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39 Vol. 47, No. 4 / The TRACKER 3 THE J. W. STEERE &SON ORGAN OF THE CITY OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS BY KEITH BIGGER
he Soon afterward, however, the City of Springfield began to con sider a "modernization" of its Symphony Hall. A group concerned 1915 W. Steere & Son organ, opus 673, is a four- J. with the preservation of the hall was founded, and with respect to the manual, 58-rank instrument that once resounded in organ, a 24-member committee of nationally-recognized artists, aca TSymphony Hall (formerly the Municipal Auditorium) demics, builders, and curators was enlisted. That committee declared in Springfield, Massachusetts, but now lies dormant in the instrument eminencly restorable, and recommended that an inde an adjacent storage facility. Ironically, the instrument never traveled pendent acoustical engineer be brought in to ensure that the acoustics more than a few blocks from the site of its manufacture, since J. W not be impaired; that any proposed organ renovations conform to Steere & Son was a Springfield-based builder. It was the featured Organ Historical Society guidelines for the restoration and preserva instrument at both the 1915 and 1916 conventions of the National Association of Organists, and was also scheduled for the 1917 con- tion of historic organs; and that a replacement J. W Steere console of vention (which was cancelled due to war). It was presented in solo the same time-period be acquired, or that a replica of the original performances by world-famous artists, and the first-appointed console be built. But these modest recommendations went unheeded, Springfield municipal organist was Charles Courboin, subsequently organist at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City. In 1977, Virgil Fox was scheduled to perform at ALL PHOTOS BY KEITH BIGGER, except where noted. Springfield Symphony Hall with his touring electronic substitute. While practicing, he was given an opportunity to play the Steere Top photos from left to right: organ. A photo of Fox at the console with a surprised look, Symphony Hall (formerly the Municipal Auditorium), SpringfieldMA, former site of the SpringfieldMunicip al which appeared in a local paper the next day, was captioned Organ, W. Steere & Son, op. 673. "Astounded." It said that, having heard the organ, he called the J. SteereThat the same "Stradivarius year, the instrument of organs" was accorded and promisedhistoric status to byhelp the Current location of the SpringfieldMunicipal Organ in base promoteOrgan Historical its preservation. Society, and in a letter dated December 8, 1977 to ment across the street from Symphony Hall. Mayor William C. Sullivan, it was announced that a plaque would be Mayland harp action, called "Celesta (Carillons)" in spec. prepared, stating 'This organ, built by J. W Steere & Son Organ Co. The console, a mid-century replacement, is stm·ed in a ware of Springfield, MA in the year 1915, has been selected for recognition house elsewhe1·e in Springfield. as an instrument of exceptional historic merit worthy of preservation."
4 The TRACKER\ Vol. 47, No. 4 the committee was never given adviso Having heard ry status, and the renovation of the hall proceeded in 1978-79. the organ, The preservationist group, calling Virgil Fox itself Preserve Our Symphony Hall (POSH), was headed by Mrs. Frances called the Steere Gagnon, who currently serves on the the "Stradivarius Springfield Historic Commission, and of organs" and who, herself has written brief histories of the municipal organ. The organ spe promised to cialists comprising the Springfield help promote Symphony Hall Organ Committee were headed by Charles Page and its preservation. Richard Hedgebeth, and included William Baker, Prescott Barrows, Peter Beardsley, David Cogswell, Alan Dickenson, John Doney, Joseph Dzeda, Vernon Gotwals, Richard Hamar, John Holtz, Charles Krigbaum, Alan Laufman, Ernest May, Fred Mitchell, Myrtle Regier, John Rose, Clarence Watters, Barbara Huber, Lawrence Buddington, Louise Amerman, Christopher Lavoie, and Martin Walsh. A major document issued by POSH was its so-called "Red Book" (named for the color of its loose-leaf binder), currently accessible among the holdings of the OHS American Organ Archives in Princeton, New Jersey. The "Red Book" emphasized that the Springfield Symphony Hall Organ was, in 1977, the only remaining concert hall organ in the country in which both the instrument and the hall for which it was built remained substantially in their original unaltered state. In 1987, the American Guild of Organists held a duel-regional convention in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and for the occasion William Above: The J. W.Steere & Son Organ Company, Springfield, F. Czelusniak prepared a booklet, The Instruments of the Convention, Massachusetts (archival photo c. 1881-1920) recounting histories, not only of the instruments heard at the conven tion, but also for the unheard J. W Steere. This portion of the book Below: J. W.Steere & Son factory crew, undatedphoto courtesy of let is worth quoting in full, with the kind permission of the author, Parsons Pipe Organs, Canandaigua, New York and is reproduced here as a sidebar. In a 1992 report as chair of the Organ Historical Society cita tions committee {"OHS Historic Organs Citation Program," The Tracker 35:3) Timothy Edward Smith listed the organ as "destroyed." At the time, rumors were that parts of the organ had been dragged
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through the mud, that chests were been unfeasible, since the organ was designed, built, and voiced with sawn in half, that the organ was limited tonal egress in mind. stored in a barn somewhere, or had The consultant for the project of removal, storage, and reinstallation been trucked to a landfill. But just of the Springfield municipal organ was Calvin Hampton. However, the months before, I had personally part of the project which provided for the eventual re-installation of the seen the organ in its present stored instrument was never implemented, and bids were solicited instead for state, and had the photos to prove removal and storage only. Two bids were received-one from the otherwise. [Editor's note: In Berkshire Organ Company, the other from Charles Aitken. Although response to documentation from Aitken was the low bidder, he was disqualified on a technicality, and Mr. Bigger, the citation of the organ, when Berkshire won the contract by default, Berkshire subcontracted no. 015 in the Roster ofOHS Historic the work to Aitken anyway. Aitken him Citations, was emended to read, sim self states that, with the exception of the ply, "in storage."] There were blowing plant and 25hp Spencer blower, The organ was originally install everything was moved from Symphony ed primarily in two large loftsat the rumors that Hall directly to the present storage site, side of the stage, and spoke through parts of the just west of the hall. That site is now grills at the stage sides and through organ had been known as City Hall Annex-it was once cutouts in the rounded edges of the used as a courthouse, but the lettering coffered ceiling. These chambers dragged through engraved above the main entrance says were removed when the stage area was gutted to allow for theatrical pre the mud, that "Water Works." sentations. The only other place the organ could have gone would have In August 1991, I was scheduled to been in the rear balcony, out in the open. But for a pipe organ voiced chests were attend a week-long seminar in the city of on 10, 12, and 25 inches of wind pressure, this arrangement would have sawn in half, Springfield, to be held at Symphony Hall. Having known the rumors con that the organ Above: cerning the fate of the organ, I was Great Clarabella 8 complete and in peefect condition was stored in a determined to get to the bottom of things. After many phone calls to the Below: From leftto right: barn somewhere, mayor's office, and after being directed Choir Harmonic Concert Flute 8 or had been and re-directed to many city agencies, I was finally put in contact with John A. Great diapasons, damaged but repairable trucked to a ("Jack") Teague, the director of city facil Some of the 60 pipe trays built new by Berkshire landfill. ities, and on a given morning, I and an associate met Mr. Teague at a maintenance site located at 233 Allen St. pipes, all but one of the 58 ranks were present and accounted for, and There we were shown the console to the organ (actually, a mid-century in seemingly complete condition. The photo record reproduced here replacement console), which lay separately stored from the organ itself. represents only about one-fifth of the complete record. We then descended to the City Hall Annex, the storage site of the organ. In our view, Charles Aitken and his crew did a magnificent job of As we stood outside the door to the basement area, Teague told us that removal (imagine a 3' x 4' Solo regulator with 54 springs!). The pipe he was one of only two people who had keys to the room. As he trays, supplied by Berkshire, are of the best construction, the chest unlocked the door, there, before our eyes, was a rather large room filled work and regulators are immaculate, and Aitken sealed up all the with pipe trays and chests almost to the ceiling, and monster-sized 32' openings to preserve the leather from deterioration. At worst, several Bombarde resonators. All of this, Teague himself had carefully covered of the Great diapason pipes suffered some reversible damage, proba in heavy plastic sheets. It is hard to describe one's excitement at such bly by unauthorized personnel walking around in the unlit chambers moments, but whatever joy we may have had was quickly quelled as we during the removal. contemplated the tedious job ahead of going through all 60 or so pipe There are two more pieces to this story. First, a rumor that a record trays. Armed with a pipe-count by rank, we proceeded to the task, and ing was made shortly before the organ's removal, and second, the question though it was not possible to account for each and every one of 3,907 of what shall become of the organ, given its eminently restorable state?
SPRINGFIELD'S MUNICIPAL ORGAN A Short History by William F. Czelusniak
hen the The action was electropneumat Springfield for their convention modernization of the auditori Springfield ic, and a combination system of 1916 as well. (The National um building, with federal Municipal typical of the period was provid Association of Organists was financial support. Auditorium was ed in the Skinner style within the perhaps most active in the After a concert in the audi Wdesigned, the architects allowed console. The instrument was northeastern area of the country torium in 1977, using a travel some discreet space forthe even designed at the Steere firm by and later merged into the ing electronic substitute, Virgil tual installation of a pipe organ, Harry Van Wart, formerly of the American Guild of Organists.) Fox spoke up in defense and and even before the completion E. M. Skinner Company in In the mid- I 940's, the orig support of the Steere pipe organ of the building construction, the Boston, and was smaller but sim inal Steere console of the and its restoration. All sugges citizenry had begun to raise ilar to the 1915 Steere built for Springfield Municipal Organ tions in this vein fell upon deaf funds for the purchase of a Woolsey Hall at Yale University. was replaced by one with all ears of the decision-makers, and grand instrument. After several The instrument was dedi electric action, and the demise the renovation of the auditori fundraising events, plus appro cated on June 25, 1915 in a of the instrument began. One um included the removal of the priations pledged by the City, a concert by Charles Heinroth, must acknowledge also the Steere, which was stored and contract in the amount of organist and director of music changing musical tastes and preserved in an adjacent city approximately $25,000 was at the Carnegie Institute of forms of entertainment in the facility. The Municipal signed on November 12, 1914 Pittsburgh. The outstanding ensuing period however, and Auditorium is now renamed with the J. W Steere & Son acoustics of the Municipal eventually the Steere organ Symphony Hall, and there may Organ Company of Springfield, Auditorium and its large pipe slipped into complete disuse. be little hope of ever restoring without competition, for the organ pur the City of Late in the I 970's several the J. W. Steere pipe organ. construction of the Municipal Springfield high on the list of attempts to activate the old Ten years later, there is still Organ, their op. 673, installed musicians performing on the organ were made, but to no sig no organ at Symphony Hall, in May 1915. The four-manual municipal circuit in this coun nificant avail. At the same time and the success of the renova
organ was prepared forthe addi try. For many years the City the Ciry began to consider the tions, both functionally and tion of an Echo division and for supported a municipal organist renovation of the Municipal acoustically, remains a real, if several more reed stops, but 5 5 position, and in August 1915 Auditorium. Despite intense moot, question in the minds of ranks in the aggregate were actu the National Association of objections and strenuous argu many area musicians. ally installed, including two Organists gathered at ments from several quarters ranks of Solo reeds on 25-inch Springfield for their eighth during the period of study and Reprinted with permission from wind pressure, plus Chimes and annual convention. The success public hearings in 1978-79, the AGO regionalconvention booklet Harp. A full-length wooden of the Steere organ at the hands Ciry contracted shortly there The Instruments of the Bombarde 32 provided the and in the ears of this group after for the complete interior Convention (Northampton MA: foundation of the Pedal division. prompted their return to decoration, renovation, and Private imprint, 1987)
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The good news is that now, two decades after the organ's removal and the hall's renovation to provide space for scenery-but not for the organ-the City of Springfield is facing the need for another renova tion of the hall, owing to additional space problems, and necessary roof repairs. A recent article in a local newspaper mentions that a theatrical company at one point came in with four truckloads of scenery, but that there was only enough space onstage to unload two truckloads. A Boston architectural firmcompleted a survey indicating that $4 million would be needed for essential repairs, and that addi tional space could be provided by moving the back wall 20 feet, but that that would raise the cost to $11 million. The bad news is that this plan does not include space for organ chambers. If we are to hear this organ again in our lifetimes, perhaps now is the time to address the matter at an appropriate national and regional level. Some may recall that, only a few years ago, a similar story
Part of the began to enfold at City Hall, Portland, Maine, home of the Kotzschmar project which Memorial Organ, Austin opus provided for 323/323A. While no two situations are ever identical, it is significant that the the eventual early plans for the renovation of re-installation Portland City Hall also failed to address of the instru- the fate of the- pipe organ, and it was only through the strength of a broad ment was never constituency the Portland Symphony implemented, Orchestra, the Concert Association, the Kotzschmar Organ group, the Maine and bids were Historic Preservation Commission, solicited instead Greater Portland Landmarks, ballet and for removal and opera supporters, and numerous oth- Sers-thatpringfield, the too, matter has washad broughtthe suppor tot itsof storage only. present,numerous happy preservation-minded conclusion. The groups City of
and individuals ready, willing, and able to serve in formulating a constructive plan for its municipal hall. Many of these groups and individuals are still active and very much concerned, and one can only hope that an opportunity will emerge sometime soon to reopen the question of whether the J. W Steere & Son opus 673 will re- assume its place as a civic and national 0treasure .
With thanks to William F. Czelusniak, Frances Gagnon, Robert Gutter, Robert McCarroll, Charles Aitken, Charles Page, Wtirren Myers, Peter Plumb, David Wtillace, Robert Tempest, William A. Hansen, and Len Levasseur.
KEITH BIGGER is Curator of the J W Steere & Son Organ at The Baptist Temple, Brooklyn, New York.
Addendum: In view of the extended lapse of time between Mr. Bigger's site inspection and the present documentation, the Tracker staff made a point of contacting appropriate agency personnel within the City of Springfield for a possible update as to the current status of Top & Bottom: Current location of the SpringfieldMunicipal its municipal organ. John Teague retired as director of city facilities in Organ in basement across the street from Symphony Hall 2002. His place was taken by the former assistant director John Center: Regulator for two Solo reeds on 25" windpressure Mastrangelo, who states chat the condition and location of the City's historic instrument have remained unchanged.
8 TheTRACKER \ Vol. 47, No. 4 J. W. STEERE & SON IV/58, op. 673 (1915) CITY OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS (in storage) w=wood m=metal ( )=corrected [ ]=not in original spec.
GREAT 8 Dulciana 73 pipes 16 Second Diapason (from Grear 16 Diapason) (Unenclosed, IO" wind pressure) 8 Quintadena 73 pipes 32 notes 16 Diapason 73 (w) pipes 8 Concert Flute 73 (w, m) pipes 16 Violone 32 (w, m) pipes 8 First Diapason 61 (w, m) pipes 8 Flute Celeste (tenor C) (with Concert Flute} 16 Bourdon 44 pipes 8 Second Diapason 61 pipes 61 (w, m) pipes 16 Gedeckt (from Swell 16 Bourdon) 32 notes 8 Gemshorn 61 pipes 4 Flute d'Arnour 73 (w, m) pipes 16 Gamba (from Choir 16 Gamba) 32 notes 8 Gamba 61 pipes 2 Piccolo (Harmonic) 61 pipes 10 2/3 Quint (from 16 Bourdon) 32 notes 8 Clarabella 6 I pipes 16 Fagotto 73 pipes 8 Octave (from Great 16 Diapason) 32 notes 8 Gross Floete (Gross Flute) 61 pipes 8 French Horn 73 pipes 8 Flute (from 16 Bourdon) 32 notes 4 Octave 61 pipes 8 Clarinet 61 pipes 8 Gedeckt (from Swell 16 Bourdon) 32 notes 8 Orchescral Oboe 61 pipes 8 Violoncello (from Choir 16 Gamba) 32 notes 4 Flute 61 (w, m) pipes 2 Fifteenth 61 pipes Celesta (Carillons) (tenor C) 49 notes 32 Bombarde (12 pipes extended from Choir 16 III Mixture 183 pipes Tremolo [Ophicleide] (Tuba)) 32 notes (not observed 8 Trumpet 61 pipes on-site) 16 Ophicleide (from Solo) 61 nores SOLO I 6 Ophicleide (from Solo) 32 notes 8 Tuba (from Solo) 61 notes (Enclosed, 12" wind pressure) 8 Tuba (from Solo) 32 notes 8 Stentorphone 73 pipes 4 Clarion (from Solo) 32 notes 4 Clarion (from Solo) 61 notes [Cathedral] Chimes (from Swell) 25 notes 8 Philomela 73 (w, m) pipes (Original spec. called for Chimes to be 8 Gross Gamba 73 pipes COUPLERS installed with Echo, which was never built). 8 Gamba Celeste (with Gross Gamba} 73 pipes Swell to Grear Swell to Great 4 4 Hohlpfeife 73 (w, m) pipes (found Doppel SWELL Flute instead) Swell to Great 1 6 Swell to Swell 4 (Enclosed, 10" wind pressure) 8 Concert Flute (from Choir) 73 notes Swell to Swell 16 16 Bourdon 73 pipes 16 Fagotto (from Choir) 73 notes Swell to Choir 8 First Diapason 73 (w, m) pipes 8 French Horn (from Choir) 73 notes Swell to Choir 4 8 Second Diapason 73 (w, m) pipes (actually a 8 Clarinet (from Choir) 61 notes Swell to Choir 16 set of Stopped Diapason pipes) 8 Orchestral Oboe (from Choir) 61 notes Swell to Pedal 8 Salicional 73 pipes 16 Ophicleide ((25" wind pressure, 85 pipes) 73 Swell to Pedal 4 8 Aeoline 73 pipes notes] (from Tuba) Swell Unison Off 8 Vox Angelica (with Aeoline) 73 pipes 8 Tuba ((25" wind pressure, 85 pipes} 73 notes] Choir to Great 8 Viole d'Orchestre 73 (w, m) pipes 97 pipes 4 Clarion ((25" wind pressure, 85 pipes) 61 Choir to Great 4 8 Voix Celeste (with Viole d'Orchestre) (w, m) Choir to Great 16 73 pipes notes] (from Tuba) 8 Tuba Mirabilis (25" wind pressure) 73 pipes Choir to Choir 4 8 Gedeckt 73 (w&m) pipes Choir to Choir 16 Tremolo 8 Hohl Floete (Hohl Flute; w, m) 73 pipes Choir ro Pedal 4 Flute (Harmonic) 73 pipes (per orig. spec. ECHO Choir to Pedal 4 Instead found a Traverse Flute [Harmonic] Choir Unison Off (Prepared) (Enclosed, 10" wind pressure) of wood. Solo to Great 8 Muted Viole 73 pipes 4 Salicet 7 3 pipes Solo to Great 4 8 Viole Celeste (with Muted Viole) 73 pipes Octave 73 pipes Solo to Grear 16 4 8 Fern Floete 73 (w, m) pipes 2 Flamino 61 pipes Solo to Solo 4 Flute (Traverse) 73 pipes 4 III [Solo] Mixture 219 pipes Solo to Solo 16 8 Vox Humana 61 pipes 16 Posaune 73 pipes Solo to Choir [Cathedral] Chimes (tenor G) 25 notes 8 Cornopean 73 pipes Solo ro Pedal Tremolo 8 Oboe 73 pipes Solo to Pedal 4 4 Clarion 73 pipes Solo Unison Off 8 Vox Humana 61 pipes PEDAL Great to Pedal Tremolo (Augmented, 10" wind pressure) Grear to Pedal 4 [Cathedral] Chimes 25 notes 64 Gravissima (prepared, from 32 Diapason and Echo to Echo 4 (prepared) 32 Bourdon) 32 notes Echo to Echo 16 (prepared) 32 Diapason (prepared, 12 pipes extended from Echo ro Great (prepared) CHOIR Great 16 Diapason) 32 notes Echo to Choir 8 (prepared) (Enclosed, 10" wind pressure) 32 Bourdon (12 pipes extended from 16 Echo to Pedal (prepared) 16 Gamba 73 pipes Bourdon) 32 notes Echo on Choir Off(prepared) 8 Diapason 73 pipes 16 First Diapason 32 (w) pipes Echo Unison Off(prepared)
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�42-::.-:i::::.:. �==�:-;;� A Proposal for the Springfield Municipal Organ BY CALVIN HAMPTON ·-�---�;:����--�"1;;...;�:..-�-..
he tonal characteris- ventional organ stops are, to such as this relies more crucially buried state. That duplication tics have evolved begin with, too weak to on the right interrelationships can be eliminated. through the centuries match that of their orches- among dynamic levels and tim- With rhe help of modern tra counterparts. bres. It is much like the playing solid state equipment, it is also T adjustments orchestra musicians possible to cut down the size of out of the needs of I have made an extensive sur- make to create a good balance no the organ console itself. The the church. Organ recital litera- vey of the kind and varietyof matter what the peculiarities of size of organ consoles has often ture has always run parallel to specific stops required by the the orchestrations are. been a problem for organists the church music of any given repertoire of orchestra music On the occasion of the and orchestras alike, first, era. The dynamic levels were employing the organ, and found, Springfield Symphony's perform- because it consumes too much geared to the human voice; viz. to my surprise, that an instru- ance of the Tchaikowsky stage space, and second, choirs and congregations. ment inclusive of all these "Manfred Symphony," I was because it becomes an obstacle In view of the fact that required solo registers is well introduced to the Springfield over which the organist cannot decibel levels of brass and within a manageable scope. Auditorium, its organ chambers, see the conductor. In preparing per-cussion instruments my proposal for Lincoln exceed that of human voices Second, my experience in playing crawl spaces, fly spaces, and areas by as much as four times, an such organ parts with orchestra around and above the ceiling. I Center, the size of the organ organ intended for use with showed me that the way the worked fortwo days with the console was a very important the symphony orchestra pipes need to be made available Berkshire Organ Company try- consideration. Mr. Cogswell of needs to be considered to the keyboards requires some ing to make more of the dam- the Berkshire Organ Company along quite different pro- additional devices to those aged organ operate sufficiently to and I did extensive research portions than one built to employed on conventional use with the orchestra. Because into the best, most reliable kind accompany human voices. instruments. By way of example, the organ in the Springfield of solid state mechanisms to The conventional approach a cello in a modern orchestra Auditorium was hopelessly employ, and I feel we have to date has been simply to may at times be used with the buried behind solid walls, with finally solved this problem. have as many ranks of pipes double basses; at other times it only a few peep holes through The following is a pro- as possible on an instrument may play a solo melody; at which to speak, the decibel levels posed stop list for Springfield intended for use with a another time it may be used for and timbre differentiations were Auditorium. It incorporates the symphony orchestra. In spite of distended size, however, accompaniment figures. In organ exaggerated by the original most outstanding features of the such instruments have still terms, then, a given stop should builder beyond the norm to proj- organ as it now exists, so that more-or-less failed to be available in a higher register ect as much color as possible in devotees of the original instru- achieve their intended goal. on one keyboard, in a middle spite of next-to-impossible cir- ment will find the distinguish- The1. The reason addition is threefold: of any two register on another keyboard, cumstances. By allowing this ing features still intact. Knowing stops of the same decibel level and perhaps in a lower register in organ to speak directly to the that there is a great enthusiasm will be equal only to the level the pedals. This principle is audience, I feel that the qualities to have this instrument saved, I of one of the stops plus 2 d.b. known as "unification." Where I described as essential in an have treated the use of the pipes (two d.b. stops equals 12 d.b.; organs are designed primarily for "orchestra hall organ" will be as much in the manner of a two 50 d.b. stops still equals ensemble purposes, excessive uni- manifest without a great deal of restoration as possible. only 52 d.b.) fication can be counterproduc- alteration of the pipes' original [The author here proposes a tive. However, for the kind of tonal characteristics. A discrete hypothetical stoplist.] 2. Any set of pipes placed in organ being discussed here, employment of unification can Because there are a number front of another set pro- ensemble considerations do not further cut down on the depth of of options as to where to locate duces a minor obstruction. take precedence, and a careful the organ chambers, relieving the the space-consuming bass pipes, A very large number of sets balance of solo and ensemble problem of an organ's tendency it is premature at this point to increases the of stops can produce both variety to bury itsel£ This particular submit dimensions of the organ obstruction proportionately. and blend. It is important to instrument also contained a great chambers. At the time of my degree note here that, unlike a conven- deal of duplication of sounds, in conversations with Robert 3. The decibel levels of con- tional organ design, an organ an effort to compensate for its Gutter [architectural representa-
10 The TRACKER \ Vol. 47, No. 4 tive], there were several retained and installed in a shal latter to complete the effect. notions in the air concerning low space on either side of the The large pedal ranks could be possible locations for the proscenium facing directly into divided with, say, the open instrument. Any discussion of the audience. Although chis rep wood and the violon on one that kind should take place resented an improvement in side, and the bourdon and with the architect and the tonal egress, the organ would Great double open on the organbuilder. sound far more divided than it other. Each of the pedal ranks I would like to emphasize had when the openings faced could conceivably be extended that there is much less codifica each other onto the stage area. up another octave. Some kind tion of tonal principles con In addition, this plan was con of chorus mixture could also nected with an orchestra hall ceived prior to any public con be added to the Solo; and per organ than with a church sciousness-raising concerning haps some mutations for the recital organ. The most impor historical value real or imagined. Swell. If there was ever a con tant factors in the success of More recently, a consider sensus of interest in any kind chis instrument are musical ably larger space has been set of "update," the precding is as Convention rather than technical. I feel chat aside which would make the much as I would recommend. Dates: my experience in (1) compos exposed divisions free standing, Otherwise, the specifications ing fororgan and orchestra, (2) viz., omnidirectional, and the of the Swell and Great divi� South Central Pennsylvania performing on the organ with enclosed divisions facing One sions are fairly comprehensive 6/19-25, 2003 an orchestra, (3) working with another. The total allowable area as they are. As there is no l )arlenc P1 uetlc. the voicing of organ pipes, and actually exceeds the dimensions wanting for space, the divi [)avid M. Sw,e,· (4) having pursued solutions to of the original installation, per sions would be based between I )MS I 'i \ Hlivanlc.,111 this problem for a number of mitting reinstallation of the available funds and the inter Buffalo years, qualifies me to make an entire organ. The sight line ests of concerned parties. 7/13-20, 2004 important contribution in this between the Swell division on It is my recommendation losq,h .\II. .\!kl·.,he area. Briefly, I will state my the right and the Solo division that a campaign to raise money j111111(.1.. Vol. 47, No. 4 / The TRACKER 11 BY JONATHAN B. HALL On Tuesday evening, August 19, 1823, the First Baptist Church of Brooklyn was organized in Nassau Street, with eleven members -three men and eight women ... The firstbaptism was September 28, the administrator being Rev. S. H Cone ofNew York, who. ..baptized the convert, a woman, in the East River at the foot ofPierrepont Street, where there was a fine beach . . . From these humble beginnings we trace the progress of the Church to the present time. With these words, the unnamed author of Thirty-three years later, the two churches signed (in a different hand) "C. R. Hetfield," the Historical Souvenir of the First Baptist reunited under the official name "The First an early leader in the church's music program. Church in Pierrepont Street (privately published Baptist Church in Pierrepont Street," though This source gives the specification as follows: for the church's 75th anniversary in 1898) they left the Pierrepont location. (This is the describes the beginnings of what, 180 years official, legal name of the church to this day.) GREAT later, remains a vibrant enterprise in the heart In 1895, they built a magnificent new struc 16' Double open diapason metal 58 pipes of Brooklyn. As the same author described it, ture at their present location, Temple Square 8' Grand open diapason metal 58 pipes the church has been "a reservoir of inspiration" on the corner of Third Avenue and 8' German Gamba metal 58 pipes for congregation and community for nearly Schermerhorn Street in downtown Brooklyn. 8' Dulce metal 58 pipes two centuries. Among the many reasons for This church, known as the Baptist Temple, 8' Melodia wood 58 pipes this, the church's music programs in general, had a fine Odell organ, brought to the new 4' Harmonic Flute metal 58 pipes and its succession of remarkable organs in par location from the Pierrepont Street church. 4' Principal metal 58 pipes ticular, ranks very high. The organ, the firm's op. 181 (1881) was a "Large scale fulltone" The First Baptist Church was so successful II/31 with 27 speaking stops. There is an 3' Tw elfth metal 58 pipes that, in 1840, it sent members away to form unsigned, handwritten source in the church "Large scale fulltone" the Baptist Church in Pierrepont Street. archives, clearly in a 19th-century hand and 2' Fifteenth metal 58 pipes 12 The TRACKER \ Vol. 47, No. 4 "Large scale fulltone" Fifteenth 2 58 Violoncello 8 30 3 Ranks Sesquialtera Mixture metal 174 pipes Sesquialtra [sic] 3 rks 174 Trombone 16 30 8' Bell Clarionet Orchestral metal 58 pipes Clarion 4 58 Snare Drum 8' Trumpet harmonic treble metal 58 pipes Trumpet (harmonic treble) 8 58 MECHANICAL STOPS SWELL SWELL Swell to Great (coupler) 16 ft Bourdon wood 58 pipes Bourdon 16 58 pipes Choir to Great (coupler) 8 ft Open diapason metal 58 pipes Open Diapason 8 58 Swell to Great (coupler) 8' Salicional metal 58 pipes Salicional 8 58 Swell to Choir (coupler) 8' Clarionet Flute wood 58 pipes Clarionet-Flute 8 58 Great to Pedal (coupler) 4' Violina metal 58 pipes Violina 4 58 Swell to Pedal (coupler) 4' Fluto (sic) Traverso wood 58 pipes Flauto traverso 4 58 Choir to Pedal (coupler) 2' Flageolet metal 58 pipes Piccolo 2 58 Reversible Swell to Great 3 Ranks Cornet metal 58 pipes Mixture 3 rks 174 Reversible Great to Pedal (foot-Pedal) 8' Cornopean metal 58 pipes Vox Humana 8 58 Bellows Signal 8' Oboe, orchestral metal 58 pipes Oboe 8 58 Wind Indicator 8' Vox Humana metal 58 pipes Cornopean (Harmonic treble) 8 58 Balance [ sic] Swell Pedal Tremulant Tremulant ODELL PATENT PNEUMATIC PEDAL CHOIR COMPOSITIONS 16' Grand Diapason wood 30 pipes Open Diapason 8 58 pipes 8 Pneumatic Compositions on Great Organ 16' Bourdon wood 30 pipes Keraulophone 8 58 8 Pneumatic Compositions on Swell Organ 8' Violoncello, orchestral metal 30 pipes Dulce 8 58 16' Trombone metal 30 pipes Grosse Flote 8 58 PEDAL MOVEMENTS 16' Kettledrum forOrchestral Purposes Fugara 4 58 Piano on Pedal Organ Flute d'Amour 4 58 Forte on Pedal Organ Pneumatic Composition Pedals Piccolo Harmonique 2 58 Forte to Great Clarinet 8 58 The "Musical Dedication of the Baptist Mezzo to Great Temple and Exhibition of the Temple Organ" Piano to Great PEDAL took place on Wednesday, November 27, Forte to Swell Grand Open Diapason 16 30 pipes 1895. The Temple's music director from 1895 Mezzo to Swell Grand Bourdon 16 30 to 1906, Edward Morris Bowman, had long Piano to Swell Quint 10 2/3 30 been an admirer of Odell instruments. In the Balance [ sic] Swell Pedal Bass Flute8 30 Odell advertisement featured prominently in "with appropriate pedal stops and couplers" COUPLERS Swell to Great Great to Pedal Swell to Pedal Bellows Signal Rather than buying a new instrument, the congregation contracted with Odell to enlarge the organ to three manuals, converting it to a III/39 with 31 speaking stops. The contract is dated February 8, 1895 and specified a total cost of $4850. The new organ made a few changes to the existing stoplist and added a Choir division: GREAT Double Open Diapason 16 58 pipes Open Diapason 8 58 Gamba 8 58 Dulce 8 58 Melodia, st. bass 8 58 Opposite page: The Baptist Temple, Brooklyn, New York, site of the J. W. Steere IV/38 (1918), Harmonic Flute 4 58 op. 700, OHS Plaque 137 4 58 Principal Above: The Baptist Temple ("First Baptist Church in Pierrepont Street") in its earlier incarnation Twelfth 2 2/3 58 (photo c, 1881-82) Vol. 47, No. 4 / TheTRACKER 13 J:v.r:ASOJ:c:r & EI:AJ:v.r:LIN, ;J,m;JJx.o:u.o1 �illn11s, l{tl'•�HIII 1h;<1 �:,:ni· Jli1c:h Sl:.JJ1d;,1t.l.of l��cl'lk11rc wl,i,11 I,.,� :,d1ic,·c,J 1rpulal1011 ro, ll!IS �-OR_G-_A_NS,·Pf- ,\S THE STANDA11D OF TJ�E WO�LD Left:From dedication program for the Odell MASON & HAMLIN, ORGAN & PIANO CO., 156 FIFTH AVENUE, N. Y. op. 181, enlarged in 1895 from 11131 to f\" M��Oll .'i: lbm!in, light Org,m used bJ the Tc111p0.i Choir111!lie Baplis III/39. The firm's own advertisement states Tt'mplc. ___ "Messrs. Odell & Co. have issued an interest STb:Ii'-,VAY & SONS CltAS"Or(.tS"U!\,UP}lWUTPl,<:,.o.; ing list of organs erected bythem . . . . The t'-tJ 11, Ulol'E'ofJ.'I £ Cllotn •t•�� n,..rr1<;TTl1\IPU� lluttra1r,1c..,,,o,��•»•1<1'f•noo"pp11u1100 latest addition is the lar-ge organfor the STE.JNWAY k SONS, ._...,._,_,.._.Jlt.lil, Baptist Temple, Brooklyn, N. Y.It was built 107-111 E 14th STREET, N[W YORK, from the specifications ofMr. Edward Morris J. H. & C, S, ODELL & CO , Bowman, EC.M , A.C.O.;the organist and CHURCH ORGAN BUILDERS, music director ofthe Temple. Its console proj �Oi and �Ofl \'fc�L Hd St.. Nen ·weR� Side Elent.ed R Jt l',10LL A,e , N, Y , ects several feetfrom the front of the organ I l,11to o�c,I lhe Odell Org,rne 'll"ilb co lire Hli•tnr.1100 ever eioee I UrbL l,�01,�c i.r.'}n�iuLc,1 wi ll1 them B.ij 6ludenla iu ),'o.,. York iu 1866-6'1. ·ri.o Te ru1ole Orgau 18 the Iourll1 lhRL I\Je firm Lno U11il1 ror roy poreoDa\ case, and the organist's bench will stand at the ,1��. �ud I l,a�e lin,l uo cRa6e tboe fer lo uigraL rnr • 01om.,nl •uy cowwinelon l havC! given tlJem. central point about which the semi-amphithe U% EM�=g Af"��r�. Odell & Co. IHL "<'B ieeoed 11.ll ioleHeli111t liat or org1D11 erecled by atrical choi1· terraces will curve. This is done them. wi1 l1 11. lisl o[du11ora ofmcmori11.l aud giflorp11.111. ·fJ,"' ors�:a ercelcl1 the musical dedication program, he writes tone poem composed for Bowman by Dudley tors and officers, a committee on membership, "The Temple Organ is the fourth that the firm Buck entitled "On the Coast," with a verse two marshals, a librarian and four assistant have built for my personal use, and I have had motto written by Bowman himself The pro librarians, one for each division. There was also no cause thus far to regret for a moment any gram, though it was in dedication of a church, something called "The Order of the commission I have given them." was mostly secular in character. Macintosh," apparently the chiefs and secretaries This "musical dedication" was not strictly Bowman, a student of Guilmant and a of each of the four divisions of the choir-per an organ dedication, and it featured che founder of the American Guild of Organists, haps the soloists (12 of these), seniors, juniors, Temple Choir as well as six assisting organists: oversaw an extraordinary program at the and choristers that are listed next. (At a later John Hyatt Brewer, Henry G. Hancher, Henry Temple, On Tuesday, March 22, 1900, there choral program, the past and present choir lead Rowe Shelly, G. Waring Steubens, Abram Ray was a major presentation by the Temple Choir ership would take on still more fanciful appella Tyler, and Frank Taft. The opening piece was a and Orchestra. The choir had a full board of direc- tions, recalling the orders of Freemasonry.) The same program also lists in its personnel roster twelve "Honorary Professional Members"-Alexandre Guilmant, Clarence Eddy, William Middelschulte, Harry Rowe Shelley, and G. Waring Stebbins are prominent among these. The same program also lists 35 members of the Temple Orchestra. Bowman's program was enormous, organized along corpo rate lines, and widely recognized as the leading volunteer music program in America. For a while, this program was served by a beautifully produced, glossy magazine titled The Temple Choir Shophar: A Journaf Devoted to the Interests of the Baptist Temple Choir and a High Order of Church Music. Far more than a calen dar of rehearsals and services with some cheerful boilerplate from the director, it was essentially a music journal in its own right. Its focus was the work of one of the largest, best-organized, and most successful church music programs ever developed in New York or anywhere else. The one copy of The Shophar known to be extant today is Vol. IX, No. 1 (September 1904). That it was already in its ninth volume J.H. & C. S. Odellop. 181 (1881, enlarged 1895, destroyed 1917), accompanied bythe Temple indicates that it was established about the same Choir (photo c, 1895-1906) 14 The TRACKER \ Vol. 47, No. 4 "A RESERVOIR OF INSPIRATION," THE BROOKLYN BAPTIST TEMPLEAND ITS PIPE ORGANS time as the Temple choir itself, November 1895, just before the dedication of the new edifice. Its eight pages are filled with well written text addressing all four divisions of the choir, reminiscences of the recent choir out · ing, and the announcement of the imminent, .• -- likely addition of Cathedral Chimes to the .c,.• ... • • organ. "The tone of the chimes will be sweet • • and mellow, like a cathedral bell heard at a dis o • tance, and hymn-tunes, melodies and chime 'cadences' can be played on them .... " 90 One of the more delightful traditions of oO the Temple were frequent concerts of "olde ryme musick" or "Great Syngynge Meetynges," complete with bulletins printed in an outra geous pastiche of "olde English." The musi cians adopted "colonial" versions of their names: soloist Jennie Giles Watson was billed as "Ye High Syngynge Maiden, Charity Sophrony Watson." Later, the program from - I ... -_ ------. . ... 1914 would have this note: - 1111 Originalconsole, J. W.Steere & Son op. 700 (photo byKeith Bigger) NB. Ye Olde Wimmen whoe need fressh coales for theyre foote-stoves can gett them at Neighbor Lee's, her 8 Gedackt 73 8 Octave (from Ped Diapason) 32 kitchen, & ye youngge wimmen can 4 Flauto Traverso 73 8 Violoncello (from Ch) 32 gett sparks in ye hallwaye. 2 Flautino 61 16 Posaune 73 COUPLERS AND ACCESSORIES So much for killjoy church music 8 Cornopean 73 Swell to Great 16-8-4 programs! 8 Oboe 73 Swell to Swell 16-UO-4 The enlarged Odell was lost along with 8 Vox Humana 61 Swell to Choir 16-8-4 much of the building in a catastrophic fire on Swell to Pedal 8-4 March 7, 1917; only the outer walls remained. CHOIR Choir to Great 16-8-4 The congregation lost no time in rebuilding, 16 Gamba 73 pipes Choir to Choir 16-UO-4 and on June 12 they signed a contract with the 8 Diapason 73 Choir to Pedal J. W. Steere company. This organ, the firm's 8 Dulciana 73 Echo to Great 16-8-4 op. 700, cost $17,000. The specifications in 8 Concert Flute 73 Echo to Choir the contract were as follows. 8 Flute Celeste (Tenor C) 61 Echo to Echo 16-UO-4 8 Quintadena 73 Echo to Pedal GREAT 4 Flute d'Amour 73 Great to Great 4 16 Bourdon (Pedal Extension) 61 notes 8 Clarinet 61 Great to Pedal 8-4 8 First Diapason 61 pipes 8 Orchestral Oboe 61 8 Second Diapason 61 Harp 49 notes [Several of the sub- and super-couplers are 8 Gemshorn 61 added in ink to the typed contract and ini- 8 Great Flute 61 ECHO tialed by Harry van Wart.] 8 Gedackt 61 8 Stentorphone 73 pipes 4 Octave 61 8 Muted Viole 73 Wind Indicator 4 Harmonic Flute 61 8 Viole Celeste 73 Crescendo Indicator 8 Tu ba 61 8 Fern Flute 73 Sforzando Indicator IO Chimes (from Echo) 8 Vox Humana 61 Nos. 4-9 enclosed in Choir Swell Box 20 notes Chimes 20 notes ADJUSTIBLE COMBINATIONS 1-2-3-4-5-0 Great and Pedal SWELL PEDAL 1-2-3-4-5-6-0 Swell and Pedal 16 Bourdon 73 pipes 32 Resultant 32 notes 1-2-3-4-0 Choir and Pedal 8 Diapason 73 16 Diapason 44 pipes 1-2-3-0 Echo and Pedal 8 Salicional 73 16 Bourdon 61 pipes 1-2-3-4-0 Pedal Only (Pedal Studs) 8 Aeoline 73 16 Gedackt (from Sw) 32 notes 1-2-3-4-0 Entire Organ (not moving Registers) 8 Vox Angelica (Tenor C) 61 16 Gamba (from Ch) 32 notes (set from setter board inside chamber) 8 Viole d'Orchestre 73 16 Posaune (from Sw) 32 0 Pedal Release 8 Vox Celeste 73 8 Flute (from Ped Bourdon) 32 Pedal on and off Pistons on each manual Vol. 47, No. 4 / TheTRACKER 15 "A RESERVOIR OF INSPIRATION," THE BROOKLYN BAPTIST TEMPLE AND ITS PIPE ORGANS phobic layout of the chamber has the effect of mellowing the effect of big voicing on 10 inch es of wind. In other words, wind pressure, voicing, and size of the tonal egress work syn ergistically to create a distinctive musical effect that is warm, pervasive, and mellow. While the Steere firm was working on the Te mple organ, they were simultaneously creat ing another large four-manual instrument at the Church of the Redeemer, Morristown, New Jersey. The Diapason reported that the two stoplists were virtually identical.' At the time of this writing, the Morristown instru ment is in the early stages of restoration. The dedication recital for the new organ was played by Charles Courboin on Tu esday, April 23, 1918. Municipal organist of Springfield, Massachusetts, Courboin had a long relationship with the Steere company. His program was entirely Romantic and included orchestral transcriptions as well as late-19th-century organ repertoire. Chrisms Resurrexit ...... Ravenello' Andante, First Sonata .....Alphonse Mailly Little Praeludium ....Edward Armas Jarnefelt Allegro, Sixth Symphony ...... Charles-Marie Widor Reverie a Blidah (Algerian Suite) ...... Camille Saint-Saens Sketch ...... Robert Schumann Marche Militaire ...... Franz Schubert The Musical Snuff Box ...Anatol K.Liadow Marche Heroique ...... Saint-Saens Note that this program was almost entire ly secular.The Jarnefelt piece was particularly popular; it was premiered in London in 1909 and repeated for years at the Proms.3 In 1919, a student of G.Waring Stebbins, Cornelius van Rees, came to the Temple and led the program with distinction for over three decades. Van Rees was also a noted pianist, and received critical praise in The New York Times. Consolesetter board (right half) with switches for setting divisionalpistons (photo byJonathan Hall) Typical of his programs was an organ recital presented on Tuesday, November 15, 1938, with assistance from a soprano and another PEDALMOVEMENTS The Odell had stood above the pulpit, organist. The gorgeously printed program Balanced Swell front and center. The new organ was housed shows a stronger religious inclination than that Balanced Choir and Great in two large chambers, one on either side of shown at the dedication recital. Van Rees began Balanced Echo the sweeping choir balcony in the front of the with "Herr Gott, nun schleuss den Himmel Balanced Crescendo room. Dummy facades face toward the choir auf" from the Orgelbuchlein, glossed as follows: Sforzando (Full Organ) Reversible and outward over the wraparound balcony. Great to Pedal, Reversible The Echo division is in the rear of the room, 1. CHORALE (Lord God, Now Pedal Off key, on all manuals (added and in a large room with a very small, decorative Open Wide Thy Heavens), J. S.Bach initialed) tonal opening. It is winded and voiced so (1685-1750). A beautiful composi powerfully that it has no trouble being heard tion of the great master with double The contract also specified AGO standardcon clearly in the room (and indeed, the melody for soprano and alto and sole and pedals.The divisional combinations are set Stentorphone can be heard on the street, up to counterpoint in tenor, descriptive of by two setter boards in the console. two blocks away); the position and claustro- the turmoil and weariness in man's life 16 The TRACKER \ Vol. 47, No. 4 and presenting a picture of an erring mortal who cannot thru [sic] his own efforts find complete satisfaction. Other composers represented were Widor, Guilmant, Dupre, Saint-Saens, Dubois, Buck, Sibelius, and Gordon Balch Nevin. One would assume it was very well received indeed. But change was coming to downtown Brooklyn, and though the church continued to host distinguished musical events and con vene faithfully for worship, a long decline set in, gradual at first, then more precipitous after the end of World War II. The New York Times reported in 2002 that, at its nadir in the early 1980's, "the congregation had dwindled, the roof leaked and only three of the five key boards were playing. Few current church members had even heard the instrument.''• That the organ today, in 2003, is a great asset to the Baptist Temple as well as a success story of organ restoration, is due to the long and Above: Choir division before and after cleaning(1992); Beww: Main chest withpipes and rack patient labor of OHS member Keith Bigger, boards removed, and Gamba 16 shown sideward (Photos by Keith Bigger) who started to perform restorative repairs in 1987. Since that time the church's leadership has encouraged and enabled him to carry this rediscovered it as an adult, in 1979, he also and the probable impetus for the Swell repairs. out. While, today, work remains to be discovered an important part of his life's work. Bigger's first project was the console. He done-the organ is approaching a releather Bigger's technical skills come from varied had anticipated bringing in a local restorer, ing-the instrument is fully functional and sources: work in his father's printing business, Allen Dreyfuss, to do the bulk of the job, and plays beautifully. stints at engineering and technical schools, 12 they worked together fora time. But because Bigger, a New York City native and life years in the military, years of technical work of budgetary constraints, Bigger offered to long member of the Baptist denomination, for the phone company, and the building of a take on an increased role, going so far as to had heard the organ as a child, and when he home pipe organ. His eclectic background, sleep at the church up to six night a week to considerable talent, and deep personal faith speed up the repair process. found a focus in the Steere organ at Temple By May 1987 the Echo came back online, Square. He remains deeply grateful for the col including the chimes, which Bigger had legial support and generous advice given him restored with newly-machined wood buttons, throughout his work there by colleagues in the new buckskin and new hammer-rail felt. AIO, of which he is an affiliate member. These were very successful with the congrega When work began in earnest in 1987, only tion, most of whom barely knew that there the Great and Pedal were completely playing. was a pipe organ "upstairs" (at the time, the Due to corrosion on many disused contacts, congregation was meeting in a smaller hall on only six of the Choir keys played at all; the pre the lower level). The New York firm of Mann vious organist had never used that keyboard, and Tr upiano repaired nearly 30 Vox Humana so the Choir was only playable when coupled pipes in the Echo that had been damaged by to the Great. The Echo division, in the rear of careless roofers. (The same roofers had the church, was offline due to a blown regula thoughtfully stuffed several appropriately tor and other damage. Worst of all was the sized Stentorphone pipes full of beer cans.) Swell, where work had been started, and then Meanwhile, back at the console, the keyboards abandoned. While such work as was done was had been sent out for reconditioning. of good quality, by the time Bigger saw the By December 1988 the combination Swell chamber, 525 of the 986 pipes were engines were releathered and reinstalled in the missing-having been removed and never console. Bigger also repaired all of the dead returned-and the entire division was com contacts in the console by sweating channel pletely disassembled. The console combina silver over the original phosphor bronze. The tion engines were stacked on top of the wires for the expression pead and crescendo Tremolo. Compounding the problem was pedal roller boards were replaced with 18- massive, pervasive water damage from years of gauge .950 fine silver wire. Unlike the corro roof leakage. The plaster in the ceiling was sion on phosphor bronze, silver tarnish is ominously new, indicating a previous collapse highly conductive. There have been virtually Vol. 47, No. 4 / The TRACKER 17 "A RESERVOIR OF INSPIRATION," THE BROOKLYN BAPTIST TEMPLE AND ITS PIPE ORGANS for last. The big problem was the replacement With the major repairs complete, Bigger, in of 53% of the pipework, removed in the his ongoing role as curator, continues to devote l 970's and never returned. Bigger found several hours a day to the maintenance and authentic Steere replacements for most of the enhancement of the organ. Work still needs to missing pipes, from as close to Brooklyn as be done; some of the instrument is still using The Bronx, and from as far as West Virginia 1917 leather. When not working on the and Minnesota; and most of this pipework instrument itself, Bigger is an unfailingly gra comes from Steere organs with opus numbers cious host for school groups, visiting organists, very close to the Temple's op. 700. There is and anyone interested in learning the history of some Hutchings in the reconstructed Posaune, the Baptist Te mple and its musical heritage. some Moller in the Oboe, and the Cornopean The Te mple and its congregation are entering a is believed to have come from an Austin. new period of growth, and are reaching out to Bigger's choice of pipework and tonal sensitiv the troubled world at their doorstep. Bigger's ity is such that it is usually impossible to detect efforts-empowered by the leadership of the a break in timbre throughout the compass, Temple as part of their overall vision-are and the period symphonic vision of the organ helping to insure a bright future for this "reser is never compromised. Meanwhile, Columbia voir of inspiration," not only in one congrega Organ Works in Pennsylvania remilled and tion in one city, but for all. May many others restored a number of warped Pitman rails. follow this example. 0 Above & below: Echo chamber and grill through Slowly, the Swell took shape once again. which it speaks (photoby Jonathan Hall) On September 14, 1991, the organ was With special thanks to the clergy and staffof the formally rededicated. Six local organists per Baptist Temple; to Keith Bigger, organ curator; formed after a brief service of dedication led and to Arthur Norregaard, longtime member,for by the pastor of the church. The Organ their kind assistance . r.. •., ,- �.. �_,,... Historical Society honored this instrument A (��\J,- -� � _,�:� .. -._�\ with a citation plaque in 1993, in the course of JONATHAN B. HALL is organist and choir a celebratory recital by Michael Kaminski. master ofthe Church ofthe Epiphany (Episcopal) ,,,,_ �- ;� � ��'.-! --. \._·•e,·•\ \I {,I � 0.§ 6 � §' \ji{ r .. ;,) The Baptist Te mple organ today is a fine in Manhattan, and organist at Temple Beth Or (/1 ·- • \ --• J}J ' •• • J,. �% lh-•;'::.�.�·.J) ;5§:."i- 4 specimen of early-20th-century orchestral in New Jersey. He holds the Doctor of Music ·, � ..... '', . !• °'--:---:.,:, . ,. ' style. Voiced on generous wind, its overall degree from Indiana University, a master's degree d •.dJJJJl'I'.. •,. I': .'S.\\.\.\\\\• ...... • � effect is still rich, mild, and mellow. It is diffi. in English fromthe University of Chicago, and is cult to over-register it, and one is not inclined a Fellow of the American Guild ofOrganists. to try: the individual voices have subtly dis tinct personalities, and one does not "grab NOTES handfuls of eight-foot stops" to make an l. Diapason, July 1, 1917, p. 7. no contact problems since the silvering. impact. The impression this organ gives is not 2. Sic. Probably Oreste Ravanello The repair process went on to 1991. one of sheer overwhelming force, but of gra (1871-1938), organist of Saint Comprehensive releathering was undertaken, cious good taste and above all, elegant musi Mark's,Venice. which, except for the bellows, was done by cality. Its unmodernized console is a joy to 3. Grove'sDictionary ofMusic and Musicians, Bigger, who designed several new tools to facil play. In 2002, Sebastian Gluck of New York 5th ed., ed. Eric Blom (New York: St. itate the process. The Tr ivo firm in rebuilt the pedalboard, crafting new keys and Martin's Press, 1955), IV:596. Hagerstown, Maryland did major repair work replacing the l980's felt with bolster ("jelly 4. Daphne Sashin, ''A Ta le of Requited Love: on the Great Tuba and Choir Oboe. The most roll") felt, per original design. The result is a A Man and a Pipe Organ," New York difficult task was the Swell, and Bigger saved it wonderfully responsive pedal keyboard. Times, May 12, 2002. ORGAN BUILDING & RESTORATION YOUR AD HERE [email protected] T. R. RENCH & CO. RACINE, WIS. 53403 1405 SIXTEENTH ST. • 262/633-9566 �l&llOR■G ltBJIIIBlllNAN COMP ANY �"' 2151 Madison, Bellwood, IL 60104 • ph 708.544.4052 fa,'< 708.544.4058 berghausorgan.com e-mail:[email protected] Member of APOBA 18 The TRACKER \ Vol. 47, No. 4 In Shift, U.S. to Offer Grants to Historic Churches BY LAURIE GOODSTEIN AND RICHARDW. STEVENSON organizations were being subject to discrimi there were Supreme Court precedents that nation in federal programs. He declined to barred the use of federal money to maintain n a reversal of a longstanding policy, the identifythe agencies or the regulations. religious buildings, the law was shifting and I Bush administration said in May that it "They're clearly interested, and they said still murky. would allow federal grants to be used to are designated historic landmarks. Interior it all along, in expanding the amount of gov "Is this government support for religion?" renovate churches and religious sites that Secretary Gale A. Norton announced the ernment subsidies for religious institutions," Mr. Tu shnet asked. "In one sense, no, because change in an afternoon news conference at Mark Tushnet, a professor of constitutional it's not paying the salary of the minister at the Old North Church in Boston, where in law at Georgetown University Law Center, Old North Church. But in another sense, yes, 1775 Paul Revere spotted two lanterns hung said of the administration. because it's supporting the essential physical to signal the advance of British troops. Ms. The policy barring religious institutions character of the church." Norton said the church, which still houses a from receiving federal preservation money "We'll find out what the rule is when congregation, would receive a federal grant of had been in place since the late 1970's somebody litigates it," he said, "but if I were a $317,000 to repair windows and make the because of concerns about the separation of litigator I wouldn't go after Old North Church building more accessible to the public. church and state, said Paul W. Edmondson, because it is obviously of historic significance." 'Today we have a new policy that will president of the National Trust for Historic Some First Amendment expens said that bring balance to historic preservation and end Preservation and the organization's general giving federal grants to preserve religious sites the discriminatory double standard that has counsel. The policy was formalized by a legal seemed to be constitutionally permissible been applied against religious properties," opinion issued by the Justice Department in because they were not grants to advance reli said Ms. Norton, standing below the church's the Clinton administration in 1995. gion or worship. But others said the move was famed steeple. Recently, the Old North Church applied evidence that the administration was intent on The decision was the latest step by the for a preservation grant under the "Save dismantling the wall between church and state. White House to remove barriers to govern America's Treasures" program, which is run "This is just one more step in a govern ment financing of religious organizations, and jointly by the National Park Service and the ment-wide drive to fund religion with tax it received mixed reviews from constitutional National Trust. Last fall the church was told dollars," said Joseph Conn, a spokesman for experts. the grant was approved, said Timothy Americans United for the Separation of In December, Mr. Bush issued executive Matthews, a church official. But a week later, Church and State, an advocacy group in orders telling federal agencies not to discrimi the church was informed of the 1995 ruling Wa shington. "Literally you're putting public nate against religious groups in awarding social and the grant was revoked, he said. money in the collection plate for the church's service contracts. He also directed the Federal Mr. Edmondson said the National Trust building fund." Emergency Management Agency to allow reli appealed to the Bush administration, sensing Mr. Towey said other religious sites that gious organizations, including schools, to that the Old North Church was an ideal can could soon receive grants were the Sixteenth receive earthquake and hurricane relief didate for testing the ban. The White House Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, This year, the administration proposed asked the Justice Department for a new opin Alabama, a civil rights landmark where a regulations that would allow the use of federal ion and received one that took a stand differ bombing in 1963 killed four girls, and rhe housing aid to build religious centers where ent from the Clinton administration's, Ms. Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, worship occurs, as long as the centers were Norton said. the oldest synagogue in the United States. used primarily for social services. "The buildings that we're talking about In an interview afterthe Boston news con Jim Towey, the director of the White have tremendous secular importance as historic ference, Michael L. Balaban, executive director House Office of Paith Based and Community places," Mr. Edmondson said in an interview. of the Touro Synagogue, said the synagogue Initiatives, said in a telephone interview that "It has nothing to do with their importance as had already requested a $750,000 grant. the change in policy on historic preservation religious buildings per se-it's either the role Caretakers of the nation's oldest Roman would apply only to places of worship that they played in American history or their archi Catholic cathedral, the Basilica of the qualify as landmarks under the "Save tectural significance." Assumption in Baltimore, will also seek a America's Treasures" program. The program The Old North Church was designated a grant soon, Robert J. Lancelotta Jr., the exec gives out about $30 million in grants annual historic landmark in 1961. A foundation that utive vice president of the basilica's trust, said ly to preserve all kinds of historic sites. is legally separate from the church will admin in an interview in Boston. • Mr. Towey said that the administration ister the grant, and the church is expected to was reviewing regulations in other govern raise an equal amount from private sources. Copyright © 2003 by The New York Times Co. ment agencies to determine whether religious Constitutional scholars said that while Reprinted with permission. Vol. 47, No. 4 / The TRACKER 19 Roster of OHS Historic Citations 001 NY Candor St. Mark's Episcopal 1867 Marklove 077 MA Newburyport Old South Presbyterian 1866 Hook 002 SC Charleston Huguenot Church 1845 Erben 078 IL Peoria St. Martin de Porres R.C. 1896 Lancashire-Marshall 003 CT New HavenWestville Congregational 1852 Hook 079 MO l'l•n•burg Fim Pmbymiiin c. 1875 Barckhoff 004 MA Gt. Barrington First Congregational 1883 H. Roosevelt 080 MA Momaguc titsL Co11grcga1i0n.l 1856 Johnson 005 MAWorcester Mechanics Hall 1864 Hook 08.l OH Cleveland Auditorium 1922 Skinner 006 VT Shrewsbury Community Church 1867 Johnson 082 PA Philadelphia University of PA (Irvine Auditorium) 1926 Austin 007 VTWoodstock Universalist 1875 Hutchings 083 CT Waterbury Sacred Heart R.C. 1892 Johnson 008 NY BuffaloSt. Joseph's Cathedral 1876 Hook & Hastings 084 PA Sharpsville Seventh Day Adventist c, 1884 Pomplitz 009 PA Shartlesville Frieden's Lutheran 1891 Dieffenbach 085 CT Portland United Methodist 1863 Johnson 010 NY Round LakeAuditorium 1847 Ferris 086 CA San Fronci>eo Trinity Epimipal 1925 Skinner 011 MN St. Cloud St.Wendelin's R.C. lS/45 u11known 087 1935 Aeolian..S.kinnor 012 NY New York First Chinese Presbyterian 1842 Erben 088 PA Philadelphia WanamakerDepartment Store 1904 013 MA Nantucket Centre St, Methodist 1831 Appleton CT New (currentlyHaven Trinity Lord &Church Taylor on Department the Green Store) L.A. Art Organ & others 014 MA Nantucket South Church Unitarian 1831 Goodrich & others 089 NJ PrincetonWestminster Choir College 1939 Aeolian-Skinner 015 MA Springfield Symphony Hall (in storage) 1915 Steere 090 CO Pueblo Memorial Hall 1919 Austin 016 MA Jamaica Plain Unitarian 1854 Hook 091 PA Bernville Christ Church l 862 .K.1 nrner 017 MI New Baltimore St. John Lnher:m 1905 Hinners 092 IL Streamwood Immanuel U.C.C. 1-888 Wil'.7nnnn 018 CT Riverton Hitchcock Museum c. 1840 unknown 093 IL Chicago Lincoln Park Presbyterian 1888 Johnson & Son 019 CA Long Beach Los Altos Methodist 1852 Simmons 094 CA San Francisco Palace of Legion of Honor 1924 Skinner 020 MA Boston Immaculate Conception R.C. 1863 Hook/Hook & Hastings 095 CA San Francisco Holy Cross Korean Catholic 1904 L.A. Art Organ 021 MI Cass City First Presbyterian 1865 Erben 096 CA San Francisco First Ch. Christ Scientist 1924 Kimball 022 NJ Orange St. John's R.C. 1879 Hook & Hastings 097 CA San Francisco Our Lady of Guadalupe R.C. 1888 Hook & Hastings 023 VA Norfolk St. Mary's R.C. 1858 Ferris 098 CA San Francisco Temple Sherith Israel 1904 L.A. Art Organ 024 PA Lancaster res. Ray Brunner 1805 Doll 099 NY Georgetown First Baptist 1888 Knollin 025 NY SyracuseWestminster Presbyterian 1855 Johnson 100 ME Lewiston Ss. Peter & J>aul R.C. 1938 Ou.�v. •nt 026 CT New Haven St. Mary's R.C. 1871 Hook 10! NE Aurora Covenant Church l 888 Al=i.nder Milli 027 NY Leeds Reformed 1843 Appleton 102 NJ ShrewsburyChrist Church c. !875 Oddi 028 PA Lititz Luther Acres 1867 Hook 103 Ct Trumbull Christ Church 1849 Simmons 029 OH Shelby Sacred Heart of Jesus 1879 Clarke !04 NY Katsbaan ReformedChurch c, 1810 u1tknow11 030 VT Manchester Hildene Estate 1908 Aeolian 105 MSWoodville St. Paul's Episcopol 1837 Erben 031 PA Pittsburgh Temple Rodef Shalom 1907 Kimball 106 LA S1. Francisville Grace Episcopal 1860 Pilcher 032 NY Rhinebeck Old Stone Church c 1848 Backus 107 MA C,mbridge Pilgrim Congreguio�•l 1886-Hmchin(l,! 033 NY Sag Harbor First Presbyterian 1845 Erben 108 NJ Elberon Memorial Church 1885 H. Roosevelt 034 IN LaPorte St, Paul's Episcopal 1872 Steer & Turner 109 NY Syracuse Syracuse University Crouse Auditorium 1950 Holtkamp 035 VA Danville Epiphany Episcopal 1928 Skinner 110 MABoston Holy Cross Cathedral, R.C. 1875 Hook & Hastings 036 PA Philadelphia St. Mark's Episcopal 1937 Aeolian-Skinner Ill NY Ithaca Cornell Unive.rsity- (Sage. Chapel) 1940 Aeolian-Skinner 037 NY Oswego Pr�byrcrian 1889 Hutchings 112 NY Brooklyn Zion German Lu1heru.n 'l 901 Muller & Abel 038 \V/A I',. 1bw11.1c.nd Firsl l'reoby1erim, 1889Wh alley-Genung 113 WVWl,ec1ing Mr, de Ch,nrv.lAci.demy 1867 Hook 039 WA Seattle St. James Cathedral 1907 Hutchings-Votey 114 DC Washington Soldiers & Airmens Home c. 1855 Stev�ns & Jewett 040 NY New York Metropolitan Museum 1830 Appleton 115 WI Milwaukee St. Francis R.C. 1885 Schuelke 041 MO Kansas City Grand Ave. Temple UMC 1910 Skinner 116 WI Mecan Twp. Emmanual Lutheran 1883 Schuelke 042 MAWorcester Memorial Auditorium 1933 W.W.Kimball 117 WI Milwaukee Cooley Auditorium 1931 Skinner 043 MN Minneapolis Auditorium 1928 W.W.Kimball 118 WI Lake Geneva res. Rasin 'l 906 Aeolian 044 MAWorcester Art Museum 1942 A�lion-Ski11ncr 119 \V/1 Madison Masonic Auditorium 19�4 Wangerin 045 MI Canton St. Thomas a Becket R.C. 1828 unknown 120 WI Madison Mayer Theatre !928 Barron 046 NH Lakeport United Baptist 1892 Ryder 121 TX Dallas Our Lady of Guadalupe Cathedral, R.C. 1871, Midmer 047 NY Buffalo St. Stephen's R.C. 1860 House 122 TX Galveston Reedy Chapel A.M.E. 1872 Hook & Hasting, 048 IL Chicago Scottish Rite Cathedral 1875 Hook & Hastings 123 TX Dallas First Ch. Christ Scientist I') I I Hook & Has,lngs 049 IL Chicago Pullman Methodist 1882 Steere & Turner 124 NH Orfordville 0.11greg;uional c '1830 unknown 050 IL Chicago St. James R.C. 1891 Roosevelt 125 Vf O.nville Congrcgmicnal 1902 H.Holl 051 IA Iowa City St. Mary's R.C. 1893 Moline 126 f>A Bryn Mawr res. Austin 1913 Aeolian 052 IA New Vienna St. Boniface R.C. 1891 Schuelke 127 MN Winona First Baptist 1889 Moline 053 IA Ft. Madison St. Mary's R.C. 1878 Pfeffer 128 NH Meriden Congregational 1932 .Es«,)' 054 VA Madison Hebron Lutheran 1802 Tannenberg 129 MD Catonsville Charlestown Retir. Comm. 'I 9 I 9 C...ovruir 055 MO St. Louis St. Stanislaus Museum 1845 Metz 130 MD Baltimore Second-Fourth Baptist 'l 875 Pompll,� 056 TX Round Top Bethlehem Lutheran 1867Wendke 131 MD BaJtimore Mt. Manor Treatment Center 1887 N!cmo11n 057 PA Lititz Single Brethren's House 1793 Tannen berg 132 MD Baltimore Old Otterbein Methodist 18,7 Ni;,mann 058 PA Lancaster St. Joseph's R.C. c. 18 90 Barckhoff 133 MD Baltimore Corpus ·chrini llC. 1889 Odell 059 PA Shiremanstown Peace Church 1807 Doll IM MD Baltimore St. Mary's Epi.icopal 1901 A. Stein 060 PA Kennet Square Longwood Gardens 1930 Aeolian 135 MD Baltimore Holy Cross R.C. 1886 Ganter-Schumacher 061 NC Elizabeth City Christ Church, Episcopal 1845 Erben 136 MD Baltimore Mt. Calvary Episocopal 1961 Andover-Flentrop 062 NCWinston-Salem Home Moravian c. 1800 Tannenberg 137 NY Brooklyu Bap1.is1 "lcmplc 19 18 Steere 063 NY Oswego St. Louis R.C. 1896 Casavant 138 MA Roxbury l'i'3t VNh.uion 1883 Hook & Hastings 064 NY Durham Susquehanna Methodist 1863 Simmons 139 NY Rt,d1c.,t<1r Fim Unir:u-ian 1908 Hope-Jones 065 VA Richmond St. Andrew's School c. 1890 Jardine l�O MA Bridgcw•tcr First Pa.rish 1852 Hook 066 NY Brooklyn Queen of All Saints R.C. 1913 Wirsching 141 CO Denver All Saints Parish (Chapel) 1890 Farrand & Votey 067 MA Salem Essex Institute 1827 Hook 142 PA Fleetwood St. Paul's Lutheran 1859 S. Bohler 068 CT Litchfield Trinity Church, Milton 1823 T. Hall 143 KY Louisville St. Phillip Neri R.C. 1899 Prante 069 MAN. Andover Brooks School 1938 Aeolian-Skinner 144 IN Mndi,an form.Second l'rc:iby1crian 1867 Johnson 070 NYMexico Grace EpiscopaJ 1874 Steer & Turner 145 KYLouisvill c. St, r:GJnces of Rome. R.C. c. 1884 van Dimer 071 NY Addison Church of the Redeemer c. 186 5 Marklove 146 KY Louisville Ascc11.1ion 1892 Koehnken & Grimm 072 NH Portsmouth St. John's Episcopal, Brattle Organ c. 1700 unknown English 147 CO llouldcl Fim Mc,hodin 1888 F. Roosevelt 073 CT Hampton Congregational 1836 D. Smith 148 FL Vero Beach Community Church 1896 Morey & Barnes 074 MAS. Hadley Mt. Holyoke College 1938 Skinner 149 IA Cedar Rapids St. Michael's Episcopal 1904 Verney 075 MA Holyoke Second Congregational 1921 Skinner 150 MT Helena Consistory-Shrine Temple 1915 Hutchings 076 NH Seabrook Historical Society 1838 Morss 151 MD Catonsville Historic Old Salem 1860 Strohl 20 The TRACKER \ Vol. 47, No. 4 - --- 152 NJ Morristown St. Peter's Episcopal 1930 Skinner 232 !N Michigan City Pim Congregational !891 F. Roosevelt 153 NY Ny:,cl Vol. 47, No. 4 / TheTRACKER 21 organ update BY WAYNE WARREN MILNAR RELOCATES MainTremolo Robert W Taylor of Columbia, SWELL (4" wind pressure) HISTORIC KIMBALL VoxTremolo Missouri. In 1948, Johnston 16 Deep Flute (Bourdon; Bartlett United Methodist Harp (prepared) Stewart of Convent Station, New shared with Pedal) Church in Bartlett, Tennessee, Jersey, acquired this instrument, 8 Diapason began looking for a pipe organ in CHOIR which was originally built for the 8 String F ( VioleD' Orchestre) 2001 after deciding to build a 8 Open Diapason New York City residence of 8 String F Vibrato new $7 million sanctuary.The 8 Concert Flute Helen Gould Shepard on Fifth ( Voix Celeste, TC) congregation purchased the 8 Dolce Avenue and 47th Street. 8 String P (Salicionab Kimball op. 7035 (1928) located 8 Dolce Celeste The goal of the restoration is V String Mixture P at Cook Convention Center, 4 Traverse Flute to return the instrument to its (Dolce Cornet) Memphis. This is the smaller of 2 2/3 Nazard (added 2002) original specification in an 8 String PP (Aeoline) the two Kimball organs which sat 2 Piccolo acoustically friendly environ 8 Flute F (StoppedDiapason) in the South Hall of Ellis 1 3/5 Tierce (TC; added 2002) ment. Several ranks missing 8 Flute P (Melodia) Auditorium. The historic 41-rank 1 1/3 Larigot (added 2002) from the original installation 4 High Flute (Flute D'Amour) organ was dismantled several 1 Principal (added 2002) have been found and returned to 2 Piccolo years ago and stored in a portion 8 Clarinet (replaced 2002) the organ. Once the windchests 8 Trumpet ( CappedHorn) of the convention center. The Tremolo are totally restored, attention 8 Oboe Milnar Organ Company of Harp (prepared) will be turned to the restoration 8 Vox Humana Eagleville, Te nnessee, made sever Celesta (prepared) of the voicing. Once completed, al trips to Memphis and brought it is hoped that this Aeolian will CHOIR theorgan back to their shop for SOLO serve as one of the few remain Duplexed from the Great rebuilding. The project took over 8 Principal Diapason ing examples from the glory a year to complete and five ranks 8 Melophone days of residence instruments. ECHO (3 1/2" wind pressure) were added to the original tonal 8 Solo Cello The original roll player in 8 Sering (Aeoline) scheme. The instrument was 8 Tuba Mirabilis the console has been restored 8 Flute (Stopped Diapason) rededicated on April 27, 2003 by Tremolo and can draw from a library of 8 Flute Quintadena Diane Meredith Belcher. Chimes (prepared) over 900 rolls in a 116-note for ( Quintadena) Harp (prepared) mat. Additionally, larger format 8 Vox Humana GREAT Zimbelstern full-automatic Duo Art organ 16 Dulciana (added 2002) rolls can be played from an PEDAL (4" wind pressure) 8 1st Open Diapason automatic 10-roll concertola 16 Deep Flute F (Bourdon) 8 2nd Open Diapason PEDAL changer. This concertola, a gift 16 Deep Flute P (Swell 8 Claribel Flute 32 Acoustic Bass from the Rockefeller family, was Bourdon) 8 Gemshorn (Resultant) installed in 1960 as a memorial 16 Deep String F ( Violone) 4 Octave 16 Open Diapason to Archer Gibson, who recorded 8 String F ( Cello) 2 2/3 Twelfth (added 2002) 16 Bourdon many of the rolls. A public per 2 Octave (added 2002) 16 Lieblich Gedeckt (Swell) formance in 2004 is planned to Harp (Swell and Choir), III Mixrure 8 Octave (extension of reintroduce the instrument to 49 notes, augmented to 61 notes; 8 Trumpet Pedal 16' Open various groups, and CD record Loud/Soft position Tr emolo Diapason) ings are also being planned. Harp (prepared 8 Flute (extension of Chimes (Great and Swell), Chimes (prepared) Pedal 16' Bourdon) GREAT (4" wind pressure) 20 notes (note #21 added by 8 Still Gedeckt (Swell) 8 Diapason Deagan with electric action); SWELL 16 Trombone (SoloTuba 8 Flute F ( Gross Flute) Loud/Soft position 16 Gedeckt Mirabilis) 8 Flute P (FlautoDolce) 8 Open Diapason 8 Trombone (Solo Tuba 4 High Flute (Flute 8 Rohr Flute Mirabilis) Harmonique) A HINNERS HAS A 8 Viola Chimes (prepared) 8 String F ( ViolaD' Gamba) HAPPY BIRTHDAY 8 Salicional 8 String P ( Gemshorn) In March, the Southeast 8 Voix Celeste 8 Clarinet (free reed) Minnesota Chapter of the AGO 4 Octave FORMER JAY GOULD 8 Trumpet hosted a 100th birthday party 4 Flute AEOLIAN RESIDENCE 8 String PP (Aeoline) for the Hinners op. 537, built in 2 Flautino ORGAN FINDS NEW 1903. This sturdy, one manual V Mixture HOME [Note: The customary "simpli and pedal tracker now resides in 8 Cornopean The Aeolian Organ fied" Aeolian nomenclature is the chapel of MadonnaTowers 8 Oboe Horn Company II/34 (1913), here followed by the correspon in Rochester, Minnesota. The 8 Vox Humana op.1280, is undergoing restora ding traditional stop names in organ had been in service at 4 Clarion tion for the music room 'of italics.] Messiah Lutheran Church in 22 The TRACKER\ Vol. 47, No. 4 Washburn until about 1967. 4 Octave States and in Craig Whitney's When that congregation bought 4 Flute Bass Pulling Out All the Stops. an electronic substitute, the 4 Flute Treble After several years with organ was given to Calvary 2 2/3 Twelfth Austin Organs, Inc., Edward Lutheran Church in Minong, 2 Fifteenth Bass and Holly Odell have resumed Wisconsin. It then sat in storage Fifteenth Tr eble work as independent organ for 17 years and was finally builders, operating J. H. & C. S. given to Good Shepherd PEDAL (27 notes) Odell as a full-time concern for Lutheran Church, Rochester, in 16 Pedal Bourdon the first time since 1983. The 1984 when that parish was still (full compass) firm recently moved into a new on mission status. Restored in 2,000-square-foot facilityin East 1985 by JeffDaehn of Hampton, Connecticut, with Rochester, the Hinners served ODELL SETS UP plans for expansion. Renovations Robjohn II/11 (1859), Charity the Good Shepherd parish for NEW QUARTERS, to the space have been ongoing Lutheran Church, Detroit another 17 years. When that BEGINS BROOKLYN since the beginning of the year (photo byDana Hull) space was enlarged, the organ RESTORATION and are nearly complete. Among proved too small to be effective PROJECT the items installed in the new and was then moved to Thanks in part to the con shop is the voicing machine used for several months. The Madonna Towers. The celebra tinuous efforts and cooperation used by Caleb H. and William building housing the Lutheran tion included a festive dinner at of organist Donald Barnum and H. Odell, which is presently congregation was sold last year, Madonna Towers dining room, pastor Charles Krauss, the J. H. undergoing restoration after necessitating relocation of both a recital by members of the & C. S. Odell organ company being in storage for the last 20 organ and parishioners. Though AGO chapter, and a reflection has signed a contract for the years. For photos of the new the congregation now shares a by then OHS president Michael first phase of restorative work shop and further information, worship space with Charity Barone. The organ is entirely for the III/35 Odell pipe organ visit Vol. 47, No. 4 / TheTRACKER 23 Richard B. Jamison Jane P. Ganz. Peter T. Cameron donors & gifts 2002-2003 S, I Gary W. Jennings Roberta Gary Bruce Carlson I Van M.Jones Kevin E. Gilchrist John H. Carnahan Vance Harper Jones Cliffo,d J. Golden W. ScoctCarpemer Walrer Jones Charles Griffin Jan Carroll Many members voluntarily renew membership above the regular level each Christopher B. Kane NilsHalker l Mrs. Carol J. Kantner JamesJ. Hammann ��Js�t;:� year, raising the support of the Society's programs by several thousand dollars. Justin Kielty Edwin L Hansberger DavidCa.son Allen B. Kinzey John L. Hubbatd Raymond L. Chace In addition to the voluntary increase in contributions made as dues, many Julia Gunn l(jssel Scor Huntington David H. Chalmers members make donations to several of the special funds of the OHS. Some Robert Knigh[ David J. Hu,d Charles E. Charman David R Krauss Lee Jc:uup Thomas R. Chacsky corporations generously match their employees' contributions to not-for-profit Sven N. Larsen Joel W;John 24 The TRACKER \ Vol. 47, No. 4 Randall E. Karstens The Rev.James B. Smith Pecer MOiier Daniels Joey D. Manley William T. Van Pelc III Karl E. Moyer Anne L, Kazlauskas Nancy M. Smith Arlene A. Dare Dave Mansfield Gerald Vander Hart Donald W. Nash Douglas Keilirz Rollin Smich RobeH C. Davey Roderick A, Manson LTC Keith F.Vansant, USA Ret Chris Nichols John N. IGm Jay Snodderly Donald E. Degling Sarah L Martin James S.PaJmer William A. Klauer James Somogyi Dan R. Dibble, 0.D. Gary S. Mask �h:J=��,�ker PatrickJ. Murphy & Associates, Karen Klevanosky Greg Sparks Ruth P. Doak Douglas Mayer David E. Wallace Inc. Thomas K1ug John L. Speller Otto Doering Michael Mc Dermott J. D. Wangerin DavidH , Paulson Hugh B. Knight, OMSS Robert K.Spiers ManinJ. Donovan Lloyd L. McGaughy Chrislophcr C.Warren Bynum Petty Mark Konchan Marcus G. Sr.JuJien A. Graham Down Robert Melcher Robert W. Welch Kay Philson Dr. David K. Lamb Frank B. Stearns Michael Doyle Alice B. Melchior Allan WhitakerH. Stephen L. Pinel Kurt E. Larson John Sceelman Wesley C. Dudley Donald Metz Vernon Whire M. Charlene Ponder Michael G, Latsko Mark W. Steiner James L. Dunagin George Michon James 0. Wilkes Roberc Prentice Amy Lepak Stephen M.Sterbenz Patricia V. Dunn Daniel J. Miller Marshall S. Wilk.ins Michele E.Prokopchak David Lepse Pauline F. Stem Gregory Brooks Elmore Frank S. Morse Robert W�kinson F. AJan Reesor Thomas Lijewski WiUiam Steward The Rev. Franklin S, Emmerc Grant R.Moss The Rev. B. McK.WiUiams Lois Regestcin Herbert A, Lohr Tamara Still Robert M, Estes Karl E. Moyer Joan WiUis Thomas R. Rench Menon S. Lord Elizabeth A. Stodola James A. Fenimore, M.D. Sarah Mullane Bradford T.Wincers E. Craig Richmond Graham F. Loynd Martyn Strachan Vic Ferrer Gera1d E. Mummert Charles P. Wirsching Jean Paul Rigaut Michael Lubran t Jim Strawhorn Mr. & Mrs. David M. Finkel Barbara M. Munz Joseph J. Wozniak Donald Riley Forrest Mack Norman A. Sutphin John B.Fishel GulK.Naluai Hen ry W.Yocom Frank G. Rippl Benjamin G. Mague Roger Tanks Douglass M. Fio.simmons Donald W. Nash Hugh D.Yo ung Eugene Roan Robert L. 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Parkyn Archives through August JeffreyA . Scofield Beverly A. McGregor Ralph B. Valenrine Mary A. Giordmaine Joseph E. Parmer 22, 2003. R. B. Scoggins, M.D. Roger Meers Gerald Vandee Hart Dr.Jos ephH. Graham Robert E. Parr Dorochy W. Smith David Melchert LTC Keith F. Vansant. USA Rer. Paul 0. Grammer Niels F. Pedersen Allison A.A lcorn-Oppedahl Gale E, Smirh r Jesse B, Mercer JohnH, Vaughan Roge Greunke Howard L Penny Jonathan Ambrosino Paul Spalla Benjamin R. Meecham Anthony S.Versaggi Kevin Grose Peragallo Organ Co. AmericanInstitute of Organbuilders Kenneth Starr D. e Daniel J. Miller Lar,yJ. Walk« BelmanH. HaJI Roy Perdue George H. Ashl y William J. Stephens Marion Miller David E. Wallace PeterHa11 Kenneth W. Petersen Thomas Baker Stephen M.Sterbenz. Robert L. Milliman Richard C. Ward Namhee Han Petty-Madden Organbuilders Martin E. Ball Daniel A.Swope Alexander S. Mitchdl Lynn P. Ware David C. Harris John D. Phillippe Nancy K. Ba.rna,d Eugene L. Swnmagh John S. 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Rench Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament. The notes call it the only large John E. Courter, FAGO Carolyn M. Clawson Charles M, Rich Dexter & Jane Edge Patricia Clemens James H� Richards Steinmeyer in North America. Depending on your definition of Jane Errera D. \'v'oodrowCochran Louise C. Richards Thomas H. Fay Charles Coe E, Craig Richmond "large" this may not be entirely correct. The Cathedral of Christ the Thomas L. Finch William Connor Donald Riley King in Hamilton Ontario, has a 1933 Steinmeyer of84 ranks. The David M. Finkel Laverne Cooley fr,nk G. Rippl Russell D. Franklin John E. Couner, FAGO Joseph Rotella cathedral, built in 1931, is 235 feet in length, 72 feet wide, 74 feet Sharon B. Freude Katherine Au Crosier GaylordSanneman Fred S, Giles David P. Dahl John P. Santoianni high, and has a 23-bell carillon in its 165-foot tower. More infor Dr. Joseph H, Gm ham Cleone C. Davidson Charles Sauer Edw::nd F. Grant Henry DeBruyne Theresa H, Scarboro mation can be had about this very beautiful structure at Will 0, Headlee John G. DeMajo Russell Schertle Alan L. Ho German Organbuilding 1880-1918 Hans Fidom. Diversity in Unity. Discussions on Organ Building in Germany between 1880 and 1918 (Dieren, Netherlands: Royal Dutch Organists Association, 2002), Diversity in Unity, Discussions on Organ Building in captures the spirit of the originals very well. Germany between 1880 and 1918 The general impression one gets from reading Fidom is that of an ith extremely lively discussion, frequent quibbling, and sometimes down October Hans Fidom earned right insults and fighting. Whoever thinks that 19th-century German Wcharting the discussionhis Ph.D. on from organbuilding the Vrije Universiteir in Germany in in Amsterdam the late-19th in organists, organbuilders, and organ consultants shared the same opin and early-20th centuries. It2002. is an e Fidomnormous has benefit done to a the remarkable international job ions and discussed details in a polite and friendly way will quite possi organ world that Fidom decided to write his thesis in English. While bly change his opinion after reading this book. Fidom is well aware German would have been the obvious choice for the topic (and would that "not everybody" who took part in the discussion was an expert (in have simplified matters of citation enormously), it would have fact, even some of the "experts" show some serious misunderstandings restricted the readership mainly to the German-speaking countries at times), but he has purposely made the inventory as extensive as pos and probably excluded many American organists and organ sible; defining criteria for identifyingless significant arguments would enthusiasts. That the information in this book is now available to be an undesirable step, since proper interpretation of any argument readers around the globe is not to be underestimated. depends on sufficient knowledge of its context. Since the late l 990's Hans Fidom has been editor of one of the Naturally, some organists were old-fashioned and some organ world's most distinguished organ journals: Het Orgel, the journal of builders just wanted to make money. But what makes this book so the Royal Dutch Organists Association. Under his leadership, the interesting is that it gives a much more subtle picture of the organ at journal underwent some remarkable changes: Fidom created a this time than the average organist today may have. monthly "organ newspaper" (De Orgelkrant) in addition to the Of course, notwithstanding the increasing number of large organs scholarly journal, which in turn raised its scholarly level and in concert halls at this time, there is always the "organ and church" broadened its scope by including more interviews and discussions. connection, with all the implications one might expect. In the opinion All articles are published with an abstract in English. Finally, Fidom of "traditional church musicians," the old organ was appropriate for also instigated the journal's website, with probably the world's church music because of its objective, rigid, and inflexible sound, largest collection of organ-related links. whereas the subjective expressiveness and dynamics of "the modern In between work on his two periodicals, Fidom must have spent organ" would reflect worldly pleasures. all his time reading a huge number of articles and books published in But theologian Max Allihn, who revised the 1888 edition of I I Germany between 1880 and 1918, leading to this very readable and Topfer's famous book on organbuilding, disagreed: highly interesting book. In its entirety, the dissertation is divided into three parts. Part one is an inventory, and part two is an analysis of the [T]he elevation of the religious singing of the people will discussions.Although presented as Appendix II, a set of "10 + 1 organ be realized, when by an expressive organ music ... religious portraits" is hardly less important than the rest of the dissertation: feelings are awakened and elevated. Fidom offers the specification, historical summary, and detailed tech nical information on ten characteristic instruments of the period, all The "modern organ" was, of course, much more expressive than its preserved in their original condition, plus one recent reconstruction. It predecessor.Organist Otto Dienel even thought that the '"the modern is hard to imagine a better introduction to the world of the late organ' was more appropriate than any other instrument for church Romantic German organ than these "portraits." music" and that the registration aids of the "modern organ" were indis It is a pity that the book looks a little too much like a "dry dis pensable to hymn playing. sertation": the chapters are subdivided with the "2.3.2.1" system, the In the chapter entitled "Economical aspects," Fidom discusses use of fonts is not very imaginative, some pages have a smaller lower the obvious relationships between quality and price, and the rela margin than others, and for some reason the cover looks a bit like tively fruitless efforts to arrive at a minimum price per stop. Even medical textbook. On the other hand, Fidom uses a very handy sys after the founding of an association of organbuilders and their tem for the German citations: all citations longer than just a few agreeing on a minimum price, the problem remained that many words appear in English in the body of the text with the original builders were not members of the association and therefore not German in footnotes, while the regular references appear as endnotes. bound to the agreement. With respect to the English translation of the German citations, it In "Discussions of the sound of the organ," Fidom systematically dis seems to me that Fidom is not only painstakingly accurate but also cusses flue stops, mixtures, reeds, high-pressure stops, "Nature and func- Vol. 47, No. 4 / The TRACKER 27 reviews I coNr1Nurn tion of the manuals," and finally, two "specific stop lists" probably creat From an artistic-musical point of view, the mechanical ed hypothetically for the sake of provocation. As one would expect, the organ without any pneumatic or electric detail is the ideal. emphasis is on a large number of 8' stops. Interestingly, not everybody agreed on the number of 16' stops needed in the manuals; and around He illustrated the need for reform by explaining that the Toccata 1900, the "fascination for very large" stops is waning: in 1903, Sauer fromWi dor's Fifth Symphony was unplayable on a pneumatic organ, removed the Bordun 32 from Manual I and the Terz 12 4/5 (suggesting and that the Toccata would sound as if Widor had meant to syncopate a 64) fromthe Pedal in the Ladegast organ at the Nikolaikirchein Leipzig. the rhythm. An ongoing problem at any point in organ history is, of course, the Not that Rupp's ideas were accepted by everyone of course. One tuning of the reeds. One lesser-known solution was the creation of a point forthe other party was made in the particularly hot and dry sum combination of fluestops to imitate reed sounds. Thus, the often-cited mer of 1911: organbuilder Schurr observed that, that summer, he organbuilder Weigle combined a Quintaton and a Viola to imitate an repaired 20% of all the pneumatic organs he knew and no less than Oboe, Quintaton and Fugara for an Englisch Horn, etc. Strange as it 48% of all the mechanical organs (with both slider and cone chests). may seem, organist Hanlein couldn't tell the difference between Fidom notes that "[a)t the end of the 19th century, the console Weigle's combination-Oboe and a real (orchestral) oboe, played inside developed to a complex and relatively independent part of the organ." the organ case. In this context, it is probably worthwhile to remember Although several organbuilders claimed the "invention of the detached that the 19th-century German organbuilders were not particularly console," at least two authors had enough historical sense to point out good at reeds, at least according to international writers who knew that, in fact,freestanding consoles had been around as early as the 18th Cavaille-Coll and the English organs. century. Unlike Cavaille-Coll-dominated France, the arrangement of The discussions about high-pressure fluestops make for some inter the console was not standardized in Germany fora long time-which esting reading. A creative businessman, Weigleconcluded that "an organ of course was rather unpractical for the traveling concert organist. with 30-50 stops could sound as loud as an organ with 50-80 stops, by Perhaps some German players (and builders) also "kicked" on consoles adding 4---0 high-pressure stops;" thus, "counting the stops was not any that looked as complicated as possible. As Schweitzer concluded, longer a reliable way of estimating the 'correct power' of an organ." Inevitably, some authors liked high-pressure stops, andothers didn't, and [t)he complexity of our organs has gradually become ...a while the one group maintained that they were essential to produce a big mania in Germany. If an organ does not look like the central enough sound in large churches, the other stated that this was simply not switch tower of a large railway station, it is a priori no good to a the case. Organbuilder Feith showed some sense of humor "by present certain category of our organists. ing a specification with fantasyhigh-pressure stops like 'Erdbebengedackc [stopped earthquake], Cyklonengarnbe,Jerichoposaune '." One aspect of the console that inspired the creativity of various In the discussion about action, electricity is naturally an important authors was the lettering on the stopknobs. When the meter was issue: organbuilder Ladegast experimented with it already in the early accepted as the official length unit in Germany (which was not until 1850's when designing the famous organ at Merseburg (although he 1872), the question was raised "whether organ builders should now decided not to use it in the end). Perhaps the clearest and certainly the express pipe lengths in metres as well." Not surprisingly, most-yet most wonderful statement about electric action comes from Max not all-authors agreed that this was perhaps not a good plan.Some, Allihn, and yes, his main criticism is in regard to tone quality: however, suggested alternative systems. Organbuilder Sander came up with Principal C for Principal 8, Octave c for Octave 4, etc. His col The tone loses elasticity, flexibility; it appears like a gun league Carl Franz wanted to call the lowest pitch "1"; hence, a shot. A tasteful organist gives the tone a certain colour by Principal 32 would be called Principal 1, the Principal 16 became pressing the key more or less slowly. It makes a difference Principal 2, etc. Even better, Franz thought, would be to call the stan whether I make a tone begin softly or forzando.The electric dard pitch level "1 ": thus, in the manuals, 8' would be 1, and in the organ does not offer this possibility. pedals the 16' would be called 1 (but a manual Bourdon 16' would be called Bourdon 1/2). It seems to me that these lines cannot be cited often enough; my Equally odd are the ideas of the association Chroma: these people impression is that many organists in America as well as in the old proposed a new key arrangement (Neuklaviatur) with-don't country are still unaware of this quintessential aspect of organ playing. laugh-six lower keys and six sharp keys per octave. (The system was One is surprised to find that even temperament was an issue in actually developed for the piano; the first [lower) key was an a; thus, Germany in this period. Not that anybody wanted to reconstruct b-flat was a "sharp," b-natural a lower key, and c-natural again a mean-tone on the historic Schnitgers, or chat, say, some consultant "sharp.") Thankfully, organbuilder Carl Franz had the good sense to advocated Werckmeister x for new organs-but theorists were well state that "the groups of two and three sharps made orientation easy." aware of the very-out-of-tune major third in the standard equal tem With regard to registration aids, a certain Hans Menzel perament. This led to experiments with more tones and sometimes observed in 1913 chat the General Crescendo even more keys (26!) per octave. As far as windchests go, the l 880's saw the popularization of the may have some legitimacy in large organs, but in general it cone chest, while the pneumatic windchest was introduced in the is a dangerous evil, as it makes organists forgethow to change 1890's. But that serious interest in a "return" to slider chests surfaced stops by themselves. as early as 1908 was a surprise to me: "Loud and clear I present this thesis," wrote organ missionary Emil Rupp in a prophetic tone, "the It seems to me that, 90 years later, this statement is still relevant. chest of the future is the slider chest!" Similarly, Rupp (along with It is interesting that Max Allihn objected to free combinations for Schweitzer of course) criticized pneumatic action: much the same reasons. He argued that 28 The TRACKER \ Vol. 47, No. 4 [c]hosing the proper stops for a free combination was not The German organs that were built between 1880 and at all easy: 'In the end it is not at all desirable to give each 1918 have been identified in the 20th century time and again organist free use of the sound material.' as representatives of decay. The discussions show that their his tory instead marks an important stage in the history of organ A different kind of practicality was on Cornelius Lindt's mind. He building... . Whereas 20th-century historicism was responsi thought that free combinations had been developed because fixed ble for breaking the 'public support' for 'the modern organ,' combinations turned out to be unusable, for example when the reeds 21st-century historicism might save the examples that are left were out of tune. by recognizing them as representatives of yet another valuable The final chapter of Fidom's inventory is dedicated to the historical style. organola, a kind of automatic organ, comparable to the pianola for the piano. Predictably, organists protested that this was downgrading their This book can undoubtedly be of great help in that process .• profession. Predictably also, the opposing argument was that many churches did not have the money to pay an organist, in which case the JAN-PIET KNIJFF teaches at Fairfield University and has recentl,y been organola was the better alternative. Albert Schweitzer's humanitarian appointed Organist-in-Residence at the Aaron Copland School ofMusic, point of view is worth mentioning: Queens College, CUNY. His organ teachers were Piet Kee, Ewald Kooiman, and Christoph Wolff. To me, the organola is only significant in social terms: it offers the possibility to appoint cripples and disabled veterans as organists. In the second part of his book, the analysis of the discussions, Fidom explains how the authors collectively created the fictional concept of"the old organ." In reality, no such thing ever existed, of course: rather than one type of "old organ," there were many . The point is that "the old organ" was generally considered "an immature precursor of 'the modern organ."' In discussing"the modern organ," Fidom explains the tide of his book. The essence of "the modern organ'' was that BROOME Co. [t]he sound of any pipe ... was ... related to that of any & other one; 'the modern organ' had basically one tone colour, just like other instruments.... [W]hereas 'the old organ' with its many colours represented the medieval ideal of unity in VOICERS AND RESTORERS diversity (many colours forming one instrument), 'the modern organ' represented so to say the opposite: diversity in unity OF PIPE ORGAN REEDS (one colour in many shades). It is important, however, that the concept of "the modern organ" was something that still needed refining; "the modern organ" was never quite perfect, so to speak, but there was a general feeling that fur PHONE/FAX ther thinking and experimenting would bring the answer. "The mod (860)653-2106 ern organ" was to a large extent still "based on theory." The third organ type that Fidom distinguishes in his analysis is the so-called "Reform-Orgel"-but he makes clear immediately that the ideas of Rupp, Schweitzer, and organbuilder Walcker diverged so strong ly that it is really impossible to speak of a"Reform-Orgel" as such. As far WWW.REEDVOICERS.COM as Fidom is concerned, the "Reform-Orgel" is really identical with "the modern organ"-with some added "gadgets." In a sense, the "Reform Orgel" was an improved version of "the modern organ." (As Fidom points out, Christhard Mahrenholz, "one of the 'leaders' of the later I 'Orgelbewegung,"' while admitting that their ideas had some common ground with those of the Orgelreform, nevertheless considered the "Reform-Orgel" an outgrowth of"the modern organ." I With this dissertation, Fidom offers a wealth of background information to a part of organ history that for a long time was con sidered "bad," or at least not nearly as "good" as others (be they Silbermann, Schnitger, or Cavaille-Coll). To me, the book is invalu able because it helps to understand an organ type that, after all, is the ORGANBUILDERS instrument for at least one major composer. Fidom sees yet an other important point: 620 Eldorado - Appleton, WI 54911 920/749-9633 - [email protected] Vol. 47, No. 4 / The TRACKER 29 Clarence Eddy's Chicago BYWILLIAM OSBORNE larence Eddy, often referred to as the "Dea.11 of American bravura pedaling in the concerts [not yet by Eddy] the pedale did Organists," was the most active American organ recitalist of not all "come out" properly. In my opinion this instrument his era, eveJmmUy playing thousands of reci.ralsin this coun reflects great credit on the builders, and promises fair for their try, Can:;tda, and Europe, often on marathon tours lasting future, but as a concert instrument it will always leave a certain monthsC and encompassing more than 100 programs. Eddy was a terri effectiveness and out-spoken quality of tone (such as one always bly urbane, cosmopolitan individual, seemingly at home everywhere. hears in a good Hook organ) to be desired. In church playing, the However, he did establish several bases of operation, principally in smoothness and sweetness of tone will prove highly acceptable. Chicago, where he lived during three different periods of his career: 1874-95, 1912-15, and 1919-37. What follows is an overview of Eddy played a series of 25 weekly recitals on the instrument between Eddy's relationship to that great city. May 22 and December 16, 1875, during which he presented a consid Hiram Clarence Eddy was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts on June erable amount of a repertoire that one local commentator estimated to 23, 1851. As a teenager he spent a year of study in Hartford with Dudley total 600 pieces, including "all the difficult things of the modern school, Buck (who was later to dedicate his Second Sonata to Eddy), followed by as well as all of Bach's organ works, which he can play at a moment's two-and-a-half years as organist of Bethany Church in Montepelier, notice." Eddy must have been a terribly quick study, later presenting Vermont. From 1871 to 1874 he was resident in Europe, primarily for "new" symphonies of Widor within weeks of having received their study with Carl August Haupt and Carl Albert Llirschhornin Berlin. scores, interested in new music even into the waning years of his career, when he claimed an active repertory of thousands of pieces. 1874---95 Eddy became General Director of the Hershey School of Musical No record exists as to why Eddy chose Chicago as the place from Art in 1876. The school had been established by the singer who was to which to launch his career, since there is no evidence that he arrived in become the first Mrs. Eddy and was located at 83-85 Madison Street, the city with a firm job offer. Perhaps his mentor Dudley Buck influ between State and Dearborn, opposite McVicker's Theater. An 800-seat enced the decision, since Buck had served as organist of St. James' Hershey Music Hall was completed in late 1876 at 20-24 Madison, Protestant Episcopal Church from 1869 until 1871, when his substan including a IIl/30 organ by William A. Johnson & Son, op. 489, which tial library, home, and III/22 William A. Johnson & Son (op. 294) and was dedicated on February 19, 1877. The instrument immediately its 200-seat recital hall were all destroyed in the Great Fire, after which thereafter hosted Eddy's series of 100 recitals played between March 3, Buck sought better fortune in Boston. Eddy's first post was as organist 1877 and June 23, 1879 without any repeats of organ literature. He pre of the First Congregational Church, then at Washington and Ann (now sented virtually the entire known corpus of Bach's organ works-for Racine) Streets, from 1874 to 1879; his annual salary of $2500 was example, the Six Tr io Sonatas were played in numerical order on suc reputedly the highest in the city. The church housed a III/48 Steere & cessive programs. The final event included pieces written for the occa Tu rner, op. 77, costing $11,000 and completed only months before sion by Chicago colleague Frederick Grant Gleason, Samuel B. Eddy assumed the position, since the building had burned down on Whitney, James H. Rogers, Samuel de Lange, Immanel Faisst, Samuel January 16, 1873 and the new Victorian Gothic structure with an G. Pratt, and Gustav Merkel, but it concluded with Eddy's own Festival 1,100-seat auditorium had been inaugurated on February 15, 1874. Prelude and Fugue on Old Hundredth, which, though one of only three The Chicago correspondent for Dwight'sjournal ofMusic, May 2, 1874, original compositions, became a repertory item during the period and a had mixed feelings about the instrument: standard work for such players as the young Charles Ives. Eddy was eventually to present about 250 recitals on the Johnson & Son at The voicing is of a good quality, and the mechanical work Hershey Hall, including a notable series of national programs heard very superior-fully equal to other first-class work. In the "bal during the spring and early summer of 1881, with literature ranging ancing," however, I find many things that do not satisfyme (not from Buxtehude and Frescobaldi, through Mendelssohn and Lemmens, but what they may be all the better forthat). The Choir stops are to Guilmant, Saint-Saens, and Widor. By 1883 the hall had been reno too soft, especially the dulciana, the geigen principal and melo vated and redecorated, its seating capacity expanded to 1,000, a process dia. This lightness of tone is made in deference to their use in which, inexplicably, involved removing the organ, which was supposed accompanying solos on the Swell when the swell blinds are ly then installed at Oberlin College. The room was later identified as closed. While this point is gained, the organ loses much more Madison Hall and then as Sam T. Jack's Theater. than enough to compensate for it, in the diminished effectiveness Eddy also served as organist for the First Presbyterian Church from of these stops as accompaniments when the swell is open, and 1879 to 1895, playing the III/47 E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings, op. still more in their use as solos-as any organist will easily see. 649. This congregation had been organized in August 1832. Its first Such departures from established systems of "balancing" are a home of substance, dating from 1849, stood at the juncture of frequent peculiarity of builders still inexperienced in the con Washington and Clark Streets. This was succeeded by an even more struction of large organs. I have never known a case of a builder's imposing structure on Wabash near Congress. That building suc first large organ proving a real success. The pedale here is unusu cumbed to the Great Fire of 1871, and for the next 16 years Eddyfunc ally full having ten stops, including a 32 foot Bourdon. Yet in' the tioned in an imposing Victorian Gothic edifice on Indiana Avenue at 30 The TRACKER\ Vol. 47, No. 4 21st Street in the vicinity of the present-day McCormack Place com Elsworth's study of Johnson). plex. The organ had been completed during November 1872 on sched During June, and again on December 18, 1885, Eddy played ule at a cost of $9,000, but the building was not ready to receive it, so recitals at the Third Presbyterian Church, which originally housed the it languished in storage for several months. The room was finally dedi three-manual Johnson & Son, op. 508. This church burned down on cated on February 6, 1873 with an elaborate concert that included the October 10, 1884 and its replacement at South Ashland and Ogden quartet choirs of the First, Second, and Fourth Presbyterian Churches, Avenues housed Johnson's op. 636 (IIl/34), which Eddy presumably as well as organists Louis Falk, I. V. Flagler, and Henry Fuller, the resi dedicated with the first of this pair of programs, since the building had dent player. A group of collaborating instrumentalists included harpist reopened for business on May 24, 1885. George W Lyon, co-founder of the firm of Lyon & Healy back in 1864. The Hershey School was formally dosed in June 1886, but the lease Eddy's first service, on January 12, 1879, was preceded by the Saint on its building had lapsed a year earlier, so on May 1, 1885 the Eddys and Saens Communion in E as prelude, and concluded with Guilmant's colleagues occupied new quarters in the five-story Ely Building at Marche Religieuse. A chronicle records his frequent absences, e.g., "From 163-165 Wabash Avenue at the southwest corner of Monroe Street, with June to October 1 [1889], Mr. Eddy was in Europe, and his place was an "Elevator Entrance" at 34 Monroe. The structure had been completed filled by Mr. Charles D. Irwin [who was to succeed Eddy]." Eddy's final in 1873 and was originally known as the Ballard Block-its site is now appearance, on May 19, 1895, included three movements of the occupied by a modest office building tucked against a corner of the Guilmant Fifth Sonata, Schnecker's "Awake, My Soul" as the anthem, Palmer House. Mrs. Eddy, however, met her private voice students at their and Christine Dreier's rendition of Shepperd's "Lead, Kindly Light" as residence in the Beaurivage, 194 Michigan Avenue at Van Buren, a struc the solo of the morning. Following a consolidation of the First ture which later became the Victoria Hotel and was demolished in 1908. Presbyterian and Forty-first Street Presbyterian Churches in 1912, the Later the Eddys moved to a new residence in the Pullman Building on the combined congregations settled in the latter's 1889 building on the cor southwest corner of the intersection of Adams Street and Michigan ner of Grand Boulevard and 41 st Street. This was obviously not a union Avenue, where Mrs. Eddy received her private students. George Pullman of equals, since the First Presbyterians brought with them their minister, had commissioned architect Solon S. Beman to design both his model memorial windows, and the E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings. The above is company town south of the city, as well as a downtown skyscraper whose gleaned primarily from Philo Adams Otis's The First Presbyterian Church nine stories were to contain company offices,retail spaces, and apartments 1833-1913, A Historyof the Oldest Organization in Chicago, published in on the upper levels, a structure which was completed in 1883. Eddy 1913. Otis served as Eddy's tenor soloist during much of the latter's offered organ lessons at First Presbyterian Church, but continued to meet tenure and was also his music theory student from 1876 to 1881. students in other disciplines in the Ely Building. His professional off Eddy was a participant in the concert inaugurating the III/47 Johnson spring included such notables as James H. Rogers, who became one of & Son, op. 543, at the Central Music Hall on October 21, 1880. This was Cleveland's most prominent musicians (his Suite was dedicated to Eddy, Johnson's first instrument with both a 61-note manual compass and 30- one of 62 such dedications I have been able to substantiate), as well as note pedal compass, as well as both a Tu ba Mirabilis and Flute a Pavilion Peter C. Lutkin (recognized today mostly for the ubiquitous "Lutkin in the Solo division on noticeably higher wind pressures. The building, sit Amen"), who taught at Northwestern University from 1883 and then uated at the intersection of State and Randolph Streets, seated almost served as Dean of its School of Music from 1895 to 1928. 2,000; it was demolished in 1900 to make way for the expansion of a During March 1889, Eddy played the Guilmant Symphony for Chicago landmark, a department store bearing the name of Marshall Field. Organ and Orchestra with the Chicago Symphony Society in the Central This instrument was moved to St. Martin's Roman Catholic Church in Music Hall. From 1889 to 1895 he served on the faculty of the Chicago Chicago, and rebuilt several times before being removed in 1982. Eddy Conservatory of Music, a school dating from 1884 with quarters in the played it frequently in collaboration with William To mlins's Apollo Club, new Auditorium building. Eddy participated in the formal dedication of including annual Messiah performances, but also, for example, in the first the Auditorium Theater on December 9, 1889, a program which includ American performance of Anton Rubinstein's The Tower ofBabel. ed performances of Theodore Dubois' Fantasie Triomphale and Ferdinand I recently discovered that a principal tenant of Central Music Hallwas de La To mbelle's Concert Fantasie, op. 33, both commissioned for the the Central Church congregation of Pastor David Swing, who in 1866 occasion. The Auditorium organ was designed by Eddy and built by occupied the pulpit of Westminster (later, Fourth Presbyterian) Church, Frank Roosevelt (IV/109, op. 400) for a room seating just over 4,200. but whose liberalism led to a charge of heresy in 1874. Swing was declared Eddy was then the featured soloist when the instrument was formallyded innocent, but resigned his pastorate and established an independent con icated on October 29, 1890, with a program that contained the Dubois, gregation, which had earlier met in McVicker's Theater. A member of the the Guilmant Organ Symphony, and other works by Bach, Walter congregation who was also a theatrical agent promoted the hybrid ven Spinney, Dudley Buck, Frederick Grant Gleason, Lemmens, Wagner, and ture, so that Dankmar Adler and Co. created a structure that included six Thiele. He played the instrument afterward with some regularity. stories of stores and offices,income from which, in tandem with the rental He also organized and managed a series of 62 recitals at the World's of the auditorium for secular events, in effect subsidized the church. The Columbian Exposition between July 31 and October 31, 1893, playing congregation prospered until Swing's death in 1894. 21 of the programs himself in the Festival Hall on the IV/63 Farrand & During September 1884 Eddy dedicated a three-manual Johnson & Votey op. 700, an instrument relocated to Ann Arbor following its Son, op. 625, at Christ Reformed Episcopal Church, South Michigan Chicago tenure, some slight remnants of which may remain secreted in Avenue and 24th Street. This was grandiosely promoted as the firm's the University of Michigan's Hill Auditorium 41st instrument in Chicago, reminding us that part of the process of After Mrs. Eddy received a considerable bequest upon the death of reconstruction following the Great Fire of 1871 involved outfitting her father, a lumber baron who had made his fortune in Muscatine, newly rebuilt churches with organs, but in this case, both organ and Iowa, the Eddys became residents of Paris from 1895 to 1906. But church have disappeared. (The statistic, however, seems suspect; it is during that period Eddy made annual tours of this country, with surely inflated, given the information found in John Van Varick Chicago as a regular stop. For example, on November 6 and 7, 1896, Vol. 47, No. 4 / The TRACKER 31 , I CLARENCE EDDY'S CHICAGO he appeared with the Chicago Orchestra in the Auditorium Theater, scheduled for August 1, 1919 at Mandel Hall, University of Chicago, an the repertory unspecified. During February 1898 he participated in a event which actually took place in the nearby Hyde Park Baptist Church testimonial concert in the Auditorium Theater, given by colleagues at Madison and 54th Streets.Eddy's stature in his adopted hometown is from the Chicago Conservatory, on whose faculty he still nominally surely reflected in one description of the evening: served. On March 17 and 18, 1899 he played the Bossi Organ Concerto of 1895 with the Chicago Orchestra, again in the It was like a premier night at the grand opera. Machines Auditorium Theater. On March 30, 1902 he dedicated "The Grand lined the streets for blocks, and the crowds formed in two long New Organ" by Lyon & Healy (IV/56, still extant, and claimed in the lines to present their tickets at the door. The beautiful edifice program as "the largest modern Church Organ in Chicago") at Our was soon filled to capacity.Over 300 persons were turned away. Lady of Sorrows Church, 1406 West Jackson. Many, however, remained outside and joined in the applause Following a messy divorce from Sara Hershey Eddy, he returned to with the audience inside. this country and was resident in New York from 1906 to 1912. On July 10, 1906 he married Grace Mori Dickman, a professional contralto Eddy's sense of showmanship was manifested during his perform associated with the Rutgers Presbyterian Church in Manhattan. He ance of Gordon Balch Nevin's transcription of the Schubert "Ave served as organist and choirmaster of the Tompkins Avenue Maria," when Congregational Church in Brooklyn from 1907 to 1910, and was organist of Temple Beth-El in Manhattan from 1908. ...as if by some prearranged plan the caretaker turned out all except the side lights in the naves and at the keydesk, leaving 1912-15 the audience in the dimly lighted edifice, and a hush like that of Eddy established himself first as a mail-order pedagogue by creating a great cathedralhung over it.As Mr. Eddy's fingers lingered on a course of 200 lessons for the Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of the last notes of this beautiful song, the effect on his audience Music, while the couple found a home at 510 Oakwood Avenue. was electrical. Wave after wave of applause rolled up from the During the summer of 1913 he became head of the organ and vocal auditorium .... Afrer the recital Mr.Eddy was besieged by his departments of pianist Walter Spry's School of Music in the Fine Arts old friends in the audience and held an impromptu reception. Building on Michigan Avenue near Van Buren, immediately north of the Auditorium Building. The structure, still extant, had also been Back on October 14, 1915 he had played what became the first of designed by Solon S. Beman; it was completed in 1885 and converted many annual recitals in Kimball Hall. These apparently attracted con to its later and present uses in 1898.Eddy also served as a summer sub siderable attention, if we can believe an article in The Diapason of stitute at the Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist. He wrote music criti February 1, 1926, referring to a program played on January 14 cism for the Chicago DailyNews from December 1913 through April 1914, including responses to concerts by the Chicago Symphony and ... before practically a sold-out house and with the elite of visiting orchestras, various operas, the Apollo Club, chamber music, and Chicago musicians of all classes present to pay tribute to this solo recitals by the likes of tenor John McCormack. great oak in the forest of organists.To see a house so well filled From 1915 to 1919 the Eddys resided in San Francisco. He served at an organ recital was in itself a delight; to hear Mr. Eddy's per as Director of Music of the First Presbyterian Church of Oakland, but formance, with the style that he has always had and his fire and made extended annual tours between Christmas and Easter, including brilliancy not dimmed by age [he was 76 at the time], was a still appearances in Chicago, e.g., at St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church greater delight. In the period of at least two decades in which at Superior and North Franklin Streets on January 23, 1917. Mr.Eddy has been claimed by Chicago as one of the galaxy of the world's greatest organists he has made a host of friends and 1919-37 these turned out and evinced their feelings in no uncertain man Eddy was lured back "home" by an offer to teach a six-week sum ner. Flowers enough to satisfy the most exacting prima donna mer session at the Chicago Musical College, a stint soon followed by a were presented to the performer. five-year-contract.The school had been founded by Florenz Ziegfeld, Sr. (father of the "Ziegfield Follies" founder) back in 1867.At the time The evening opened with the Liszt Prelude and Fugue on BACH, fol Eddy joined the faculty,the Chicago Musical College was located in the lowed by a Saint-Saens Fantasie and the Third Sonata of Felix Borowski, Fine Arts Building. The composer Felix Borowski had succeeded "perhaps the principal number of the evening, and the presence of the Ziegfeld as president in 1916 (and was to dedicate his Suite No. 1 to composer enhanced interest in the performance." Eddy); Borowski was in turn succeeded by the basso Herbert An initial Kimball Hall was part of a 60,000 square-foot officebuild Witherspoon in 1925.A distinguished faculty included pianists Xaver ing with "warerooms" constructed at State and Jackson Streets in 1887. Scharwenka and Percy Grainger. Eddy eventually supervised an organ Eddy, however, appeared in a 700-seat hall on the second floor of a later faculty of five, including one who was "identified with the application Kimball Building at 243-253 Wabash Avenue, which had been dedicat of music to motion pictures." In 1924 the school occupied its own ed on April 26, 1891.Although the only readily available account of the building at 64 East Van Buren Street, just around the corner, with a WW Kimball company's history, Van Allen Bradley's 1957 Music forthe concert hall seating 800, a recital hall seating 200, and three studio Milliom, The Kimball Piano and Organ Story,gives us no details about the organs. Prior to this, Eddy had taught elsewhere; for example, during organ, we are told that the building cost about $140,000, enjoyed an 80- the summer of 1920 he used a III/37 Hook and Hastings (op.1879, of foot frontage, that "(a]ll the walls were deadened throughout the build 1900) at Carpenter Chapel, Chicago Theological Seminary. During that ing, and the double floors were cement-filled and provided with air session his 40 students came from a dozen states and Canada. His activ chambers to confine sound," and that the upper five floors contained ity at the school lasted until about 1926. A homecoming recital was more than 70 studios, which were rented to individual musicians. 32 TheTRACKER \ Vol. 47, No. 4 On September 17, 1920 Eddy dedicated a new instrument at the for the older ones present to hear again a man whose playing of First Methodist Church of suburban Chicago Heights. His listeners old they recalled with enthusiasm, and for the young it was an supposedly totaled 1,000, with an equal number turned away. opportunity to see and hear one who no doubt has given more On November 22, 1920, he played a recital dedicating the IV/49 recitals than any other living American and who in his day ded Austin, op. 948, at St. James' Protestant Episcopal Church (not yet a icated more organs than any other .... Despite his 82 years Mr. cathedral) at North Wabash Avenue (then Cass Avenue) and Huron Eddy played the To ccata in D minor of Bach and his own Street, the same building in which he had dedicated the III/49 Johnson arrangement of Schubert's "By the Sea," closing with "Old & Son op. 456 in 1875. Hundred" [presumably his own Festival Prelude and Fugue]. In On August 1, 1922 he was a featured recitalist at the 15th Annual all of this the human quality which never failed to mark his Convention of the National Association of Organists, with a program playing was manifested. played at St.James'-a menu of contemporary works including pieces by two Englishmen then working in Chicago, J. Lewis Browne and Eddy's peripatetic style is perhaps reflected in the list of his known res Thomas William Lester. idences during this terminal Chicago stay: 3970 Ellis Avenue in 1921, on Eddy's continuing popularity was reflected in an audience that filled the south side; 5357 Wayne Avenue by 1927, on the far north side, in every seat and the hundreds who stood throughout his recital dedicat proximity to the People's Church; even further north to 483 Sheridan ing a Hall organ designed by William H. Barnes for the new Buena Road in Winnetka by 1930. The final three residences were all within a Memorial Presbyterian Church on Sheridan Road at Broadway on few blocks of one another: 152 East Superior Street, followed by an apart November 23, 1923. ment at the Drake Hotel, and one at 33 East Elm Street, both in 1936. On May 18, 1925, Eddy dedicated a Moller instrument in the new Death came at age 85 on January 10, 1937 "after an indisposition Hermon Colored Baptist Church, 1754 North Clark Street. of only a few days." A funeral service was held two days later in Thorne He became organist of the People's Church, perhaps in 1924 Hall on the McKinlock campus of Northwestern University in Chicago. (although he had played there sporadically as early as 1919), a tenure The service was played by Wilhelm Middelschulte, a lifelong friend who lasting through the summer of 1927. He dedicated a three-manual had been a fellow student of August Haupt those many decades earlier. instrument by George Kilgen & Son in the congregation's new Uptown His program included works of Bach that had been played at Haupt's Te mple at 961 Lawrence Avenue on November 11, 1926. (This unusu funeral in 1891. The national council of the American Guild of al independent congregation dates back to 1881, when Hiram Thomas Organists met on February 22 and adopted a tribute: Washington, at the time pastor of the Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church, was convicted of heresy and expelled from his denomination.) In the passing of Hiram Clarence Eddy the Guild has lost an As with his other church positions, Eddy's employers must have tolerat illustrious founder, a giant in the organ world, and one who both ed a considerable degree of absenteeism. In fact, a squib in The as teacher and recitalist had as great influence upon organ playing Diapason of July 1, 1927 made note that Eddy had returned from his in America as any man of his time .... Mr. Eddy's reputation not 27th tour of the Pacific coast to play the finalservice of the season at the only was national, but became international as well .... His reper People's Church on June 19. Pastor Preston Bradley referred to him in toire was enormous and he had the rare art of arranging a program the sermon of the day as "the Lindbergh of the organ world," although of the best in such a manner as to hold the interest of his audience. there is no evidence that Eddy ever set foot in an airplane. In September 1927 he was struck by an unspecified illness requiring The Diapason ofJune 1 took note of a memorial service that had been surgery, followed by an extended period of recuperation and relative held in Kimball Hall on May 19 by the Illinois Chapter of the AGO at seclusion. However, on August 4, 1933 he made a cameo appearance, which the eulogy was delivered by Pastor Bradley of the People's Church. again at St.James', for the 26th Annual Convention of the National He paid tribute to this "pioneer among American concert organists" and Association of Organists in a program shared with Porter Heaps and lamented "the facility with which those who have contributed most to our Virgil Fox.The event was described in The Diapason, whose writer culture are forgotten by the generations which follow." Clarence Eddy was not only the "Dean of American Organists," but ... witnessed an impressive scene Friday afternoon when he was also a most colorful citizen of Chicago. 0 Clarence Eddy walked to the console to play a group of selec tions by special invitation. The entire audience-a very large WILLIAM OSBORNE has recently retired from the faculty of Denison company not only of organists, but also of other musicians, and University, where he heldthe titles of Distinguished Professor of Fine Arts, a host of friends of the man described by President Charles University Organist, and Director of Choral Organizations. This fall he Heinroth in introducing him as "the illustrious and venerable assumes a new role as music director of the Piedmont Chamber Singers in dean of organists"-rose in tribute to one who has been for so Winston-Salem, North Carolina. This paper was presented on June 26, many years a factor in the organ world. It was the opportunity 2002 forthe 47th Annual Convention ofthe Organ Historical Society. ORGANBUILDING & RESTORATIONS 3165 Hill Road Eagleville, TN 37060 (615) 274-6400 MILNAR Dennis, Derek, Jeff& Todd Milnar ORGAN COMPA.NY and Associates Vol. 47, No. 4 / TheTRACKER 33 CLARENCE EDDY, DEAN OF AMERICAN ORGANISTS: SOME ADDENDA '"' ,,--u-.(,,_--,� .,;,,.-,.:,. •..t�------( r•,, 1 ,e-,r. " I.� ..r<"'"'f'• ,� ✓ •• •;/,v, he pcefuce ro Cumnce Cemetery. I am to play the organ - .•:rvrr,�1... .111 ... n,,,..,m••·'-' ,..q...-., .• �ir' _, J..../',., ,,, ,,,,11 'Edd;1 DilantJJ Aml!rir:nn Miss Christensen phoned halfan ,t''4-�,i1..,.,,. Organists(Riolimond: hour ago (I was taking a walk) - Organ Hiscoi.ical and then I phoned her - she asked TSociety, 2000), recounts sustained my advice about cremation - I told efforts to trace the whereabouts of her she must decidefor herself. .. Ingeborg Christensen, a painter [She} wants me to pl,ay the Russian who became Eddy's companion Boat Song (Eddy'sarrangement) ... and "foster daughter" during his [which} consists of3 chords - Mr. waning years, on the assumption Eddy heard music perpendicularly that she would have had in her (vertical), not poryphonically (hori possession important materials zontal). The Boat Song proves it. further illuminating the colorful career of this fascinating character. January 15, 1937 Publication of the book has elicit Snow came last evening and is ' .,, 't #?,; /,��;;, 0 ed correspondence with Hans coming more now today(crescendo) .,_ Dieter Meyer, a German scholar - it improves the air - I was very Carl Albert Lorschhorn, with whom Eddy studied in Berlin, 1871-74. working on a biography of sleepy last night (went to bed at The inscription at the top reads "To Mr. ClarenceEddy, on the friend Wilhelm Middelschulte 8.15 - got up at 7.45 this A.M.) ly recollection of his old teacher and friend, Berlin, May 1898, A. (1863-1943), a friend and associ feelquite well - I believe that the Lorschhorn." The reverse ofthe photo bears this inscription from ate of Eddy in Chicago. Meyer, queer weather is responsiblefor Mr. Eddy: "Albert LorschhornI Famous pianist and composer with whom I with access to Middelschulte's Eddy's death - as this weather stttdied the piano in Berlin. BornJune 27, 1819 I Died there June 4, papers housed in the Westfolisches attacks older people especially. 1905." (Photo by Albert Meyer, courtesy Hans-Diete1· Meyer.) Musikarchiev Hagen, has uncov I played: [Bach) 1) C minor ered some tantalizing evidence Fantasie; 2) Come sweet death; 3) January 23, 1937 Mobile) might have pwyed my that these hunches are on target, Sinfoniafrom Cantata "Gottes Zeit Gave a lesson (Miss Bittorf) Symphony - but no - he wants to although not answering the basic ist die beste Zeit"[No. I 06); and then went to see Miss be an "eartickler" - he will end question as to where the Eddy Choral "Wenn ich einmal soilschei Christensen - she wanted me to like Mr. Eddy - the same old story papers might now be. What fol den" (St. Matthew Passion); 5) look over some of Mr. E's music - - ''Popularity"is the word - I lows are excerpts from letters wri c- Beethoven: ''Marcia d'ell morte [sic] not much of interest - She gave me am glad, I am not in that class of ten by Middelschulte to his sec from Sonata op 26 (A-j!at minor); the photos ofHaupt, Thiele and earticklers - aren't you? ond wife, Florence, as transcribed 6) Wagner: Prelude to Parsifal - Loerschhorn [see accompanying by Hans-Dieter Meyer. then the Christian Science read the illustration, apparencly the only A letter of June 6, 1937 sug sentences etc. - When the undertak one of the three photos co have gests chat Middelschulte had January 8, 1937 er invited the mourners to take a survived] - am glad to have those. become a bit wary of Christensen The Morning Tribune had a last look at Mr. Eddy, I playedthe She moved to 615 N Wabash Av. ("I think it might be wise, not to short article: "ClarenceEddy seri "Russian Boat Song" - and when (opposite Medinah Temple - an get coo closely connected with "' ously ill" etc. - so I phoned Miss they carried the coffin away Bach: oldbuilding, she has her eye on us, that 'bird ), bur chose from the Christensen.She said; He suddenly Finale from St. Matthew Passion - namef'v to live with her and do as first half of 1938 demonstrate became ill, so she had to call a doc Mr. Byrne and Mr. Beitnap [?], two we please etc. I did not say much, continuing concacc afrer tor (? How about their christian science organists took me (gave me a but stated, that I leave everything Christensen's move to New York. science?) - and that doctor talked "lift") in their machine to the 12th to you - it would be satisfactory to On June 16 he cold of meeting and of course the newspapers- will Str. Depot. Mr. Byrne said to me: me, if it was so to you. her ac the Waldorf Astoria, where talk. I toldher, that I will phone "Your recital wasas beautifulas I "she affectionately 'embraced' me again next week, when I come ever heard at a faneralservice. " Several letters during - we went to lunch nearby. She back from Detroit [Middelschulte [Note the discrepancies between February discussed the possibility will meet us, i.e., you, when we taught at the Detroit Foundation Middelschulte's depiction of che 1 of mutual housing of Christensen land on the Europe, and wants Music School} ... program and what was reported ac and the Middelschultes, although you to stay with her for a few the time in che public press.) che latter finally decided to post days at Villa Pombal, Lawrence, No available evidence sug pone a decision until September Long, Island - I could not make gests when Eddy might have Janua,y 18, 1937 following their return from any promises!" become a practicing Christian Miss Christensen phoned this Europe. He later betrayed a A final mention of Scientist; che plural possessive morning, thanking me for "what I decided bias toward rwo contem Christensen occurs in a missive indicates the possible influence did" - she will give me the photo porary virtuosos of much differ of September 18, 1938, bur the of Miss Christensen. ofHaupt (I gave that photo of ent generations: Middelschulce archive also Haupt to Mr. E when I came to includes an undated leccer that January 10, 1937 America (FrauHaupt gave it to March 14, 1937 must have originated che follow Mr. Eddy died this morning - me). Now I get it back - that is VirgilFox [who later edited ing year, given its reference to the funeral Tuesday at 2 Gracelew [?) the way things go in the world. Middelschulte's Perpecuum 1939-40 New York World's Fair 34 The TRACKER \ Vol. 47, No. 4 (subtitled "The World of Progress [Chicago, 1933) in color mansion was located on Fifth Orem, pp. 50-52 (Chicago: Tomorrow"). Addressed from the and Architecture. I am sure, how Avenue at 75th Street. The instru Clayton F. Summy Co., 1922). University House, 106 East 52nd ever it will be very interesting. ment, built by the Murray Harris Dr. Walter Krueger Street, its salutation included firmof Los Angeles and dedicated (Gresham, Or.) has presented yet both the Middelschultes: Another item sheds a rather on June 8 by a small host of New another piece dedicated to Eddy unflattering light on Dean Eddy's York organists, among chem Will that should be added to the list Thefallowing, whichI have professional behavior, just as he C. Macfarlane and R. Huntington contained in Appendix I (pages just typedfrom Clarence Eddy's had returned from a nine-year Woodman, was placed in the 400-402): Fritz Reuter, Diary will I am sure be ofparticu residency in Paris to base his main art gallery. Ir contained 61 ConsolationI Offertoryfor Organ larinterest to Mr. Middelschulte. career in New York City.A letter stops controlling 4,000 pipes in (New York: Edward Schuberth & from George H. Wilson, manag the main organ, and another 10 Co., 1912). The score suggests Berlin, Sunday. April 20, 1873 er of the Pittsburgh Symphony, stops and 600 pipes in an echo that Eddy was responsible for the Called far F L. Collins at the addressed to Middelschulte and organ. The latter was "considered registration suggestions. Reuter, MannoryHotel at 9 1/2 o'clock, dated April 24, 1906, concerns a the mosc remarkable feature of the Kreuger's great-great uncle, was and went with him to the unanimous decision by its instrument.The chimes ringing born and uained in Germany, but Parochial Church. We remained trustees to offer the addressee the out from it delighted those at the eventually emigrated. He spent up in the organ gallery during the position of organist of the city's opening recital, and the vox mys the 1907-08 season in Chicago service. For the closing voluntary, Carnegie Hall, an offer that was terica in the echo organ is said to (while Eddy was based in New Prof Haupt (at my request) later refused. be perfect in the exquisite effects York ), but eventually joined the improvised. First he worked up a of which it is capable." The con faculty of Dr. Martin Luther prelude in great and thrilling style, Why shouldyou have been dis sole contained an electrically-con College in New Ulm, Minnesota. then took a fague theme, which he turbed about you saw in the paper trolled combination system, sup Finally, a posting on the carried out strictl,yin 4 parts with about Eddy? That is the way he posedly the first instrument, "it is "Family Tree Maker" website a simple counterpoint, then a sec does business: he caused those said, to which this particular elicited a much belated response ond and livelier counter-point things to be printed. appliance has been attached." The from Susan Tcherba (New York), which he also carried out; then he I had not for a moment sup whole thing was valued, according confirmingthat Ingeborg put both counterpoints together posed you wouldtake any notice of to The Diapason, at $120,000, Christensen survived her "foster with the theme, the latter at times the [illegible) especiall,y after our quadruple Eddy's estimate. Arthur father" by at least several decades. in augmentation. It was perfectl,y conversation wherein I toldyou as Scott Brooks, formerly of Leland In a series of e-messages during COLOSSAL, the grandest and much as a man in my position Stanford's Memorial Church in March 2002, Ms. Tcherba most artistic organ playing I ever could, that neither the Trustees or California, was announced as the responded that "if we are ralking heard. I was completel,y captivated. myselfwould consider Mr. Eddy - Clarke's house organist. Perhaps about the same woman, I believe althoughhe wastrying.for the place. typically, an adjacent column that she rented an apartment from I hope soon to have Mt: Eddy's announced Eddy's dedication of a my family back in the 60's in Diary typed and ready to submit Although no information new Kimball instrument in Sc. Queens, New York. ... As a mat far publication. Have not decided about the incident has surfaced, Joseph's Church in Utica, New ter of fact, my aunt has a self-por to whom to submit it. Mr. Wilson's paragraphs offer yet York, on June 18. tait that Ingeborg Christensen had As you see by the above another suggestion that the Dr.Joseph Fitzer (Chicago, done ... . She was a tiny woman, address, I am now back in New world of the organ has never II.) has uncovered two other as I recall. She was not doing very York City where I hope to establish been a serene locale. works arranged and edited by well when she was in Queens. She myselfin a studio. Several other correspondents Eddy that should be added to the was only there for a few years and I am glad to be closer to the have clarified or extended infor list on pages 293-94: (l) Bruno was on welfare. I think she was center of activity genemlly and am mation available at the time of Oscar Klein, Dialogue I Le Secret also going a bit senile when she making some very interestingand publication: d'Amour, op.32/1. Arranged by lefi: Queens. I think she had a worth while contacts, sociallyand James M. Stark (Pittsburgh, Clarence Eddy. (New York: J. nephew in California. Eventually professionall,y.... Pa.) discovered a front-page article Fischer & Bros., 1913 ); (2 ) M. she went to a welfare apartment in I trust you are both well. I in The Diapason of July 1, 1911, Fultoni, Oriental Air. Arranged New York City and we lost touch wouldbe delighted to hear from clarifyingthat the Senator Clark by Clarence Eddy. Contained in with her after that." you. Do you think you will visit [sic] referred to on page 367 was The Organist I Original Pieces and Yet another sighting of the the Fair? To me it seems almost a indeed the retired William A. Transcriptions Sel.ected, Arranged elusive Ms. Christensen. duplicate of the Century of Clarke of Montana. Thesenator's and Compiled by Preston Ware -William Osborne CHARLES DODSLEY WALKER, FAGO NOACK_ Trinity Episcopal Church Tl-IE NOACK ORCA� CO., INC. MAIN AND SCI IOOL STREE"lS P. O. Box 400 GEORC.lol"OWN, MA 01833 ,v,v,v.noc1ckorg.n1,com Southport, Connecticut 06890 Vol. 47, No. 4 / The TRACKER 35 minutes Minutes of the National Council Meeting Friday and Saturday, March 7-8, 2003 Radisson City Center Hotel, Saint Paul, Minnesota These minutes follow the order of Archives: Allison Alcorn many items in the Plan have been phone conversation with Walter the agendaand do not necessarily Oppedahl. Councillor Alcorn addressed. Each councillor is Bradford of Evanston, Illinois, follow the order in which they were Oppedahl presented a written asked to submit thoughts on goals regarding the present condition of discussed. report. The Archives catalogue is for the remaining time of the the 1891 Roosevelt organ in Saint now available online. In addition, Plan, as well as long-range goals James Catholic Church of Call to Order: The meeting of online exhibits are now under beyond that time period. Chicago and the need for its com the National Council of the investigation. The papers of Otto prehensive restoration. The Organ Historical Society was Hoffman of Texas are presently Guidelines for Restoration: Secretary cautioned the Council called to order by President being acquired by the Archivist, Huntington. A brief verbal report chat neither the regional OHS Barone on Friday, March 7, 2003, Stephen Pine!. was presented. Chapter nor the Parish will be able at 1:28 p.m., in the Mounds Suite to fund any restoration project, of the Radisson City Center Organizational Concerns: Endowment Fund: Murphy. nor would either parry be able to Hotel, 411 Minnesota Street, Rachelen Lien. Councillor Lien Moved: Murphy; second oversee any such project forthis Saint Paul, Minnesota. A quo presented a brief written report. Marchesano, chat National instrument between the present rum of Council members was The Membership Committee has Council reschedule the workshop date and 2006. The Secretary established. Present: Michael one new member, in addition to with Capital Venture fromJune to repeated his requests from earlier Barone (President), Scot those listed in the minutes of the October 2003. Motion passed Council meetings that another Huntington (Vice-President), October 2002 meeting, Peter unanimously. appropriate venue be considered. Stephen Schnurr (Secretary), Isherwood of New Jersey. The President asked the Vice Allison Alcorn-Oppedahl, David FiftiethAnniversary: several President to contact Walter Dahl, Mary Gifford, Rachelen Research and Publications: items, as below. Bradford regarding specific issues Lien, Paul Marchesano, Patrick Mary Gifford. Councillor of restoration possibilities for the Murphy, David Barnett Gifford submitted a written OHS History: Moved: Roosevelt organ. (Treasurer), and William Van Pelt report. The Publications Huntington; second-Marchesano, (Executive Director). Also in Committee had met immediately that the National Council estab Archives Operating Procedures: attendance: Len Levasseur. prior to chis National Council lish a special grant of $7,000, Alcorn-Oppedahl. There was no meeting. Three candidates have inclusive of expenses, to conduct report. Approval of Minutes: Moved been discerned for the Director of research and produce a publish Alcorn-Oppedahl; second-Dahl, Publications position. Interviews able manuscript of a history of Employee Job Review Process: to approve minutes of the with these candidates will be con the Sociery, to be published as Lien. There was no report. Princeton, New Jersey, meeting, ducted in June prior to the part of the Fiftieth Anniversary held October 18-19, 2002, as cir National Council meeting in observances of the Society. Director of Sales: Moved: culated by the Secretary. Motion Pennsylvania, at which time one Motion passed unanimously. Huntington; second-Marchesano, passed unanimously. or two candidates will be recom chat National Council create an mended to the National Council The meeting recessed for the day at Organizational Restructuring REPORTS for employment commencing in 6:24 p. m. The meeting reconvened Committee with the Councillor Executive Director: William Van October. Currently, development on Saturdaymorning, March 8, for Organizational Concerns as Pelt. The Executive Director pre of an online index to The Tracker 2003, at 9:09 a. m. Present were: Chair to: 1) define a Product sented a written report. is being investigated. Additional Present: Michael Barone (President), Marketing Department and its Discussion regarding catalogue future publications were outlined. Scot Huntington (Vice-President), personnel; and 2) define the sales followed. Stephen Schnurr (Secretary), Allison administrative structure of the Conventions: David Dahl. A Alcom-Oppedahl David Dahl, Society, including the duties cur Treasurer: David Barnett. A written report was reviewed by Mary Gifford, RachelenLien, Paul rently underraken by the written report was submitted by Councillor Dahl. Marchesano, Patrick Murphy, David Executive Director. The commit the Treasurer. A membership Barnett (Treasurer), and William tee is to report its findings to solicitation to members of the Education: Paul Marchesano. A Vttn Pelt (ExecutiveDirector). Also Council at its June 2003 meeting. American Guild of Organists and written report was submitted by in attendance: Len Levasseur. Membership of said committee to subscribers to The Diapason yield Councillor Marchesano. The include: Michael Barone, David ed 330 additional memberships. Historic Organ Citations There was discussion about possi Dahl, George Dickie, Michael Committee is drawing Operating ble items which might be manu Felenzer, Len Levasseur, Paul COUNCILLORS' REPORTS Procedures and a proposal for a factured and made available to the Marchesano, Christa Rakich, Finance and Development: two-tiered citation system. membership to honor the Fiftieth Stephen Schnurr, F. Anthony Patrick Murphy. A written report Anniversary of the Society. Thurman, and William T. Van was submitted by councillor OLD BUSINESS Pelt. Motion passed unanimously. Murphy. There was discussion of Ten-Year Plan: Huntington. Chicago 2006 American Guild the Endowment Fund Advisory The Society is now approximately of Organists Convention Recital: NEW BUSINESS Board activities. half way through che Plan, and The President reported on his tele- Moved: Barnett; second- 36 The TRACKER\ Vol. 47, No. 4 PATRICK}. MURPHY &ASSOCIATES, INC. Huntington, that conformed OHS endowment fund, nor to be ORGANBUILDERS copies of all minutes upon spent and interest to accrue to the approval be forwarded to the reg fund," and whereas said wording istered agent of the corporation governs gifrs made to the fund QualityNew Instruments • Conscientious Electro-Pneumatic and to the American Organ until Article XII of the Society's and Tracker Restorations • Consoles: New and Rebuilt • Tonal Archives for permanent filing. By-laws, governing the additions and realistic reconstructions • Prompt personal service Motion passed, one opposed. Endowment Fund, was adopted, be it hereby resolved that it is con 300 Old Reading Pike • Suite lD • Stowe, PA 19464 Moved: Huntingron; second sistent with the 1999 resolution 610-970-9817 • 610-970-9297 fax Alcorn-Oppedahl, that the establishing the fund that the [email protected] • www.pjmorgans.com Society cease its policy of auto interest earned under the original matically sending complimentary resolution may be and should now copies of its periodicals to past be moved to the principal of the Presidents of the Society. Motion Endowment Fund as governed by CURATOR, J.W. STEERE & SON ORGAN passed unanimously. Article XII, on a regular basis and THE BAPTIST TEMPLE, BROOKLYN, NY at least annually. Motion passed There was discussion of the unanimously. process of notices of membership renewal. The Treasurer requested all 2003- 2004 budget items submitced by The meeting recessedfor luncheon councillors be forwarded to the 227-46 1 14TH ROAD at 12:25 p.m. The meeting recon Treasurer by April 30, 2003. CAMBRIA HEIGHTS, NY 11411-1314 vened at 1 :20 p. m. Moved: Barnett; second-Murphy, The Council received a proposal that National Council adopt the PHONE, (718) 528-9443 .J.W. STEERE from the Minnesota Chapter for a wording in the Vanguard E-MAIL: [email protected] 1825-1900 National Convention in the year Corporate Resolution and 2007 in the Twin Cities, Indemnification form attached Minnesota, area. Council herewith, with the Treasurer and requested further details. the President authorized to trans P.O.BOX 542 act. Motion passed unanimously. BUFFALO, IOWA 52728 Moved: Barnett; second-Gifford, ISO • OHS • AIO • AGO that National Council open a Moved: Lien; second-Alcorn 1-800-397-1242 Money Market Savings Account at Oppedahl, that National Council Website: http:ilwww.LevsenOrg.com/ Bank of America, adopting the honor the request of the Pacific email LevsenOrg@AOL com wording on the Corporate Southwest Chapter of the Organ Resolution Form forOpening and Historical Society to be dissolved. Maintaining Deposit Accounts Motion passed, one opposed. and Services, as submitted by the Bank and attached. Either the Moved: Lien; second-Alcorn Treasurer or the President is Oppedahl, that National Council authorized on behalf of the honor the request of the Florida Corporation to execute and to sign Chapter of the Organ Historical per item 1 on the resolution form. Society to be dissolved. Motion Motion passed unanimously. passed, one opposed. Moved: Barnett; second Moved: Marchesano; second Marchesano, that the Secretary be Huntington, resolved that the authorized to sign Corporate Organ Historical Society does not Certificates to open as many as endorse electronic substitutes for three Certificate of Deposit the pipe organ. Motion passed accounts at Capitol One Bank for unanimously. the investment of the E. Power Biggs Fund principal, and that Moved: Dahl; second-Gifford, the signature of the Treasurer or that the petition from the 2003 the President be authorized on Central Pennsylvania National these accounts. Motion passed Convention Committee forfive •-• ·------·. -·------·.• unanimously. complimentary hotel rooms be IffiRNER& MERCHANT granted. Morion passed, one PIPE ORGAN BUILDERS Moved: Barnett; second-Schnurr, abstention. whereas the Endowment Fund of Craftsmen with Pride the Organ Historical Society was Resolved: Huntington; second (Regional Builders) established by National Council Dahl, that National Council • • action in July 1999 by a resolu expresses its thanks to Len • •• tion worded, "Moved Levasseur for his outstanding Huntington, seconded Walker, to assistance with the OHS website. direct the treasurer to open an Motion passed unanimously. WWW.KERNERANDMERCHANT.COM (315) 463-8023 I 04 JOHNSON STREET• EAST SYRACUSE, NY I 3057-2840 • ••[ ••• •• minutes UPCOMING MEETINGS meeting will begin with inter sentative from Capital Venture. ADJOURNMENT views with candidates for the Friday and Saturday, March Moved: Marchesano; to adjourn. Wednesday, and Thursday, June position of Director of 12-13, 2004, in New Orleans, Morion passed unanimously. 18-19, 2003, beginning at 1:00 Publications. The 2003-2004 Louisiana. Meeting adjourned at 3:07 p.m. p.m., in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Budget will also be discussed. Tuesday and Wednesday, July (The Publications Committee will Friday and Saturday, October 13-14, 2004, in Buffalo, New York. -Respectfully submitted, Stephen be meeting on Tuesday afternoon, 17-18, 2003, in Richmond, Friday and Saturday, October Schnurr, Secretary. June 17, and Wednesday (morn Virginia. This meeting will 22-23, 2004, in Princeton, New -Approved Wednesday,June 18, ing), June 18). The Council include a session with the repre- Jersey. 2003, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Organ Historical Society Annual Meeting lights. The 2005 Convention face meeting of the Endowment Sunday, June 22, 2003 will be held in Southeasr Fund Advisory Committee Massachuseccs. Convention occurred this as Thursday morn Crowne Plaza Hotel, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Coordinator Kristin G. Farmer ing. Updated procedures for this was introduced to comment fur Committee are expected to be ther on this Convention. The submitted to National Council at CALL TO ORDER: The meet inventory for re-sale and $31,817 Fiftieth-Anniversary National its meeting in October. Members ing was called to order by in other non-cash assets. Convention in 2006 will be held of the Committee were intro President Barone at 9:06 a.m. and Liabilities totaled $17,182, the in the Albany, New York state area duced and thanked for their a quorum was established. amount of membership dues paid Oune 24-30). Possible future work: Richard Walker, James President Barone presented an in advance. Designated Funds conventions are being considered Stark, and James Johnston. oral report. He thanked the 2003 rotaled $244,260 and undesignat for: the Minneapolis-Saint Paul, National Convention Committee ed retained earnings totaled Minnesora area; Ta coma, Archives-Allison Alcorn for their industrious work in pre $254,952. The books were Washington, region; and Central Oppedahl. The Vice-President, senting this week's events. reviewed by the Huzek & Creech Indiana. Efforts are being insti Scot Huntington, presented a accounting firm of tuted to better plan Convention report on behalf of councillor A moment of silence was called in Mechanicsville, Virginia, who pre dates to refrain from conflicts Alcorn-Oppedahl. From April 23 remembrance of those members pared the Society's Federal tax with other organizations' conven to 27, 2003, the Archives present who had died since the previous returns required of 501 (c)(3) non tions. The Convention ed a Symposium on Organ annual meeting: Harold de La profit corporations. The paid Sourcebook continues to be Research with attendees from Chapelle, Glen W Fischer, Member/Subscriber count for updated. Consideration is being around rhe world. Plans are Herbert Anton Kellner, Robert mailing the last issue in the vol given to include OHS presence in being formed for a Symposium in Burton Maye, Robert Noehren, ume of The Tracker was 3,682. Pipe Organ Encounter events as 2005 (on Organ Documentation) Andrew Bankston Owens, well. and 2007 (on Organ Restoration). Camille Pilcher, Ronald P. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S Dr. David Baker of the Royal Stalford, Fern Traugott, Wesley REPORT: William Van Pelt. Education-Paul Marchesano. A College of Organists of Great M. Vos, and Martin M. Wick. Outgoing Council members not number of Historic Organ Britain filed a report on the returning include Patrick Murphy Citations have been presented American Organ Archives in light APPROVAL OF MINUTES: and Michael Barone, who were within the past year, including of how to have the RCO library Moved: Robert Porter; second thanked for their work. A several to be presented at this to better reflect the accomplish Rodney Myrvaagnes; to accept the Nominating Committee will be Convention. The Historic Organ ments of the AOA. The minutes of the 2002 Annual formed in this meeting, and the Citation Committee, chaired by Archivist, Stephen Pine!, has been Meeting, held Saturday, June 29, Executive Director asked for care Michael Friesen, has submitted a named an honorary member of 2002, at The Arts Center of Oak ful consideration of those to be proposal to update the process to the RCO library's board. The Park, Oak Park, Illinois. Motion nominated. Thirty-eight persons include two levels of citations. papers of organbuilder Otto passed unanimously. are registered for the 2003 Euro The OHS Pipe Organ Database is Hoffman of Texas and the con Tour, to go to Sweden, in late July available online on a limited basis, tracts of the /Eolian Company of TREASURER'S REPORT: and early August. Craig Whitney, with over 9,000 entries. Further New York have been acquired by David Barnett. For the 2001- present for part of this fine-tuning of online availability the AOA. The contracts were 2002 Fiscal Year, the Society's Convention, was recognized for is expected. The Slide-tape pro made available to the OHS by income was $1,147,181 and his work in producing his book, gram is undergoing a process to Rollin Smith. The purchase price expenses were $1,155,522; All the Stops. update it and to convert it into an of the contracts has been covered expenses exceeded income by electronic version. by contributions fromJonathan $8,341. When income earmarked COUNCILLORS' REPORTS Ambrosino, Patrick Murphy, and for Designated Funds is excluded, Conventions-David Dahl. Finance and Development Stephen Schnurr. Kristin Farmer primarily the Organ Historical Councillor Dahl remarked that Patrick Murphy. Treasurer was thanked for her service to the Sociery Endowment Fund and the 2004 Organ Historical Society Barnett presented a report due in Archives Governing Board; a new Archives Fund, the operating National Convention in Buffalo, the absence of councillor Murphy. member, Hans Davidson, has deficit for the Fiscal Year was New York, has been completely A review of contributions to and been appointed to the Archives $25,002. Assets at year's end were planned; dates are July 14-20. investments of the Endowment Governing Board. $516,393 with $117,542 in Convention Chair, Joseph Fund was given. The current bal deposit accounts, $194,268 in McCabe, was introduced to com ance is $209,353, with $10,949 Organizational Concerns investments, $172,766 in catalog ment on the Convention high- in pledges receivable. A face-to- Rachelen Lien. The Pacific 38 The TRACKER\ Vol. 47, No. 4 Southwest and Florida Chapters OachievementsLD BUSINESS of the Brunners. obituaries have been dissolved. Councillor Ten-Year Plan— Lien has contacted all remaining Chapters to survey their level of Vice-President activity. The Membership Scot Huntington presented a Committee, formed at last year's report on the Ten-Year Plan, Annual meeting and chaired by which is under his guiding work. David Scribner, has begun its The Society is now mid-way work. A survey of the present through the Plan. A list of membership is expected. Methods accomplishments and ongoing to look for new members and to efforts of the Plan were given. see why some members have not Contributory ideas to the Plan are renewed membership are being requestedElection Results— by the Membership. considered as well. The By-Laws Committee, chaired by James Susan Wallmann, continues its work. McPherson, teller, presented Other committee mem-bers are the results of the election of Vice-President Scot Huntington members to National Council. and Agnes Armstrong. Members President: Michael Friesen. of National Council recently Secretary: Stephen Schnurr. reviewed an interim report of the councillors elected: Allison Committee, and each is charged Alcorn-Oppedahl, Paul Marche- to respond individually to the By- sano, and Malcolm Wechsler. Laws Committee. The OHS councillor Members whose Restructuring Committee has terms are ending: Michael been formed to review admin- Barone (President), Stephen istration of the Society and Schnurr (Secretary), Allison prospects of improvement of the Alcorn-Oppedahl, Paul Marche- lfred E. Lunsford died July 22, 2003 at his home in Catalogue department through a sano,NEW and BUSINESS Patrick Murphy. Knoxville, Tennessee, afrer a lengthy illness. He was newResearch position and of Publications— Director of Sales. Nominating Committee— born on July 13, 1918 and spent the bulk of his adult The Tracker Aserved as organist at various churches in Knoxville, most recently life as an organbuilder and church musician. He at St. Michael's, and at All Saints Episcopal. In addition to his Mary Gifford. , with President Barone opened the longtime membership in the OHS, he was also active in the Frank Marana now in his third floor for nominations to the year as editor, enters another Nominating Committee. The American Association of Organbuilders. He was the last surviving year of on-time performance. following names were submitted: charter member, as well as a four-term dean, of the Knoxville chap JonathanOrgan Ambrosino Handbook was Robert Barney, Michael Barone, ter of the American Guild of Organists. Hymnlet.recognized for his efforts with Kristin Farmer, Joseph McCabe, In 1946, Mr. Lunsford was offered the position of Regional the and Rick Morrison, Stephen Pinel, Roy Sales manager of the greater southeast for the Schantz Organ The Publications Redman, and Joe Vitacco. Moved: Company of Orrville, Ohio, a position he held for over 50 years. Oversight Committee, chaired During this time he sold hundreds of new Schantz pipe organs (82 by Lee Orr, continues its search Randy Wagner; second- for a permanent Director of Randy Bourne, that nominations of them in Tennessee alone), and was involved in hundreds of Publications. A number of be closed. Motion passed unani- related projects such as additions, restorations, and renovations. publications are in process for mously. A vote for five of the He personally built several new pipe organs which were installed in Organist'sthe OHS Press, Journal. including a above by membership in atten- the greater Knoxville area, one being a two-manual tracker in reprint of Eugene Thayer's dance was called. Susan Grace Lutheran Church. McPherson, teller, announced Biggs Fellows— Al was always very sensitive to his customers' desires and needs. the results of the election: The two Biggs Michael Barone, chair; Kristin One of his favorite sayings was ''I've never sold an organ to a client Fellows for the 2003 National Farmer, Joseph McCabe, Robert that didn't want to buy the organ more than I wanted to sell it." Convention were introduced by Barney, and Stephen Pinel. The It was most fitting that, in his final moments, two close friends councillor Marchesano: Peter Nominating Committee for elec- were present playing recorded music-including the "Hallelujah" Isherwood, from Westminster tions in the year 2005 is thus from Handel's Messiah-and as the last Hallelujah resounded, College, Princeton, New Jersey; established.Moved: Alfred breathed his last. and Owen Cannon from Oberlin A memorial service was held at St. John's Episcopal Cathedral, College,Distinguished Oberlin, Service Ohio. Award— Wagner; second- Carolyn Booth, to destroy all Knoxville, on July 25, with interment in the Cathedral Memorial ballots for the immediately- Garden. Past recipients of the award were preceding election of the A memorial scholarship fund is being established to promote recognized for their efforts on Nominating Committee. the pipe organ among young people who may wish to attend the behalf of the Society by councillor MotionADJOURNMENT passed, one abstention. AGO Pipe Organ Encounters. This scholarship is part of the "New Lien, in the absence of the Chair Organist Fund" administered by the AGO, and tax-deductible of the Distinguished Service Award contributions to the AGO New Organist Fund may now be ear Committee, Dan Schwandt. The Moved: Marchesano, to adjourn. marked for the Alfred E. Lunsford Scholarship Fund. Award was presented to Raymond Motion-Respectfully passed unanimously.submitted, and Ruth Brunner. Michael Friesen, MeetingStephen Schnurr,adjourned Secretary. at 11:03 a.m. past recipient of the Distinguished -Draft, Friday, July 4, 2003. Service Award, listed a number of Vol. 47, No. 4 / The TRACKER 39 - ...... -�.-....I ...... "'!4V-,. 111111 . 111111111110·-·�11111111111 _ca;__ _ !ll._ I - fJ-- �'} to,_ • f; ... • J. \V.Steere &.Sou !V/37. {1918, t>p_. 700), The Bap_tist Temp_!e, B1·ookly11, New l0rk Origi1111lconsole .'(f'hoto Y,b Keith Bigger.)