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MAY 2018 Waldensian Presbyterian Church Valdese, North Carolina THE DIAPASON MAY 2018 Waldensian Presbyterian Church Valdese, North Carolina Cover feature on pages 26–27 www.concertartists.com 860-560-7800 [email protected] PO Box 6507, Detroit, MI 48206-6507 ,Z>^D/>>Z͕WƌĞƐŝĚĞŶƚĐŚĂƌůĞƐŵŝůůĞƌΛĐŽŶĐĞƌƚĂƌƟƐƚƐ͘ĐŽŵ W,/>>/WdZh<EZK͕&ŽƵŶĚĞƌƉŚŝůΛĐŽŶĐĞƌƚĂƌƟƐƚƐ͘ĐŽŵ ANTHONY & BEARD ADAM BRAKEL THE CHENAULTS JAMES DAVID CHRISTIE PETER RICHARD CONTE LYNNE DAVIS ISABELLE DEMERS CLIVE DRISKILL-SMITH DUO MUSART BARCELONA JEREMY FILSELL MICHAEL HEY CHRISTOPHER HOULIHAN DAVID HURD SIMON THOMAS JACOBS MARTIN JEAN HUW LEWIS RENÉE ANNE LOUPRETTE ROBERT MCCORMICK BRUCE NESWICK ORGANIZED RHYTHM RAÚL PRIETO RAMÍREZ JEAN-BAPTISTE ROBIN BENJAMIN SHEEN HERNDON SPILLMAN CAROLE TERRY JOHANN VEXO BRADLEY HUNTER WELCH JOSHUA STAFFORD THOMAS GAYNOR 2016 2017 LONGWOOD GARDENS ST. ALBANS WINNER WINNER 50th Anniversary Season THE DIAPASON Editor’s Notebook Scranton Gillette Communications One Hundred Ninth Year: No. 5, April showers bring May fl owers . Whole No. 1302 I write this message on the Tuesday after Easter, still in the MAY 2018 fi rst few days of April. Here in the Midwest, we are awaiting Established in 1909 more snow (!) in the next day, but we realize that warmer Stephen Schnurr ISSN 0012-2378 temperatures and rain will fi ll out April and bring even better 847/954-7989; [email protected] weather and colorful fl ora in May. www.TheDiapason.com An International Monthly Devoted to the Organ, When you read this message, many of us will think of our the Harpsichord, Carillon, and Church Music work at Easter as a memory long past. Choirs will soon end their colleague is not a subscriber, we would be happy to send a sample season, colleges and universities will empty of students for the issue, along with a subscription form. Simply provide me with the CONTENTS summer, and many of us will begin to plan summer travel. name and mailing address, and we will take it from there! FEATURES Did you browse our list of summer conventions, confer- The Organs of Christ Church, Episcopal, ences, and other study opportunities in the April issue? Be In this issue Montpelier, Vermont sure to review these dozens of opportunities for personal and We are pleased to present Stephen Pinel’s history of the by Stephen L. Pinel 20 professional enrichment as you plan your summer. (If you have parish and organs of Christ Church, Episcopal, Montpelier, NEWS & DEPARTMENTS misplaced your April issue, you can always view it at our web- Vermont. The essay paints a picture of a congregation whose Editor’s Notebook 3 site, www.thediapason.com.) instruments represent a cameo of North American organbuild- Here & There 3 ing across a century and a half. Carillon News 10 Our work at THE DIAPASON does not slacken! In “Harpsichord Notes,” Larry Palmer introduces us to Harpsichord Notes by Larry Palmer 11 Our summer project at The Diapason will focus on a rede- a new Haydn compact disc of harpsichord music, as well as In the wind . by John Bishop 16 signed website, our fi rst major overhaul since 2012. We have other tidbits of recent Haydn research. John Bishop, in “In the On Teaching by Gavin Black 18 already begun strategizing how to make our website more use- Wind,” relates for us the lifelong friendship and contributions REVIEWS ful, more appealing, and, of course, up-to-date with increased to American organbuilding of two giants of the second half of Choral Music 12 capacity for videos, PDFs of past issues, and other features, as the twentieth century, Gene Bedient and John Brombaugh. Book Reviews 13 well. We will present updates as they become available. In “On Teaching,” Gavin Black continues his discussion of New Recordings 14 performance, relative to a very recent recital he presented in New Organ Music 14 Share THE DIAPASON with a friend. Princeton, New Jersey. New Handbell Music 15 Whenever you meet with friends who share your passion for Our cover feature is the new organ in Waldensian Presby- the organ, church music, harpsichord, and/or carillon, be sure to terian Church, Valdese, North Carolina, by Létourneau Pipe ORGAN PROJECTS 28 mention how much you enjoy reading The Diapason. If your organs of Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada. Q CALENDAR 29 RECITAL PROGAMS 32 Here & There CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING 34 Correction The museum features 1924 Skinner Organ Company Opus 455, of four manu- THE als, 56 voices, 63 ranks. For information: DIAPASON https://legionofhonor.famsf.org. MAY 2018 The Cathedral of St. Philip, Atlanta, Georgia, concludes Sunday concerts at 3:15 p.m. followed by Choral Evensong at 4:00 p.m.: May 6, Georgia Boy Choir; 5/13, Caroline Robinson; 5/20, Bruce Neswick. For information: www.stphilipscathedral.org. Advent Lutheran Church, Mel- Waldensian Presbyterian Church Valdese, North Carolina Cover feature on pages 26–27 bourne, Florida, concludes its concert series, Sundays at 3:00 p.m.: May 6, Kathrine Handford. For information: www.adventlutheranbrevard.org. COVER Létourneau Pipe Organs, Saint-Hyacinthe, St. Paul Catholic Cathedral, Pittsburgh, Québec, Canada; Waldensian Presbyterian Pennsylvania, Beckerath organ Christ Church, Grosse Pointe Farms, Church, Valdese, North Carolina 26 Michigan, continues its musical events: St. Paul Catholic Cathedral, Pitts- May 6, Bach, Easter and Ascension burgh, Pennsylvania, announces recitals Oratorios. Choral Evensong, Sundays at on the cathedral’s Beckerath organ: May 4:30 p.m.: May 13, 5/20. July 18, Farewell Editorial Director STEPHEN SCHNURR John Leonard Hinners 4, 7:30 p.m., Henk de Vries; June 3, 4:00 Concert for the choir’s residency at Dur- and Publisher [email protected] p.m., Kenneth Danchik. For informa- ham Cathedral, UK. For information: 847/954-7989 In the articles “Hinners & Albertsen tion: http://stpaulpgh.org. www.christchurchgp.org. President RICK SCHWER on the Mississippi Bluffs” by Allison [email protected] Alcorn (February 2018, p. 24, and March The Legion of Honor Museum, San 847/391-1048 2018, p. 22), a photograph of John Leon- Francisco, California, announces organ ard Hinners was incorrectly identifi ed as recitals, Saturdays at 4:00 p.m., free with Editor-at-Large ANDREW SCHAEFFER [email protected] Ubbo J. Albertsen. The author regrets museum entry: May 5, The British School, this error. 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