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The American N eo-Classic Organ: Historical Distinctions EDITORIAL

N RECENTYEARS the Organ HistoricalSociety has taken a quantum Will the day come that we will lose most of the neo-classical organs leap in philosophy by broadening its perspective as to what in this country from this period, removing a critical part of the Icorstitutes an historic organ. It appears that that change has evolutionof tonal design? It could happen. This genreof instrument been largely accepted by its membership or, perhaps more accurate­ provides a link that should be kept as its designers originally ly, driven by a greater catholicity of viewpoints as the Society has intended. grown in nwnbers. The OHS has conferred one Historic Organ Citation for a 1950s­ It was not that long ago that an organ had to have trackeraction era electropnewnatic instrument, the Holtkamp of 1950 in Crouse in order forit to be worthy of attentionby the OHS. Some tracker­ Hall of Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. None that have pneumatics, such as Roosevelt instruments, or partially tubular­ been built as all-new instruments during the timeframe under pneumatic organs were almost grudgingly accepted into the discussion here have been cited, although certainly the 1951 "canon." Thenthe real change of recognizingoutstanding examples Holtkamp at Battell Chapel, Yale University, New Haven, Connec­ of 20th-century electropnewnatic-action organs came into being, ticut, recently restored and used for the 1985 premiere of the 33 especially the work of E.M. Skinner, the W.W. Kimball Company, newly-discovered Bach chorale preludes, would be an obvious Welte, and Aeolian. They were disappearing at far too fast a pace candidate. In addition, it would be hard to overlook the magnum to ignore,junked or "modernized" by radical rebuilding or tonal opus of Herman Schlicker, his 1959 organ at the Chapel of the changes. Resurrection at Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana, which Then what is the next step? for a time was used as an accompanying illustration as the only American example for the "Organ" article in the Encyclopedia There are many instruments that were built after World War II Britannica. Yet how many 1950s organs can you find that people up to the early 1960s that now may be in a precarious situation. consider "historic" or think should be "restored"? While G. Donald Harrison-designed Aeolian-Skinner organs up to the late 1950s are perhaps the most prominent of this period and Nor is it too early to begin thinking about the citation of such thus tli.e most likely to survive essentially intact for some time, landmark instruments as the first major neo-classical, mechanical­ othersare not. Electropnewnatic organs by firms such as Schlicker action organs in this country. Certainly the 1956 (installed 1957) and Holtkamp, to name but two examples who largely eschewed Von Beckerath at Trinity Lutheran Church in Cleveland and the mechanical actionand even rarely usedelectri c-slider action, are at 1958 Flentrop at Harvard University, the latter so often recorded an age where they may need restoration. upon by E. Power Biggs, were both absolutely pivotal in the revival of tracker organs in the United States. They are definitely historic Perhaps influencedby scaling and voicing trendsin the past ten organs! years, regardless of the action issue, such organs are now regarded by some people as undersealed and too lightly voiced (using low Is the Society ready to embrace the next evolution in its role of cut-ups, etc.) and are in danger of being rescaled and revoiced. This facilitating the preservation and promotion of historic organs in seems to beas unmindful of historicvalue as rebuildingwould be. America? I would like to think so. SRWF 3 GUZOWSKI & STEPPE LETTERS Editor: ORGANBUILDERS.INC For several years I have been collecting information on organ music and organ playing in France during the 19th century. My 1121 EAST COMMERC!AL BLVD NEW INSTRUMENTS research has included work in a number of libraries, with extended FT LAUDERDALE. FL 33334 REBUILDS - ADDITIONS (305) 491-6852 TUNING & SERVICE visits to major libraries in Paris, London, Washington, Rochester, and New York City. Recently I paid my first visit to the OHS Organ Archive in voicer Princeton.There I was able to find some important sources that were tonal finisher Cl-lARLf;S V/. McMAN IS not available in any of the other libraries.To cite only one example, "Have voicing tools, will travel!" I was able to see there the complete file of the Swiss periodical, La Johnson/Roosevelt/McManls type flue voicing Tribune de l'Orgue. 651 Pershing Drive The OHS Organ Archive is one of the most complete organ Walnut Creek, CA 94596 (415)946-0277 research collections available to all organ scholars. That it has gained this stature within a relatively short time reflects both the excellent work of the archivist, Stephen Pinel, and the wisdom of the National Council in giving adequate support and encourage­ ment to this project. It is already a splendid achievement for the OHS. Future generations of organists, organbuilders, and organ PlrPE ORGA..� l""tr1fT,DIER� scholars may well view it as our organization's most significant At.NU JRJE,s;'IJ'ORLl<':!'i> achievement. I am more than a little proud to be a member of an organization PO BOX 5421 BUFFALO, IOWA 52728 / 319 381 1242 with the vision to support such a splendid collection. My personal thanks and congratulations to all who have shared in establishing �------1 . and developing the OHS Organ Archive. Orpha Ochse DONALD R. M. PATERSON Whittier, California 1 i Editor: University Organist and I I was interested to read in The Tracker (34:4:14) an item in I Sage Chapel Choirmaster J "Organ Update" that states "In 1917, the California Organ Co. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York operated by Murray M. Harris donated organs to three schools I , ,.______� attended by Harris' children." Although this makes very amusing reading, it is inaccurate. Murray M. Harris did not operate the ROCHE PHONE: (508) 823,0236 CaliforniaOrgan Co.; he and his wife were childless, and they lived Member: in Los Angeles where, if they had had children, their offspringwould Organ Co., Inc. lntemational Society of Org:anlruddcn Ame.rlcan Institute of Org:anbulldcn not have been able to attend a school district some 25 miles away. 799 Wesl Waler Streel Taunton, Massachusetls 02780 The CaliforniaOrgan Co. did build three school organs, but not builders of fine mechanical in 1917. An instrument in Van Nuys High School was installed action organs during the summer of 1915 and played in recital by Edwin Lemare on July 31, 1916. Canoga Park (originally called Owensmouth) High School had an organ installed in 1916 and a third instrument, a three-manual, was opened at Redondo Beach High School on April 11, 1916. Jim Lewis Pasadena, California Editor: Roger Evan's comments (Tracker, 34:4) concerning Agnes Armstrong's "'Organ LoftWhisperings': The Paris Correspondence of Fannie Edgar Thomas" (Tracker, 34:3) typifies, in part, the attitude that has held the scholarship of music in the grip of the "canon"-the group of works and composers that white, male musicologists have deemed as worthy of study, where even Mr. Evans's "super-refined art of Widor, Guilmant, and Saint-Saens" figures as second rate. I appreciate Mr. Evans's need to view with discrimination the writings of Miss Thomas. Yet, her alleged inaccuracies do not warrant a summary condemnation. The very appearance and con­ tinuity of her writings speak loudly to their importance as a sociological, and, yes, a musical phenomenon. Concomitantly, the CLASSIFIEDADVERTISING comments of Liszt and Berlioz cited by Mr. Evans concerning FOR SALE: Stereo cassette recording of Franck's rarely heard Solemn Saint-Saens abilities as organist smack of "good ol' boy'' rhetoric. Mass in A, Op. 12, sung by the Chancel Choir of First Presbyterian Church, Burlington, NC, with organ and instruments. Included, Franck's Trois The exclusion of non-canon composers and the dismissal of Pieces (1878) played by Robert Burns King on 1967 Schantz, 3-45. Send non-conventional chroniclers of musical events such as our Fannie $1O ck. to First Presbyterian Church, attn. R. B. King, 508 West Davis St., Edgar Thomas can only produce an even more revisionist view of Burlington, NC 27215. music history.This unfortuantecircumstance helps to keep musicol­ FOR SALE: VOCALION harmonium, 10 rank, two manual and 30 note ogy limping along ten years behind everyother scholarly discipline. pedal, 1902, excellent original condition. Best offer. Wayne Leupold, 31 I want to encourageMs. Armstrong and The Tracker to continue Chenango St., Cazenovia, NY 13035 or call 315/655-8556 (except Tues­ days and Thursdays). to provide these interesting and unadulterated articles. Your readers, including Mr. Evans, can judge for themselves the impor­ FOR $ALE: 200 pipe organs mostly old, with mechanical action; all sizes, varying conditions. Send $5.00 in stamps for list. Some electro-pneumatic tance of the information, then use it""T°r not use it-as they see fit and late-model instruments also available. Alan Laufman, Executive Direc­ Karl Loveland tor, Organ Clearing House, P. 0. Box 104, Harrisville, NH 03450. Rochester, New York 4 Editor: In the "Organ Update" (34:4:12) there are some errorswhich I ALFRED BUTTLER III would like to correct. J. The 1923 Pilcher at Peachtree Christian in Atlanta retains its Unadulterated Restoration of 1953 Austin console. A 1970s Ruffatti in the rear gallery will be Worthy Electro-Pneumatic Instruments rebuilt by Guzowski & Steppe, as was the Pilcher. It is the Ruffatti console that will be replaced with a new console. 122 Huntington Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 201-828-4244 E. M. Skinneropus 583 will be followedin the Thomas residence by Austin opus 1868 and Aeolian-Skinner opus 899, a 2-9 residence player. In a unique arrangement, the player will play both organs and both can be played fromthe Austin3-manual knob console for �cf.� a total of 3-45. While restoration of the Skinner is being ac­ �&,�� complished, the temporaryinstrument in the Thomas residence is a '--� Pipe Organ Eero Richmond Components Brooklyn, New York Catalogue - $7.50 Archive Research Grants Awarded

HE ORGAN HISTORICAL socmrr has awarded grantsfor research KIMBER-ALLEN during 1991 in the OHS American Organ Archive to Agnes P.O. Box 2178 TArmstrong of Altamont, New York (19th-century American Hagerstown, MD 21742-2178 organ recital practice); Michael Friesen of HoffmanEstates, Illinois (Alexander Mills and continuingwork on a biographical dictionary of 19th-century American builders); and AnnMarie Rigler of Iowa City, Iowa (John Zundel).

The Society makes available a number of grants annually to assist scholars in meeting the expenses of travel to its American T Organ Archive at Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jer­ Tt� ��� ( sey. The Society's collections contain extensive primary source 216/338·8592 OR material on the history of American organs, organbuilding, and organ literature, as well as the related field of American church music.For further informationor to apply, contact John Ogasapian, College of Music, University of Lowell, Massachusetts 01854. Obituaries �v�ty'51&!i1! Thomas J. McBeth, died November Ann Arbor, MI 48to9-Z08s 17, 1990, at age 57 of complications of AIDS. He was an active member of OHS, AGO, and a founder of the National As­ sociation of Keyboard Arts, serving as publisher, untilrecently, of their journal, DOUGLAS REED Keyboard Arts. A Texas native and graduate of Baylor University, he settled University of Evansville in Princeton, New Jersey, in1960, where formany years he was associated with the Evansville, Indiana New School of Music and was active in church music in the area. His interest in publishingled to the establishment of his ThomasJ. McBeth typesettingstudio, Image Graphics. David Gooding After a long and active performance career in the U. S. and Saint Peter's Episcopal Church Europe, he gave a final public concert at Zion Church, Brooklyn, in April 1990 with the Brooklyn Heights Chamber Music Society. Lakewood, Ohio 44107 David R.Thurman, OHS member and organist-choirmasterof Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Miami, died December 4, 1990, of heart failure. A gifted theatre organist, he played the Wurlitzer at the Gusman Cultural Center for many years. Mr. Thurman was a past Edwin Alan Ohl Pipe Organs dean of the Miami chapter of AGO and a member of the South Builder of Florida Theater Organ Society. Mechanical-Action Classic Instruments

Selective Restoration OHS National Councillor Appointed John Decamp of San Francisco has been appointed by OHS President Roy Redman to serve as Councillorfor Education on the society's NationalCouncil. He was appointed to fillthe unexpired term of James Carmichael who resigned in the Fall. DeCamp, an organbuilder and long-time OHS member who has ·: R. D. 5, Route 901 attended many conventionsof the Society,is also a nominee forVice Box 5830 r:=;,-;:rr,.=,;:; President of the Society. Elections of Officersand Councillors will __1Ji,M,1,!,,! rt�r-i n fl f Pottsville, PA 17901 717-622-1082 be conducted by mail beforethe National Conventionin July. 6 MARY ANN DODD COLGATE UNIVERSITY HAMILTON, NEW YORK 13346

ORGANBUILDING & RESTORATIONS The earliest known photograph of the two-manual Tannenberg buift in 1800 for the Moravian Churchin Salem, North Carolina. 3165 Hill Road Eagleville, TN 37060 (615) 274-6400 MILNl'\R Dennis, Derek, Jeff& Todd Milnar REVIEWS ORGANI and Associates COMPANY Books Brunner, Raymond J., That Ingenious Business: Pennsylvania German Organ Bullders. Birdsboro, Pennsylvania: The Penn­ sylvania German Society, 1990, 248 pp. Available from OHS Catalog. $35.00 plus $1.75 S&H. Bruce Stevens ReprintedfromThe Kerauiophon, January1991 ORGAN CONCERTS Volume XXIV in the series Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society represents the first comprehensive effort to docu­ St. James's Episcopal Church 1205 West Franklin Street 804-355-1779 ment the work of some of North America's earliest and finest organ Richmond, Virginia 23220 builders. And when one thinks about it, it's high time. William Armstrong's Organs for America: 111e Life& Work of David Tannen­ berg (Philadelphia: Univ. of Penn., 1967) was a valuable and Albert F. Robinson welcome book to an area of interest starvedfor published research on any sortof large scale. And, indeed, it is stilla valued study, but A. A. G. 0., Ch.M., L.T.C.L. it is nearly a quarter-century old, and in any event, deals with but one builder (or, more accurately, two, since there is much material 308 NorthJames Street, Peekskill,New York on Klemmin it). Given so distinguisheda start, one might reasonab­ 10566 ly have expected a follow-up study on the whole Pennsylvania school before 1900, but of course, that did not happen. Ochse's surveyof the American scene, TheHistory of the Organ in the United ORGAN BUILDING & RESTORATION States(Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana Univ. Press, 1975), was followed by this writer's Organ Building in New York City, 1700-1900 T. R. RENCH & CO. (Braintree, Mass.: Organ Lit. Foundation, 1977) and Barbara Owen's monumental The Organ in New England (Ralejgh, N. C.: RACINE, WIS. 5 3403 Sunbury Press, 1979). In one sense then, Brunner's book almost 1405 SIXTEENTH ST. • 414/633-9566 completes the circle of area studieson the earliest centers of organ building in the British colonies and United States. Only Baltimore remains to be probed seriouslyand systematically,and we may hope that a similar study of the art in that city will appear in the STEINER-RECK not-too-distant future. I n c o r n o r a t e d 415 East Woodbine Street In yet another and possibly more important sense, ThatIngenious ORGANBUILDERS Louisville, Kentucky 40208 Business is the first of what we may hope will be a new series of Phone(502) 634�636 regional (and builder) studies, separated from the books that (502) 634-3637 preceded it by more than a decade, including technicaldata beyond simple stoplists with the number of pipes and their general descrip­ tion, wood or metal, stopped or open: the kinds of insights into constructionand scaling that might be expected from a 'fine builder and museum-quality restorer such as Brunnerhimself is. JoCo TAYLOR. f:J COv The book is divided into six main sections, covering the back­ ground and main groups within the school, as it were; the Philadel­ OR.GANIBUllDJEJRS phians from Kelpius to Peyring, the Moravians, the Krauss and Dieffenbach families, smaller builders, and later builders (1840 to TRACKER ACTION ORGANS 1920). There follow appendices containing representative pipe JAMES CAMERON TAYLOR scalings, an inventory of Tannenberg's estate, excerpts from the diaryof John Krauss, and a table showing the approximate number of organs in the ten southeastern counties of Pennsylvania at 300 WEST SIXTH STREET twenty-five year intervals between 1725 and 1850. A glossary of tenns, a bibliography, and an index roJmd out the contents. KAUKAUNA, WISCONSIN 54130 The volume is in a large format, 8.5 x 11", and nicely produced 414-766-2491 on good quality semi-gloss paper. Thestock serves well the black- 7 and-white photographs, of which there are plenty, as well as numerous color plates. A full-page color photograph of the famous ANDOVER Tannenberg case (with later additions) in Trinity Lutheran Church, Box 36 Methuen, MJ&,;achusell.s 01844 Lancaster, is a bit grainy, but impressive, nonetheless. The text is T•�pbonc l!Oll) �•- well edited and the printing sharp and large. The World's Foremost Restorers & Rebuildersof 19th CenturyAmerican Organs Among the items worthy of note, over and above the material on New Mechanical Organs Based on the Heritage of Great American Organbuilding the builders and organs that are the meat of the study, is a tightly written chapter on music and organists in eighteenth-centuryPenn­ sylvania.It brings to mind a full-length study of the subject of early BRIAN MERCHANT church music in the colony and state of Pennsylvania, with its INtenNatiONal President delightfully variegated immigrant groups, might well be timely. ORGAN LEA'CHERS Unless we have dropped a bibliographic stitch, the last such at­ tempted was the four-volume series Church Mw;ic and Mw;icalLife Qu11lil) CE'rlifit'd l.t'lllht>r-, &. roob, 914 Sancome Avenue in Pennsylvania in the Eighteenth Centuryreleased over sixty years for Pipt> Or�an-. • Pla�t'r Piano-. • Mu.,il·al ln,1rumenh South Bend, IN 46628 ago (1926) by the Society of Colonial Dames ... [in] Pennsylvania �amplt> Card ,\"ailahlt> 219-234-8831 and reprinted in 1972 by the American Musicological Society. Brunner's That Ingeniow; Bw;iness is just the volume to inspire such a study. It's well researched, well written, and a thorough NELSON E. BUECHNER pleasure to read in depth, or just to leaf through, reading a few Emmanuel Episcopal Church paragraphs here and there and looking at the photographs. It will J--/olmesburg certainly become a standard resource, indispensable for any library on American organs and church music. Curalor, Grand Court Organ John Ogasapian, Universityof Lowell John Wanamaker Store, Philadelphia Lukas, Viktor, A Guide to Organ Music. Trans. Anne Wyburd. Portland, Oregon: Amadeus Press. Available from OHS Catalog. $22.95 to non-members; $20.95 to members plus $1.75 S&H. At firstglance this book appears to be an organist's dream-come­ true: a handy, one-volume organ literature text, beautifully bound and printed, with copious, well-reproduced musical examples.The latter-at least initially- willbe a welcome sight to those who have worked with Corliss Arnold's Organ Literature and Marilou Kratzenstein'sA Surveyof Organ Literature and Editions. But, unlike the fine scholarly efforts of Arnoldand Kratzenstein, Lukas's book could most favorably be judged by its cover. For beneath the shiny wrapper this is not really a new book: it is little more than a translation of Reclams Orgelmw;ikfiihrer, a text published in Ger­ Jeffrey A. Scofield many almost thirtyyears ago. Brainerd United Methodist Church Organization ( or lack thereof)is the firstproblem the reader will Chattanooga, Tennessee encounter. Lukas proceeds through his subject in strictchronologi­ cal order, according to the birth dates of composers.This makes for some rather strange reading, as when we bounce from Kerll to AGRELL and TIIORPE, LID. Lebegue to Buxtehude to Blow to Christian Ritter, for example. British Classical Carvers Since there are no chapters or sections of any kind, the only way to locate a particular composer is through the index. Furthermore, to discuss organ music without reference to national styles of organ­ building (and their attendant musical idioms) is a questionable practice at best. Yet, nationalism iJ; a factor here. Gamely making a virtue of a necessity, the publishers have advertised that "Organists in the Ian Agrell English-speaking countries will find the author's continental perspectiveof particular interest as he treatsfully the works of many British Master Carver significant composers ... whose works are frequentlyperformed in 1301 Wazee Street, Denver, CO 80204 • 303-825-6416 Germany yet remain almost unknown in America and England." For organists especially interested in little-knownGerman composers, Specialists in carved pipeshades and church carving there may be a certain value in a book that devotes more space to Gunter Raphael that to Maurice Durufle.But often Lukas' "con­ tinental perspective" seems merely a Teutonic bias, as when he refersto French organ musicas "the merry,relaxed, oftensomewhat frivolous sister of its serious-minded German brother." Those who do take the French organ seriously will surely wince as Lukas confounds the Grands Jeuxwith the Organo Pleno and refersto the Recit de Nazard as a "Solo Mixture stop in the fifth." The chapter on twentieth-centuryorgan music is almost exclusively devoted to Germancomposers; few British and only one American were men­ tioned by Lukas. For this edition the lack of attention to contem­ porary English-speaking composers was remedied in a seventeen-page appendix by Lee Garrett; thissection is well-written but is too little too late. Provinciality could easily be forgiven if the book'scontent were of high quality. Unfortunately, however, Lukas' scholarship is often quite superficial and his writing a teacher's nightmare.Confusing run-on sentences such as the following may be found on almost 8 every page: ''One can place this chorale sonata [Mendelssohn's sixth] without reservationbeside similar great works from the distant and recent past; in fact it is more expressive than many others and is Knowlton Organ Co. P. 0. Box 220012 • Charlotte, NC 28222 • 704-596-1429 • 1-800-446-2647 supple and fluid, in spite of a certain routine formality which can Traditional Quallty Craftsmanship • Reliable Service occasionally be glimpsed." Adverbial avalanches may also be found: Tracker Restoration • Maintenance • Additions "This complicated double canon [DWV 608} is both artistically New Organs • Renovations • Voicing • Reproductions highly skilful [sic] and musically entrancingly beautiful." Logic is Member: American Instituteof Organbuilders often in short supply: "Like all chromatic pieces, this [Sweelinck's Chromatic Fantasia] sounds particularly channing and is a well­ rounded and proportioned composition." Clumsy writing and su­ perficiality are combined in the following: "On his [Franck's] organ he had a Trumpet stop in the swell, and wrote a number of pieces NOACK_ for its use, so as to give it a proper chance ·to be heard." And Lukas' THE NOACK ORGAN CO, INC breezy one-paragraph biographies of composers also contain some MAIN ANO SCHOOL STREETS gems, such as ''Purcell, a pupil of Blow, is acknowledged as the GEORGETOWN, MASS 01833 greatest English composer." It is always the translator's duty to produce a good text in the new language, however awkward the original. But here Ann CHARLES M. RUGGLES Wyburd has done nothing more than to render Lukas' German word-for-word into English, without regard to idiom or style. This MEC:HANIC:AL ACTION □R13ANS is a problem throughout but is particularly disturbing when she RESTORATIONS deals with musical terminology: Augmentationof a fugue subject is 24493 BAGLEY ROAD referred to as "enlargingthe note values." A deceptive cadence is a CLEVELAND, □ HIO 441 3B "deceptive ending." Radical Romanticism is "rising high Roman­ ticism." And-unbelievable in a book for organists-Kreb's Klavieriibung is called "Piano Practice"! Unfortunately, the above examples are not isolated instances; Lukas, Wyburd, and General Editor Reinhard Pauly have conspired to produce a text so fraught with errors and misinformation that it would be dangerous to give Robert F. Baker this text to a beginningorgan student. First Presbyterian Church Are we taking ourselves too seriously? After all, this was never Auburn,Nebraska 68421 intended to be a scholarly book, but merely a guide to the literature. And with themes given for hundreds of pieces, it could serve as a thematic index to much of the repertoire. Nevertheless, the reader (and book-buyer) has a rightto expect a certain level of organiza­ tion, writing style, and accuracy. TI1oroughly revised, up-dated, and ��Co. with a good translation, this book could have been a useful addition 816 E. VICKEl?Y'BLVD. to the field. Alas, this is not the case. H. Joseph Butler, MCMBE� INTEr.NATIONAL SOCIETV FORTWORTH 76104 Ohio University OF 011GA�BUILDE11S A$SOC1Aft0 >r,[ Oilt'C."1, 11•HDIU 01 Al•,UAIC-A 817 • 332• 2953 Recording J. S. Bach Organworks (1): The Toccatas, Ewald Kooiman play­ Ing the famous Mueller/Marcussen/Flentrop organ at the Bavokerk In Haarlem, Holland. Coronata CD COR 1213, DDD. FRANKLIN Toccata and Fugue In D minor; Toccata (Prelude and Fugue) in C major; Toccata and Fugue i.n F major; Toccata, Adagio and PIPE ORGANS Fugue In C major; Toccata and Fugue In D minor (Dorian). What we have here is a bunch of Bach's biggies played in a RUSSELL D. FRANKLIN P.O. BOX 384 thrilling and imaginatiye way on sounds that are for the most part 512/576-6680 VICTORIA, TEXAS 77902 bard, edgy, and sometimesugly, all swimmingin obnoxiousacous• ti.calglue. I don't remember this organ sounding like this! The effect 503/238-3987 of the plenumis one of extremeheaviness, withthe lowest big reeds having that ton-of-bricks impact that we all love to hate in so many of our American factorypipe monsters from the last three decades. I N C. Could Flentrop's alteration of all the Pedal reeds possibly be that Specialists in the construction and restoration of clumsy? It's one thing to want to minimize neo-Baroque buzz and tracker organs maximizefundamental, but thissounds ridiculous. I suspect that the 3427 S.E. 18th Avenue Portland, OR 97202 Coronata engineers have triedto deal with the massive organ and the wonderful acoustics in a less-than-successful way and have giventhe instrument a ponderous bottom and an unclear environ­ ment that's not reality. Repair and Tuning and This really is too bad, considering the artist. Kooiman always Service Additions seems to dish up a gourmet affairthat isever so rich, elegant, stylish, and inspiring. These are not middle-of-the-road performances but are or the leading edge of Baroque interpretation today-inter­ MIiiiman Organ Co. pretations that seldom, ifever, fall over the edge into the mire of ROBERT L. MILLIMAN quirkiness.If you can listen above and throughthe sound (turn the volume down!) to his way with the well-known Bach notes, you'l1 find something thoroughly delightful and fresh. By nature I abhor weirdness in Bach playing, but I find Kooiman's manner, though 3300 Patricia Dr. unusual, still in the realm of good taste and solid reason. Playing 1-515-270-6913 Des Moines, Iowa 50322 the entire fugue from the T.A. and F. on the Positive Fagot 16' (newly re-done by Flentrop), Octaaf 4', Speelfluit 3', and Super 9 Octaaf 2', with a Pedal registration of Holfluit 8' and 2' plus pedal [sic] collection - From Hunstandantall NorfolkEngland." coupler, may seem strangeat first, but it works forthis little dance! At the convention of the American This is an important study disc for those seeking something new. Institute of Organbuitders held in Hartford, CT, in October, Lyle W. Black• The sparse, but nicely printed booklet that comes with the disc inton presented an innovative design for has a beautiful true-color picture of the glorious case, the stop list electropneumatic key action on a slider of the organ, the registrations used, and some informative notes in windchest which he reported to have German and English about the pieces. Kooiman's biographymen­ incorporated into new organs with excel­ lent results. Among many other presen­ tions "some 50 recordings, including the complete Bach organ tations, Matthew Bellochio of the Roche works on historical organs." Search them out! BruceStevens Organ Co. presented an excellent survey St. James's Church, Richmond, Virginia of design considerations for tracker ac­ tions, especially those involving detached consoles, and Jack Bethards of the Schoenstein Organ Co. traced the historyoftheAustinfirm and its relation- ship to theindustrial age. 1879 Odel� Troy Music Hall save the deteriorating building from demolition. Contained in the upper west gallery is the spectacular case of Montreal builder Louis Mitchell's 64-stop organ built in 1870 (describedby Michael Friesen's survey of the church's organ history in 27:3). Now empty, the case contained until 1971 opus 2159 of Aus­ tin, built in 1950 with 30 ranks, many of them old pipes. The case contained, in succession, the 1870 Mitchell; an 1891 Roosevelt rebuild, op. 498, of 76 ranks; a 1922 Tellers-Kent rebuild of similar size; and the 30-rank Austin. Barely playable for many years, the superb 1879 J. H. & C. S. Odell op. 172 at the Troy (NY) Music Hall is the object of renewed interest in restoration, ac­ cording to the hall's manager. Recently, the Carey Organ Co. was commissioned to make the organ temporarily more play­ 1894 J. W. Steere & Son op. 377 able, which was done with impressive tonal results for those who heard it. The 1894J. W. Steere & Son op. 377, Mike Johnson and Joe Pechacek of originally installed in the Methodist the Johnson Organ Co., Fargo, ND, com­ Church of Mechanicville, NY, and moved pleted installation in October of a ca. years ago to the North Hoosick (NY) 1884 J. H. & C. S. Odell 2m tracker at United Methodist Church, has had res­ Hettinger (ND) Lutheran Church. The tored its tubular-pneumatic action to the organ was removed in July by the Organ Pedal Bourdon 16'. The work was com­ Clearing House from the Presbyterian pleted last year by the Carey Organ Co. Church in Lawrenceville, NJ, where of Troy, NY. 1865 S. S. Hamil� First ParishCommunity Church, WestNewbury, Mass. RobertTurner is installing a new instru­ The Carey firmenlarged the 2m 1887 ment. The Odell had been twice rebuilt­ Steer & Turner op. 250 at the Reformed by Wilson Barry in 1967 and Church in Fort Plain, NY.The organ had ORGAN UPDATE Hartman-Beatyin 1969. been poorly electrifiedwith electropneu­ matic pull-down actions to the original EARDAT THE 1987 OHS CONVP.N110N, the 1865 s. s. Hamill 2-11 organ at ., chests and wired to a cheap console by the First Parish Community Church in West Newbucy, MA, has been f' William Barlowca.1957 when the facade Hacquired by Emma.DuelEpiscopal Church in Chatham,VA. The organ i pipes were replaced by a screen. The was delivered to Taylor & Boody Organbuilders of Staunton, VA, in the fall 8 Carey firm will supply new pull-downs by the Organ Clearing House. It is believed that Hamill recycled older pipes and a new console, regulate pipes to original speech, and direct church mem• when he built the organ forthe Congregational Church in Groveland, MA, bersin stencilling facade pipes to restore where it served until 1908. In that year, John D. Brennan built a new organ the originalappearance of the organ. for the Groveland church and moved the Several hundred people toured the Hamill to West Newbury, apparently organ chambers of the new Minneapolis repitching and rescaling several ranks, Convention Center at its open house on making movable caps for the 8' and 4' ca. 1165 o�an, Smithfield, Virginia December 15. Stored in the chambers are chimney flutes, capping the Oboe, and changing the Pedal which now has 17 Unplayable for longer than a decade, keys and 13 large Sub Bass pipes. George the completely intact, ca, 1665 chamber Taylor said his firmplans few changes to organ attributed to "Father'' Bernard the organ, which may include modifica­ Schmidt at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, tion of the Pedal and extending the bass Smithfield,VA, was the object of national compass of 4' ranks which now end at attention on the Associated Press wire in tenor C. July. A story about it originated in a The Massachusetts Supreme Court Norfolk, VA, newspaper when Stephen unanimously opined on December 31, Bicknell of the J. W. Walker firmvisited, "The government interest in historic .. then reported chat the organ was a price­ preservation, though worthy,is not suf­ caseof 1870Louis Mitchel o�an less artifact of which only one other ficiently compelling to justify restraints Holy Family Church, Chicago similar example exists.St. Luke's, built in 1632 and believed to be the nation's on the free exercise of religion, a right of Thousands of letterswere received by the primary importance." The decision was oldest standing church, just commis­ OHS and by the Jesuits. Late last year, rendered in the case of Boston's Immacu­ sioned its first church organ to be built late Conception Church. ItsJesuitowners the Noack Organ Co. was secured to by the Walker firm.However, the church brought the free-exercise-of-religion ar­ clean and perform restorative repairs to has no plans for its ancient organ, nor gument in their effort to remove the the organ. have museums approached the church regulatory authority of the landmark Chicago's Jesuits who own Holy about acquiring it. The instrument ar­ commission overthe church interior. The Family Church, the third-largest church rived at St. Luke's in the mid-1950s and Jesuits',destruction of the interior in Oc­ in the nation when it was constructed in was apparently marked in blue ink on the On a ladderamong 16' reed resonators storul. in tober, 1986, brought concern in the 1860, have entered a $3 million renova­ inside of the bung board by the English the organ chamber at the new Minneapolis Con­ organ world for the fabulous 1863 E. & tion project after parishionersled by Fr. merchant who sold it, "B. Smith organ vention Center ar� from top, organbuilder Mike G. G. Hook op. 322 in the church. George Laneraised one million dollars to London - removed from Capt Lanes Rider, PhilipBrunell� andMichael Barone. 10 the 122 ranks and two consoles of the The 1905 C. E. Morey 2m op. 223 of 1928 W. W. Kimball from the now­ about 17 ranks built for Richmond demolished Minneapolis Auditorium. Avenue Church of Christ in Buffalo, NY, Fund raising to complete restorationand and electrified by Charles Viner iv the installation of the organ are ongoing, 1920s has been acquired by St. Joseph's with more than 80 percent of the Roman Catholic Church in Gowanda, NY. projected cost already having been The diligent research of Fr. Lawrence received. A new supplement to the OHS Milby identified Morey as the original catalog offers a cassette of Tom Hazelton builder when he found an article in the playing a fineprogram on the organ in a Illustrated BuffaloExpress of Sunday, Oc­ farewell-to-the-auditorium concert. tober 29, 1905. The organ was removed and packed under supervisionof organist Sarah Steffan who had worked for the Ruhland Organ Co. of Cleveland foreight years. Fr. Milby said plans are to have the Ruhland firm supply a new trackeraction to the original chests. Peter van Dijk, an architect involved with plans for remodelling Severance Hall in Cleveland, suggested in the Cleveland Plain Dealer that the 1929 E. ca. 1825 Henry Prattchamber organ M. Skinner op. 816 there may be removed and sold. The large, 4m organ, its poor 1890 W. B. Williams, Stoval� N. C. bird's eye maple on the restored chamber location in the building made worse instrument contrast interestingly with when an acousticalshell was installed in 1958, is rarely used and is in essentially Co., curators of the organs at Yale, are the less ornamental pine case of the original condition. Van Dijk said a new widely admired fortheir exemplary main­ larger organ intended foruse in church. tenance and restorative repairs on the In restoring the organ, which stands 166-stop, 1928 E. M. Skinner at Woolsey about two inches above six feet, Mr. Rutz 5 Hall, which retains its original combina- commissioned Richard Hedgebeth to � lion-action deployed in a two-story space build new pipes; most of the originals � beneath the stage of Woolsey Hall. 1855 Wm. A. Johnson op. 43, Syracuse were missing. Hedgebeth determined David M. Storey, Inc., of Baltimore, � that the instrument was very flat of MD, has restored the rare ca. 1890 W. B. The oldest extant 2m organ by Wil­ A=440Hz and tuned in quarter-comma Williams tracker for the United liam A. Johnson, built as op. 43 in 1855 meantone; thus it cannot not be played Methodist Church of Stovall, NC, where and enlarged in 1865 at Westminster simultaneously with the larger organ, the instrument was re-installed in Presbyterian Church, Syracuse, NY, will which retains its original pipes that are December, 1990. Williams, activein New be restored by Kerner& Merchant of East much sharper in pitch and believed to York City ca. 1884-1895, built the one­ Syracuse. The fine instrument, heard have been altered in the past. The Conant manual organ with 18 pull-down pedal during the 1980 OHS Convention, will Library seeks to raise $15,000 for pur­ 1916 E. M. Skinner, Emmanuel keys (to TF) and a 4' Principalon only 18 have its reservoir releathered and hand­ chase of the chamber organ, which is Episcopal Church, Qeveland notes in the bass (but with no treble) as pumping restored, as well as general now on loan fromMr. Rutzfor two years. organ may be located on the stage. Also well as full-compass Open Diapason and refurbishing of the original action with The 1905 A. B. Felgemaker op. 866 in Cleveland, the Fifth Church of Christ, Dulciana stops that share a common 8' no tonal changes. A poorly located and at First Lutheran Church, Edinboro, PA, Scientist, was recently sold to a drama stopped bass of wood to tenor F. The noisy windline associated with a much has been moved by Paul Fisher to a new company. Still locatedin the building is organ was originallybuilt fora church in later electric blower will be removed and building erected by the church. The E. M. Skinner's 3m op. 621 of 1926, ac­ Oxford, NC, and moved to Stovall in a new blower installed. The organ was organ was originally built for Trinity cording to LorenzMaycher. Mr. Maycher 1914. OHS member Mary Carter Stone of featured on nearly two pages of the Lutheran Church in Milton, PA, and also reports that the 1916 E. M. Skinner Danville, VA, convinced the church to Syracuse Herald American on November moved in the late 1920s to the former op. 245 of 4m at Emmanuel Episcopal restore it. The organbuilder constructed 4, with color photography. Methodist church in Edinboro, which Church, Cleveland, where a Hammond is as a gift to the church a new feeder and then became the Lutheran church. in use, is at risk following the merger of a pump handle which were missing, then F A one-manual organ built in 1851 the small congregation with another. The � and now located at Holy Family Roman console was severely damaged in a firein ril Catholic Church in Natchez, MS, is the the dilapidated building. oyr.:/J,_ .YI/ r,,;, )Pl;, • � object of OHS member R. Wayne The 1922 E. M. Skinner op. 327 at St. c-1:F«;-/?-/,,,,.h Youree's determined efforts to see it res­ Luke's Episcopal Church, Evanston, IL, a tored and hear it play again. Through a 4-65 which remains mechanically intact great effortat consciousness-raising, Mr. and nearly tonally intact as built, is was asked to remove the handle because Youree secured a fund-raising agreement it was foundvisually distracting. The case at the church and arranged a full page of of walnut was refinished and facade five color photographs in the September pipes repaired and repainted. 23, 1990, issue of The Natchez Democrat. Ending the convoluted saga of the Essentially intact, the organ is nonethe­ 1826 organ attributed to William less unplayable. Residing in the ubiqui­ Goodrich and owned by the Hope United tous Greek revival case of the era and Methodist Church of Belchertown, MA, resembling similar organs by Henry the Carey Organ Co. of Troy, NY, has Erben, construction details are inconsis­ retabled the windchest and installed the tent with Erben's style. The correspon­ organ in its case which had already been dence booksof Hall & Labagh imply that restored and erected in the church by the firmand its predecessors were active William Baker & Co. of Hatfield, MA. in the area. Progress in the organ's restoration by the Baker firm was reported in this column 1799 HenryPratt organ, Winchester, Nl'I in 33:3; then, in 34:1, this column an­ Two of the perhaps fourextant Henry nounced that members of the church had removed the organ from t.'ie Baker shop Pratt pipe organs were played at the Con­ because the church had insufficient ant Public Library, Winchester, NH, on funds to complete the work. Intentions to October 7 in a concert given by Theo Wee restore the one-manual instrument to G­ of St. Olaf College. The libraryis home to compass and to determine and restore its a 1-5 Pratt built in 1799 for the Meeting original tonal complement were aban­ House in Winchester as opus 1, moved to 1922 E. M. Skinner op. 327, Evanston, IL doned by the church. According to Keith the library in 1903, and restored by Williams of the Carey firm, some work scheduled for thoroughgoing restoration Richard Hedgebeth in 1976. The second toward re-establishing the G-compass by the A. Thompson-Allen Co. of New organ is a chamber instrument of three had been accomplished, but the many Haven, CT, according to Richard Webster, ranks, Diapason, Dulciana (both8'), and changes made in the past left no clear Principal (4'), which was foundin a base­ organist and choirmaster of St, Luke's. He path to determiningthe original stoplist. ment storeroom at Carleton College in said the work will begin in 1995 on a He and Baker said that retabling was Northfield, MN, in 1985 and sub­ budget of some $400,000 and will in­ mandated by a failed 1970s repair that sequently acquired and restored by or­ clude no solid state mechanisms or chan­ involved gallons of epoxy and installing ganbuilder Roland Rutzof Faribault, MN ges to the original equipment. Some more than 700 screws through the (see 29:3:12). The French polish finish minor tonal changes of the past will be original mahogany table (in two pieces on walnut and keyboard-area inlays of 1851 organ, Natchez, Mississippi reversed, he said. TheA. Thompson-Allen of 17" width) to the chest grid. WTVP 11 OHS National Convention 1803 George Pike England 1-8 St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church, Taneytown 1817 Hall/ 1890 Roosevelt Basilica of the Assumption, Baltimore ca. 1850 Henry Erben (attr.) Stone Chapel UnttedMethodist Church, Westminster 1852 Henry Erben? 1-9 Chapel of the Holy Evangelists (Episcopal), Baltimore 1860 Charles Strohl 1-7 Old Salem Lutheran Church, Baltimore 1868 Pomplitz 1-8 Second & FourthBaptist Church, Baltimore ca.1870 Roosevelt/ ca. 1925 Lewis & Hitchcock 3-29 St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Baltimore 1880 Henry Niemann 1-6 First Unttarian Parish Hall, Baltimore ca. 1880 Wilson S. Reiley 2-10 Redeemer Lutheran Church, Baltimore 1881 Henry Niemann 2-19 St. Leo's Roman Catholic Church, Baltimore 1884 George Jardine 2-11 Mount De Sales Academy, Baltimore ca. 1885 Henry Niemann 2-15 St. Joseph Monastery, Passionist, Baltimore 1885 Hilborne L. Roosevelt, 1-9 Lovely Lane UnttedMethodist Chapel, Baltimore 1886 Baltimore Church Organ Co. 2-25 Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church, Baltimore 1887 Hook & Hastings 2-10 Strawbridge UnttedMethodist Church, Baltimore ca. 1890 J. H. & C. S. Odell 2-24 Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church, Baltimore 1891 Johnson & Son 2-16 Carter Memorial Church of God in Christ, Baltimore 1892 Henry Niemann 2-21 St. Peter the Apostle R. C. Church, Baltimore 1893 Henry Niemann 2-21 First Unttarian Church, Baltimore 1897 A. B. Felgemaker 2-13 Trinity Lutheran Church, Taneytown 1897 Henry Niemann 2-13 OtterbeinChurch (Methodist), Baltimore 1900 Hook & Hastings 2-10 Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Edge Grove, Pennsylvania 1901 Adam Stein 3-35 St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Baltimore (Hampden) 1902 Adam Stein 2-10 LightStreet Presbyterian Church, Baltimore 1918 Casavant Freres, Ltee. 3-37 former St. Charles Seminary, Baltimore 1925-1982 Austin 4-217 St. Mathew's Lutheran Church, Hanover, Penn. 1930 E. M. Skinner 3-44 Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church, Baltimore 1952/61 Aeolian-Skinner 4-61 St. Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church, Baltimore 1961 Andover-Flentrop (Fisk) 2-35 Mt.Calvary Episcopal Church, Baltimore 1973 Kleuker 2-22 St. John's Lutheran Church, Parkville Holy Cross Church, Baltimore- organ built in 1886 by the Baltimore Church Organ Co. 1983 Wilhelm 2-20 St. Mark's on the Hill (Episcopal), Baltimore 1989 Richard Howell 2-18 Baltimore July8 -13 Epiphany EpiscopalChurch, Timonium 1990 D. A. Flentrop 2-22 Messiah Lutheran Church, Germantown Registration information will arrive in the Spring.

12 .. New York organistEdward Hodges (1796-1867), two late photographs of him in the OHS Archive perh_a�s show the result of one or more strokes. Apparentlyfrom the same sitting, one shows him attired for the outdoors and the other retammg a glove on the lefthand.

New Materials on Edward Hodges by John Ogasapian

HE OHS AMERICAN ORGAN ARCHIVEnow holds an important body himself with the established church as organist of St. James and of of documents pertaining to Edward Hodges, a name that is St. Nicholas churchesin Bristol. He also gained some note, mostly Twell known to studentsof the historyof Americanorgan build­ local, as a composer and performer. By 1830 at the latest4 he had ing and church music. A native of England, he became organist and determined to make the music of the church his full-timecalling. choirmaster ofTrinityChurch inNewYorkin early 1839, and during In May of 1825 he entered Sydney Sussex College of Cambridge his two decades' active tenure there oversaw the completion and University as a fellow commoner; and shortly thereafterhe took the installation of the 1839 Firth & Hall (Rabjohn) organ in St. John's degree of Mus. Doc. with a piece for three choirs, orchestra and Chapel; the planning and installation of Trinity's 1846 Erben, in its organ on Psalm 115, verses 17 and 18, performed at St. Mary'sin time the largest organ in America; and the design and partial Cambridge on 3 July 1825. Over the next ten years, Hodges at­ realization of Trinity Chapel's 1853 Thomas Hall organ. Notebooks tempted to break into the closed circle of British cathedral 1 for the last two instruments exist in the Library of Congress • Yet musicians, the members of which were expected to have come up another notebook in the possession of Edgar A. Boadway chronicles through the normal apprenticeship route of chorister and deputy plans, not carried through during his tenure, for work on the St. organist. In spite of his degree and growing reputation, he was 2 Paul's Chapel organ, built in 1802 by George Pike England. unable to gain an appointment. He applied unsuccessfully for The main events of Hodges's life are also well known.3 He was vacant cathedral posts at Gloucester, Exeter, and Hereford,and for born 20 July 1796 in Bristol, the eldest of three sons and one the position at St. George's Chapel, Windsor, each time losing out daughter of a paper merchant, who was an active member of the to another who was, as he put it, "cathedral-bred." Independent Chapel. Edward was studious as a youth, interested in Margaret, who had been ill for some time, died in October of languages and chemistryand evidently largely self-taught in music. 1835. Probably to assuage his grief, he journeyed to London the His father died in 1811, and Edward, somewhat reluctantly, took next month, and there met an American clergyman, Isaac Choules, over the family business. In 1818 he married Margaret Robertson, who seems to have awakened in him the idea of immigratingto the an organist and singer of some skill and member of the local United States. Choules's connection with Jonathan Wainwright, Moravian congregation. Of eight children born to the couple, six rector of TrinityChurch in Boston, is not clear; however, he ap­ survived infancy, though Miriam (1826-1842) lived only 16 years. parently facilitatedsome sort of contact betweenWainwright and During this period, Edward was neither especially attentive to, Hodges. nor successful in, his business. Instead, he devoted more and more In November of 1836, Wainwright was inEngland in connection time to intellectual and especially musical activities and associated with the organ being built for his church by Gray, and he and Hodges met two or three times. The next May, they exchanged Dr. John Ogasapian, Professor of Music Historyat the Universityof Lowe/� several letters. Wainwright invited Hodges to visit Boston and Massachusetts, and a Councillor of the OHS, is the author of Organ Building otherwise encouraged him to consider relocating, but made no in New York City, 1700-1900; Henry Erben; and Church Organs. He has concrete offer. At the same time, a correspondence developed contributed several articles to The Tracker and other journals and has served between Hodges and Lowell Mason. 5 The two certainly met at least as editor of The Keraulophon. once during Mason's 1837 visit to England and the continent. 13 George Frederick Handel Hodges The Rev. John Sebastian Bach Hodges The Rev. Jubal Hodges (1822-1842) (1830-1915) (1828-1870)

Mason seems to have discouraged Hodges because of the poor son, George Frederick Handel Hodges (1822-1842), sailed in early economic conditionsin Americaat the time. August on the packet Sheridan, arrived a month later in New York. Meanwhile, Aaron Upjohn Hayter (1799-1873), organist of They paused fora few active days' stay and then journeyed on to Grace Church in New York, formerlyorganist at Salisbury Cathedral Toronto via canal boat and rail. and the very man Hodges had sought to succeed as organist of Their arrival there, 15 September, found the city's situation Hereford Cathedral when he left there to assume the New York post precarious. Business was at a standstill, money was tight, and in 1835, was appointed organist at Trinity in Boston. Wainwright, anarchy threatened. By late October, the situation had worsened, however, had moved to Trinity Church in New York as assistant to and Hodges had lost heart: He returned to New York, and on 14 the rector, William Berrian. January, 1839, was nominated for the position of organist and 6 Hodges apparently decided to remain in England and make his choirmaster of Trinity Church by Dr. Berrian. The incumbent, Peter way as best he could; however, the resolve was short lived. By the Erben, was generously retired at his salary of $300. Until Trinity's spring of 1838, he was preparing to immigrate to Toronto, having new edifice was completed, Hodges worked at St. John's Chapel. been offeredthe post at St. James' Cathedral there. He and his eldest His son, Handel, was similarly employed - in addition to a

AsaphHodges (1835-1923), a banker in Waterbury, Connecticut. 14 clerkship in an ill-fated banking ·venture - at St. Paul's Chapel, and men vested and placed in the chancel, consistent with the untilhe became ill and returnedto England where he died in 1842. ecclesiology movement that was so influential at the time. In 1846 with the completionof the new buildingand installation On the other hand, Hodges's activity as an essayist and critic, of the Erben organ, Hodges took over the music at Trinity itself. He music historian and theorist, was noteworthy to say the least. His remained there, except for a brief period beginning in October of perceptive criticisms, interest in and surprisingly erudite but clear 1855 when illness forced him to take a three-month leave, until explanations of such relative arcana as medieval hexachordal sol­ September of 1858 when, once again, his health gave out. The next mization, are extraordinary. With the possible exception of jour­ year his leave was extended, and he traveled to England to con­ nalist and composer William Henry Fry's (1813-1864) valesce. Although he returned shortly and attempted to work out lecture/concerts of 1852-3;8 comparable knowledge and sophis­ provisions for assistance that might enable him to resume hiswork tication was all but unheard of among the general run of mid­ at Trinity, he was never able to do so. His second wife, Sarah Moore, nineteenth-century Anglo-American musical "professors."9 died in 1861, and two years later he returned to Bristol, where he Not to put too finea point on it, Hodges was arguably one of the died 1 September 1867. Swviving him earliestmusical scholars ( dare we say, were his second oldest child and only musicologists?) in America.Indeed, he living daughter Faustina Hasse Hodges antedated by some fiftyyears the first (1823-1895), who would write his generation of German-trained, biography; his second and oldest living European musicologists to probe sys­ son, Jubal (1828-1870), an Episcopal tematically early theoretical writings. clergyman who accompanied himback Theportion of his librarythat swvives to England and remained there, even­ in the Library of Congress contains tually to be buried in the same plot at such itemsas Glareanus, Mersenne (in Stanton Drew as his father;his third son the original), and Rameau (in transla­ John Sebastian Bach (1830-1915), an tion), the general histories of Burney Episcopal clergyman and musician; and and his fastidiouscontemporary Haw­ Edward's youngest son, Asaph (1835- kins, and even a copy of the Fitzwil­ 1923), a bank official in Waterbury, liam Virginal Book. Clearly Hodges Connecticut. would have known some of the It does not yet seem appropriate to Flemishcomposers of the early renais­ attempt any sort of latter-day critical sance, at miniumum those whose assessment ofEdward Hodges's place in music Glareanus includes as examples the musical history of America and of in the Dodecachordon;and his writings the American church. That he was a are dotted with references from the significant figure in New York musical literature, especially fromHawkins. circle!. and highly respected during his Hodges's main interest, not surpris­ lifetime and for many years thereafter ingly, was the theory and practice of cannot be doubted. He was an organist sacred music. A set of articles on and organ designer, choirmaster and various aspects of that subject, clearly church musician, composer and per­ a cut above the usual run of the mill, former, teacher and exemplar, contem­ appeared in the prestigious New York FaustinaHasse Hodges Musical Review porary with such luminaries as Bristow (1823-1895) of which Hodges was and Heinrich. Nevertheless, he was not co-editor during the mid-1850s, along an innovator, and in many categories of activity he earned little withRichard StorrsWillis and Augustus Morand. more than modest acclaim. Hodges'shistorical interests and scholarly nature permeatedhis From all accountsand by reputation, forinstance, he was a fine work at Trinity. George Templeton Strong and other musically keyboard player; indeed, he is listed in 1842 as a pianist and the inclined amateurs (to say nothing of his fellow professionals), organist for the newly formed New York Philharmonic.7 Yet he Trinity's laity,and even some of the clergy often foundhis approach seems never to have achieved the following of such fellow New a shade irritating, although today it would be considered a charac­ Yorkers as the pianist-turned-organist William Scharfenberg, or teristic of professionalism. even of Edward Jardine, son and successor of the organbuilder Nor was this attitude necessarily an outgrowth of his back­ George, who copied his trademark recital piece, the improvised ground and upbringing (which in any case, it will be recalled, was thunderstorm,from Hodges (who had introducedthe novelty at the independent, or "non-conformist," rather than Anglican; although 1840 dedication recital of the St. John's Chapel organ). His own one does sense a bit of the zeal commonly to be foundin converts). students, among them Samuel P. Tuckerman and John Henry Other English church musicians had come to the U. S. before, all Willcox ( also a thunderstormimproviser), far surpassed him in fame the way back to colonial times. Among Hodges's predecessors at and reputation as performers. Trinity had been the highly acclaimed William Tuckey, coinciden­ tally, also from Bristol. Among his English-bred contemporaries Similarly, even though Hodges was highlyregarded as a teacher, were A. U. Hayter of Trinity Church in Boston, alluded to above, the best young American organists- John Knowles Paine and W. and George Washbume Morgan, Hayter's successor at Grace Eugene Thayer, for instance - were already casting their eyes Church,just up Broadway. Each of these, predecessor and contem­ toward the European continent and study with such men as Karl poraries, took upon themselves the tastes and customs of the time, August Haupt, renowned as a Bach specialist. Hodges knew and the place, and their congregation,surely the path of prudence. played Bach, too; but like other Britishorganists of hisgeneration, the Bach in his repertoire consisted for the most part of Well­ Hodges, on the other hand, sought to create in America and at Trinity a distinctivelyEnglish cathedral-style musicalstructure, but Tempered Clavier preludes and fugues, and some miscellaneous transcriptions, rather than Bach's actual organ works. - interestinglyand significantly- at a somewhat higher and more idealistic level than the contemporary practices of the cathedral Hodges introducedboy treblesinto the Trinity Church choir, and music establishments he had known in England. In the process, he even set up an English-style school for them. Yet from all the laid down the outlines of the urban, cosmopolitan, English-based evidence, he never attempted to develop the head register tone so ideal that still governs most mainline Protestant church music characteristicofEnglish choristers.And he continued to usewomen programs today. in the choir along with the boys. Indeed, it was not until the regime The Library of Congress contains nearly a thousand items from of his successor, Henry Stephen Cutler (whom Hodges came to Edward Hodges's library. After Edward's death, the collectionhad resent bitterly), that the boys' voices were trained and disciplined, passed to his son, John Sebastian, longtime rector of St. Paul's the women in the Trinity Churchchoir dismissed, and the choir boys Church in Baltimore and a musician in his own right. Edward's 15 library of printed music and books, along with the notebooks on exactly what music to which Edward had direct and immediate Trinity Church and Trinity Chapel, pamphlets and assorted other access. In addition, some of the scores contain illuminatingnotes in memorabilia, had in turn passed into the hands of Sebastian'sson, Edward's hand.Several pieces from his copy of the Well-Tempered George Hodges, whose widow gave it to the Library of Congress in Clavier, 15 for instance, bear the dates on which they were used as 1916. voluntaries forSunday morningservices, mostly during 1824 at St. The truckload of materials was delivered to the Library from a Nicholas in Bristol. Baltimore warehouse on 22 May 1919.According to the institution's In addition to the musicmanuscripts in its public library, Bristol files, 934 volumes were accepted and placed in temporary storage, also has a modest quantity of Hodges material, primarily having to among them Hodges's notebooks on the TrinityChurch and Trinity do with his early years in that city, housed in the library of the Chapel organs, an amount of music - his own and other University. The papers were assembled by Graham Hooper, who composers'- and some miscellaneous books. For reasons that can was in the early stages of a doctoral dissertation on Hodges at the well be imagined by anyone who worked in the Library of Congress time of his death in 1975. With the permission of his widow, Mrs. until comparatively recently, no Olga Hooper, Professor Nigel inventoryor general description of Davison of Bristol not only the collection was published until provided the writer full access to a bit over fifteen years ago.10 the collection, but also gave per­ That collection has been ex­ mission to make copies of its con­ plored over the years by a few HODGES IN E. tents. scholars, and its value ought not Significantly, among the miss­ to be minimized. Yet there were ing materials - items thought to and still are problems about the on have been lost, but not absolutely Library's Hodges papers. To begin accounted for- were the papers with, a considerable amount of of his daughter, Faustina: the material is missing. For example, source material from which she Edward kept diaries throughout prepared her own book on her his life, and his daughter Faustina · trier, father. It seemed logical that had access to them as late as the Sebastian had destroyed these 1890s, forshe quotes lengthy pas­ papers as well; for Faustina had sages from them in her biography lived with him in the rectory of St. of her father.11 According to a let­ Paul's Church in Baltimore during ter from his son, Sebastian DY much of the timeshe was working destroyed almost all the volumes on her project. sometime after his sister's death in Happily, as it turns out, those 1905, because of the candor of his documents were extant after all. father's entries.12 Sebastian's The collectionfound its way to the resolute destruction of Edward llu.lloc. family of Hodges's youngest son, Hodges's diaries (among other Asaph, in Waterbury, and was, papers that may only be guessed ----- until recently, in the possession of at) - volumes of handwritten his granddaughter, Ms. Prindle notes, richly detailed to judge by Wissler-Mullin, of Middlebury, the extracts that survive in Vermont. Ms. Wissler-Mullin has Faustina's book and two recently graciously made them available discovered volumes from the Bris- without limitationor restrictionto tol years discussed below - this writer and has now placed covering decades of musical ac­ them in the OHS Archive where tivity, is without a doubt one of the Title page to Edward Hodges' Consecration Service for TrinityChurch, they will be permanentlyand fully Wall Street, 1846. Here, HenryErben built the nation's largestorgan truly unfortunate tragedies in to Hodges' design, leading to a famous feud between the two. accessible to qualified scholars. American musicology. The fullstory of the documents' We may glimpse what might odyssey may never be known. have been in a 118-page "Annuary'' (as Edward characterized it) Their verysurvival is peculiarly fortunate, givenSebastian's steely that somehow did survive to reach the Library of Congress. The determination to secure the absolute privacy of his family.16 At first volume was prepared by Edward toward the end of his life, in 1860, glance, the easiest explanation would appear to be that Faustina, but covers events from his early years.The entries begin, tongue in knowing her brother's intentions, took care, at some point before cheek of course, with his conception, which he calculated to have her death in Philadelphia in 1895, to preserveher own materials by occurred placing them in Asaph's hands, safely beyond Sebastian'sreach. about Oct. 20th 1795, (just nine months beforeI was born;) for But such an explanation is not consistent with two other pieces I have often heard my mother declare, (when she thought I little of information. The introductory note to Faustina's book, dated understoodor heeded such remarks,) That "she had gone the full 13 April of 1896, describes the work as havingbeen revised prior to its time with all her children." posthumous publication "by her brother, the Rev. J. SebastianB. and breaks offwith 1821. Hodges, D.D., Rector of St. Paul's Church, Baltimore ...." It may Moreover, Sebastian dispersed other of his father's materials thusbe inferredthat the collectionfrom which Faustina wrote was rather widely. The public library of Bristol, Edward's native city, still in Sebastian's possession after his sister's death and that he received a quantity of his music manuscripts in 1906.14 Other pieces revised fromthe documents. of manuscript have surfaced in second-hand shops. And still another The foregoing inference is strengthened immeasurably by the of his organ notebooks, this one on the St.Paul's Chapel (NewYork) contents of an incidental letter in the Libraryof Congress fileon the instrument, was discovered and purchased in a second-hand donationof the collection. In that letter, dated 6 April1920, written bookstore. Among the papers yet to be found is another organ in the name of Herbert Putnam, then Librarian of Congress, a notebook, one he is sure to have maintained on the St.John's Chapel representativeof the order divisionadvises Mrs. George Hodges that (NewYork) organ. he is sending her some ''volumeswhich have a personalinterest and And finally, Sebastian mixed his father's music library with his which you would possibly liketo have returned to you." Among the own, and the Libraryof Congress maintains the combined collection five items listed are the very diaries ("Remembrancer or, Daily as a unit.Although for the most part this makes no difference, it Memorandum book ...") for 1822 and 1823 that are now in the does pose an occasional problem, for it would help for us to know Wissler-Mullin collection. Clearly Sebastian had those two diary 16 From left, Edward Hodges, ''.AuntMargaret': Faustina Hodges (Edward's daughter), Mrs. Edward Hodges (nee Sarah Anne Moore), "Mr. Moore" volumes in his possession right up to the timeof his death. Yet, for It is interesting, if not gravely significant, that no published whatever reason, he did not destroy them along with the rest of the record I have seen duringhis life or after appearsto have preserved diaries; they are the only ones known to have survived. J. S. B. Hodges's exact birth date.17 No date is to be found in his The circumstancesare not clear whereby the two diary volumes obituary or in biographical sketches prepared during his life. It is were spared and instead found their way at so late a date from thus hard to escape the suspicion that Sebastian, for reasons best Sebastian's descendants to Asaph's. None of the other items listed known to himself, wished his exact birthday kept fromthe general in the letter to Mrs. Hodges appear to have survived. On balance, record. Even the list of Edward's children in Faustina's book gives the most likely explanation is that the two diaries were with only the year, 1830, although it is more forthcoming about his 18 Faustina's material in Sebastian's possession, that he somehow siblings' birthdates, and l.t may not be unreasonable to see his overlooked the two boxes of materials she had set aside when he hand therein: one evidence of the final editingand revising by him came to destroy his father's personal papers, and that after they alluded to above. Accordingly, later pieces on him, such as the were returned to his daughter-in-law by the Library of Congress, entries in the various editions of Grove's, up to and including the she gave them, and Faustina's papers, to Asaph as Sebastian's most recent one by this writer in the New Grove Dictionary of survivingsibling and Edward's only remaining child. Asaph died in American Mw;ic, lack precise information about Sebastian's birth. Januaryof 1922, and the papers passed to his heirs. That modest mysteryis now solved. The date, as given in Edward's own hand, is as follows: In the end, we shall probably never know the real story, and speculation, although intriguing, is essentially idle. What is before John Sebastian Bach, born in theCloister.. Jany 12th 1830, and us is a new and important set of materials on Edward Hodges. What baptizedat St. Nicholas Church March 26th 1830. follows is by way of a very preliminary inventory and general The collection preserves a sheaf of letters from George F. H. discussion of a small part of the new information to be found in Hodges, Edward's firstbornwho emigrated with him in 1838, to his these materials. Subsequent articles will look more closely at the sisters, left behind in Bristol, fromthe years1838-1842, discussing contents of particular items. the journey fromEngland and to and from Toronto, and his life in In addition to the early diary volumes, still to be thoroughly New York. The letters provided Faustina with her account of the digested and analyzed, the collectioncontains a family tree "Made trip, and she quotes fromthem liberally. by Edward Hodges Mus. Doc. June 8th 1838 - preparing to go to There is much other material in them, however, that Faustina Canada" and signed at the bottom of the firstpage, "E.H. June8th does not touch on, and that provide interesting vignettes. One 1838 -- Cloisters - Bristol - 3 p.m." learns, for instance, thatEdward's first weeks after he returnedto The genealogy begins with Edward's great-grandparents, Ed­ New York from Toronto were spent as a guest at Henry Erben's ward (1702-1747) and his wife, Mary Britton (no dates given), residence. Apparently, relations between the two men were cordial continues through his grandfather- their fourth child, Britton at this period; and the feud that "ripened," to use Strong's term, (1727-1799) and his wife Hester Redman (1727-1795) - and his between Hodges and Erben during the installation of the Trinity own father, their youngest child, Archelaus (1767-1811), and Church organ did not grow out, as has been suggested, of Erben's Edward's mother, Elizabeth Stephens (1768-1813). The final page resentment at Hodges's having displaced his father on Trinity's lists the birth, baptism, and in two cases death, dates of Edward's organ bench. Given the uneven relationshipbetween fatherand son own children by Margaret Robertson. (extending, as Stephen Pine! has discovered, even to litigation 17 against the former by the latter), one ought not necessarily infer opportunity to mine them adequately for the wealth of data they from Heruy's cordiality toward Hodges that Peter Erben was happy contain. to retirein the latter's favor, even at full salary. However Peter felt, Notes Henryclearly bore Hodges no resentment at this initial stage. I. Edward Hodges; "Memoranda & Copies of Documen.ts Connected with Even those without an especially sentimental and romatic turn the Proposed New Organ forTrinity Church, New York" and an untitled of mind willfind touching the story of youngHandel's infatuation notebook on t11e TrinityChapel organ. Unpublished manuscripts,Library of Congress.For the text of the former,sec Part fI of my series, "Toward with Wainwright's teenage daughter, Elizabeth, and its firm dis­ a Biography of Henry Erben," The Tracker 22:l-2 (Fall 1977-Winter couragement by both Wainwright parents and Edward, shortly 1978); the text of the former,see my "Edward Hodges'' Memo Book'on before Handel came down with the tuberculosis that killed him. the TrinityChapel Organ" in The Tracker 25:2-3 (Winter-Spring 1981). Typical romanticthat she was, Faustina's own opinion, recorded in 2. See, E. A. Boadway, ''Edward Hodges' NotebookOil tlle St. Paul's Chapel Organ," TheKeraulop!ton, 20:3 (April l 989), reprintedfrom TheBoston her memorial book for Handel (see below), was that Elizabeth's Organ Club Newsleuer, 70 (October 1971). own fickleness was responsible forending the affair, thereby bring­ 3. The data here is fromhis daughtei:'svolume, P. H. Hodger,Edward Hodge$ ingabout Handel's loss of health and (New York: Putnam, 1896), and Arthur A History of the Choir life. Messiter, an(l X Music of Trini.tyChurclt (New York: Gor- Handel's letters themselves, by the ham, 1906), with detai.ls supplied from way, betrayno such melancholic char­ documents in th.e col.lect1on to be �i acter, but rather one of humor and i described. See below. liveliness. The picture they suggest is � 4. This according co his mm note in the family Bible as reported by Faustina in less Faustina's one of the pallid and 5 the bound "memorial" book she consumptive brother, expiring of un­ i prepared for Asaph (Prindle Wissler­ requited love in an appropriately Mullin Collection). l3ut Edward had al­ religious and gracefully fashionable ready gained the Cambridge Mus. Doc. degree (in 1825); moreover, his 1823 manner, than of a red-blooded youth diaryvolumecloses with a ferventcareer who, until he was untimelystricken ill, commitment to sacred music. ClearlyEd­ was not above tweaking the patience ward was working his way toward the of his friends, the stolid congregants break for a number of years, and probably drew back fromresolutions he of St. Paul's, and even his stiffly Vic­ made repeatedly because of financial torian father.There are also packets of considerations and his &'rowing family. letters fromEdward himselfto his stu­ 5. The letters themselves are no longer ex­ dent and "agent'' in New York, Wil­ tant, either in Mason's or Hodges's papers,such as have come down to us. liam H. Walter, organist at Trinity 6. Vestr:yrecords, Uber iii, fol. 231. Chapel, dated 1858 to 1864, and writ­ 7. The only listing ofHodges as a performer ten during his convalescence from the in George C. D. Odell's 13-volumeAnnals apparent stroke he suffered in 1857, of the New York Stage (New York: cf' ·' Columbia, 1927-1945) is as organist or having to do with the planned publi­ J'r .,, /, /, ,,., ✓( pianist for the Philham1onic during the cation of s0me of Edward's music and 184.2/3 season (IV:680). with his efforts to resume his work at 8. See Vera Brodsky Lawrence, "William Trinity; and there are letters to Asaph Henry Fry's Messianic Yearnings: The ·' I, Eleven Lectures,'' 1852-53, American from Edward's second wife, Sarah •'/ Music, 7:4 (Winter 1989), 382-411. Moore19, during the same period and r ... � 9. Lener to W. H. Walter, dated 14 July after her death in 1861, Edward him­ t. 1859. self, discussing his health, giving 10. Charles H. Kaufman, ·•'The Hodges and -·--"' ( Newland Collections in the Library of Asaph fatherly - and often Congress: A Preliminary Report," Cur­ gratuitously patronizing - advice, ,. , rent Musicology, 18 (1974), 79-89. soliciting, in turn his advice on I , •j I 1. F. H. Hodges,op. cit. and • J , (,' I I ./ investments. .- ,. 12. Sebastian Hodges [2nd] to Graham Hooper, 6 March 1957. Graham Hooper The collectionalso contains a set of ' ,. papers, Universityof BristolLibrary. small _plush-boWld memorial books 13. "Annuary," p.3. prepared by Faustina for each of her Edward Hodges' personal stationery featuresan engraving of the 14. Letter, J. s. B. Hodges to Non:is Mat­ 1846 Henry Erben organ at Triniry Church, Wall Street, New siblings, livingand deceased.20 Even a thews (Bristol city librarian), dated 1 o York, where he waso.rgani.$t. July 1906. Graham Hooper collection, cursory look Indicates that the con­ UniversityofBristol Library. tents,once collated, willprovide much l 5. S. Wesleyand C. F. Hom's/New/AndCor­ background information.In addition,there are heretoforeunknown rectEdition of tlie/Preludes andPugut!$,/Of/Jo1m Sebastian Bac1VPriceto Subscribers 9s/ To Non Subscribers 12s/ London, Printed & Sold by R. photographs of the childrenwho survived to adulthood (including Birchall No. 133. New Bond Street. (1813). Handel, who died in 1842) and of Edward in his later years. 16. J. S. B. Hodges denied access to Edward's diariesto Arthur Messiter when The remainingitems consist of a draftin Faustina's ownhand of thelatter was working on his history (see Note 3, above),instead reading the published prefaceto her memoirof her father; copies inher hand to Messiter "everything [presumably in the judgment of Sebastian] of pages from Edward's diaries, the original volumes of which are relating to my subject." (p. viii) now lost; copies of music by Edward, published posthumously by 17. I have left this statementin; however, after I wrote it and before it went his children, especially Faustina; and a goodly amount of her own co press, 1 discovered a clipping of a published obituaryarticle from 771e Churchman (1915, pp.667-8) among Ille new materials, "'The LateJ. s. music(in and of itself a topic worth scholarly investigation), includ­ B. Hodges, Priest and Musician" by the Rev. Charles Fiske, giving the inga bound volume of her songs. day.1'he infonnation alsoappears in Faustina's"Asaph" book. In passing there are no booksin the collection forJ. S. B. Hocl.gesor Jubal, the tw� The foregoing, of course, is but a cursorylook at this collection sons who became priests in the Episcol)al Church. Given Faustina's and scarcely touches on the possibilities in and implications for obvioust emperament and thom1.1ghness, 1t seems at least probable that critical and thorough scholarly examination.I have had the privilege she prepared one for them, along with the otherslblin $s; and given J. S, '!3· Hodges's obvious temperamentand thoroughness, 1t seems not ac all of working with the documents on several occasions and at some tmprobable tllat he removedthe books, forreasons of his own privacy length several times over the past two years or so. In subsequent and possibly that ofhis deceased brother and brother clergyman. articles, I shall reexamine aspects of Edward Hodges's activities in 18. p. 10. the light of these new materials. 19. Asaph's real mother ha_d died wh.en he was an infant, and h.e clearly The collection as a whole presents broad opportunities for looked upon Sarah as his mother. Sh.e equally clearly looked uponhim scholars in anumber of overlappingfields. The documents,as stated as would any motheron her own son. above, are now available to scholars who will surely exploit the 20. See Note 17. 18 The History and Restoration of the Pilcher Organ in the Scottish Rite Temple Shreveport, Louisiana

by Ronald E. Dean

Background The second level, reached by a pair of matching marble stair­ N OCTOBER 28, 1915, THE CORNERSTONE of a monumental cases, houses the main meeting room with a seating capacity of O landmark building on the edge of the central business district approximately 500. The stage facility (60 feetwide and 40 feetdeep of Shreveport, Louisiana, was laid by the Most Worshipful with a ceiling height of 35 feet) is furnished with 92 hand-painted Grand Master of the State of Louisiana for the new Scottish Rite drops foruse in the various rituals. It is in this auditorium that the Temple located at 725 Cotton Street.The structure,designed by the restored Pilcher organ is housed. The 4-manual movable consoleis noted Shreveport architectural firm headed by Edward F. Neild1, on the main floor, and the chambers are on the upper (balcony) who was a member of the ScottishRite organization,was placed on level. The Choir, Swell, Great and Pedal divisions are all behind a decorative screen as is the original choir room and duplicate 4- the NationalRegister of Historic Places in 1986. According to a story 4 in The Shreveport Times,Mr. Neild was given a freehand inits design manual console. The Solo and Echo divisions are housed in match­ as the ScottishRite Consistory had"... entrusted the plans [to him] ing chambers flankingthe stage. At the rear of the balcony area and without imposing specifications or restrictions."2 This impressive on the same level as the organ chambers is a small fireproofmotion building remains essentially as originally planned except for the picture projection booth, an unusual item to be specified for a modernization of the heating system and the installation of air building designed in 1913-1914.This facilitywas furnishedthrough conditioning and an elevator. Constructionwas by the Stewart-Mc­ the generosity of Abe D. Saenger, Julian H. Saenger and ErnestV. Ghee firm of Little Rock, Arkansas, with a final cost of somewhat Richards, Jr. of the Saenger Amusement Company. These gentlemen 5 over $186,000. Replacement value was recently estimated to be were all members of the Scottish Rite Temple. 3 approximately fivemillion dollars. Planning for the Organ The building contains the finest facilities and equipment avail­ To help them plan for an instrument worthy of their fine new able for the ritual, administrative, and social needs of the Scottish building, the Scottish Rite authorities sought proposals from both Rite Bodies. Upon enteringthe building, the visitorsees a large and the Hutchings Organ Company of Boston and from the House of inviting lobby with marble tile floors, a high and deeply coffered Pilcher in Louisville. Hutchings had already furnished Shreveport ceiling,and opulentdecoration. Just beyond the lob by is a large (60 by 80 feet) banquet hall which also serves as a ballroom.The initial Ronald E. Dean, a graduate of Williams College and the University of impression of grandeur and high style is maintained throughout the Michigan, Ann Arbor, is Associate Professor of Music at CentenaryCollege of building as one marvelsat the care of design and execution of details Louisiana in Shreveport and currently serveson the Music Commission for the as well as at the ample spaciousness. EpiscopalDiocese of WesternLouisiana. 19 churches in the vicinity of the Scottish Rite Temple with tworecent Hutchings Proposal installations by the time plans for the building were being January2, 1917 developed. One of these was inSt. Mark's Episcopal Church,just a 6 GREAT ORGAN block to the southwest, and the other was in B'nai Zion Temple, located diagonally across the street from the Scottish Rite site.7 It 1. 16' Diapason Metal 61 pipes had been designed a few years earlier by Edward F. Neild, the 2. 8' Stentorphone (from Solo) " 61 notes " architect of the Scottish Rite facility.Thus, it is not surprising that 3. 8' First Diapason * 61 pipes the committeeinvolved with selectingan organ forthe Scottish Rite " 4. 8' Second Diapason 61 Temple investigated the possibilityof havingHutchin gs provide an 5. 8' Gross Flute* Wood 61 pipes instrument for them as well. 6. 8' Gemshorn* Metal 61 The proposals fromboth Hutchings and Pilcher were drawn up for both a smaller and a larger instrument with the intention of 7. 4' Octave* 61 incorporatingthe smaller one into the larger one at a later date. The 8. 4' HarmonicFlute * 61 Hutchings proposal is dated January 2, 1917, and on January 13, 9. III Mixture (12-15-17) 183 1917, theHouse of Pilcher sent their proposal to the officialsat the 10. 8' Trumpet 61 ScottishRite Temple. (See sidebars for the proposals.) SWEILORGAN A comparisonof these two proposals shows that the Pilcher plan 11. 16' Bourdon * Wood 73 pipes called for a somewhat larger instrumentincluding a more complete 12. 8' Diapason * Metal 73 " Great, a 16' reed on the Swell, a larger Choir, and 73-note chests on the Great. Pilcher also suggested the eventual inclusion of an 13. 8' Stopped Flute * Wood 73 " Echo division, but no Solo. 14. 8' Viole d'Orchestre Metal 73 The Hutchin stoplist contained what might be considered 15. 8' Salicional* 73 gs " more "modem" voices such as the Stentorphone and Philomela on 16. 8' Aeoline 73 the Solo and the Claribel Flute on the Echo. Apparently, after 17. 8' Voix Celeste * 61 " considering these two proposals, the committee charged with the 18. 4' Orchestral Flute * Wood and Metal 73 pipes duty of recommending an organ builder decided that it preferred 19. 4' Violina Metal 73 pipes the arrangement as prepared by Hutchings and submitted it to the House of Pilcher. The Pilcher firmtook the Hutchin contract and 20. 2' Flautino * 73 • gs substituted specifically Pilcher wording by pencilling out 21. III Solo Mixture 183 "Hutchings" and substituting "Pilcher" and by substituting 22. 8' Oboe 73 "Louisville"for "Boston.'' They also made a fewother minor altera- 23. 8' Cornopean* 73 tionsand additionsto the original Hutchings plan in order for it to 24. 8' Vox Humana " 73 conform to Pilcher's mechanical and designprinciples. They resub- Tremolo mitted it in cleanly typed form, dated it February 1, 1917, and forwarded it, complete with R. E. Pilcher's signature, to Shreveport CHOIR ORGAN (enclosed in a separate swell box) for'the signature of the President of the Scottish Rite Cathedral 25. 8' Geigen Principal Metal 73 pipes Company, Mr. E. R. Bernstein.8 26. 8' Concert Flute * Wood 73 Thus, by comparing the Hutchings proposal with the ultimate 27. 8' Dulciana " Metal 73 result as installed in the Scottish Rite Temple (see the current 28. 4' Flute d'Amour" Wood and Metal 73 " stoplist in sidebar) we discover a Pilcher concert instrument built 9 29. 8' Clarinet * Metal 73 to a disposition as originally prepared by Hutchings. Tremolo By this time, the Pilcher firm in Louisville, Kentucky, was a SOLO ORGAN (enclosed in a separate swell box) leading builder of high-quality instruments in this part of the country.Henry Pilcher, Sr. (1798-1880) had come to the United 30. 8' Stentorphone Metal 73 pipes " States from England in 1832 where he had begun constructing 31. 8' Philomela Wood 73 organs as early as 1820 after having served an apprenticeship for 32. 8' Gamba Metal 73 several years.He settled first in New York City and then spent some 33. 8' Gamba Celeste 73 timein NewHaven, Connecticut,and Newark, New Jersey,after yet 34. 4' Wald Flute Wood 73 another short time in New York. He settled later in North Orange, New Jersey. Duringone of his New York residencies, he may have 35. 8' Tuba Metal 73 worked for the noted builder, HenryErben. Tremolo Sometime between 1854 and 1856, HenryPilcher, Sr., came to ECHO ORGAN (enclosed in a separate swell box) St. Louis, Missouri, where his sons,Henry, 2nd (1828-1890) and 36. 8' Claribel Flute Wood 73 pipes William (1830-1912) had established the firm ofH. & W. Pilcherin 37. 8' Muted Viole Metal 73 " 1852. Somewhat later, the name becameHenry Pilcher & Sons as 38. 8' Unda Maris Wood 61 Henry and Williamwent into formalpartnership with their father. 39. 4' Flute a Chiminee [sic] Metal 73 pipes Durini this time, the Pilchers also operated a music store in St. 40. 8' Vox Humana 73 Louis. o 41. CathedralChimes * 20 tubes During the Civil War period, the Pilcher brothers moved to Chicago and set up an organ building firm there. Soon after, they Tremolo entered intoa partnershipwith Chicago organist, WilliamH. Chant, PEDAL ORGAN (Augmented) with the businessbecoming known as Pilcherand Chant until1866 42. 16' Diapason " Wood 44 pipes and then simply as Pilcher Brothers until 1873. The brothers dis- 43. 16' Violine [sic] 32 ., solved their business relationship (this was not the first time they 44. 16' Bourdon* 44 " had done so) with William Pilcher returning briefly to St. Louis before working his way eventually to New Orleanswhere he estab- 45. 16' Lieblich Gedeckt (from #11) * " 32 notes 2 lished an organ business withhis sons in the 1880s. Thiscompany 46. 10 ;a' Quinte 32 became known as Pilcher Brothers, thereby creating some con- 47. 8' Octave 32 " fusion, at least in title, with the former Chicago firm of the same 48. 8' Dolce Flute " 32 " name. The New Orleans Pilchers later became associated with the 49. 16' Trombone Wood 32 pipes firm of Philip Werlein, Ltd., for many years the major outlet for music, instruments, and instruction in the Crescent City.11 20 Herny Pilcher, 2nd, meanwhile, moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where, with his sons, RobertE. (1857-1935) and WilliamE.(1859- Pilcher Proposal 1946) he established the firm of Herny Pilcher and Sons in 1874. January 13, 1917 This organization was totally independent of the New Orleans GREAT ORGAN (StopsNo. 4,5,6,8,10,11 enclosedin a separateswell box) Pilcher firm. After the retirement of Herny, 2nd, in 1883, the 16' Diapason Metal pipes business was renamed Herny Pilcher's Sons, and so it remained 1. 73 2. 8' English Diapason• (after having become incorporated in 1925) until 1944 when the 73 M. P.McSller Co. purchased the assets of the venerable organbuild- 3. 8' Second Diapason• 73 4. 8' Gamba* 73 s. 8' Gross Flute• Wood 73 6. 8' Gemshom Metal 73 7. 4' Octave• 73 ff 8. 4' Hohl Flute Wood 73 9. 2' Super Octave Metal 73 10. III Mixture 219 11. 8' Tuba Reeds 73 pipes 12. Tremolo* SWELLORGAN 13. 16' Bourdon* Wood 73 pipes 8' Hom Diapason• Metal ing company, which had built nearly 2,000 instruments.The last 14. 73 new instrumentcompleted by HernyPilcher's Sons was constructed 15. 8' Salicional• 73 in 1941. Although most of their organs were installed in the South 16. 8' Viole d'Orchestra [sic] 73 and South-Central part of the country, Pilcher organs were sold 8' Voix Celeste• 61 12 17. from the Northeast to California. 18. 8' Aeoline• 73 By 1922, Pilcher was able to celebrate one hundred years of 19. 8' Stopped Flute* Wood organbuilding, taking into account the years in England as well as 73 20. 4' HarmonicFlute • Metal those in this country.A major front-page article in TheDiapason for 73 February 1, 1922, gave a report on the festivities connected with 21. 4' Violina 73 the celebration as well as an historical account of the firm's begin­ 22. 2' Flautina 73 nings and development.13 Coincidentally, the story also carried a 23. III Dolce Comet 219 picture of a large assembly of Pilcher people, with a new 4-manual 24. 16' ContraFagotto Reeds 73 console prominently displayed froma balcony location.This was to 25. 8' Comopean* 73 be the console for another Shreveport installation, that of Opus 26. 8' Orchestral Oboe 1111, 1922, for First BaptistChurch.14 73 27. 8' Vox Humana 73 The First Phase 28. Tremolo • The first phase of the organ installation, bearing Pilcher's Opus No. 940, essentially a Great, Swell, Choir and Pedal design with CHOIR ORGAN (in separate swell box) preparations for later additions, was completed in the summer of 29. 8' Violin Diapason• Metal 73 pipes 1917 in the new ScottishRite Cathedral.The price was $7,500 and 30. 8' Concert Flute * Wood 73 included a five-year guarantee.Notes on the contractspecified that 31. 8' Dulciana• Metal 73 "... this scheme represents part of the large scheme, and is designed 32. 8' Unda Maris 61 with that end in view. All 33. 8' Quintadena preparations [are] to be 73 made in the console [ to 34. 4' Flute d'Amour• Woodand Metal 73 make it] ready for the en­ 35. 4' Fugara Dolce Metal 73 pipes largement ... [the] con­ 36. 8' Clarinet Reeds 73 sole [is to be] detached 37. Tremolo• and placed within [the] ECHO ORGAN (in separate swell box) organ and choir 38. 8' Salicional Metal pipes screen."15 The organ was 73 thus ready for the grand 39. 8' Salicional Celeste 61 opening of the Scottish 40. 8' Echo Flute Wood 73 Rite Temple which took 41. 4' Flute ll Chimanee [sic] Metal 73 place on Monday, 42. 8' Vox Humana Reeds 73 November 12, 1917, 43. Cathedral Chimes 20 Tubular Bells amid great fanfare and 44. Tremolo local interest. The Shreveport Times noted PEDALORGAN 16' Diapason* that " ... [the] mag­ 45. Wood 32 [pipes] nificent new $275,000 46. 16' String Bass 44 [notes] John Allen Richardsonopened the new organ. Scottish Rite 47. 16' ContraBass (from#1) Metal 32 [notes] Cathedrall6 ...at Cotton 48. 16' Lleblich Gedacht (from#13){Wood] 32 [notes] and CommonStreets ... [is] the most palatialand most thoroughly 49. 16' Bourdon* Wood 44 [pipes] equipped structure of its purpose in the United States." 17 so. 32' Quint (result) [sic] Wood 32 [notes] A later newspaper account recorded that this gathering for 51. 8' Flute (from #48) Wood 32 [notes] dedication was "... the most important Masonic event in the history 52. 16' Trombone Reeds 44 [pipes] of Shreveport."18 There was a public open house the evening of 53. 8' Tromba (from#52) 32 [notes] November 12, 1917, followed by "dancing in the Cathedral (In both proposals, the sign • indicated those items to be included in ballroom, [the banquet hall] the largest floor for dancing in the the smaller scheme.) Southwest."19 21 Aspart of the dedicationceremonies that same day, the Masons and Echo divisions were installed. The chimes were moved fromthe and their wives were treated to two organ recitals, one at 3:30 PM Choir to the Echo, and several additional couplers and other and the other at 8:00 PM, both given by John Allen Richardson, mechanical aids appeared. The Great received a 16' Open Diapason, organist and choirmaster of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Chicago. an 8' Second Open Diapason, a 3-rank Mixture and an 8' Trumpet. Mr. Richardson was a native of this geographical area known The Choir obtained its 8' Geigen Principal and the Swell its8' Oboe, familiarlyas the Ark-La-Tex, having been bornin nearby Jefferson, 8' Salicional, 8' Aeoline, 4' Violina and a 3-rank Mixture. The Pedal Texas, in 1873. He served St. Paul's, Chicago, from 1907 untilhis was enlarged by adding the 16' Trombone, 16' Violine [sic], 10 2/3' untimely death in 1919. Mr. Richardson was also known for his Quint24 and an 8' Dolce Flute apparently extraordinaryabilities as a choir trainer.20 Even though It was then timeto commemorate the completionof the enlarged the recital programs show him as from "Hyde Park Episcopal instrument. Though Mr. Richardson, who had played the inagural Church" in Chicago, the official name of the parish was, as best as recital, had died in 1919, the Chicago connectionwas still alive and can be determined, always well, as the recitalist was none other than the eminent Clarence "St. Paul's" even though its Eddy, one of the nation's most celebrated concert artists. Mr. Eddy location is in the area presented his series of recitals in the Scottish Rite Temple on May known as Hyde Park.21 17, 18 and 19, 1921.25 These programs were presented for the (See sidebar, p. 23, for the pleasure of the Masons and their wives and were also reviewed by programs.) a reporter from The Shreveport Times in an article bearing the headline, "Hundreds Hear Clarence Eddy."26 This factmay itself be The Second Phase regarded as something of an achievement since the newspaper had By early 1920, at the ur­ reported elsewhere in the same. issue that the 1921 auto show was ging of the organist of the in full swing and drawing large crowds at the same time, offering Scottish Rite Temple, Mrs. as it did vaudeville shows and trained animal acts as ancillary William H. Booth, 22 plans entertainments forthe public who came to view the latest develop­ were considered for com­ ments in automotivetechnology. pleting the organ as The same reviewer mentioned earlier made the followingcom­ originally intended. A con­ ments on Mr. Eddy'sperformances: "His playingcreates an impres­ tract was signed in the fall sion not unlike that produced by some magnificent display of the of 1920, and for an addi­ elements." He also noted "... the spontaneity of this man of genius tional sum of $12,000, the combined with technical methods that are entirely his own. His instrument was completed pedaling is clean cut and his phrasing magnificent ... his perfection by the House of Pilcher in of touch in the torrents of passion as well as in the tender, long the spring of 1921.23 drawn notes of pathos, were amazing .... Under his touch the A 2 duplicate 4-manual con­ instrument became a living, breathing thing." 7 Repair and Restoration A period Pilcher promotional photograph in sole was provided for use the OHS Archive shows the organ shortly on the main floor of the Over the years, the organ served the needs of the Scottish Rite afterinstallation. auditorium, and the Solo Temple very well, both as a source of music for its rituals and 22 occasionally as a public concert instrument. By the early 1980s it had become increasingly evident that majorrepairs were necessary. DEDICATION OF CATIIEDRAL Certain mechanical items had become unreliable, and speech MONDAY, NOV. 12TII, 1917 problems with the pipes themselves had arisen through the ac­ AT 2P.M. cumulation of dirt within the instrument. Several complete stops ORGAN RECITALS were silent, and many individual notes were not functioning. Even BY MR. JOHN ALLEN RJCHARDSON though there had been some attempts at minor repair work, there OF had, up to this time, been no plans for an extensive overhaul or HYDE PARKEPISCOPAL CHURCH restorationeffort. Once the ScottishRite authorities had decided to CHICAGO, embark on a restoration of their entire building and its furnishings, AFTERNOON PROGRAM- 3:30 O'CLOCK they considered plans to include the organ as an integral part of the Star Spangled Banner Guilmant overall project. 1. Grand Chorus (Opus 84) . Kinder In the summer of 1985, Samuel B. Bowerman of Louisville, 2. At Evening. Kentucky, was engaged to begin the task of repairingand restoring 3. a. Question this large instrumentwhich today is one of the last survivingPilcher b. Answer Wolstenholme 4-manual concert organs in this part of the south. 4. Capricein B flat Guilmant 5. Festal March . Calkin The console was removed to the Bowerman shop in Louisville 6. a. Prelude Act III Die Meistersinger Tannhauser where the original and problematic "dual" or "blind" combination b. Evening Star . . . Wagner action was replaced by a new solid state system. New key contacts, 7. Gavotte Mign on ...... Thomas name board, rocking tablets and stop knobs were also furnished. 8. Sonata in E Minor (1st Movement) J. H. Rogers Throughout this phase of the work, great care was taken to ensure EVENING PROGRAM- 8 O'CLOCK that the size and design of the new knobs and coupler tablets would Star Spangled Banner be as close as possible to the visual aspect of the original Pilcher 1. Entree du Cortege from Messe de Mariage . Du Bois items. The original keyboards and pedal board were retained, and 2. Andante Cantabile from Sonata in A Minor Borowski the console shell was refinishedto its original rich mahogany stain. 3. a. In Moonlight b. In Springtime . Kinder A long cable was provided so as to allow the movable console to 4. Nuptial March . Richardson be pla.::ed anywhere on the floor of the auditorium. 5. Reverie . Bonnet The swell shade actuating mechanisms for all of the enclosed 6. An Autumn Sketch . Brewer divisions were replaced with new electric ones, and some new toe 7. Andantino .Chauvet studs were provided on the console for added flexibility in control­ 8. Will O' the Wisp .Nevin 9. Jubilate Amen . . ling the tonal resources of the instrument. The chest actions were Kinder all returnedto Louisville where they were re-leathered and refitted DANCING IN BANQUET HALL IMMEDIATELY AFTER TIIERECITAL with their original wood-capped magnets. The result is that the PROGRAMINFORMAL MUSIC BY Pilcher "simplified and perfected wind chests and electro­ EL KARUBAH BAND AND ORCHESTRA pneumatic action" as specified in the contracts of 1917 and 1921 23 Scottish Rite Temple, Shreveport, Louisiana 1917 HenryPilcher's Sons, Louisville, Ky., Op. 940 1921 HenryPilcher's Sons, Louisville, Ky., Op. 1061 res. 1985-1988 Samuel B. Bowerman, Louisville, Ky. GREAT Swell Unison Off* 16' Diapason + Echo to Swell 8' + 8' First Diapason * Choir Unison Off* 8' Second Diapason + Choir to Choir 16', 4' * 8' Gross Flute * Swell to Choir 8' * 8' Gemshom * Solo to Choir 8' + 4' Octave* Echo to Choir 8' + 4' HarmonicFlute * Echo to Echo 16', 4' + III Mixture (15-19-22)+ Pedal to Pedal 8' * (act. coupler) 8' Trumpet+ Solo to Pedal 8' * Chimes (Echo)* Swell to Pedal 8', 4' * SWELL Great to Pedal 8'*, 4'# 16' Bourdon* Choir to Pedal 8', 4' * 8' Diapason* Echo to Pedal 8' + 8' Stopped Flute * Swell to Solo 8'+ 8' Salicional + Great to Solo 8' * 8' Aeoline + Solo Unison Off* 8' Viole d'Orchestre* Solo to Solo 4' * 8' Celeste * PEDALMOVEMENTS 4' OrchestralFlute * Solo • 4' Violina + Echo • 2' Flautina * Swell* III Mixture (12-15-17)* Choir * 8' Comopean * Crescendo * 8' Oboe+ PISTONS 8' Vox Humana * Generals 1 through 9 plus Tremolo * General Release # CHOIR Pedal Release * 8' Geigen Principal + Solo 1 through 3 plus Release + 8' Concert Flute* Echo 1 through 3 plus Release + 8' Dulciana * Swell to through 7 plus Release* 4' Flute d'Amour* Great through 5 plus Release * 8' Clarinet * Choir 1 through 3 plus Release * Tremolo * (There are no independent Pipes in the Choir, leftto right: Clarinet, Flute d'amour, Dulciana, Chimes (Echo) Pedal pistons. Pedal combinations Concert Flute, Geigen Principal ECHO are changed by general pistons or 8' Claribel Flute + by hand.) are once more performing their assigned tasks. The present action 8' Muted Viole + NOTE: Thesymbol * indicates is satisfyingly quick and responsive. 8' Unda Maris + those items that were part of the All the pipework was cleaned, and the originally cone tuned 4' Flute d'Chimney [sic] 1917 phase. The symbol+ indi- pipes were fittedwith tuning slides. The many damaged or vandal­ 8' Vox Humana + cates those items that were part of Chimes * the 1921 phase. The symbol # in- ized pipes were repaired, and the large wooden Violone and Tremolo + dicates some additional controls Diapason pipes which had separated over the years were reglued SOW that were provided in the 1985- on site. The 16' Pedal Trombone and the 16' Violone were altered 8' Stentorphone + 1988 repair and restoration work. slightly in their placement in the chamber so as to provide forbetter 8' Philomela + There were onlyfive general pistons tonal egress. Some of the space originally occupied by the gallery 8' Gamba + plus release originally. Generals 5 console was used for this purpose. This console, part of the 1917 8' Celeste + through 9 were added in the repair 4' Wald Flute (actually 8')+ installation, was disconnected and remains in the upstairs area and restoration. formerly intended as space for a choir. It is totally intact and 8' Tuba + Since the stoplist as given above Tremolo + shows current console controls, it available foreventual restoration. PEDAL should be noted that the following No significant tonal changes were made except to slightly alter 16' Diapason * items, originally part of the 1917 the composition of the Great Mixture III which was discovered to be 16' Bourdon* and 1921 phases were deleted 16' Violone + 15-19-22 (possibly at one time 12-15-17 according to the original during the repair and restoration contractdocuments) with no breaks untilnote #49 where it became 16' Gedeckt * process: 2 12-15-15. The pitches fromnote #49 on were changed to 8-12-15. 10 ;3' Quint + Tuba On Tuba Off 8' Octave * Echo On Solo Off All the pipework was regulated, and the speech and voicing 8' DolceFlute + Echo on Great Off problems arising fromdamage and neglect were rectified.Particular 16' Trombone+ Echo to Great 16', 4' Chimes + care was given to integrating the altered Great Mixture III composi­ Swell to Solo [8') tioninto the 8' Diapason and 4' Octave chorusby slightly increasing OTHER CONTROLS Great to Solo [8') All Swells + Stop Separation the power of the 4' Octave and by cleaning up the voicing of the 8' Echo Swell Control + Diapason.28 Solo Swell Control + In spite of the fact that the auditorium is totally carpeted and Great to Pedal 8' (rev.)* Swell to Pedal 8' (rev.)* thus forms an environment that is less than congenial for the Sforzando* beneficial projection and blending of organ tone, the instrument COUPLERS gives a remarkably good account of itself and has an understated Great Unison Off# refinement and clarity of sound that is musicallyvery satisfying. The Great to Great 4' # wind pressures are moderate (4 inches throughout), and there isno Swell to Great 16', 8', 4' * stridencyof tone. Everything blends well, and even the Solo voices Choir to Great 16', 8', 4' * do not overwhelm the ensemble. Even though most of the organ is Echo to Great 8'+ situated on the balcony level and to the right of where most of the Solo to Great 16', 8', 4'+ Swell to Swell 16', 4'* audience is likely to sit, it is not obvious to the listener that this is the main source of sound as the wall opposite the main organ chamber helps to reflect and disperse the tone. With the divisions 24 flanking the stage brought into play through antiphonal or echo effects, an enveloping or surrounding result appears that helps to overco::nethe room's lack of reverberation. The usual placement of the console, to the right of the stage area _ ... and under the projectionfor the Solo division, is obviously not the ____ :,---: - --- ..... 1 • • • • best vantage point from which to hear the instrument. When it is ,.f1, •••• •• • ••••• -:--, .. -,:-:,., ... •••• "' possible to have the console placed in the center of the open floor • ••• -·-- ••••• •· · -· . .. -·· ·� �- . ., ti' space of the auditorium, the organist then begins to appreciate the •· · � _.,,,,, ,.,. C:• organ's color, blend, refinement, and balance. :•:• • , •• ,,.,t ...t r,•--:-11-�.1 • •• ·- •• For its public debut following the restorationof both the build­ -·-- -,-..-· ing and the organ, the console was placed in this more favorable location. Membersof the NorthLouisiana Chapter of theAmerican Guild of Organists gave a Halloween concert that featured a wide variety of organ music appropriate for the occasion. Because the lighting potential in the auditorium offers a multitude of control Theunrestored galleryconsole of 1917, in storage. options, the Scottish Rite lighting engineers decided that the auditorium itself should be lit as dimly as possible consistent with Acknowledgments the safety of those entering the room. The lights were then dimmed To CentenaryCollege of Louisiana forgranting a sabbatical leave in the further to a golden glow while the console in its central location spring semester of 1988 during which time much of the preliminary research was featured by spotlights fromboth the right and the left sides of for this articlewas done. the rear balcony. This effective treatment allowed the console to To Stephen L. Pinel, OHS Archivist, for his gracious help in providing display its newly finishedmahogany splendor. The members of the information and for his assistance in the duplication of some archival photographs. AGO took advantage of the lighting arrangements as they per­ To the staffof the Shreve Memorial library, Shreveport, Louisiana, for formed during the eveningto the apparent delight and appreciation their courteous and able assistance. of the large audience. The instrument itself, however, was the star To Dr. Frank Ferko forproviding corroboration and further information of the evening as it operated flawlesslyand showed off its dignified on John Allen Richardson and St. Paul's Episcopal Church (now the Church and many-hued tone colors. of St. Paul and the Redeemer), Chicago, and for his help in acquiring permission for publication of the photograph of John Allen Richardson. The Scottish Rite members are proud of their newly restored To Benedict K. Zobrist, Director of the Harry S. Truman Llbrary in building and opened the entire facility forviewing by the audience Independence, Missouri, forcorroborative informationfrom their archives both before and after the concert program. They are planning to concerning Shreveport architect, Edward F. Neild, and his involvement as adviser to the principal architects of the library. have the organ used regularly, not just fortheir regular ceremonies, To John Atkinson and the officials at the Scottish Rite Temple, but for occasional public concerts. Shreveport, for their untiring help, interest and generosity in providing repeated access to archival informa­ tion. To Elizabeth Towne Schmitt for her generosity in sharing some of her research on the history of the Pilcher firms. NOTES .::- 1. Edward Fairfax Neild (1884- ... 1955) had a long and distin­ guished career. In addition to [j1i11111111111111111111111111 • • • many outstanding residences •• •• and publi c buildings in ••••• Shreveport (the Shriner's Hospi­ 11 .. . . - ..... •••• • tal for Crippled Children, the � HW � • •• first of its kind in the nation, . .•...... •••• recently razed and replaced by a • .••• ...... ••• modern structure, and the ••• ...... - •• Caddo Parish Courthouse, • - ;� ... • among others), Mr. Neild and ·-•·- .. - his firmdesigned the courthouse in Independence, Missouri, and were consulting architects on the renovation and rebuilding of both the Capitol Building and the White House in Washington, D.C., as well as the Truman r!! m l;J &l il Llbrary in Independence. The t,• • . Maricopa County (Phoenix) t,•. •-...... i.'. !,' •I . .. Arizona Courthouse was one of his designs, and in conjunction with two Kansas City architects, ft I_ • • ' 1I n \ "· ( '. I he worked on the Jackson Coun­ \ ty (Kansas City) Missouri Court­ house. I \ \. 2. The Shrevepon Times, November \\ ,\ .. \ \ ' .\\ 13, 1917, p. 1. 3. This informationand some of the descriptivematerial that follows it comes from a document fur­ nished to the State of Louisiana Department of Culture, Recrea­ tion and Tourism, Officeof Cul­ tural Development by the Therestored auditorium console originally built in 1921. Scottish Rite Temple in support 25 6. This organ, built in 1911 (sec The Diapason, Volume 2, No. 9, August I 1911, p.2, for i�sstoplisr) was destroyedby fire in 1919 and was replaced by E. M. Skinne1'sOpus 306, a 3/40 of 1920. The parish moved to a more suburban location in 1954 and is the home of Aeolian-Skinner'sOpus 1308, a4/102 of 1957. The former St. Mark's Church is now The Church of the Holy Cross (Episcol?al).The 1920 Skinner (including some altera­ tionsmade by Aeolian-Skmner in the.early 1950s) was recently restored (1989) by the Range Organ Company of Mesquite, Texas. 7. This building was purchased by the I

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Bengtson,Bruce 34:2:5 Dornoff,Edward 34:2:28 Church 34:4:12U Beninghausen, Francis 34:1:28 Drake,James S. 34:1:20 Ambrosino,Jonathan 34:3:7R Berg, Corinn� (Mrs. Carl) (obit.) 34:4:7 Dubois, Theodore 34:3:27 Andover Organ Co. 34:2:18U; 34:4:14U,26 Berg, Martin P. 34:2:23 Durner organs Archivist's Report 34:3:11 Bergmann,Arthur E. 34:3:4 1868 Charles Durner,St. John's United Church of Christ, Boalsburg, PA 34:4:13U, 13P Armstrong,Agnes 34:3:22 Besch, Charles 34:1:24 Eader, Thomas S.Jr. 34:4:12U Armstrong, Susan 34:4:10 Blakley, Ralph34:4:12U Earle organs Articles Blumenberg, MarcA. and Louis 34:3:22 "An American Organbuilder oflnternationalStat­ 1906 George W. Earle & Son, Island Pond, VT ure. Henry Erben of New York" (Stephen Blundell,John 34:1 :20 34:1:5 Pine!) 34:3:13 Boadway, E.A. 34:1:5 Eberle, Otto 34:2:28 "An Erben Bibliography'' (Stephen Pine!) 34:3:21 Bohler organs Edge,Jane 34:2:5 "A Milwaukee Convention Preview'' (Alan Lauf­ 1859 Samuel Bohler, St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Editorials man) 34:2:5 Fleetwood, PA 34:4:13U "Extant Organ Cases" (John Ogasapian) 34: 1:3 "'Organ LoftWhisperings': The Paris Correspon­ Bohn, David34:2:9, 21 dence of Fannie Edgar Thomas" (Agnes "New Organs Emulating 19th-Century American Armstrong) 34:3:22 Bond Pipe Organs 34:2:20U Organ Design" (Michael D. Friesen) 34:3:3 "Organ Sonatas ofW. Eugene Thayer: A Critical Bozeman,Geo. Jr. 34:4:12U "OHS Chapters" (SRWF) 34:4:3 Appraisal" (John Ogasapian) 34:4:18 Breilmeier, Erhardt 34:2:7 "Some Personal Reflections on OHS Conventions" (SRWF) 34:2:3 "Pilgrim Church: Organ History of the Parish" Brombaugh organs (David Tiedman) 34:4:23 1979 John Brombaugh opus 22, Christ Episcopal Edwards, Mark 34:2:11 "Restoration of the Joel KantnerOrgan in Christ Church, Tacoma,WA 34:1 :11 U Egan,John 34:1:20 Church (Little Tulpehocken), Bernville,Penn­ Brooks& Nudd 34:1:29 Egan,John, patent 34: 1 :30P sylvania" (John L. Speller) 34:4:15 "Sketches of Milwaukee Organbuilders, 1847- Brooks and Co. 34:1:28 Erben Elizabeth (Kern) 34:3:14 1902" (RichardWeber) 34:1:13 Brooks, Clinton W. 34:1:28ff. Erben, Henry 34:3:13ff., 13P "The Wangerin Organ Company and Its Brown,John,organs Erben, Henry, (association with L. C. Harrison Predecessors" (David Bohn & Marilyn ca.1900 John Brown, Christ Episcopal Church, andWm. M.Wilson) 34:3:20 Stulken) 34:2:21 Richmond, VA 34:4:14U, 14P Erben organs Aschmann, William 34:1:14ff.; 34:2:14 1907 John Brown, Halley residence, Slidell, LA Henry Erben, Christ Church, New Orleans, IA Aschmann, WilliamJr. 34:l:14ff. 34:4:13U, 13P 34:3:16 Aschmann organs Brunner, R.J., & Co. 34:1:5 HenryErben, Church du St. Esprit, New York, NY 1857 William Aschmann, German Evangelical Buck, Dudley 34:1:20P: 34:4:19 34:3:14P: 18 Lutheran Church, Milwaukee,WI 34:2:14 California, Los Angeles HenryErben, Church of the Mediator, New York, 1857 William Aschmann, Jr., Trinity Episcopal Raseda Elementary School 34:4:14U NY 34:3:19 Church, Milwaukee,WI 34:1 :15 St. Vibiana's R. C. Cathedral 34:2:28, 30S Henry Erben, Methodist Church, McLean, VA Audsley, GeorgeA. 34:2:27 California, Pasadena California Institute of 34:3:19 Technology 34:1:I0U, I0P HenryErben, Roman Catholic Cathedral, Detroit, Austin organs MI 34:3:19 Austin Organ Co. opus 2536, Trinity College California, San Francisco Chapel, Hartford,CT 34:3:10 Henry Erben, St. Stephen's R. C. Church, New Calvary PresbyterianChurch 34:3:19 York, NY 34:3:16 1958 Austin Organ Co. opus 2290, RiversidePark Church of SS. Peter & Paul 34:1:7P U. M. Church, Jacksonville, FL 34:4:14U 1835 Henry Erben, First Congregational Church, Carl, William C. 34:3:22 Belfast, ME 34:3:18P, 19 AustinOrgan Co. 34:2:28 Chadwick, George Whitefield 34:4:18 1837 Henry Erben, Christ Church, Philadelphia, Authors, articles Chant & Jackson 34:2:11 PA 34:3:19 Armstrong, Agnes 34:2:22 Churchmouse, A Novel of Life 1838 Henry Erben, St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Bohn, David, and Marilyn Stulken 34:2:21 34:2:18U New York, NY 34:3:16P, 19 Laufman, Alan 34:2:5 Clark & Brooks 34:1 :29 1839 HenryErben, Grace Episcopal Church, New Ogasapian, John 34:4:18 Clark, L. T. 34:1:29 York, NY 34:3:19

Entries are cited by Volume : Number : Page. P = illustration; R = Reviewer; S = stopli.st; U = Organ Update entry;ff.= and pages following. A church or institution appears beneath the state and city of it.slocation. Organs are li.sted beneath the names of their builders. 27 1845 HenryErben, University Place Presbyterian Harnoncourt, Nikolaus 34:1:7 ca.1897 George S. Hutchings opus 453, St. Paul's Church, New York, NY 34:3:18 Harris, Edward 34:1:18ff., 20 Episcopal Church, Newton Highlands, MA 1846 HenryErben, TrinityChurch, New York, NY 34:2:20U, 20P 34:3:lSP, 18 Harris, Murray, organs 1902. Hutchings-Votey Organ Co. opus 1494, 1850 Henry Erben, Monumental Church (Epis­ 1917 California Organ Co., Raseda Elementary Sixth Church of Christ, Scientist, Milwaukee, copal), Richmond, VA 34:3:12P, 19 School, LosAngeles, CA 34:4:14U WI 34:2:5, llP 1851 Henry Erben, Church of the Holy Cross, Harrison, G. Donald (at Duke Chapel) 1903 Hutchings-Votey Organ Co. opus 1518, Stareburg, SC 34:3:J9 34:4:12P Olympia Brown Mem. Unitarian-Universalist 1856 Elenry Erben, Pearl Street Congregational Harrison, Lewis C. (and association with Church, Racine, WI 34:2:11 Church, Hanford, CT34:3:16 HenryErben) 34:3:20 Illinois, Chicago 1857 HenryErben, Second Presbyterian Church, Harrison organs churches closing 34:1:11 U Charleston, SC 34:3:19 1893 L. C. Harrison & Co., St. Peter's Episcopal St. Philip NeriR. C. Church 34:2:31 1858 Henry Erben, Ca'Jvary .PresbyterianChurch, Church, FernandinaBeach, FL 34:4:lP, 12U St. Stephan's Evangelical Church 34:2:21P San Francisco, CA 34:3:19 Haupt, Karl August 34:4:19 Illinois, Elgin St. John's Lutheran Church 1863 Henry Erben, First Moravian Episcopal 34:2:27P Church, New York, NY 34:3:lP, 19 Hays, William 34:3:9R Illinois, Oak Park United Church 34:2:20U 1863 Henry Erben, St. John the Evangelist R. C. Heyner, Frieda A. 34:2:24 Church, Baltimore, MD 34:4:SP Illinois, Quincy St. John's Episcopal church 1864 Henry Erben, Shrine of St. Anne, New York, Hinners organ 34:1:22.P NY 34:3:19, 19P 1909 Hinners Organ Co. opus 942, St. Martin's R. Illinois, Rockford Second Congregational 1869 Henry Erben, Old St. Patrick's Cathedral, C. Church, Martinsville, WI 34:2:8 Church UCC 34:2:20U New York, NY 34:3:16, 17P 1911 Hinners Organ Co., Voice of Faith Church, Israel, Michael 34:4:12U Green Bay, WI 34:2:11 Erben, Henry, & Co. 34:3:20 Jackson, William 34:1:20 Hoard, HalbertW. 34:2:31 Erben, Henry, bibliography 34:3:21 Jahns, Maria [Schuelke] 34:1 :24 Erben, Henry, nameplate 34:3:14P Hodges, Edward 34:3:18; 34:4:18 Jardine organs Erben, Peter 34:3:14 Hoerig, Michael 34:2:8 1842 Geo. Jardine, Providence Presbyterian Church, Powhatan, VA 34:4:14U, 14P Farmer, J.Allen 34:4:lP, 12U Holbrook & Ware 34:4:23 Holtkamp organs Johnson organs Farnam,Lynnwood 34:2:28 1867 William A. Johnson opus 238, First Pres­ Felgemaker organs 1958 Holtkamp, Trinity Episcopal Church, Hartford, CT 34:2:19U byterian Church, Racine, WI 34:2:11 1907 Felgemaker opus 931, Outagamie Historical ca.1860 W. A. Johnson, Stagg, Don T., residence, Society(formerly Temple Zion), Appleton, WI Hook, E. & G. G. 34:3:16 Blaine, WA 34:4:13U, 13P 34:2:11 Hook, E. & G. G., & Hastings 34:3:15 Junchen, David 34:1:l0U; 34:3:6 Feyring, Philip 34:3:19 Hook organs Kantner, Joel 34:4:16ff. Florida, Fernandina Beach St. Peter's Epis- 1849 E. &. G. G. Hook opus 472,34:1:llU Kantner organs copal Church 34:4:lP, 12U 1851 E. & G. G. Hook opus 123, Cathedral of St. JoelKantner, Reformed Church, Rehrersburg,PA Florida, Jacksonville John, Episcopal, Providence, RI 34:4:14U, 34:4:16 Church of the Good Shepherd 34:4:12U 14P 1859JoelKantner, Trinity Lutheran Church, Reh­ RiversidePark U. M. Church 34:4:14U 1863 E. & G. G. Hook opus 322, Immaculate rersburg, PA 34:4:16 Foccroulle, Bernard 34:2:17 Conception R. C. Church, Boston, MA 1862 Joel Kantner, Christ Church (Little Tul­ 34:4:12U, 12P For the Record 34:1:5; 34:3:5 pehocken),Bernville, PA 34:4:lSff., ISP, 16S 1864 E. & G. G. Hook opus 338, Pilgrim Congrega­ Kares, Martin 34:3:19 Freeman, Andrew, and John Rowntree tional Church, Sherborn,MA 34:4:23ff.,23P, Freeport (IL) Organ Co. 34:2:19U 24P Kentucky, Harlan Christ Episcopal Church 34:4:12U Frenzel, Oscar 34:2:26 1866 E. & G. G. Hook opus 387, First Congrega­ tional Church, Rochester, MA 34:1 :4S Kentucky, Louisville New Jerusalem Apos­ Friesen, Michael D. 34:3:3; 34:4:28 1867 E. & G. G. Hook opus 406, United Methodist tolic church 34:4:12U, 12P Friesen, Susan 34:2:3, 7; 34:4:3 Church, Ipswich, MA 34:1:llU, llP Kilgen organs Froehlich, Thomas 34:3:l0R, llR; 34:4:l0R, 1870 E. & G. G. Hook opus 522, All Saints Epis­ 1890 Geo. Kilgen, St. Peter's R. C. Church, llR, 12R copal Church, Hoosick, NY 34:4:14U Montgomery, AL 34:4:12U Gaerttner, Gottlieb F. 34:1:26 1871 E. & G. G. Hook opus 576, St. Mary's R. C. 1938 Kilgen Organ Co. opus 5913, St. Robert's R. C. Church, MjJwaukee, W1 34:2:5, l0P Gehrke, Prof. Hugo 34:3:4 Church, New Haven, CT 34:4:9 1880 E. & G. G. Hook & Hastingsopus 999, Faith Kimball organs Georgia,Atlanta Lutheran Church, Salisbury, MD 34:2:18U 1928 W. W. Kimball, Minneapolis Convention Peachtree Christian Church 34:4:12U 1881 E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings opus 1045, Center, Minneapolis, MN 34:4:13U, 13P Trinity Presbyterian Church 34:4:14U Milwaukee Exposition, Milwaukee, WI King, Robert Burns 34:1:7R Georgia, Augusta St. Paul's Episcopal Church 34:2:28 King, William 34:3:19 34:3:14 1883 Hooks & Hastings opus 1193, Bethel Georgia, Dalton First Baptist Church Lutheran Church, Green Bay, WI 34:2:11 Klug, Norman 34:2:28 34:4:12U, 12P 1887 Hook & Hastings opus 1144, Church of the Koontz, Samuel, & Co.34:4:13U Gilbert & Butler organs Holy Communion (Episcopal), Lake Geneva, Krauss,Andrew 34:4:15 1895 Gilbert & Butler, First Presbyterian Church, WI 34:2:7 Kuechle, Paul J. 34:2:23ff. Worcester, MA 34:4:14U, 14P 1896 Hook & Hastings opus 1731, Unitarian­ Universalist Church, Haverhill, MA 34:2:l 8U, Lancashire, John 34:1 :17 Goodrich, William 34:4:23 ISP Lane organs Goodrich organs 1900 Hook & Hastings opus, Basilica of the 1903 E. W. Laneopus 57, First Lutheran Church, 1826 William Goodrich (attri.), Hope United Sacred Heart, Edge Grove, PA 34:4:10 Ellensburg, WA 34:2:19U, 19P; 34:4:14U Methodist Church, Belchertown, MA 34:1 :9U 1916 Hook & Hastings opus 2372, Moravian Laufman, Alan 34:2:5 Gounod, Charles 34:3:27ff. Seminary, Bethlehem, PA 34:1:11U Laws, W.W. 34:3:19 Grant, J. Michael 34:4:14U 1916 Hook & Hastings opus 2372, Trinity Epis­ Le Droit, Edward Charles 34:1:16ff. copal Church, Stamford, CT 34:1:llU Gregory, Thomas 34:2:7 Le Drolt & O'Brien organs guano34:2:19U Howard organs Le Droit & O'Brien, First Baptist Church, Mil­ ca.1895 Emmons Howard, St. Josaphat Basilica, Guetzlaff,Walter W. 34:2:31 waukee, WI 34:1:16 R. C., Milwaukee, WI 34:4:4 1859 Le Droit & O'Brien, organ built for specula- Guilmant, Alexandre 34:3:22ff. Huestis, HerbertL. 34:4:14U tion, 34: 1 :16S Gumpy, John 34:4:13U Huff, Harry34:4: 11 Legner, Richard 34:1:24 Guzowski & Steppe 34:4:12U Huntington, S.L. 34:4:14U Lehigh Organ Co. 34:4:13U Hakim, Naji 34:4:8 Hutchings organs Leppard, Raymond 34:2:15 Hall & Erben 34:3:15 1875 Hutchings, Plaisted & Co., North Parish Letters Hall, Thomas 34:3:14, 18 Unitarian Church (from Eugene Thayer's Dyker, Bryan 34:4:5 Hampton, Calvin 34:4:11 studio), Woodstock,VT 34:4:21P Evans, Roger 34:4:6 Hann, Joseph 34:2:23ff. 1894 Geo. S. Hutchings, Cathedral of St. John, Hoerig,Michael B. 34:4:4 Episcopal, Providence, RI 34:4:14U Jackson, Ellen A. 34:3:5 Hann-Wangerin Co. 34:2:23ff. 1898 Geo. S. Hutchings1 Church of Our Lady of Peters,J. Stanton 34:3:4 Hann-Wangerin-Weickhardt 34:2:23 Perpetual Help ("Mission Church") Boston, Petty, Bynum 34:4:7 Hansen, William 34:2:8 MA 34:4:9P Riedel, ScottR. 34:3:4

28 Roche, F. Robert 34:1:4 Massachusetts,Millville St. John's Episcopal General Theological Seminary 34:3:19 Schendel,Alfred 34:4:6 Church 34:1:5 Grace Episcopal Church 34:3:19 Speller, John 34:1:5 Massachusetts, Newton Highlands St. Old St. Patrick's Cathedral 34:3:16,17P Wangerin,The Rev. J. D. 34:4:4 Paul's Episcopal Church 34:2:20U, 20P Shrine of St. Anne 34:3:19, 19P Warburton, Richard 34:1:5 Massachusetts, Rochester First Congrega- St. George's Episcopal Church 34:3:14 Weber,Richard 34:2:15 tional Church 34: 1:4S St. John's Chapel34:3:14 Lijewski, Fr. Tom 34:2:12 Massachusetts, Sherborn St. Paul's Chapel,Columbia University34:4:11 St. Peter's Episcopal Church Loder, George 34:3:19 First Parish Church 34:4:25 34:3:16P, 19 Pilgrim Congregational Church 34:4:23ff., 23P, St. Stephen's R. C. Church 34:3:16 Louisiana, New Orleans Christ Church Trinity Church 34:3:lSP, 18 34:3:16 24P,25S,26P Massachusetts, South Hadley Chapel, Mt. UniversityPlace Presbyterian Church 34:3:18 Louisiana, Slidell Halley residence 34:4:13U, Noack Organ Co. 34:4:12U 13P Holyoke College 34:1:11 U Nordlie, J. F., Co. 34:4:14U Lowe, John 34:3:14 Massachusetts,Worcester First Presbyterian Church 34:4:14U,14P North Carolina, Charlotte Tenth Ave. Pres­ Maas Organ Company 34:2:24 Massenet, Jules 34:3:30, 30P byterian Church 34:4:14U Mahrenholz, Christhard34:4:8 McCracken, Eugene 34:4:16 North Carolina, Durham Chapel, Duke Maine, Auburn High Street Congregational University 34:4:12U Church 34:4:14U Meyer, JeromeB. 34:2:23 Michigan, Detroit North Dakota, Fargo Gethsemane Episcopal Maine, Belfast First Congregational Church Cathedral 34:2:20U 34:3:18P, 19 Fort StreetPresbyterian Church 34:2:21 Roman Catholic Cathedral 34:3:19 Notes fromthe Executive Director 34:1 :31 MansfieldOrgan Pipeworks 34:1 :24 St. Paul's Church 34:1:20, 21P Nudd,Amos 34:1:29 Marchal, Andre 34:3:9 St. Stanislaus R. C. Church 34:4:13U O'Brien, James 34:1:16ff. Marcussen Co. (Denmark) 34:1:26 Trumbull Ave. Presbyterian Church 34:1:5, 9U, 9P Obituaries Marshall&Odenbrett34:2:14; 34:1:18P (ad- Berg, Corrine (Mrs. Carl) 34:4:7 vertisement) Miller Pipe Organ Co. 34:1:9U; 34:4:12U Dickson , David J. 34:4:7 MarshallBros. 34:1 :17ff.; 34:2:14 Miller, Todd 34:2:11 Ramseth, James G. 34:4:7 Marshall organs, list of 34: 1:23 Mills organs Rowland, Mildred Easton (Mrs. Robert S.) Marshall organs 1888 Alexander Mills, Evangelical Covenant 34:2:15 Marshall Bros. & Clarke, Second Congregational Church, Aurora, NE 34:4:14U,14P Whiteman, Clarence 34:2:15 Church,Milwaukee, WI 34:1:12P Milnar OrganCo. 34:4:14U Odenbrett organs, list of 34:1:29 1868 Marshall & Odenbrett, St. Paul's Episcopal Milwaukee organbuilders, history of Odenbrett,Philipp 34:1:17, 21, 27ff.,27P Church, Watertown, WI 34:1:13P, 18S 34:1:13ff. Odenbrett, Philipp, & Son 34:1:29 1869 Marshall Bros., St. Gall's Church, Mil­ Milwaukee area, National OHS conven­ Odenbrett& Abler organs waukee, WI 34:1:17S tion, 1990, (a preview) 34:2:Sff. 1871 Marshall Bros.,St. James Episcopal Church, Odenbren & Abler, St. Martin of Tours R. C. Milwaukee, WI 34:1:23S Minnesota, Minneapolis Minneapolis Con­ Church, Valley City,OH 34:1:29S vention Center 34:4:13U, 13P 1872 Marshall Bros.,St. John's Episcopal Church, 1874 Odenbrett & Abler, Capuchin (R. C.) Quincy, IL 34:1 :22P Minnesota, St. Paul Assumption R. C. Church Church, Fon du Lac,W1 34:1:28 1873 Marshall Bros., St. Paul's Church, Detroit, 34:1:28P, 29S 1883 Odenbrett & Abler, Assumption R. C. MI 34:1:20, 21P Mississippi, Columbus St. Paul's Episcopal Church,St. Paul,MN 34:1:28P, 29S 1873 Marshall Bros., First Presbyterian Church, Church 34:3:16 Ogasapian, John 34:1 :3, SR; 34:2:16R; Madison, WI 34:1:22S Mississippi, Holly Springs Christ Episcopal 34:3:20; 34:4:18 1877 Marshall Bros., Mercantile LibraryHall, St. Church 34:1:9U, 9P Ohio, Dayton Westminster Presbyterian Louis, MO 34:1:18S Missouri, St. Louis Church 34:2:20U 1899 Lancashire-Marshall Organ Co., opus 122, First Presbyterian Church 34:1:20 Ohio, Valley City St. Martin of Tours R. C. First Baptist Church, Delavan, WI 34:1 :ISP; Mercantile LibraryHall 34:1:18S Church 34: 1 :29S 34:2:7 Moench, FranzA. 34:2:24 Oregon, Port Townsend First United Pres­ MarshallBros. & Clarke 34:1:20 Mohnsen, Rosalind 34:2:8 byterian Church 34:2:20U, 20P MarshallBros. factory34:1:20P MolineOrgan Co. 34:1:22 Oregon, Portland Trinity Episcopal Church Marshall, Edward 34:1:17 34:3:10 Moline organs Marshall, George 34:1:17ff.; 34:2:14 1884 Moline Organ Co., Central Presbyterian organbuilding in the Milwaukee area, Marshall, Octavius 34:1:17ff. Church,Muncy, PA 34:4:13U,13P 1847-1902 34:1:13ff. Maryland, Baltimore St. John the Evangelist Moller organs Organ Clearing House 34:1 :5; 34:2:8; R. C. Church 34:4:SP 1900 M. P. Mciller opus 282, St. John's Episcopal 34:4:14U Maryland, Chevy Chase Will Corby residence Church, Millville,MA 34:1:5 OHS donors & glfts(1989-90) 34:4:29ff. 34:1:l0U, l0P 1907 M. P. Mciller opus 739, United Church, OHS Minutes: Annual Meeting (June 19, Northfield,VT 34:4:14U 1989) 34:3:31 (July 24, 1990) 34:4:28 Maryland, Salisbury Faith Lutheran Church 1937 M. P. Moller, Second Congregational 34:2:lSU OHS Minutes: National Council Meeting Church, Beloit, W134:2:19U (July 22, 1990) 34:4:28 Massachusetts, Belchertown Hope United Montana, Billings Eastern Montana College Methodist Church 34: 1 :9U 34:2:20U "Organ Update" 34:1:9; 34:2:18; 34:4:12 Massachusetts, Boston Morgan, George W. 34:3:19 Outerbridge, Thad 34:4:13U Immaculate Conception R. C. Church 34:4:12U, Paine, John Knowles34:4:18 12P Murphy, Patrick, &Assoc. 34:1:9U,llU Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church ("Mission Murray, Thomas 34:2:8; 34:3:7 Panning, John 34:2:9 Church") 34:4:9P Nebraska, Aurora Evangelical Covenant Parkey, Phil 34:4:12U Thayer, Eugene, studio 34:4:21P, 22P Church 34:4:14U, 14P Pennsylvania, Altoona Cathedral of the Massachusetts, Gleasondale United New Jersey, Hoboken Church of Our Lady of Blessed Sacrament 34:2:19P,19U; 34:4:6P Methodist Church 34:2:20U Grace 34:2:26P Pennsylvania, BernvilleChrist Church (Little Massachusetts, Green Bay West Side New York, Duanesburg Duane Mansion Tulpehocken) 34:4:lSff.,ISP, 16S, 16P Moravian Church 34:2:11 34:4:14U Pennsylvania, Bethlehem Moravian Semi­ Massachusetts, Haverhill New York, Hoosick All Saints Episcopal nary34:1 :llU Bradford College 34:4:13U Church 34:4:14U Pennsylvania, Boalsburg St. John's United Trinity Episcopal Church 34:4:13U NewYork, IthacaSage Chapel, CornellUniver- Church of Christ 34:4:13U, 13P Unitarim-Universalist Church 34:2:lSU, 18P sity 34:1:IOU, l0P Pennsylvania, Edge Grove Basilica of the Massachusetts, Ipswich United Methodist New York, New York Sacred Heart ("Conewago Chapel") 34:4:10 Church 34:1:llU,llP Church du St. Esprit 34:3:14P, 18 Pennsylvania, FleetwoodSt. Paul's Lutheran Massachusetts, Malden Church of the Mediator (Episcopal) 34:3:lP,19 Church 34:4:13U Church of Christ, Scientist 34:4:14U Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church 34:4:21 Pennsylvania, Lancaster St. Joseph's R. C. Maplewood Congregational Church 34:4:14U First Moravian Episcopal Church 34:3:lP, 19 Church 34:4:10,l0P

Entries are cited by Volume : Number : Page. P = illustration; R = Reviewer; S = stoplist; U = Organ Update entry;ff= and pagesfollowing. A church or institution appears beneath the state and cityof its location. Organs are listed beneath the names of their builders. 29 Pennsylvania, Muncy Central Presbyterian Rhode Island,Central Falls South Carolina, Abbeville Trinity Episcopal Church 34:4:13U, 13P Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church 34:1:9U Church 34:4:12U, 12P Pennsylvania, Northumberland Joseph Notre Dame R. C. Church 34:2:20 South Carolina, Charleston Priestley Unitarian Chapel 34:1:11 U Rhode Island, Providence Harborview Presbyterian Church 34:4:12U Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Cathedral of SS. Peter & Paul 34:1:4 Second PresbyterianChurch 34:3:19 Christ Church 34:3:19 Cathedral of St. John, Episopal 34:4:14U, 14P St. John's Lutheran Church 34:3:14 Wanamaker Store 34:2:18U, 18P Riedler,Carl 34:2:24 South Carolina, Stateburg Church of the Pennsylvania, Rehrersburg Robert Morton organs Holy Cross 34:3:19 RefonnedChurch 34:4:16 Robert Morton, Eastern Montana College, Bill- ings, MT 34:2:20U South Dakota, Vermilion Shrine to Music Trinity Lutheran Church 34:4:16 Museum 34:4:12U Roche Organ Co. 34:1:4 Pennsylvania, York Speller,John34:1:8R; 34:2:17R; 34:3:8R, 9R; ChristLutheran Church 34:4:12U Roderer, Kurt 34:2:11 34:4:8R; 34:4:15 Historical Society of York, Penn. 34:4:12U, 12P Rohn, John 34:1:24 St. Luke's Braillists 34:3:4 Peters,J. Stanton 34:3:5 Roosevelt, Frank 34:3:16 Standbridge, John C. B. 34:3:18 Peters, Weiland & Co. 34:3:4 Roosevelt, Hilborne 34:3:18 Steinert, Theodore 34:1 :24 Petersson, Olaf34:1:24ff. Roosevelt organs Steinmeyer organs Pilcher organs 1887 Hilborne L. Roosevelt, Cathedral of SS. Peter & Paul, Providence, RI 34:1:4 1931 Steinmeyer, Cathedral of the Blessed Sacra- 1880 Pilcher,· Christ Episcopal Church, Harlan, ment, Altoona, PA 34:2:19U, 19P; 34:4:6P KY34:4:12U Rowland, (Mrs. Robert S.) Mildred Easton 1896 Pilcher, First Baptist Church, Dalton, GA (obit.) 34:2:15 Stevens, Bruce B. 34:2:11, 17R; 34:4:8R, 9 34:4:12U, 12P Rowntree, John, and Freeman, Andrew Stevens organs 1898 Henry Pilcher's Sons, Christ Episcopal 34:2:16 1848 George Stevens, First Congregational Church, Church, Holly Springs,MS 34:1 :9U,9P Saint-Saens,Camille 34:3:27, 27P Belfast, ME 34:3:19 1910 Pilcher, New Jerusalem Apostolic Church, 1858 William Stevens, United Church, Northfield, Louisville, KY34:4:12U, 12P Sass, Jacob 34:3:14 VT 34:4:14U, 14P 1923 Pilcher, Peachtree ChristianChurch, Atlan­ Schaefer organs Stulken, Marilyn 34:2:7, 21 ta, GA 34:4:12U 1916B. Schaefer& Son Co. (reb.), St. Anthony R. C. Church, St. Anthony, WI 34:2:9, 13P Tannenberg organs Pinel, Stephen L. 34:2:13 1929 Schaefer Organ Co., St. Joseph's R. C. 1804 David Tannenberg, Historical Society of Pipe Organ Sales and Services, Inc. Church, Appleton, WI 34:2:11 York, York, PA 34:4:12U, 12P 34:4:12U Schmitt, Elizabeth Towne 34:2:8 Tanner, John 34:4:12U Press, Peter 34:2:8 Schoen, Elizabeth [Schuelke] 34:1:24 Taylor & Boody organs Proscia, Michael 34:4:12U 1983 Taylor & Boody opus 8, Mt. Cannel Pres­ Schoenstein organs byterian Church, Steeles Tavern, VA Radzinsky,Charles 34:3:13 Schoenstein& Co. opus, Church of SS. Peter & 34:2:20U, 20P Ramseth, James G. (obit.) 34:4:7 Paul, San Francisco, CA 34: 1 :7P Taylor, J.C. 34:2:8 Raver, Leonard 34:4:11 Schuelke, Max 34:1:24; 34:3:5 Taylor organs Redman OrganCo. 34:4:14U Schuelke, William 34:1:21, 24ff., 24P; 34:3:5 1983 J. C. Taylor opus 1, West Side Moravian Regestein, Lois 34:2:9 Schuelke organs Church, Green Bay, MA 34:2:11 1879 Schuelke, Wm. opus 10, Trinity Evangelical Reinke, Theodore 34:2:7 Texas, San Antonio Laurel Heights U. M. Lutheran Church, Milwaukee, WI 34:2:4P, 24 Church 34:4:14U Rench, T. R., Co.& 34:2:9, 11, 12 1884 Wm. Schuelke, Emmanuel Evangelical Reuter OrganCo. 34:3:4 Lutheran Ch. (Wis. Syn.), Mecan Township, Thayer, Eugene 34:4:18ff.,18P Reviews: Books WI 34:2:8, 9P Thayer, Eugene, critical appraisal of his Authenticityin Music (Leppard) 34:2:15 1885 Wm. Schuelke, St. Francis R. C. Church, organ sonatas 34:4:18ff. Baroque Music Today: Music as Speech (Harnon­ Milwaukee, WI 34:1:24; 34:2:6P, 7P, 9 Thayer, Eugene, examples of his music court) 34:1:7 1901 Wm. Schuelke, St. Josaphat's Basilica (R. 34:4:18ff. Calculation of Organ Pipe Scalesfrom the Middle C.), Milwaukee, WI 34:1:lP, 26; 34:4:4, 4S Thomas, Fannie Edgar 34:3:22ff. Ages to the Mid-Nineteenth Century (Mahren­ Schuelke, Wm. nameplate 34:2:7P Thompson, Mabel Lindley 34:3:29 holz) 34:4:8 Schuelke, Wm., factory 34:1:25P, 34:1:27P Tiedman, David 34:4:23 ClassicalOrgan in Britain, The, Vol. I (1955-1974) Schuelke, Wm., workers 34:1:26P; 34:3:4 (Rowntree & Brennan) 34:3:8 Touralne 34:3:22P Schwab,Charles 34:1:24 Encyclopedia of the American Theatre, Vol.II Treasurer's Report 34:3:32 Schwab organs (Junchen) 34:3:6 Turner,William 34:1:18ff. Father Smith: Otherwise Bernard Schmidt Mathias Schwab, St. John's Cathedral (R. C.), (Freeman & Rowntree) 34:2:16 Milwaukee, WI 34:1:22 Tweeten, Ruth 34:2:9, 11 Musical Dialogue: Thoughts on Monteverdi, Bach, Schwandt, John 34:2:11 unknown organbuilder and Mozart (Harnoncourt)34: 1 :7 Scott, John 34:4:12U ca.1850 unknown, J. C. Taylor shop, Appleton, WI 34:2:llP The Organs of Cheltenham, 1791-1989 (William­ Semmann, Herman G. 34:2:23 son) 34:1:8 Van Pelt, William T. 34:1:9, 31; 34:2:18; Severson, S. 34:2:11 A Short Account of Organs Built in England from 34:4:12 the Reign ofKing CharlesII to the PresentTime Shenk,Calvert 34:2:8 Verlinden OrganCompany 34:2:28 (Sutton) 34:3:7 Sherwood,William 34:4:21 Verlinden, Edmond A. 34:2:24 Reviews: Recordings Simmons, Wm. B. D. 34:3:16 Verlinden-Weickhardt-Dornoff Organ Boston Debut Recital: Naji Hakim 34:4:8 Skinner organs Company 34:2:28 Clarence Watters-In Memoriam Clarence Wat­ 1918 E. M. Skinner opus 274, Second Congrega­ ters, organist 34:3:10 Vermont, Barton Solid Rock Assembly of God tionalChurch UCC, Rockford, IL 34:2:20U 34:2:19U Contemporary American Organ Music Leonard 1924 E. M. Skinner opus 505, St. Matthew's Epis­ Raver, organist 34:4:11 copal Church, Kenosha, WI 34:2:12 Vermont, Island Pond 34:1 :5 The French Collection Thomas Murray, organist 1926 E. M. Skinner opus 583, High Street Con­ Vermont, Northfield United Church 34:1:7 gregational Church, Auburn,ME 34:4:14U 34:4:14U, 14P In Praise of Humanity: Music of Calvin Hampton 1927 E. M. Skinner opus 679, St. John's Episcopal Vermont, Woodstock North ParishUnitarian Harry Huff, organist, with David Higgs) Church, Charleston, WV 34:4:13U Church 34:4:21P 34:4:11 1928 E. M. Skinner opus 722, Woolsey Hall, Yale Virginia, McLean Methodist Church 34:3:19 J. S. Bach. Chefs-d'oeuvre pour orgue Andre Mar­ University, New Haven, CT 34:3:10 chal, organist 34:3:9 1929 E. M. Skinner opus 725, Church of the Good Virginia, Powhatan Providence Presbyterian J. S. Bach: Orgelwerke V Bernard Foccroulle, or­ Shepherd, Jacksonville, FL 34:4:12U Church 34:4:14U, 14P ganist 34:2:17 1930 E. M. Skinner opus 801, College of Vir�nia, Richmond A Johnson Documentary Susan Annstrong, or­ Preachers, National Cathedral, Washington, Chnst Epsicopal Church 34:4:14U, 14P ganist 34:4:10 DC 34:1:l0U First AfricanBaptist Church 34:4:12U Josef Rheinberger: Organ Sonatas, II Bruce 1931 Skinner Organ Co. opus 849, Milwaukee Monumental Church (Episcopal) 34:3:12P, 19 Stevens, organist 34:4:9 Area Technical College, Milwaukee, WI Virginia, Steeles Tavern Mt. Cannel Pres- Sandra Soderlund Performson the RosalesOpus 11, 34:2:8, 9P byterian Church 34:2:20U, 20P Trinity Episcopal Church, Portland, Oregon 1938 E. M. Skinner & Son opus 367, Chapel, Mt. Wadsworth organs 34:3:10 Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA 34: 1 :11 U 1863 Wadsworth & Bro., St. James R. C. Church, Reynolds, James 34:3:16 Smith, Timothy E. 34:2:11 Madison, WI 34:2:8, 12P 30 Wahl organs Welte organs Wisconsin, Mecan Township Emmanuel 1979 Ronald Wahl opus 5, FirstEnglish Lutheran 1929 Welte-Mignon Organ Co. opus 232, Evangelical Lutheran Church (Wis. Syn.) Church, Appleton, WI 34:2:11 Chapel,St. John's Military Academy, Delafield, 34:2:8, 9P Waligora, Renea 34:2:11 WI 34:2:11 Wisconsin, Milwaukee Walker, Charles 34:4:12U West Virginia, Charleston St. John's Epis­ All Saints Episcopal Cathedral 34: 1: 15, 2,3 copal Church 34:4:13U Capitol Drive Lutheran Church 34:2:26; 34:3:4 Wallace, David 34:2:20U; 34:4:14U West Virginia, Wheeling First Presbyterian Church of the Gesu 34:1:17P, 19 Wanamaker organ Church 34:1:9U, 9P ConcordiaCollege 34:2:31 Wanamaker [L.A. Art Organ Co.], Wanamaker FirstBaptist Church 34:1:16 Store, Philadelphia, PA 34:2:18U, 18P Whalley & Genung organs 1889 Whalley & Genung opus, First United Pres­ GermanEvangelical LutheranChurch 34:2:14 Wangerin Art Organ Co. 34:2:27 byterian Church, Port Townsend, OR GermanM. E. Church 34:1 :28 Wangerin Organ Co. 34:3:4 34:2:20U, 20P Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church 34:2:22P Wangerins in organbuilding, history of Whiteman, Clarence (obit.) 34:2:15 Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church 34:2:21 34:2:21 Wicks Organ Co. 34:2:20U Immanuel PresbyterianChurch 34:2:27 Wangerin organs Milwaukee Area Technical College 34:2:8, 9P 1904 Hann-Wangerin-Weickhardt, St. John's Widor, Charles-Marie 34:3:25ff., 25P, 28P Milwaukee Exposition 34:2:28 Evangelical Lutheran Church (Wis. Syn.), Williamson, Roy 34:1:8 New Hope UnitedChurch of Christ 34:2:8P, 9 Lomira, WI 34:2:9, 29P Williamson-Warne & Associates 34:4:14U OlivetCongregational Church 34:1:15 1909 Hann-Wangerin-Weickhardt, St. Kilian's Willis organs SecondCongregational Church 34:1:12P Church (R.C.), St. Kilian,WI 34:2:9, 24S, 24P 1875 HenryWillis & Sons, NewCollege, Oxford, Sherman Park Lutheran Church 34:2:26; 34:3:4 1909 Hann-Wangerin-Weickhardt, Church of England 34:3:9S SixthChurch ofChrist, Scientist 34:2:5, 1lP Our Ladyof Grace, Hoboken, NJ 34:2:26P Wilson, Clark 34:2:8 Spring StreetCongregational Church 34:1:18 1910 Hann-Wangerin-Weickhardt, St. Stephan's St. Francis R.C. Church 34:1:24; 34:2:6P, 7P, 9 Wilson, William M. 34:3:20 EvangelicalChurch, Chicago, IL 34:2:21P St. Gall's R.C. Church 34:1:17S 1924 Wangerin Organ Co. opus 387, Masonic Wind, John 34:1:llU St. James Episcopal Church 34: 1:23S Temple Auditorium, Madison, WI 34:2:8, 27, Wind, John, nameboard 34:1:llP 28S, 28P St. John'sCathedral (R.C.) 34:1 :14P, 22 1929 Wangerin Organ Co., St. Vibiana's R. C. Wirsching, Philipp 34:2:23ff.; 34:2:27P; St. Josaphat Basilica, R. C. 34:1:lP, 26; 34:4:4, Cathedral, LosAngeles, CA 34:2:28, 30S 34:3:5 4S 1941 Wangerin OrganCo. opus 831, St. Stephen's Wisconsin, Appleton St. Lawrence's R.C. Church 34:2:21 Lutheran Church, Milwaukee, WI 34:2:7 First English LutheranChurch 34:2:11 St. Mary'sChurch (Old) 34:1:18 1942 Wangerin Organ Co. opus 841, St. Luke's Outagamie Historical Society (formerly Temple St. Rita's R.C. Church 34:2:26; 34:3:4 EpiscopalChurch, Racine, WI 34:2:11 Zion) 34:2:11 St. Robert's R.C. Church 34:2:5, l0P Wangerin windchest action 34:2:30P St. Joseph's R.C. Church 34:2:11 St. Stephen's Lutheran Church 34:2:7 Taylor, J.C., shop 34:2:llP Trinity Episcopal Church 34:1:15 Wangerin, Adolph A. 34:2:23P; 34:4:4 Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church 34:1:4P, 24 Wangerin, Ralph 34:2:28ff. Wisconsin, Beloit Second Congregational Church 34:2:19U Wisconsin, Racine Wangerin-Weickhardt Co. 34:2:21ff., 24; First PresbyterianChurch 34:2:11 (advertisement) 34:2:30 Wisconsin, Delafield Chapel/St. John's Military Academy 34:2:11 HolyCommunion Lutheran church 34:2:28 Washington, Blaine Stagg, Don T., residence Olympia Brown Memorial Unitarian-Universalise 34:4:13U, 13P Wisconsin, Delavan First Baptist Church 34:1:ISP; 34:2:7 Church 34:2:11 Washington, Ellensburg First Lutheran St. Luke's Episcopal Church 34:2:11, 31 Church 34:2:19U, 19P; 34:4:14U Wisconsin, Fon du Lac Capuchin (R. C.) Church 34:1:28 Wisconsin, Ripon Washington, Tacoma Christ Episcopal St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church 34:2:15 Church 34:1:llU Wisconsin, Green Bay St. Peter's Episcopal Church 34: 1: 17, 22 Bethel Lutheran Church 34:2:11 Washington,Vancouver St. Luke's Episcopal Wisconsin, St. Anthony St. Anthony R.C. Church Church 34:2:20U, 20P East Side MoravianChurch 34:2:11 34:2:9, 13P Heritage Hill State Park 34:2:11 Washington, D. C. College of Preachers, Na- Voice of FaithChurch 34:2:11 Wisconsin, St. Kilian St. Kilian'sChurch (R. tional Cathedral 34:1:l0U C.) 34:2:lP, 9, 23, 24S, 24P Wisconsin, Kenosha St. Matthew's Episcopal Watersmith Organbuilders 34:4:14U Church 34:2:12 Wisconsin, Watertown St. Paul's Episcopal Church 34:1:13P, 18S; 34:2:15 Watters, Clarence 34:3:l0P Wisconsin, Lake Geneva Webel', Richard 34:1:13; 34:2:15 Church of the Holy Communion (Episcopal) Wood, Granville, organs Weickhardt & Bach 34:2:23 34:2:7 1889 Granville Wood& Son opus, Trumbull Ave. Rasin residence 34:2:SP, 7 Presbyterian Church, Detroit, MI 34:1:5, 9U, Weickhardt Organ, nameplate 34:2:24P 9P Weickhardt, Eugene 34:3:4 Wisconsin, Lomira St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Wis. Syn.) 34:2:9, 23, 29P Wyoming, Cheyenne St. Mark's Episcopal Weickhardt, Fred C. 34:2:26ff.; 34:3:4 Church 34:4:14U Welckhardt,George, factory34:1:30P Wisconsin, Madison First PresbyterianChurch 34:1:22S Yount, Max 34:2:7 Weickhardt,George 34:1:24; 34:2:23ff., 23P; Madison Civic Center 34:2:8, 1 lP Zimmer organs 34:3:4, 5 Masonic Temple Auditorium 34:2:8, 27, 28S, 28P W. Zimmer & Sons, Gethsemane Episcopal Weickhardt, Joseph G. 34:2:26ff.; 34:3:4 St. James R.C. Church 34:2:8, 12P Cathedral, Fargo, ND 34:2:20U Weickhardt-Schaefer Co. 34:2:27 Wisconsin, Martinsville St. Martin's R. C. Zuttermeister, Charles 34:2:28 Weiprecht, Wilhelm Friederich 34:4:19 Church 34:2:8 Zwicky, Gary34:2:9 Entries are cited by Volume : Number : Page. P = illustration; R = Reviewer; S = stoplist; U = Organ Update entry; ff= and pagesfollowing. A church or institution appears beneath the state and cityof itslocation. Organs are listed beneath the names of their builders.

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