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THE DIAPASON DECEMBER 2012 Sacred Heart Church New Philadelphia, Ohio Cover feature on pages 26–27 'DYLG%DVNH\¿HOG James David Christie Peter Richard Conte Lynne Davis Isabelle Demers Clive Driskill-Smith Jeremy Filsell S. Wayne Foster Christopher Houlihan David Hurd Paul Jacobs Martin Jean Huw Lewis Bruce Neswick Raúl Prieto Ramírez Jean-Baptiste Robin John Rose Herndon Spillman Carole Terry Konstantin Volostnov Bradley Welch CONCERTARTISTS.COM 72:(5+,//5(&25',1*6&20 William Whitehead The Chenaults Paulsson & Canning Organized Rhythm Chanson Due Solisti Duo MusArt Tin Pan Alley Alive Peter Fletcher Paul Bisaccia Steinbach & Helvey True North Brass THE DIAPASON Editor’s Notebook Scranton Gillette Communications One Hundred Third Year: No. 12, In this issue Whole No. 1237 Among the offerings in this issue of The Diapason, Mark DECEMBER 2012 Merrill continues his series on Iberian organ music with a Established in 1909 discussion of the tiento; Stephen Taylor reports on the 2012 Jerome Butera ISSN 0012-2378 Haarlem International Organ Festival; and Scott Riedel offers 847/391-1045; [email protected] part 10 in his ongoing series (dating back to May 1983) on www.TheDiapason.com An International Monthly Devoted to the Organ, “Acoustics in the Worship Space.” The cover feature is Kegg the Harpsichord, Carillon, and Church Music Pipe Organ Builders’ new installation at Sacred Heart Church New look in New Philadelphia, Ohio. Thanks for the many phone calls and e-mail messages about CONTENTS John Bishop devotes his column “In the wind . .” to “Feeding the redesign of The Diapason. It is gratifying to hear from our your passion,” with a discussion of church music, pipe organs, readers who value The Diapason as much as I do. I welcome FEATURES The Tiento: food, bird watching, and idealism. Gavin Black offers part responses to the new look, including constructive criticism. Let An Iberian Art Form three of his organ method, fi nishing up the Introduction with me know what works well and what does not. We continue to by Mark J. Merrill 20 a description of console layout, stop controls, and the pitches evaluate and refi ne our new layout and design. Haarlem International of organ stops. Brian Swager offers an installment of “Carillon Organ Festival 2012 News.” This is in addition to our regular departments of news, Digital edition by Stephen Taylor 22 reviews, new organs, an international calendar, organ recital We continue to explore the option of a digital edition of Acoustics in the Worship Space X programs, and more. The Diapason. An e-mail piece was sent out, with a link to a Good Acoustics—the Economic Factors sample digital edition. You can view this sample, the October by Scott R. Riedel 24 In preparation 2012 issue, at The Diapason website: scroll down to the small NEWS & DEPARTMENTS In the coming months, we will offer articles on Bach’s BWV box on the left-hand side of the home page. Subscribers would Editor’s Notebook 3 565, organs in Poland, reports on AGO and OHS conventions, have the option of choosing the print edition, digital edition, or Letters to the Editor 3 the Schweitzer Festival, and the University of Michigan organ both. Let me know if this would interest you. There will also be Here & There 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12 conference, Copenhagen’s Orgelsamling, and much more. a special reduced student rate for the digital edition. Q Appointments 6 Nunc Dimittis 10 Carillon News by Brian Swager 12 In the wind . by John Bishop 13 Letters to the Editor On Teaching by Gavin Black 15 THE DIAPASON new look is elegant and the content is well orga- writers feel compelled to slam, criticize, REVIEWS I don’t like the new Diapason nized. All of the mechanical changes and tear down the previous installed Music for Voices and Organ 16 Design—I LOVE it! Great job! needed to make the new format refl ect instrument or its technician? Rather than New Recordings 17 I haven’t had time to read up on the new technology, much of which was not limiting themselves to writing about how New Organ Music 18 New Handbell Music 19 electronic version, but will probably available in the recent past, and devoted wonderful their new instrument is, they subscribe soon. staff work, which has always been a start their articles by tearing down the NEW ORGANS 28 Robert Sullivan hallmark of the publication from 1909 competition with harmful comments. CALENDAR 29 Canton, Ohio to the present. Considering a lot of the replaced Arthur Lawrence instruments end up being sold to another ORGAN RECITALS 32 The Diapason looks fantastic! New York, New York client, do the builders tell them they are CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING 34 The color photos are amazing! What a Editor and publisher, The Diapason purchasing a crummy organ? tremendous upgrade you have accom- 1976–1982 Every organ builder has their opinion plished at the magazine. of what a good organ should be, sound THE James R. Metzler, M.Mus., Your new format of the magazine is like, and how it should be built. This is DIAPASON DECEMBER 2012 (Hon) F.N.C.M., Ch.M. spectacular! I just got mine in the mail only their opinion and who designated Grand Rapids, Michigan yesterday. You should be very proud. them as experts? David Lowry, DMA, HonRSCM I am quite sure that other organ Many congratulations on the new Columbia, South Carolina builders go into churches with recently all-color format, which is attractive, installed organs and state they would logically designed, and easy to compre- New Organs have never built it that way! I wonder hend. With it you have achieved a new Regarding the “New Organs” section how the writers feel about that. milestone in more than a century of of The Diapason, does anyone ever Phil Spressart The Diapason. The coated paper stock notice that some organ builders’ article Lake Villa, Illinois Sacred Heart Church New Philadelphia, Ohio Cover feature on pages 26–27 COVER Kegg Pipe Organ Builders, Hartville, Ohio; Here & There Sacred Heart Church, New Philadelphia, Ohio 26 Events 3/22, Douglas Wimer. For information: Christmas in Tudor England; January Madison Avenue Presbyterian 717/397-2734; www.trinitylancaster.org. 31, David Shuler (works by Kuhnau, Editor & Publisher JEROME BUTERA Church, New York City, continues Bruhns, and Buxtehude); March 14, [email protected] its 2012–13 music series: December Holy Name Cathedral, Chicago, Telemann, St. Luke Passion; April 25, 847/391-1045 2, Andrew Henderson; 12/9, My Illinois, announces its Advent recitals on music by Allegri, Palestrina, Josquin, and Lord Chamberlain’s Consort; 12/16, Sundays in December at 3:30 pm, fol- Anerio. For information: 212/414-9419; Associate Editor JOYCE ROBINSON [email protected] 8th annual carol sing; January 27, lowed by Vespers at 4 pm: December 2, www.stlukeinthefi elds.org. 847/391-1044 Duo Marchand; February 10, pianist Rhonda Sider Edgington; 12/9, Stephen Nadejda Vlaeva; 2/24, Juillard415 with Schnurr; 12/16, David Jonies; 12/23, The Music of First Church Boston Designer DAN SOLTIS violinist Monica Huggett. For informa- John W.W. Sherer. For information: continues its Early Music Thursdays, Contributing Editors LARRY PALMER tion: 212/288-8920; www.holynamecathedral.org. a series of recitals on period instru- Harpsichord www.mapc.com/music/sams. ments at 12:15–12:45 pm: December St. John’s Cathedral, Denver, Colo- 6, Gavin Black, harpsichord; 12/13; JAMES MCCRAY Choral Music Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, rado, continues its music series: Decem- Mary Oleskiewicz, traverso, and Andrus Lancaster, Pennsylvania, continues its ber 2, Advent Lessons & Carols; 12/7, Madsen, harpsichord; 12/20, Frederic BRIAN SWAGER 2012–13 concert series: December 2, Kantorei; 12/8 and 12/9, Handel, Mes- Green, harpsichord; January 3, Ian Wat- Carillon Children’s Choir of Lancaster and the siah; 12/14, St. Martin’s Chamber Choir; son, harpsichord; 1/10, Music’s Quill; JOHN BISHOP Lancaster Liederkranz Chorus; Febru- 12/15 and 12/16, Christmas Lessons & 1/17, Héloïse Degrugillier, recorder, and In the wind . ary 10, Thomas Sheehan; March 17, Carols; January 8, Confl uence Saxophone friends; 1/24, Asako Takeuchi, baroque GAVIN BLACK Nathan Laube, April 14, Hymns of Faith; Quartet; 1/11, Garrett/Sterne Duo; 1/18, violin, Héloïse Degrugillier, recorder, On Teaching 4/28, the Heritage Choral of Lancaster. Colorado Bach Ensemble. For informa- and Paul Cienniwa, harpsichord; 1/31, Holy Trinity also presents its Friday tion: 303/577-7717; sjcathedral.org. Paul Cienniwa, harpsichord; February Reviewers Michael Fox noon organ recitals: February 15, Terry 2, Héloïse Degrugillier, recorder, and James M. Reed Jan-Piet Knijff Heisey; 2/22, Paul Reese; March 1, The Church of St. Luke in the friends. For information: 617/267-6730; Jay Zoller Ross Ellison; 3/8, Roger Kurtz; 3/15, Fields, New York City, continues its www.fi rstchurchbostonmusic.org. Leon Nelson Peter Brown and Timothy Mentzer; concert series: December 6, A Royal ³ page 4 THE DIAPASON (ISSN 0012-2378) is published monthly by Scranton Gillette Communications, Inc., 3030 W. Salt Creek This journal is indexed in the The Music Index, and abstracted in RILM Abstracts. Lane, Suite 201, Arlington Heights, IL 60005-5025. Phone 847/391-1045. Fax 847/390-0408. E-mail: [email protected]. Copyright ©2012. Printed in the U.S.A. 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