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MARCH 2018 Christ the King Chapel St. John Vianney Theological THE DIAPASON MARCH 2018 Christ the King Chapel St. John Vianney Theological Seminary Denver, Colorado Cover feature on pages 26–27 www.concertartists.com 860-560-7800 [email protected] PO Box 6507, Detroit, MI 48206-6507 ,Z>^D/>>Z͕WƌĞƐŝĚĞŶƚĐŚĂƌůĞƐŵŝůůĞƌΛĐŽŶĐĞƌƚĂƌƟƐƚƐ͘ĐŽŵ W,/>>/WdZh<EZK͕&ŽƵŶĚĞƌƉŚŝůΛĐŽŶĐĞƌƚĂƌƟƐƚƐ͘ĐŽŵ ANTHONY & BEARD ADAM BRAKEL THE CHENAULTS JAMES DAVID CHRISTIE PETER RICHARD CONTE LYNNE DAVIS ISABELLE DEMERS CLIVE DRISKILL-SMITH DUO MUSART BARCELONA JEREMY FILSELL MICHAEL HEY CHRISTOPHER HOULIHAN DAVID HURD SIMON THOMAS JACOBS MARTIN JEAN HUW LEWIS RENÉE ANNE LOUPRETTE ROBERT MCCORMICK BRUCE NESWICK ORGANIZED RHYTHM RAÚL PRIETO RAMÍREZ JEAN-BAPTISTE ROBIN BENJAMIN SHEEN HERNDON SPILLMAN CAROLE TERRY JOHANN VEXO BRADLEY HUNTER WELCH JOSHUA STAFFORD THOMAS GAYNOR 2016 2017 LONGWOOD GARDENS ST. ALBANS WINNER WINNER 50th Anniversary Season THE DIAPASON Editor’s Notebook Scranton Gillette Communications One Hundred Ninth Year: No. 3, This month’s milestone Whole No. 1300 The issue you are reading now is the 1,300th edition of The MARCH 2018 Diapason, bringing the world news about the organ, church Established in 1909 music, harpsichord, and carillon since December 1909! What Stephen Schnurr ISSN 0012-2378 a historic milestone this represents, certainly more issues than 847/954-7989; [email protected] any other American journal focused on these topics. While www.TheDiapason.com An International Monthly Devoted to the Organ, many processes have changed in the last century in magazine the Harpsichord, Carillon, and Church Music publishing, we still bring the same care and effort to every issue Among our regular columnists, Larry Palmer, in “Harpsi- that has been exemplifi ed in this journal throughout its history. chord Notes,” discusses all things Handel. John Bishop’s “In CONTENTS How can we celebrate this milestone? Tell your friends! the Wind” introduces us to the work of recently retired Ray FEATURES Invite them to subscribe! A sample issue of The Diapason is Cornils with the Kotzschmar Organ at Merrill Auditorium, Hinners & Albertsen on the Mississippi available at our website (www.thediapason.com). Your friends Portland, Maine. In “On Teaching,” Gavin Black ponders the Bluffs, Part 2 can request a free sample copy by contacting me. Or send me question, “What is performance?” by Allison Alcorn 20 your friend’s mailing address, and we will send them a copy. Our cover feature is the new organ for Christ the King Cha- A tribute to Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini With our new digital edition available alongside our traditional pel, St. John Vianney Theological Seminary, Denver, Colorado, (October 7, 1929–July 11, 2017) by Etienne Darbellay, Bruce Dickey, print edition, you can now experience The Diapason anywhere! crafted by Kegg Pipe Organ Builders of Hartville, Ohio. In our Susan Ferré, Margaret Irwin-Brandon, Organ Projects section, the American Organ Institute at the and Marc Vanscheeuwijck 23 In this issue University of Oklahoma, Norman, has restored a 1909 Hinners NEWS & DEPARTMENTS For March, we are pleased to provide the conclusion of Allison organ, which has been relocated to Trinity Lutheran Church, Editor’s Notebook 3 Alcorn’s article on an early Hinners & Albertsen organ in Red Norman, Oklahoma. Here & There 3 Wing, Minnesota, begun in last month’s issue. Our fi rst install- In Here & There, we always include the latest news available Nunc Dimittis 10 ment presented an encapsulated history of the Hinners fi rm in to us. In “Nunc dimittis,” we share fond farewells to Wilbur Harpsichord Notes by Larry Palmer 12 Pekin, Illinois. This installment focuses on their organ for St. R. Dodge, Mark Coan Jones, Yuko Hayashi, and Pierre Pince- In the wind . by John Bishop 16 Peter Norwegian Lutheran Church. Susan Ferré has assembled maille. As many of us are now working hard with the season On Teaching by Gavin Black 18 for us a tribute to the late Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini (1929– of Lent upon us, be sure to check out our Calendar section REVIEWS 2017), with contributions by students and colleagues—Marc for a much-deserved break attending an organ recital, choral Choral Music 13 Vanscheeuwijck, Bruce Dickey, Etienne Darbellay, Margaret Evensong, or other concert. While you’re at it, be sure to send Book Reviews 13 Irwin-Brandon, and Ferré. This collection paints a picture of an us your calendar events for upcoming months. New Organ Music 13 extraordinary fi gure in the world of the organ and its music, a With all this at your fi ngers right now, why not introduce New Recordings 14 teacher to countless students across the globe. The Diapason to a friend? Q New Handbell Music 15 ORGAN PROJECTS 28 Letters to the Editor CALENDAR 29 ORGAN RECITALS 33 Hinners & Albertsen it in the 1980s, the organist Elizabeth they left it to the women to coerce the CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING 34 I am so excited over Allison Alcorn’s Smith had been there for over 60 years. men into signing on the dotted line. article on the Hinners Organ Company She remembered the organ being I must have played dozens of Hinners THE in the February 2018 issue of The installed in 1910, and took lessons from organs in my time, and fi nd them well built DIAPASON Diapason. The company was prob- the then organist. In 1924 he was sick and beautifully voiced. The only problem MARCH 2018 ably the last in the United States to and she took over “temporarily.” He I have with pretty much all of them is that build tracker organs before the tracker died, and she was still there over 60 the 8′ Open Diapason tends universally to revival after World War II. This makes years later. be too big for the rest of the organ. Later sense because they built organs for Other members of churches who and larger organs tended to have electric country churches, many of which did remembered the installation of Hin- action, and one such is at First United not have electricity before the 1930s, ners organs I have known suggest that Methodist Church, Edmond, Oklahoma, and a handful of which do not even one of the reasons that Hinners repre- where our new editor-at-large, Andrew have electricity now. sentatives were so successful in selling Schaeffer, is organist. When this organ Christ the King Chapel St. John Vianney Theological Seminary Denver, Colorado Cover feature on pages 26–27 One organ I particularly remember is organs was that they understood that was enlarged in 2005, they wisely made the 1910 Hinners organ in St. Stephen’s it was really the women who were in the Great 8′ Open Diapason into the COVER Church, Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania. charge. They approached the women’s Pedal 8′ Octave and provided a new, Kegg Pipe Organ Builders, Hartville, Ohio; I gather, rather sadly, that this instru- auxiliary or the women’s sewing group, somewhat smaller 8′ on the Great. Christ the King Chapel, St. John Vianney ment has not been in regular use since or whatever, and won them over to the John L. Speller Theological Seminary, Denver, Colorado 26 the early 1990s. However, when I knew idea of obtaining a pipe organ. Then Port Huron, Michigan Editorial Director STEPHEN SCHNURR Here & There and Publisher [email protected] 847/954-7989 President RICK SCHWER Events [email protected] TENET continues its concert series at 847/391-1048 locations in New York, New York, except where noted: March 2, Johann Heinrich Editor-at-Large ANDREW SCHAEFFER [email protected] Schmelzer, Le Memorie Dolorose at St. Luke in the Fields Church; March 24, Sales Director JEROME BUTERA TENEbrae: Pathway to Light with the [email protected] 608/634-6253 Sebastians at St. Vincent Ferrer Church; Circulation/ April 21, Charpentier, Les plaisirs de Subscriptions EBONY FENDLEY Versailles with Metropolis Ensemble at [email protected] 847/391-1028 the Metropolitan Museum of Art; May 11–12, The Sounds of Time: Songs of the Designer KIMBERLY PELLIKAN Trouveres at Flushing Town Hall Gallery Longwood Gardens Aeolian organ [email protected] in Queens. 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For GAVIN BLACK Bach, St. Matthew Passion, with the St. Chorus. For information: information: www.longwoodgardens.org. On Teaching Andrew Chorale and Orchestra; Friday, www.mapc.com/music/sams. ³ page 4 Reviewers Leon Nelson Joyce Robinson THE DIAPASON (ISSN 0012-2378) is published monthly by Scranton Gillette Routine items for publication must be received six weeks in advance of the month of Jeffrey Schleff Communications, Inc., 3030 W. Salt Creek Lane, Suite 201, Arlington Heights, Illinois issue. For advertising copy, the closing date is the 1st. Prospective contributors of articles 60005-5025. Phone 847/954-7989. Fax 847/390-0408. E-mail: [email protected]. should request a style sheet. Unsolicited reviews cannot be accepted. Jay Zoller Subscriptions: 1 yr. $42; 2 yr. $75; 3 yr.
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