trois Pièces Tierce en taille (1ere Livre d’orgue), Toccata, Fletcher; Gartan Mother’s Lul- Strauss; Vocalise (14 Songs, op. 34, pour Grand Orgue, no. 2), Franck; Pre- DuMage; Plein jeu, Marchand; Mari- laby, Cavatina, Sheebeg and Sheemore, no. 14), Rachmaninov; Benedictus (12 lude and Fugue in C, BWV 531, Bach. ales, Hakim; Cantilène, Prélude (Trois Stam; St. Peter Postlude, O’Carolan. Stücke, op. 59, no. 9), Reger; Fantasia Pièces), Pierné. and Fugue in c, BWV 537, Bach; Will DAMIN SPRITZER, Ball State Uni- LAURA BOTTEI, Loyola University, o’ the Wisp, Nevin; Intermezzo (Sym- versity, Muncie, IN, September 27: DAVID HATT, Cathedral of St. Mary Chicago, IL, September 20: Prelude phonie VI in g, op. 42, no. 2), Widor. Improvisation sur le Te Deum (Cinq and Fugue in C, BWV 531, Bach; Pas- of the Assumption, San Francisco, CA, Improvisations), Tournemire; Prelude torale, op. 19 (Six Pièces, no. 4), Franck; September 20: Symphonie VI in b, op. CHASE OLSON, Cathedral of St. and Fugue in e, BWV 548, Allein Gott Sonata IV in B-flat, op. 65, no. 4, Men- 59, Vierne. Mary of the Assumption, San Francisco, in der Hoh’ sei Ehr’, BWV 662, Bach; delssohn; Carillon sur la sonnerie du CA, August 9: Symphonie I in d, op. 14, Chaconne in d, BWV 1004, Bach, Carillon de la chapelle du Château de PRZEMYSLAW KAPITULA, Cathe- Vierne. transcr. Messerer; Three Psalm Preludes, Longpont (24 Pièces en style libre, op. dral, Lausanne, Switzerland, September Set 2, no. 3, Howells; Elegy, Howe; Sym- 31, no. 21), Vierne. 18: Improvisations pour orgue sur un RICARDO RAMIREZ, Cathedral of phonie in d, Kunc. ancien cantique polonais, Surzynski; Of- St. Mary of the Assumption, San Fran- DAVID BRIGGS, Cathedral of St. fertoire, op. 7, no. 2, Nowowiejski; Sym- cisco, CA, August 16: Scherzo, op. 2, JOSHUA STAFFORD, Jim Whelan John the Divine, New York, NY, Sep- phonie II in e, op. 20, Vierne. Duruflé; Prelude and Fugue in G, BWV Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, NJ, Sep- tember 29: Partita on Sei gegrüßet, Jesu 541, Bach; Viva, Viva Jesus, Mi Amor, tember 30: Bohemian Rhapsody, Mer- gütig, BWV 768, Bach; Introduction, NOAH KLEIN, St. Joseph Catholic arr. Ramirez; Improvisation on a submit- cury, transcr. Stafford; Sonata Eroïca, Passacaglia, and Fugue in e-flat, Willan. Cathedral, Columbus, OH, September ted theme; Prelude & Fugue sur le nom op. 94, Jongen. 14: Bergamasca (Fiori musicali), Fresco- d’Alain, op. 7, Duruflé. ANGELA KRAFT CROSS, Cathe- baldi; Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele, BWV CHRISTOPH TIETZE, Cathedral of dral of St. Mary of the Assumption, San 654, Prelude and Fugue in D, BWV 532, ANDREW SCANLON, Holy Name St. Mary of the Assumption, San Fran- Francisco, CA, September 13: Improvi- Bach; Amazing Graze (Gospel Preludes, of Jesus Cathedral, Raleigh, NC, Sep- cisco, CA, August 30: Prelude and Fugue sation on Ave Maris Stella, Tournemire, Book II), Bolcom; Adagio (Symphonie tember 15: Postlude in D, Smart; An in G, op. 37, no. 2, Sonata IV in B-flat, transcr. Duruflé;Symphonie II in e, op. III in f-sharp, op. 28), Vierne; Allegro Waßerflüßen Babylon, BWV 653, Bach; op. 65, no. 4, Mendelssohn; Passacaglia 20, Vierne. deciso (Evocation, op. 37), Dupré. O Antiphon Preludes, Muhly; Berceuse à and Fugue in c, BWV 582, Bach.

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