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THE DIAPASON APRIL 2018 St. Patrick Catholic Church Huntington, New York 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. 4, As I write this message, not quite halfway through Lent, I Whole No. 1301 realize that you will likely be reading this shortly after Easter. APRIL 2018 For those of us who are church musicians, I hope that you fi nd Established in 1909 your schedules to be less hectic in the months ahead. This Stephen Schnurr ISSN 0012-2378 morning, I drove my lawn mower to the next town to have its 847/954-7989; [email protected] spring tune-up. Many of us look forward to getting out of the www.TheDiapason.com An International Monthly Devoted to the Organ, house and offi ce as spring approaches. the Harpsichord, Carillon, and Church Music In April, make the commitment to have your own personal created and shared with her students, her congregation, and tune-up, now that we have passed winter’s months. Take the her audiences. CONTENTS time to read (especially this month’s issue), attend a concert, Steven Egler has gifted us with several interviews of some of FEATURES recital, or participate in a church service elsewhere than America’s fi nest church musicians. This month, he introduces Remembering Yuko Hayashi (1929–2018) where you serve (glance through our calendar of events for a us to Morgan and Mary Simmons, who spent decades in music by Leonardo Ciampa 18 myriad of opportunities). Seek opportunities to interact with ministry at Fourth Presbyterian Church on the Magnifi cent A conversation with Morgan and Mary other church musicians in a way that is relaxing and energiz- Mile of downtown Chicago. When I fi rst moved to the Chicago Simmons ing. Plan to attend a summer conference, institute, conven- metropolitan area from graduate school, Morgan graciously by Steven Egler 21 tion, or workshop. Our annual listing of these events is to be engaged me for my fi rst recital in the big city. In his true style NEWS & DEPARTMENTS found in this issue. of hospitality, he treated my parents and me to an unforgettable Editor’s Notebook 3 If your church, college, or civic organization is having a sum- lunch afterwards at the Signature Room of the John Hancock Here & There 3 mer series of concerts that would be of interest to our readers, Tower, across Michigan Avenue from the church. This was the Appointments 6 be sure to send us notice for our calendar and Here & There sort of hospitality Morgan and Mary have given their entire lives. Nunc Dimittis 10 sections. Here in the Chicago area, there are several weekly John Bishop, in “In the Wind,” discusses what goes into fi g- Harpsichord Notes by Larry Palmer 10 summer series of organ recitals that are within a day’s drive that uring the cost of a new or relocated pipe organ. It is interesting In the wind . by John Bishop 14 offer incredible culture and personality. to understand how certain features of an instrument can infl u- On Teaching by Gavin Black 16 ence the fi nal cost of a project. In “On Teaching,” Gavin Black REVIEWS In this issue continues his discussion, “What is performance?” Choral Music 12 We are pleased to present a remembrance and tribute to Our cover feature is Glück Pipe Organs instrument in St. New Organ Music 12 the late Yuko Hayashi by Leonardo Ciampa. Hayashi was a Patrick Catholic Church, Huntington, New York. Twin con- New Recordings 13 musician and educator who exuded a quiet, yet fi rm infl u- soles control the three-manual instrument in the rear gallery New Handbell Music 13 ence on countless organ students for over a generation. I of the nave as well as the two-manual organ in the sanctuary. remember meeting her at Old West Church approximately Much of the pipework is from Roosevelt Opus 408, removed SUMMER CONFERENCES 28 15 years ago, a gracious woman who lived the music she from a closed church in Brooklyn before it was demolished. Q CALENDAR 29 RECITAL PROGRAMS 33 Here & There CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING 34 Events St. John’s Episcopal Church, Savan- The Evangelical Lutheran Church nah, Georgia, continues 2018 musical THE of the Holy Trinity, New York, New events: April 7, Parker Ramsey, organ; York, concludes its annual Bach Vespers 4/28, Taylor Festival Choir; May 20, John DIAPASONTHE DIAPASONAPRIL 2018 series, its fi ftieth anniversary: April 1, Sabine, organ, followed by Evensong. APRIL 2018 Bach, Easter Oratorio; 4/8, Bach, Can- For information: tata 4; 4/25, Bach, Mass in B Minor. For www.stjohnssavannah.com. information: www.bachvespersnyc.org. St. Patrick Catholic Church Huntington, New York Cover feature on pages 26–27 Peachtree Road United Methodist Church, Atlanta, Georgia, Mander organ Peachtree Road United Methodist St. Patrick Catholic Church Huntington, New York Cover feature on pages 26–27 Church, Atlanta, Georgia, continues its music events: April 5, Three Choirs Festi- val; 4/22, Coro Vocati; June 3, Pilgrimage to England Preview Concert, with the COVER Chancel Choir. For further information: Glück Pipe Organs, New York, New York; www.prumc.org. Saint Patrick Catholic Church, Huntington, New York 26 Editorial Director STEPHEN SCHNURR and Publisher [email protected] 847/954-7989 President RICK SCHWER [email protected] 847/391-1048 Washington National Cathedral Editor-at-Large ANDREW SCHAEFFER [email protected] Washington National Cathedral, Fisk Opus 98, First Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C., continues Sunday Evansville, Indiana Duke Chapel, Duke University, Durham, Sales Director JEROME BUTERA afternoon organ recitals: April 1, Easter North Carolina, Aeolian organ [email protected] 608/634-6253 Day organ recital; 4/8, James Kealey; First Presbyterian Church, Evans- Circulation/ 4/15, Axel Flierl; 4/22, Jamila Javadova- ville, Indiana, continues its season of Duke University Chapel, Durham, Subscriptions KIM SMAGA Spitzberg; 4/29, Joseph Ripka; May musical events. The First Friday Recital North Carolina, continues special musi- [email protected] 847/481-6234 6, Aaron Goen; 5/13, Jeremy Filsell; Series, featuring C. B. 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    THE. BOSTON ORGAN CLUB NEV.fSLETTBR Vol. 7) No. 1, Whole No. 62 January 1971 MIXTURES - Forthcoming 8 p.m. recitals on the three-manual Fisk organ in the First Congrega- tional Church, lftinchester, Mass., are: John Ogasapian, March 21; John Skelton, April 25; and Bruce Bennet, June 20. st. George's Episcopal Church, New York, which houses a huge Moller organ, bills itself as ttThe church with the pipe organ Albert Schweitzer helped design." Thomas M1rrray, the well-traveled B .0 .C. member from California, will play two recitals in our region: Christ Episcopal Church, Westerly, R.I., Sunday evening, 1rarch 7; and the Unitarian Church, Newburyport, Mass., 3:30p.m., March 21. < A splendid .56-page booklet with many illustrations, A Snetzler Chamber Organ of 1761, is available for 70 cents from the Superintendent of Documents, u. s:-aovern­ ment Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 20L~02. Written by John Fesperman and pub­ lished by the Smithsonian Institution in 1970, the monograph describes the history of the restored six-rank organ at the Institution and provides data on several other Snetzler organs shipped to the Amer.ican colonies. The First United Baptist Church, Lowell, Mass., has contracted with C. B. Fisk for a large "nown two-manual organ, which will replace the altered three-manual 1901 electric-action Jesse Woodberry described in the Newsletter for August_, 1970. B .0 .C. member Carroll Craft worked tirelessly for the suceessful merging of two E. & G. G. Hook organs built for churches in New Haven, Conn. The Lowell instrument will in­ clude the nareek Revival11 case front of Opus 180, an 1855 three-manual built for the Centre Church, and most of Opus 195, built in 1856 for the Church Street Church, and salvaged from another church last year.