The Royal School of Church Mu- Other new projects include a four- Michigan: Joseph Brink of Yale Univer- Here & There sic (RSCM) is publishing four short-list- manual organ for the Kennedy Center sity, Stephan Burton of Brigham Young ed anthems from the King James Bible in Washington, D.C.; new three-manual University, Nick Huang of Yale Univer- Composition Competition, which was or- organs at St. John’s Episcopal Church in sity, Joseph Peeples of Brigham Young Bärenreiter announces new releas- ganized by the King James Bible Trust to Cold Spring Harbor, New York, and St. Univeristy, and Chelsea Vaught of the es. The Organ Plus One series presents mark the 400th anniversary of the bible’s John’s Episcopal Church, Georgetown University of Kansas. The next congress pieces—both freely composed and hymn publication in 1611. The RSCM spon- Parish, Washington, D.C.; and a number of the GCNA will be hosted by Clemson tune-based, and both original works as sored one of two categories—submission of projects to restore or rebuild existing University in Clemson, South Carolina, well as arrangements—for organ plus a of an anthem or worship-song suitable pipe organs. For information: June 19–22, 2012. solo instrument. The editions include solo for use in churches and schools. There . parts in C, B-fl at, E-fl at, and F, thus ac- were over one hundred submissions to Washington National Cathedral commodating many diverse instruments; this category alone. C. B. Fisk, Inc. is celebrating its 50th Washington National Cathedral was the range of the instrumental parts is in The winning anthem, The Mystery anniversary. Among current projects: damaged by a 5.8-magnitude earth- the middle, which will appeal to non- of Christ, was composed by Christopher a practice organ for the Jacobs School quake last August. The cathedral was professional players. Volumes already Totney, a music teacher and church or- of Music at Indiana University; Opus closed on August 23, and the carillon available are those for Advent/Christmas ganist based in Wiltshire. It has been 137 (two manuals, 37 ranks) for Christ was silenced with the exception of the (BA 8501), Passion/Easter (BA 8503), published in a single volume with three Church, Andover; Opus 139 (three man- commemorative ringing of the bourdon and Divine Service (BA 8506); a volume other short-listed anthems composed by uals, 55 ranks) for Harvard’s Memorial bell on September 11. Cathedral caril- for Communion will be released in April Owain Park, Andrew-John Bethke, and Church, with inauguration events April lonneur Edward Nassor reported that 2012 (BA 8507), and future volumes will Thomas Hewitt Jones; £4.95, catalogue 10, 17, 24, and 29; Opus 141 (two manu- the 53-bell Kibbey carillon was repaired appear. All volumes are priced at €17.95. number B0355. For information: als, 31 ranks) for St. Paul’s Chapel, Rik- by the cathedral’s facilities department. The Organ Plus Brass series, edited by . kyo University Niiza, Japan; Opus 143 The tower stabilization has progressed Carsten Klomp and Heiko Petersen, is (two manuals, 21 stops) for St. Mark’s Lu- to the point that the bells can be played suitable for amateur brass ensembles Andover Organ Company’s recent theran Church, China Grove, North Car- without risk to the tower. Scaffolding and non-professional organists, and of- newsletter reports on projects complet- olina. For information: 978/283-1909; has been erected atop the Gloria in Ex- fers various brass parts enabling perfor- ed in 2011. Among the many projects: . celsis (central) Tower bracing the four mances with fl exible instrumentation; the installation and enlargement of a corner pinnacles. Separate scaffolding in addition to the full score (BA 11201, 2-manual, 21-stop, 1987 J. W. Walker & has been built to support the transept €15.95), separate parts are available for Sons tracker organ for St. Andrew’s Epis- and west towers. various brass instruments. For informa- copal Church, Stamford, Connecticut; The earthquake caused the clappers tion: . repair of the largest pipes of the Pedal on four of the largest bells to swing vio- 32′ Contra Bourdon in the 101-rank lently enough to pull the cables out of Carol Press announces new lower E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings organ at the turnbuckles that connect the tracker prices on all orchestrations, brass and Boston’s Cathedral of the Holy Cross; in- wires to the keyboard. The cables that strings. The current mailer includes in- stallation of a long-awaited Swell 8′ Cor- had pulled out of the keyboard were re- formation on books, scores, and acces- nopean in the 2-manual, 25-rank, 1873 attached, so the bells can now play nor- sories. For information: 843/556-3512; Wm. A. Johnson organ at the Congrega- mally. Nassor performed on the carillon, . tional Church of Thompson, Connecti- for the fi rst time since the earthquake, cut; renovation and re-installation of the during the Cathedral Choral Society’s Fugue State Films announces the two-manual, 7-rank Hook & Hastings Allen four-manual at Engelbrekt Church, Joy of Christmas concerts. The fi rst se- release of Towards a Modernist Organ, organ, Opus 2001, at the Congregational Stockholm, Sweden lection played was Wendell Westcott’s a two-disc digipack, with CD, DVD, and Church, New Ipswich, New Hampshire; arrangement of Joy to the World. The 16-page booklet (FSFDVD006, £21.50). and restoration of the 2-manual, 28-rank, Allen Organ Company has installed a concert concluded with Lisa Lonie’s The release features David Butterworth 1897 Geo. Jardine & Son organ, Opus Quantum™ four-manual, 138-stop control, Fantasy on “I Saw Three Ships.” Now playing organs in Nottingham, includ- 1248, at the Church of St. Peter, Haver- 92-digital stop organ in historic Engelbrekt that the carillon has been repaired and ing the J. J. Binns organ at Albert Hall straw, New York. Church, Stockholm, Sweden. Several the tower is stabilized, carillon music and the Marcussen organ at the Parish Andover will do a major rebuilding times throughout its history, the church will resume sounding over the cathedral Church of St. Mary. Repertoire ranges and expansion of the Hook & Hastings has updated or overhauled its pipe organ. close before Sunday Holy Eucharist and from Gibbons, Tomkins, and Stanley to organ, Opus 2492 from 1924, for New- Stefan Therstam, professor at the Royal for Saturday recitals. ■ Parry, Ireland, Hakim, and modern Dan- ton Highlands Congregational Church in College of Music, Stockholm is organist at ish works. For information: Massachusetts. The work will take place the Engelbrekt Church. For information: Send items for “Carillon News” to Dr. . during the summer months for the next . Brian Swager, c/o THE DIAPASON, 3030 three years. For information: 888/674- W. Salt Creek Lane, Suite 201, Arling- Jazzmuze announces new releases by 2626; . ton Heights, IL 60005-5025; or e-mail Joe Utterback: An Irish Blessing (for ten- . For infor- or, piano, fl ugelhorn or clarinet, two cop- Casavant Frères completed a num- mation on the Guild of Carillonneurs in ies $10); Prelude on Beach Spring (four ber of projects in 2011: a new 79-stop Carillon News North America: . short organ variations, $5); Memories mechanical-action organ for the Kauff- by Brian Swager (three piano solos, $12); Six Jazz Inven- man Center for the Performing Arts in tions for Organ (short organ explorations Kansas City, Missouri; a three-manual, for beginners, limited pedal, $8); One to 37-stop organ for the Igreja Sao La- Competitions In the wind . . . One (one note in each hand, piano jazz zaro in Macau, China; a three-manual, In celebration of the 450th anniver- explorations, $8); O Come, Emmanuel 30-stop mechanical-action organ for sary of the birth of Dutch composer Jan by John Bishop (SATB and organ, supplied for local Our Lady of Fatima Parish, Seattle, Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562–1625), the copying, $15); Lillie’s Waltz (fl ute and Washington; a two-manual, 18-stop or- Martini Carillon Foundation of Gronin- piano, $15). For information: gan at St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran gen is organizing a carillon performance . Church, Sinking Spring, Pennsylva- competition in cooperation with the nia; a three-manual, 32-stop organ for Dutch Carillon Guild. It will take place Naxos announces the release of new Immanuel Baptist Church, Paducah, on September 15, 2012 and consists of recordings. Novum NCR1384 features Kentucky; and a two-manual, 18-stop two parts: playing the Martini carillon, the soloists of New College Choir Ox- organ in the new Shipp Chapel of Lov- and making an arrangement for caril- ford, Collegium Novum, and Edward ers Lane United Methodist Church, lon of a keyboard composition of J. P. Higginbottom in the premiere of Cou- Dallas, Texas. Sweelinck. Further information and perin’s Exultent superi and other mo- Casavant installed the façade of the rules are available at tets. Oehms OC 683 features Hansjörg new organ for the Orchestre Sympho- . Albrecht playing his own transcription nique de Montréal for the offi cial open- of Holst’s The Planets at the St. Nikolai ing of the hall last September. The four- The Carillon Society of Australia, Inc., organ in Kiel. For information: manual, 84-stop mechanical-action organ organized a student carillon composi- . will be completed in 2013. tion competition in conjunction with the Wesley Music Foundation. They received 20 entries from students of the Australian National University and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. First prize ($2,000) was awarded to Leon- ard Wiess for “The Bells of Nyx.” Ella Macens won the second prize ($1,000) Of the people, by the people, for the with “The Transfi xed Walls.” Third prize people . . . ($500) was awarded to Austin Har for “The Devil’s Merry-Go-Round.” . . . that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish GCNA news from the earth. Five members of the Guild of Caril- These words from Abraham Lincoln’s lonneurs in North America successfully Gettysburg Address are in tribute to passed the examination for carillon- those killed during the pivotal Battle of neur certifi cation during the congress Gettysburg of the American Civil War. at Kirk in the Hills, Bloomfi eld Hills, In the eulogy he delivered after Lin- coln’s assassination, Massachusetts Sena- tor Charles Sumner said, “The world no- ticed at once what he said, and will never cease to remember it. The battle itself was less important than the speech.” Sumner’s other claim to fame is as name- sake of the Sumner Tunnel that connects downtown Boston to Logan Airport by passing under Boston Harbor.

12 THE DIAPASON Perhaps it’s rare for words like these tion of that organ give us a glimpse into click your way further in to fi nd stoplists According to , A-Rod’s aggregate salary as a and in today’s volatile political climate I Following the dedication of the organ, Thanks to the creators of that website for baseball player is $296,416,252. That’s know very well that I tread on dangerous Harold MacDowell, the Cleveland City making so much information available. enough money for a thousand municipal ground. The relationship between poli- Architect wrote: I’m sure that was a labor of love! organists for ten years. Play ball! tics and religion is strong and prevalent, Two cities in the United States still As the weather in Portland, Maine though the United States Constitution Despite the oppressive heat, the crowd have important secular organs with seat- is nothing like that of San Diego, Port- specifi cally calls for the two to be sepa- which had been collecting since noon soon ed municipal organists: San Diego, Cali- land’s Kotzschmar Organ is indoors, exceeded the capacity of the mammoth rate. The differences in worship styles hall and long before the time set for the fornia and Portland, Maine. San Diego located in Merrill Auditorium of City between Northeastern Anglicans and inaugural recital all seats were fi lled and is home to the Spreckels Organ, housed Hall. Housed in an elegant case at the Southeastern Evangelicals are as vast more than 5000 men, women, and children in the Spreckels Organ Pavilion at Bal- rear of the stage, and sporting a fi ve- as the wide range of styles found in the were crowding the corridors of the colos- boa Park. It’s one of the world’s largest manual drawknob console, this grand world of the pipe organ. sal structure. The police which were out in outdoor organs, and though it must com- instrument is the pride of its city. And Like it or not, the pipe organ has been large numbers were at fi rst able to hold the pete with the fl ight paths of San Diego while San Diego has just over 3,000,000 associated primarily with the church for crowd into a semblance of order, but soon International Airport, it remains a popu- residents, the entire State of Maine gave up in despair as the eager mob swept some fi ve hundred years. It’s hard to 1 lar attraction. Municipal Organist Carol has about 1,300,000 people, 64,000 of imagine what the pipe organ would be all before it. Williams and visiting artists offer weekly whom live in Portland, the largest city today were it not for the infl uence of concerts. Like so many other cities, San in the state. To put the scale of the state the church. From the late Renaissance That means there were at least 18,000 Diego has been struggling to manage a in closer perspective, the capital city of to the modern day, most of the music people in attendance. A riot before an defi cit budget, and after much well-re- Augusta has 18,500 residents! written for the organ comes from the organ recital? Wow! ported arguing, the City Council voted church, and by extension, most of the It wasn’t only big cities that had mu- in 2011 to renew Williams’ contract for The institution that was Curtis organ music we might consider secular nicipal organs. Melrose, Massachusetts ten years, continuing the city’s sizable Cyrus H. K. Curtis grew up in Port- couldn’t have happened had the church is about seven miles north of Boston. To- contribution to her salary. You can read land, Maine. His father Cyrus Libby not provided us with the parade of in- day there are around 29,000 residents. an article about the city’s decision in the Curtis was an interior decorator and am- struments that is our history. One might In 1919 when the Austin Organ Com- San Diego Union Times at . The ar- schmar in Boston, and offered to help sic, but without the Cavaillé-Coll organs people lived in Melrose. As we learned ticle cites that the city has a $40,000,000 him establish himself in Portland. Kotz- in the grand churches of St. Sulpice and in Cleveland, that’s just enough to make defi cit—but they approved funding of schmar became conductor and pianist Notre Dame in Paris, I doubt those two an audience. $286,000 for a ten-year contract for Wil- for the Union Street Theatre Orchestra, masters would have gotten it together to If you’re interested in reading more liams. Compare that to Alex Rodriguez in which Curtis played the trombone, write that music. about this heritage, visit the website (aka A-Rod) of the New York Yankees and organist and choirmaster of the First Some twenty years ago my friend and , where who was paid $33,000,000 in 2009. That’s Parish Church (Unitarian) where Curtis colleague, the widely respected organ his- you’ll fi nd a chronological list of Ameri- more than $203,000 per game, which is sang in the choir. Can you detect a pat- torian Barbara Owen, commented, “We can Municipal Pipe Organs. You can close to ten years for Carol Williams. tern? As Kotzschmar was gaining trac- have to get the organ out of the church.” I was dumbfounded—I guess because I found I was too dumb to understand what she meant. How could the organ possibly survive without the church? It was the comment of another friend and colleague, Steven Dieck, President of C.B. Fisk, Inc., that enlightened me a little. To paraphrase Steve’s comment, large portions of modern society might never have the chance to hear a pipe organ—those people who would never be caught dead in church, or more to the point, those who would only be caught dead in church! After all, some people never go into a church unless they’re in a coffi n. The organs we fi nd in concert halls, university auditoriums, and increasingly rarely, in municipal auditoriums are available to the general public without risk of exposure to the perceived perils of organized worship, and it’s the mu- nicipal organ that is of the people, by the people, and for the people. The fi rst American municipal organ appeared in 1864 when E. & G. G. Hook built a four-manual organ with 64 stops for Mechanics Hall in Worcester, Mas- sachusetts. That organ was restored by the Noack Organ Company in 1982 and is still very much in use. Records show that Roosevelt built an organ with 129 stops for the Chicago Auditorium in 1889, the year that Benjamin Harrison was inaugurated as America’s twenty- third president, and three years after the dedication of the Statue of Liberty. I don’t know how many organs that large had been built before 1889—but it sure must have stood out as one of the great cultural icons of its day. And with what I know about the organs built by Hilborne Roosevelt, it must have been a knockout. In 1882, Thomas Edison proved the practicality of the commercial and resi- dential use of electricity by installing electric lighting in the home of J. P. Mor- gan at the corner of Madison Avenue and 36th Street in New York. When the Roosevelt organ was built, the develop- ment of electrical applications was still in its infancy—the organ had tracker action. That’s a huge organ. The stop- list shows that there were indicators for low, medium, and high wind pressures— imagine the army of people needed to pump that organ. In 1921 E. M. Skinner built a fi ve- manual instrument with 150 stops for the new 13,000-seat Municipal Audito- rium in Cleveland. Those were the days before radio and recordings, and it was expensive to hear the few great sym- phony orchestras across the country, so the municipal organ was the only way for many to hear live performances of great music. Accounts of the introduc-

MARCH, 2012 13 Portland City Hall Hermann Kotzschmar tion in Portland, he lived with the Curtis family, and Cyrus Libby Curtis gave his Console and façade son the name of his favorite musician, hence the initials H.K. rium for a tour of the organ. The mayor In the ensuing years, Kotzschmar marveled at the thousands of pipes, took founded choral societies and orchestras, a slew of photos with his cell phone, and performed as conductor, organist, and commented that he had stood on the pianist in countless concerts, and taught stage dozens of times presiding over civ- a generation of the city’s musicians. ic events without having any idea what Meanwhile, Cyrus H. K. Curtis really was behind the organ case. He repeated made something of himself. He founded those comments for the City Council the Curtis Publishing Company in 1891 and the members approved the funding and subsequently launched the Satur- unanimously. Watching both elected and day Evening Post and the Ladies’ Home appointed city offi cials discuss and ap- Journal. Later he founded Curtis-Mar- prove the motion to care for that organ tin Newspapers, Inc., whose proper- at such a meaningful level was a great ties included the Inquirer experience for an organbuilder. and the New York Evening Post. Cyrus FOKO is raising the balance to fund H. K. Curtis made a lot of money, and not only the organ’s renovation but to he carried the musical infl uence of Her- endow the positions of Municipal Or- mann Kotzschmar all his life. He pur- ganist and Organ Curator, and to ex- chased three pipe organs for his home tend the organization’s ambitious and in Wyncote, Pennsylvania (Aeolian, effective education programs, bringing Opus 784, 943, and 1374); he donated a Maine’s schoolchildren together with 160-stop Austin organ to the University the King of Instruments. of Pennsylvania where it still stands, re- The renovation of the organ will be cently renovated, in Irvine Auditorium. accomplished by Foley-Baker, Inc., of He gave huge amounts of money to the Tolland, Connecticut. Having completed Philadelphia Orchestra, and his daugh- similar projects on the organs of the First ter Bok founded Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston the Curtis Institute of Music, named in (The Mother Church), Symphony Hall honor of her father. Hers was a particu- Kotzschmar Organ, Merrill Auditorium in Boston, and the Aeolian organ in the larly classy honor as the Curtis Institute Chapel of Duke University, Mike Foley was founded nine years before her fa- on October 6, 1909, and on January 10, D.C.), presentation of the organ by Cyrus and the staff of FBI bring vast experi- ther’s death! 1911, former Mayor Adam Leighton Curtis, unveiling of the Hermann Kotz- ence to this project. § announced that Portland native Cyrus schmar bust by his widow Mary, and ac- To commemorate the centennial, Curtis was donating a pipe organ to be ceptance of the whole shebang by Mayor FOKO will present a Centennial Festi- At about 2:00 in the morning on installed in Merrill Auditorium of the Oakley Curtis (no relation). Macfarlane val of concerts and masterclasses starting January 24, 1908, a fi re started in the new City Hall in memory of Portland’s also played his own compositions Eve- on Friday, August 17, 2012, and culmi- city electrician’s offi ce in Portland’s most prominent musician. ning Bells and Cradle Song, and a tran- nating with a grand Kotzschmar Centen- City Hall, ironically caused by an elec- The new City Hall was dedicated on scription of Kotzschmar’s Te Deum in F. nial Concert on the actual anniversary, trical short-circuit in the Gamewell August 22, 1912. Municipal Organist Judge Joseph Symonds gave an oration, Wednesday, August 22. Participating art- Fire Alarm System that was housed in Will C. Macfarlane was at the organ. The and representing the Catholic Bishop of ists and presenters include Tom Trenney, the offi ce (pesky new-fangled contrap- program included Macfarlane’s perfor- Portland, Rev. Martin A. Clary gave the Walt Strony, Mike Foley, Dave Wicker- tions). Because the alarm system was mance of Boëllmann’s Suite Gothique, prayer and benediction. Must have been ham, Frederick Hohman, Michael Bar- the fi rst thing to go, the refi quickly a report from the city building commit- a lovely afternoon.2 one, Thomas Heywood, Peter Conte, went out of control and City Hall was tee (Adam Leighton, chairman), presen- § John Weaver, Felix Hell, John Bishop, destroyed. Coincidentally, Hermann tation of keys to the building by Owen and Ray Cornils. Kotzschmar died on April 15, 1908. Brainard of the architecture fi rm Car- In January of 2007, the FOKO board The festival will be housed at Port- After plenty of discussion, the remains rere and Hastings (designers of the New asked the organ committee to investigate land’s Holiday Inn By the Bay. Details of the building were razed and the cor- York Public Library and the House and the possibility of some additions and ma- will be announced soon. Like a hawk, you nerstone for the new City Hall was laid Senate Offi ce Buildings in Washington, jor repairs to the organ. Specialists were should watch the website of the Friends called in to assess the questions and re- of the Kotzschmar Organ, . Summer in Maine is as good as it The right organ was poor enough to make the work gets, the Kotzschmar Organ is a grand feasible. FOKO responded by inviting a instrument, soon to be prepared for its organ at the group of widely respected experts to par- second century. And you’ll never have a ticipate in a public symposium in August better chance to gather with such a list of right price 2007 to discuss the organ in detail and luminaries in such an intimate city. Hope develop recommendations for the fu- to see you there. ■ We’ll help you chose from ture of the instrument. The participants the hundreds of vintage organs were Joe Dzeda, Nick Thompson-Allen, Notes Jonathan Ambrosino, Walt Strony, Curt 1. Craig Whitney, All The Stops, PublicAf- available through our website. Mangel, Peter Conte, and Tom Murray. fairs, 2003, p. 30. Craig Whitney of the New York Times 2. My information about the history of the We can deliver it to the Kotzschmar Organ, Portland’s City Hall, the organ builder of your choice served as scribe and followed the event lives of Cyrus Curtis and Hermann Kotzschmar, or refurbish, revoice, and with a written report. As chair of the or- and the fi re of 1908 comes from the book Be- gan committee, I was moderator of the hind the Pipes: The Story of the Kotzschmar install it ourselves. event. After years of study, the Friends Organ, written by FOKO archivist Janice Par- of the Kotzschmar Organ and the City of kinson-Tucker, and published by FOKO. “In choosing OCH, I know that the work has been done Portland announced plans for the reno- with the utmost knowledge, enthusiasm, care and integrity.” vation of the organ. In September 2011, Are you receiving THE DIAPASON’s Portland’s City Council approved a grant David Enlow, Sub-Dean, NYCAGO e-mail newsletters? Classifi ed ads of $1.25 million for the project. Just be- are sent on the second Tuesday of fore the Council meeting, Mayor Nicolas the month, general news on the last Organ Clearing House Mavodone, City Manager Mark Rees, Tuesday. Sign up at www.organclearinghouse.com or call John Bishop at 617-688-9290 and two members of the City Council joined me on the stage of Merrill Audito-

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