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THE DIAPASON OCTOBER 2018 St. John’s Episcopal Church Fishers Island, New York Cover feature on pages 30–32 ANTHONY & BEARD ADAM J. BRAKEL THE CHENAULT DUO PETER RICHARD CONTE CONTE & ENNIS DUO LYNNE DAVIS ISABELLE DEMERS CLIVE DRISKILL-SMITH DUO MUSART BARCELONA JEREMY FILSELL MICHAEL HEY HEY & LIBERIS DUO CHRISTOPHER HOULIHAN DAVID HURD SIMON THOMAS JACOBS MARTIN JEAN HUW LEWIS RENÉE ANNE LOUPRETTE LOUPRETTE & GOFF DUO ROBERT MCCORMICK BRUCE NESWICK ORGANIZED RHYTHM RAéL PRIETO RAM°REZ JEAN-BAPTISTE ROBIN ROBIN & LELEU DUO BENJAMIN SHEEN HERNDON SPILLMAN CAROLE TERRY JOHANN VEXO BRADLEY HUNTER WELCH JOSHUA STAFFORD THOMAS GAYNOR 2016 2017 LONGWOOD GARDENS ST. ALBANS WINNER WINNER IT’S ALL ABOUT THE ART ǁǁǁ͘ĐŽŶĐĞƌƚĂƌƟƐƚƐ͘ĐŽŵ 860-560-7800 ŚĂƌůĞƐDŝůůĞƌ͕WƌĞƐŝĚĞŶƚͬWŚŝůůŝƉdƌƵĐŬĞŶďƌŽĚ͕&ŽƵŶĚĞƌ THE DIAPASON Editor’s Notebook Scranton Gillette Communications One Hundred Ninth Year: No. 10, 2019 Resource Directory Whole No. 1307 At present, we are working on our 2019 Resource Directory, OCTOBER 2018 to be mailed with our January issue. If your business should Established in 1909 be listed in the directory and was not included in 2018, please Stephen Schnurr ISSN 0012-2378 send me an email with your contact information. If your busi- 847/954-7989; [email protected] ness was listed in our directory this year, please review your www.TheDiapason.com An International Monthly Devoted to the Organ, information to ensure it is accurate and complete. Listings are the Harpsichord, Carillon, and Church Music free and can only help your business! Advertising opportunities but they also make a sensible option for those who want to pro- are available for the directory, as well. For advertising inquiries, vide a gift to a friend. CONTENTS please contact Jerome Butera ([email protected]; 608/634- In this issue FEATURES 6253). The deadline for listings and advertising is November 1. Michel Chapuis (1930–2017): A great Carolyn Shuster Fournier provides a memorial feature organist, pioneer, and professor 20 Under 30 on Michel Chapuis, the French organist, teacher, and organ by Carolyn Shuster Fournier 20 Our 20 Under 30 program returns this year! This excit- historian who died in 2017. We continue with the third part ing recognition of young people in our fi eld is now a bien- of Michael McNeil’s series on the documentation of William The 1864 William A. Johnson Opus 161, Piru Community United Methodist Church, nial celebration of the best and promising among organists, A. Johnson Opus 161, in Piru Community United Methodist Piru, California, Part 3 carillonneurs, harpsichordists, organ and harpsichord builders, Church, Piru, California. by Michael McNeil 26 and church musicians under the age of 30. Nominations will Gavin Black is taking the month off from “On Teaching” due The Library of Congress for the organ: the open December 1 and close February 1, 2019. Be sure to keep to a family death, but he will have a column for next month. In OHS Library and Archives moves to up with further details in upcoming issues as well as at our “Harpsichord Notes,” Larry Palmer reprises one of his favorite Villanova, Pennsylvania website (www.thediapason.com). columns from nearly fi fty years of contributions to The Diapa- by Bynum Petty 29 son. In “In the Wind . .,” John Bishop encourages the reader NEWS & DEPARTMENTS Our digital edition to consider the subtle differences in the many colorful stops of Editor’s Notebook 3 It never hurts to remind our readers of the availability of the pipe organ. Letters to the Editor 3 our digital edition. As you receive subscription renewal notices, Our cover feature celebrates the fortieth anniversary of Here & There 3 remember that you can receive The Diapason by email, at a Bigelow & Co. Organ Builders of American Fork, Utah. The Appointments 6 substantial savings: $35 for one year, $20 for students! Often, fi rm recently installed its Opus 42 in St. John’s Episcopal Nunc Dimittis 10 your digital issue will arrive faster than a print issue. Not only Church, Fishers Island, New York. We trust you will enjoy the Harpsichord Notes by Larry Palmer 14 Q In the wind . by John Bishop 18 are digital subscriptions “green,” saving paper as well as money, rich offerings of this issue. REVIEWS New Organ Music 15 Letters to the Editor New Recordings 15 New Handbell Music 17 Summerall Chapel, The Citadel, Charleston, South lost soul, belonged. I turned my life around and graduated Carolina ORGAN PROJECTS 32 with academic honors. Thank you for the cover feature in the July 2018 issue of At our 45th memorial service for our departed classmates, I CALENDAR 33 The Diapason on the restoration project for the organ at The realized that the organ music was not coming from the pipe organ. RECITAL PROGRAMS 37 Citadel’s Summerall Chapel in Charleston, South Carolina. However, I got the “feeling” that there was a bass pipe, although CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING 38 First, let me say that I am not an organist, but as a member silent, that was speaking to me saying, “Let us play again and like of the Regimental Band, the whole Corps of Cadets marched a fog horn, guide people to a safe harbor.” After the service, the to chapel services every Sunday as the band played “Onward chapel organist said that the organ had not played for some years, THE Christian Soldiers.” I went to The Citadel because my father and efforts to raise funds had not been successful. I knew then that DIAPASON was a Citadel graduate. Chapel services were a time for me to I had to get involved and see that this magnifi cent instrument that OCTOBER 2018 relax and not be yelled at by upperclassmen. I had made the had meant so much in my life would play again. decision that The Citadel was not for me, and was not planning If any of your readers are ever in Charleston, please come on returning after Christmas break. to The Citadel to see The Summerall Chapel and the organ. If However, a remarkable event happened one cold Sunday anyone would be interested in helping to restore this magnifi - while I was sitting in the chapel. We, as the whole cadet cent instrument, donations can be made by contacting Katie body, were singing “Nearer My God to Thee,” and I was Hurt at The Citadel Foundation, 843/953-6914, or visiting the overwhelmed with the notion that a “bass pipe” was speak- website at foundation.citadel.edu/chapelorgan. ing to me. Like a fog horn in the night guiding a lost boat G. Mackay Salley, Class of 1963 St. John’s Episcopal Church safely into harbor, I got the feeling that this was where I, a Q Fishers Island, New York Cover feature on pages 30–32 Here & There COVER Bigelow & Co. Organ Builders, American Fork, Utah; Saint John’s Episcopal Church, Events Chu, piano; November 9, Nicholas Second Presbyterian Church, St. Fishers Island, New York 30 The Church of St. Agnes, St. Paul, Schmelter; 11/16, Michelle Kuhl, piano; Louis, Missouri, announces its 2018– Minnesota, offers Sunday 10:00 a.m. December 7, Nicholas Schmelter; 12/14, 2019 Couts Music Series, Sundays at Editorial Director STEPHEN SCHNURR High Mass with music by the Twin Cit- choir of Caro High School; January 11, 4:00 p.m.: October 7, Perseid String and Publisher [email protected] ies Catholic Chorale, directed by Rob- 2019, Nicholas Schmelter with Townes Quartet; November 11, Andrew Peters, 847/954-7989 ert L. Peterson. The Chorale performs Miller, fl ute; January 25 and February silent fi lm accompaniment, The Fresh- President RICK SCHWER a different Mass setting weekly, reper- 8, Nicholas Schmelter; 2/15, Tyler Kivel, man; December 2, Advent Vespers [email protected] toire drawn from the 18th to 20th cen- piano; March 1, Nicholas Schmelter; with the Second Church Chorale and 847/391-1048 turies, with accompaniment by orchestra 3/10, Sonas, Celtic ensemble; April 5, Orchestra, directed by Andrew Peters; and organ. The choir of approximately Kevin Cole, piano; April 26 and May January 20, 2019, Music for horn, Editor-at-Large ANDREW SCHAEFFER [email protected] 65 volunteer singers performs Masses 3, Nicholas Schmelter; 5/19, Nicholas alphorn, and organ with horn players by composers such as Haydn, Mozart, Schmelter with Tyler Kivel, piano. For Tricia and Thomas Jostlein and organ- Sales Director JEROME BUTERA Schubert, Beethoven, Dvo̗ak, Gounod, information: www.carofi rst.org. ist Andrew Peters; February 17, Brian [email protected] 608/634-6253 Cherubini, Rheinberger, and Herzogen- Owens Jazz concert; March 10, Green- Circulation/ berg with professional instrumentalists, St. John Cantius Catholic Church, ville University Choir; April 28, young Subscriptions ROSE GERITANO each Sunday from October to early June, Chicago, Illinois, and the Healey Wil- artists of the Bach Society of St. Louis. [email protected] 847/391-1030 except in Advent and Lent. For informa- lan Society will host a concert to honor For information: tion and schedule of Mass settings: the 50th anniversary of the death of Wil- www.secondchurch.net. Designer KIMBERLY PELLIKAN www.catholicchorale.org or lan on October 7, 7:30 p.m., at St. John [email protected] 847/391-1024 www.churchofsaintagnes.org. Cantius Church. Various choirs from Grace Church, New York, New churches in the Chicago metropolitan York, Patrick Allen, organist and choir- Contributing Editors LARRY PALMER First Presbyterian Church, Caro, area will participate, each singing works master, announces its 2018–2019 sea- Harpsichord Michigan, announces its 2018–2019 by Willan. For information: son of special music events, Sundays BRIAN SWAGER Friends of Music Series: October 5, www.cantius.org or at 4:00 p.m., unless otherwise noted: Carillon Nicholas Schmelter, organ; 10/21, Wendy https://healeywillan.com.