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135 Mechanics Hall, the masterpiece of the C. Steele, chairman of a newly-formed com­ CONVENTION SCHEDULE Worcester architects (Elbridge) Boyden & mittee, spearheaded the drive to save andre­ (Phineas) Ball, \vas dedicated 19 March 18.57. store the hall. The first phase successfully Saturday, 25 June In June, 1863, Ichabod Washburn, wealthy completed, the hall was reopened in November 10:30 a.m.-3:30p.m. Region I Semifinals of the National Open Competition in Organ Playing, Worcester industrialist, offered $1,000 toward 1977. First Unitarian Church the cost of installing an organ in the hall. VVith :\1eantime, encouraged by Barbara Owen, Judges: Carolyn Skelton, Ernest May, VVilliam Self that impetus, the Mechanics Association signed Thomas Murray, and other organ enthusiasts, Sunday, 26 June a contract with E. & G. C. Hook for an organ to the Mechanics Association had begun plan­ 12:00 noon OHS Council Meeting, Trinity Lutheran Church cost $8,170 (subsequent additions brought the ning for restoration of the Hook organ. The 1:00 p.m. Registration and Exhibits, Assumption College final bill to $9,040, about half of what the \Vorcester Chapter of the AGO formed an 4:30p.m. Buses to First Baptist Church Hooks probably should have charged). The Organ Restoration Committee, chaired by Buses to Assumption College facade was designed by the organbuilders, Stephen Long, organist of 'frinity Church, 6:00p.m. Dinner at Assumption College Worcester. Thomas :\11urray played a benefit who, in the words of Francis Hastings, their 7:45p.m. Buses to Trinity Lutheran Church recital on the organ in the Memorial Audito­ foreman, '\vanted to have their best work 8:15p.m. Recital: James David Christie, organ, Trinity Lutheran Church represented by artistic and showy fronts" as rium, 27 September 1975. In due course, the Buses return to Assumption College; Afterglow, cash bar; entertainment with "large numbers of people hear \0\·ith their eyes." Noack Organ Co. of Georgetown, IVlass. was George Faxon demonstrating the Allen digital computer organ, incorporating The organ was opened in October 1864 by engaged to perform the restoration work, at a voicing by Larry Phelps, in the Chapel of the Holy Spirit J. II. \Vilcox, organist at the Church of the contract price of $135,000 v.ith an inflation Immaculate Conception in Boston. Mr. Abra­ clause. ham Firth, of the organ committee, presented Months of research ensued. Fritz ;\Iaack the organ to the trustees of the hall, referring to visited many extant Hook organs, taking co­ DOUGLAS REED the instrument in his speech, as "the \Vorcester pious notes and learning as much as possible UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE EVANSVILLE, INDIANA Organ" (there being no other in Worcester so about the spirit of thOse instruments, as well as large and complete, at that time). technical details. Through the Organ Clearing In 1889, Ceo. S. Hutchings of Boston re­ House, the restoren were able to purchase NANCY PLUMMER FAXON GEORGE FAXON pitched the organ, lowering it to A-435; he also E. & G. G. Hook Op. 371, 1865, a large two­ provided a Bourdon 32' for the Pedal, replaced manual instrument that had been badly dam­ the Swell Twelfth 2 2/3' with a Quintadena 8', aged some years before when the speakers of and installed a \Vater motor. In 1914, Hook & an electronic substitute were placed on the BOSTON Hastings did extensive work on the instru­ Great chest, ruining most of the Great pipe­ ment, probably including some revoicing. The work. This instrument provided some genuine greatest change to the organ came a decade replacement parts (Swell Twelfth 2 2/3' and later: all the original action -.,vas removed, Choir Clarinet 8') and served as a model for including the pneumatic lever to the Great, new replacement parts. (By no means beyond and replaced with electro-pneumatic action; restoration, the instrument is available for Frans W. M. Bosman fortunately the original slider wind-chests were sale.) retained. The original reservoirs and wind Almost all the original pipework was taken trunks were removed and replaced with small to Georgetown, to be cleaned and repaired. regulators and sheet metal ducts. The Choir ~1issing pipes were made to match; voicing division was enclosed. This "modernization" changes, such as choked toe-holes and scrolls Organ Building project, begun in 1923 by George W. Reed & on smaller reed resonators, were reversed rebuilding, restoration, Son of \Vest Boylston, was completed in 1927 according to existing evidence. (It is clear that tuning, maintenance. by Charles F Chadv.rick of Springfield. the organ was softened during the various In 1933, the Memorial Auditorium was rebuildings.) The windchests were repaired in 3335 N.E. Clackamas St. opened, and Ylechanics Hall suffered an place, using essentially the same methods the Portland, Oregon 97232 eclipse. By 1961, when the Organ Historical Hooks themselves often used in similar situa­ Society sponsored a recital by George Faxon, tions. The wind system was restored, with new 503/232-1812 organist at lhnity Church, Boston, as part of its \Vooden trunks and two huge reservoirs, one Annual National Convention, the hall was vir­ new, one from Hook Op. 371. The entire key tually abandoned, and the organ was barely and stop action, including the keydesk with playable. In 1968, the OHS Convention held in four bone-covered manuals, and the Barker Mid 19th century Dutch house organ, in Worcester did not even visit the hall; the organ lever for the Great, was made new, but in the excellent condition. Cabinet newly built, was by then little more than a magnificent Hook style. The stop-faces were made by in authentic style. Price $24,000. ruin. There was talk of razing the building. Brunner & Heller, who also engraved the Then, in 1971, the fortunes of the hall, so long nameplate, copied from a Hook nameplate of on the decline, took a tum for the better. The 1866 in the collection of Alan Laufman. Trained by Flentrop and Verschueren, we build tracker action organs Worcester Heritage Society began to stir up The restored organ was rededicated with interest in the building; in 1972, Mechanics two gala concerts on the weekend of 25-26 of the finest quality and craftsmanship, preserving the tradition of Hall was listed on the National Register. Mrs. September 1982. The programs were pre­ HOLLAND and FRANCE. Julie Chase Fuller, president of the Worcester sented entirely by Worcester musicians and County Mechanics Association, and Richard musical organizations based in Worcester; selec-

134 3 Mechanics Hall, Worcester

E. & G. G. Hook, Boston, Op. 334, 1864 Restored by the Noack Organ Co., Georgetown, Mass., 1982 Great: 58 notes, manual II Swell: 58 notes, enclosed (double shutters), 0 Open Diapn 16' 58 m manual Ill Open Diapn 8' 58 m Bourdon 16' 58w Viola da Gamba 8' 58 m Open Diapn 8' 58w&m p Std Diapn (Doppel-flute) 8' 58 w Viol d' Amour (Bell Gamba) 8' 58 rn Clarihella (Melodia) 8' 58 w Std Diapn 8' 58w Principal 4' 58 m Principal 4' 58m Flute Harmonique 4' 58 m Violin 4' 58m u Twelfth 2 2/3' 58 m Flute Octaviante 4' 58m Fifteenth '2: 58 m Twelfth 22/3' 58m 3 rank Mixture III 174m Fifteenth 2' 58m s 5 rank Mixture \' 290 m 5 rank Mixture v 290m Trumpet 16' 58 m Trumpet (TC) 16' 46m Trumpet 8' 58 m Cornopean 8' 58m Clarion 4' 58 m Oboe 8' 58m Choir: 58 notes, manual I Vox Hurnana 8' 58m AEolina and Bourdon 16' 58w&m Clarion 4' 58m Open Diapn 8' 58m 'fremulant Dulciana 8' 58m Solo: 58 notes, manual IV Keraulophon 8' 58m Salicional 8' 58m Melodia 8' 58w Philomela 8' 58w 2 Violin (Bell Gamba) 4' 58m Hohl Pfeife (Doppel-rohr) 4' 58w&m Flauto Traverso 4' 58w Picolo 2' 58w&m Picolo 2' SSw 1hba 8' 58m 3 3 rank Mixture Ill 174m Como Inglese 8' 58m Clarinet 8' 58m Couplers: Pedale: 30 notes Swell to Great Great to Pedale Open Diapn 16' 30w Choir to Great Swell to Pedale Violone 16' 30w Solo to Great Choir to Pedale Bourdon 16' 30w Swell to Choir Solo to Pedale Quinte 10 2/3' 30w Choir to Solo Choir to Pedale Super Octs Violoncello (Bell Gamba) 8' 30m Mechanical Registers: Flute 8' 30w Venti! #I (fm Ped. OD 16') Posaune 16' 30w Ventil #2 (for Ped. Quinte 10 2!3', Flute 8', and Pedal Movements: Posaune 16') Forte Great, Piano Great Pedale Check Forte Swell, Piano Swell Bellows Signal Forte Choir, Piano Choir Wind indicators (2) Forte Couplers, Piano Couplers balanced Swell pedal Pedale (brings on Ped. OD 16', Quinte 70 2!3', Flute 8', Posaune 16') mechanical key and stop action Great to Pedale (reversible)

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133 Monday, 27 June 7:30 to 8:30a.m. Breakfast, Assumption College cafeteria 7:30a.m. ':Morgan am Morgen": Maureen Morgan, Assumption College Welcome to. 7:30a.m. Registration and Exhibits, Assumption College • • 9:30a.m. Buses to Wesley Methodist Church 10:00 a.m. Festival Convocation Service: Wesley Choir, and Master Singers of Worcester (E John Adams, director), LeRoy K. Hanson, Minister of Music, The Rev. Andre Dargis, A.A., preacher, Wesley Methodist Church Walk to Memorial Auditorium 12:00 noon Opening Luncheon and Keynote Addresses, Speakers: Culver L. Mowers, president, OHS; DanielL. Colburn II, executive director :-.Jat'l AGO; Memorial Auditorium Walk to Workshops/Programs 1:45 to 2:45p.m. (A) Charles Krigbaum: The Music of Titelouze, Trinity Lutheran Church and (B) The Salisbury Consort: Workshop/concert, Central Church 3:15 to 4:15p.m. (C) David McKay: Early American Music, First Unitarian Church (repeat) (D) Beehive: "A Tribute to Our Town Musicians:' Elizabeth Sollenberger, reed organ; Judith Cornell, soprano; John Morningstar, narrator; Duane Smoot, bass; James Bishop, tenor; Earl Miller, reed organ; Historical Museum (E) Brenda Fraser and William Self: The Worcester Art Museum and Its Organ (lecture/recital), The Worcester Art Museum 5:00p.m. Evening Prayer, Trinity Choir and Schola Cantorum, Stephen Long, Minister of Music, Trinity Lutheran Church Walk to Memorial Auditorium 6:15p.m. Dinner, Memorial Auditorium 8:15p.m. Recital, Earl L. Miller, organ, Memorial Auditorium Reception, Worcester Room, Memorial Auditorium Buses return to Assumption College; Afterglow, cash bar

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5 A native of Worcester County, Donald Caldwell received his Bachelor of Music degree in voice performance from Westminster Choir College where he studied with David Alger. In the teacher assistantship program at Indiana University, he studied opera with Margaret Henshaw. Mr. Caldwell has toured with the Westminster Choir under the direction of Roger Wagner, and appeared with the Boston Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia, and National Symphony Orchestras. Locally he has sung with the Salisbury Singers; at present he is tenor soloist with the choir of Christ Church, Fitchburg.

Stephen Hermes received his Bachelor degree from Westminster Choir College and his graduate degree in voice performance from the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston. As an active baritone soloist in the Massachusetts area, he appeared in April, 1982 with the Worcester Orchestra and Chorus, and as a full scholarship recipient, performed twice last year with the Newton Opera Workshop. A member of the Worcester Chapter of the AGO, Mr. Hermes is presently soloist and chorister at All Saints Church, Worcester.

Carol Sanderson is a graduate of University of Lowell, Massachusetts, and has studied voice with Eleanor Davis of the New England Conservatory, Herbert Mayer of the American Theatre Wing in New York, and Susan Clickner at Clark University. She has taught piano and voice for several years, and conducted the Town Chorus in \Vestboro. A member of the Worcester Chorus, 1.she has performed solos with the Spring Choral Masterworks Concerts. She is contralto soloist at Central Church in Worcester. Brenda Thompson is a graduate of Crane School of Music in Potsdam, KY., where she appeared with the Phoenix Chorus, Collegiate Chorale, and the Crane Chorus. While in resi­ dence in Ames, Iowa, she appeared with the Iowa State Chorus and as church soloist and youth choir director. She is a ~ember and soloist with the Worcester Chorus.

J. Gerald Phillips, B. Ch.M., M.A., studied at the University of Montreal, the University of Chicago, and the Sorbonne, l'lnstitute de Gregorien de Paris. He is the composer of numerous works, more than forty of which have been published, including the first pub­ lished Mass in English (1964). He is presently organist and choir director of two churches: the United Church in Shirley, and St. Francis of Assisi Church, Fitchburg. He lives in Fitchburg and is on the faculty of the Trivium School in Lancaster.

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131 Catharine Crozier was a student of Harold Gleason at the Eastman Tuesday, 28 June School of Music and graduated with the Bachelor of Music degree 7:30 to 8:30a.m. Breakfast, Assumption College cafeteria and the Performer's Certificate. As a graduate student Miss Crozier 7:30a.m. Dean's Breakfast: "Morgan am ~forgen" received the Artist's Diploma and the Master of ~usic degree in 7:30a.m. Registration and Exhibits, Assumption College Music Literature. She was a member of the Eastman School of Music 8:30a.m. Buses for Downtown faculty from 1938 until 1955, when she became organist of the 9:00 to 10:15 a.m. Workshops/Programs Knowles Memorial Chapel and a member of the faculty of Rollins and (A) Catharine Crozier and David Craighead: Organ Performance, First College. Miss Crozier has played recitals throughout the United 10:45 to 12:00 noon Bapti~·t Church States, Canada, and Europe. She has made appearances with orches­ (repeat) (B) Peter Hart: Vocal Production, Part I, Trinity Lutheran Church tras, and has served as a member of the Jury at the International (C) Westfield Center for Early Keyboard Studies: Baroque Performance Organ Competitions at Bruges, St. Albans, and Chartres. Miss Crozier has been awarded the honorary degree, Doctor of Practice, Trinity Lutheran Church Music, by Smith College, Baldwin-Wallace College and the University of Southern Colorado, (D) Thomas Murray: The Hook Organs (slide-tape presentation), Wesley and the Doctor of Humane Letters from Illinois College. She was one of the organists chosen to Methodist Church play the inaugural recitals at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center and at Alice 1Ully Hall. In 1979 (E) Janos Horvath: Kodaly Workshop, Part I, First Unitarian Church she was named the International Performer of the Year by the ~ew York City chapter of the (F) OHS Nat'l Meeting (9 a.m. only), Trinity Lutheran Church American Guild of Organists. 1H5p.m. Buses to Clark University 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Clark University, Jefferson Hall The Worcester Orchestra has been under the aegis of the Worcester County Music Association 2:00p.m. Recital: Joseph Payne, Harpsichord, St. Peter's Church since 1969. l\'oted violinist, Joseph Silverstein, Associate Conductor and Concertmaster of the 3:15p.m. Recital:Christa Rakich, organ, St. Peter's Church Boston Symphony, is entering his third season as its Music Director. The Orchestra's season 4:30p.m. Buses to St. Paul's Cathedral includes performances during the Music Festival, a winter-spring concert series at Mechanics 5:00p.m. Evemong, Cathedral Choir, Joseph Policelli, Director of Music, St. Paul's Hall, Summer Pops concerts conducted by Harry Ellis Dickson, and annual performances with Cathedral the \Vorcester Chorus of "Messiah" and Choral Masterworks concerts. 6:00p.m. Optional Dinner, at All Saints Church or on your own in area restaurants Henry Hokans is a graduate of New England Conservatory of s,oop.m. Recital: Barbara Bruns, organ, AD Saints Church Music and a member of Pi Kappa Lambda, Honorary Music Society. Choral Concert: Choir of Boston Archdiocesan Choir School and Men's His conducting studies were with Lorna Cooke DeVaron, Judd Schola of St. Paul's Church, Cambridge; Theodore Marier, conductor; John Cooke, and Richard Pittman. Dunn, organ; All Saints Church He is a recitalling organist and is well-known for his work with Buses to Assumption College; Afterglow, cash bar chorus and orchestra. A former conductor of \Vorcester Concert Choir and Orchestra, Mr. Hokans was guest conductor of \Vorcester Chums and \Vorcester Orchestra for the Rededication Concert of the Mechanics Hall organ. He has also conducted workshops for Guild Chapters throughout the United States. Mr. Hokans is currently organist, choir director of the Unitarian­ Universalist Parish of Grafton-Upton, Massachusetts, and St. Anne's Episcopal Church, Kennebunkport, Maine. He is also a representative of Casavant Freres, Limitee, organbuilders of St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada.

The \Vorcester Chorus, one of the oldest civic choral groups in the country, is sponsored by the Worcester County Music Association. Conducted by Gerald R. Mack, its season includes per­ formances at the annual Worcester Music Festival; with the Worcester Orchestra in two annual performances of ''Messiah"; a Spring Choral Masterworks concert and guest appearances. Last season the Chorus performed with the Hartford Symphony during its Beethoven May Festival, and in prior seasons has appeared at Carnegie Hall and Detroit with the Detroit Symphony, as well as in Boston, Rhode Island, and Washington. Dr. Gerald R. Mack was appointed conductor of the Worcester Chorus in 1978, and under his artistic direction the chorus has gained the praise of concert-goers and critics. Dr. Mack is also Artistic Director and Sr. Conductor of Choirs, Chamber Singers, and :\1adri­ gal Singers at the Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford. He began conducting professionally at the age of 19 on radio and as chorus master of the Rochester Civic Orchestra, N.Y and since then has become well known for his expertise in the field of choral music. He is Founder and Director of the Greater Hartford Youth Chorale, which was selected to represent the United States at the International Society of Music Educators Convention in Austria in 1961 and in Switzerland in 1976. Joseph R. Policelli is Dean of the Worcester Chapter, AGO, and Director of Music at The Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Worcester.

130 7 Presentation of Historic Or_yan plili]ue Dana Hu[[, chainnan OHS Historic Or_gal15 Committee A FeSEivaf Cantata on tiiv Hymn Tunv "WorceSter/' ]. GeraUL PfiilTips Op. 70 (1982) (6. 1927) Fl SK A new wo&, wmmissionecL for tfi.is Conwntion GLOUCESTER Te,tt: Psafm 100, paraph.msecL Sr Isaac Watts (1674-1748), afterecL 6_r]ohn Wes[e_r (1703-1791) BUILDERS OF Tunu: New Ha.mpshiru Coriectian OJ Church Music; 4lft etiition, etiitecL 6_r H. Moore, Concord;; N.H. 1833 HISTORIC ORGANS Aw{ienw joins in si119ing Stanza 5 (see separatu sheet') Thv Worc.eSkr Chorus, Gem.fiL Mad{, conductor Joseph R .Pofic.e(fi, o19an Box 28 01930 Freti OrR.isesk.i, N oe LeBeau, trumpets Arthur Starnes, Geo19u Zak.a.rian, trom6ones

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8 129 Mechanics HaCC WorceSter Wednesday, 29 June 7:30 to 8:30a.m. Breakfast, Assumption College cafeteria Tfiur:soo~ 30 Junv 1983, 8:00p.m. 7:30a.m. ..Morgan am Morgen" 7:30a.m. Registration and Exhibits, Assumption College Convention Fdfiva( Concert' 8:30a.m. Buses to Mechanics Hall 9:00a.m. Lecture: Fritz !\Iaack, organ builder, Mechanics Hall Concerto inC Major (1756) Franz Josepfi Haycfn Coffee Break Moderato - Lar9o - A~ro rrw[to (1732-1809) 10:30 a.m. Recital: David Craighead, organ, Mechanics Hall 12:00 noon Optional Lunch, at Washburn Hall in Mechanics Hall, or on your O\Vn in area Catfuuinu Crozier, o19a.n Tliv WorrrS£er Orcfie§tra, Henl}:: Hokans, gudE cotufuctor restaurants 1:15 p.m. Buses for Lancaster ~nus Dei (Missa cfum CompCevenur) Tom~ Luis cfv Victoria 2:15p.m. Choral Concert: Salisbury Singers; Nlalama Robbins, director; Brian Jones, (1535-1611) organ; First Church Unitarian, Lancaster Buses leave Lancaster for: Dem cfunlieCn Scfioss der lid9en ErdV ]olius Scfii[[er:s "LiecL von der Glocke" for 9emiscfiten Cfior (1833-1897) 4:15-Recital: Competition Winner, 4:00-Recital: Patrick Murphy, organ, Christ Church organ, Pilgrim Congregational ( dlswv,mf 1927) from "T"" Son9 oft"" Beff" 5:00-Evemong, Christ Church Church Choir, Brenda Fraser, Director of 4:45-Recital: Brian Franck and To tfi.e cfa.rli. womfi of sacred earth Wfi.ere Hope am( Sorrow 6enr! to pray Music, Christ Church Cynthia Rose Day, organ, St. This [a[ior of our handS is given, That suns 6cyol1li tfi.e reafm of rft:v 5:40-Buses to Groton Mark's Church As seedS tfi.at wa.it tfie second Girth May wann tfiem in to 6Wom} 5:30-Buses to Groton Arnf tunt to 6Ces.si119s watch.af 6y Fteaven! 6:15p.m. Ringing of the Changes; Wine/Cheese on Lawn at Groton School, Advent All, seedS, fi.ow dearer far t(tan tfuy - ]ofiann Christoph Friedii.cfi von Sc(ri[fer (1759-1805) Guild of Bellringers, Dr. Geoffrey Davies, director We 6wy in the r!ismaf tom6 tnwsfatnf 6y Sir Lr!wctni Bu!wer-Lytton 6:45p.m. Dinner, Groton School Thv WorceSter Chorus, GemUL Mack., concfucwr 8:15p.m. Recital: Thomas Murray, organ, St. John's Chapel, Groton School Two Motets Anton BlllCkner Buses to Assumption College; Afterglow, cash bar 1. Offe:rtorium (1861) (1824-1896) In em6rohle.recL appa.re.L shu i.; brought to tftv King: afte-r her tftv 6ri.desmaidS jo[fow in procession. With joy amL 9Cadness thez a.ru brought ancL enter into tfiu pafucu oJ tflv Kin9. (Psafm 54: 14-15) 2. Eccv S

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Mrs. Julie Chase Fuller graduated Magna Cum Laude from Syra­ cuse University. She had her own radio show on WTAC in \Vorcester for many years, and has served as national president of American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT). She was the first woman president of the Worcester County Mechanics Association, and in 1976 was named it.~ first Executive Director, a position she still holds.

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127 Thursday, 30 June 7:30 to 8:30a.m. Breakfast, Assumption College cafeteria 7:30a.m. "Morgan am Morgen" 7:30a.m. Registration and Exhibits, Assumption College u 8:30a.m. Buses leave for: z A-B-C-D (Downtown) OR E (Oxfmd) z' 9:00 to 10:15 a.m. and 9:00 a.m.-Recital: Carolyn Skelton, 0 10:45 a.m. to 12 noon (repeat) organ, Grace Church, Oxford 1- (A) Theodore Marier: Boy Choir, 9:45 a.m.-Leave Oxford for Grafton lJ St. Pau1' s Cathedral 10:15 a.m.-Recital: Lois Regestein, z (B) Peter Hart: Vocal Production, organ, Unitarian Church, Grafton :::; 10:50 a.m.-Leave Grafton for 0<: Part II, Trinity Lutheran Church :::l (C) Westfield Center for Early Milford co Keyboard Studies: Music of 11:15 a.m.-Recital: John Ogasapian, Buxtehude, Trinity Lutheran organ, St. Mary's Church, Milford Church (D) Janos Horvath: Kodaly Techniques, Part II, First Unitarian Church 12:10 p.m. Buses to Assumption College !2:45p.m. Lunch, Assumption College 1:30p.m. (A) Remain at Assumption OR (B) Leave for Gilbertville ~ 2:00-Concert: Edward Pepe, 2:30-Recital: Rosalind Mohnsen: l..l...l Lynn Edwards, harpsichord; Trinitarian Congregational Church, Harry Geraerts, tenor; Assumption Gilbertville College Chapel of the Holy Spirit 3:20-Leave Gilbertville for ~ 3:30-Wine, Exhibits, Assumption No. Brookfield 0 College 3:45-Recital: Charles Page, organ, I.J.. 4:30-Buses to All Saints Church Congregational Church, No. Brookfield 2 4:30-Leave for Worcester 0 5:15p.m. Evensong, Choir of Men and Boys, Ronald Stalford, Organist and u Choirmaster, All Saints Church 6:00p.m. Buses to Mechanics Hall >- 6:30p.m. Banquet: Julie Chase Fuller, speaker, Mechanics Hall --' s,oop.m. Festival Concert: Catharine Crozier, organ; Worcester Chorus and Orchestra, Gerald Mack and Henry Hokans, conductors; Mechanics Hall (table seating) 0 Buses to Assumption College; Afterglow, cash bar I (End of Convention) l..l...l I 1- (\d Maine AGO Portland Maine AGO Portland Maine4G ~ 0 I.J.. ~ ~ ~ 0 0 0 ~ I u ~ Thanks for inviting us to Worcester! ~ .£ ~ ~ c Q ::) ~ s· I 12) u o0<. 21 STOPS 26 RANKS FEBRUARY 1985

!I First Congregational Church, No. Brookfield

E. & G. C. Hook & Hastings, Boston, Mass., Op. 774, 1874 ''HEART OF THE COMMONWEADTH" Specification by Benjamin J. Lang (1837-1909) Great: 58 notes Swell: 58 notes, enclosed Principal 8' 58m Bourdon Treble (TC#) 16' 45w SARA J. ROBERTSON Dulciana 8' 58m Bourdon Bass Worcester MAYOR CITY OF Melodia (TC) 8' 46w (12 unencl.) 16' 13w MASSACHUSETIS City Hall 799-1153 St'd Diap'n 8' 12w Principal 8' 58w&m Octave 4' 58m Dulciana (TC) 8' 46m Flute Harmonic 4' 58m St'd Diap'n Treble (TC#) 8' 45w&m Fifteenth 2' 58m St' d Diap'n Bass 8' 13w Mixture III 174m Violin 4' 58m Trumpet 8' 58m Hautboy (TC) 8' 46m Pedal: 27 notes Tremulo Double Dulciana 16' 27w Couplers: V'cello 8' 27m Sw. to Ct. Coupler Flute 27m Ct. toPed. Coupler WHEREAS: The people of Worcester have long welcomed musicians 4' and music lovers to this city, and offer as testimony Pedal Movements: Sw. to Ped. Coupler to this fact the 125 year history of the annual Music Festival; and 4labelled combination pedals: Bellows Signal Piano Great, Forte Great 4 depth screws in key cheeks Piano Pedal, Forte Pedal mechanical action throughout WHEREAS: The fine organs, organists, choral groups and direc~ The handsome frame church was built in tors in this area have delighted generations of lis~ teners, both in church and in concert, and have found 1822 and altered later in the century. This ele­ a ready audience here; and gant organ originally stood partly in the recess now occupied by the window behind the pul­ pit platform; it was moved to the right-hand

WHEREAS: The American Guild of Organists and the Organ Histori~ comer by Hook & Hastings late in the nine­ cal Society, both distinguished organizations, have cho·­ teenth century and the side panelling extended sen to convene in Worcester; and to the rear. The end of the right side gallery was removed at that time, to accommodate the organ. It was perhaps at that time that the WHEREAS: These welcome visitors from across the country will en~ inner set of the original double set of swell liven and enrich the musical community in Worcester and, through the convention agenda of concerts, competitions shutters was removed. and workshops, will stimulate increased attention to The committee of the church charged with the organ and its history; selecting an organbuilder seems to have consid­ ered Steer&Turoer and S. S. Hamill (a note in the file asks "Is Hamill reliable?") but appar­ NOW, THEREFORE, DO I, SAllA J. ROBERTSON, Mayor of the City of Wor~ ently settled on E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings cester, proclaim June 26~30 to be: early on, evidently after consultation with B. J. Lang, a prominent Boston organist, to whose the summer, and in place by mid-September. strict requirements the organ was eventually The bellows of the organ was warranted by AGO AND OHS CONVEN'riON WEEK built, at a cost of $3,100 (with a $50 rebate, the builders to "supply the full organ (with all yet!). The builders urged the church to adopt a couplers on) with wind for the performance of new style "open" case front, but did not pre­ a Chorale played (by B. J. Lang) with double in Worcester, and urge all of our citizens to share in vail, and the rather sedate black walnut case­ pedals, the bellows lever making meanwhile this observance and further urge that they cordially work is more typical of the 1860's. Much cor­ not less than twenty-nine strokes per minute:' welcome all of the members and supporters of the Amer~ ican Guild of Organist·s and the Organ Historical Soci~ respondence ensued between the builders and It seems to have been satisfactory, for the ety. Charles Adams, Treasurer of the Common­ church paid the builder's bill. wealth of Massachusetts (acting on behalf of All the existing correspondence was printed the church) before a- contract was finally in full in the Boston Organ Club Newsletter, signed in June 1874; the organ was built during No 34, July 1968

E. A. BOADWAY Saint Mary's Church Claremont, New Hampshire

12 125 ColJ9regationaL Churcft, No. Brook_fie[c( Tliursd!tli 30 Junv 1983, 3:45p.m. Charl£s P£19u, organ

Prefw:lv aru:L. f U9llV in E Minar Nicoliws Brulins AT RODGERS, WE'RE (1665-1697) Prae[w:fium Zo[tan Kooofr KNOWN BY THE (1882-1967) COMPANY WE KEEP. A~retto ~Sonata in E-j[at" Minor Horatio Parlier Major organists choose Rodgers for their (1863-1919) home or house of worship. Sonata II Fefix Menddsso lin Now. after 25 years of building organs of Gravu (1809-1847) the highest caliber, we have an august list of Rodgers owners to prove it. ~io We're proud of the company we keep. A~ro mae.ffoso u vivaeu Ft19a~ A[egro moderato Charles Page holds degrees from Boston and Yale Universities. He is a former Dean of the Springfield Chapter of the American Guild of Organists and is presently State Chairman for the Massachusetts AGO. He was a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship for organ study with Piet Kee at the Amsterdam Conservatory. Mr. Page is organist and choir director at Old First Church, Springfield, and chairman of the music department at Bay Path Junior College, Longmeadow. He has given many recitals in I\'ew York and throughout ~~ew England. Mr. Page has appeared before as a performer at a national convention of the Organ Historical Society. Wqt 1Snstnu ®rgau Qiluh

Now a chapter of the Organ Historical Society. $5.00 annual membership includes a subscrip­ tion to The Boston Organ Club Newsletter, a scholarly yet entertaining journal of organological history, description, and news; E. A. Boadway, Editor. Alan Laufman, Tfeasurer, Post Office Box 104, Harrisville, New Hampshire 03450. Pictured is American organist/composer, Robed Hebble, at home with his new Rodgers Classic Series 205. This specification combines traditional pipes with space age electronics .

. ": ... :J\___ _: G. A. HAND, ORGAN BUILDER cusT~d'M f1PE · bRGA.Ns 1300 N.E. 25th Avenue .. Hillsboro, Oregon 97123 Major Restoration & Rebuilding Routine )YI<'iintenance A member of CBS Musical Instruments, A Division of CBS Inc.

Gregory A. Hand Kinney Road 607/748-7365 Campville, New York 13790

124 13 Trinitarian Congregational Church, Gilbertville

The following people registered for the convention prior to 1 February 1983 Johnson & Son, Westfield, Mass., Op. 428, 1874 C:harles E. Pnge Mrs. E. P. King W. Thoma< Edwards Linda ~1. Zarek Andre Dargis Charle,; L. Davi< Imogene Stulken Culver L. Mowers Great: 58 notes Swell: 58 notes, enclosed Karen J. Wielm)a Peter Waring Rev. Joseph P. Fratic Amm M. Walimky OpenDiap. 8' 58m Open Diap. (TC) 8' 46m ~:arl J. Wielsma Mrs. Peter Wrnng Priscilla Walter Rev. Claudius S. Nowinski ~lichacl Lebednik Elaine Ranm Audrey \'l. Hagberg Dr. Homer D. Blanchard Dulciana (TC) 8' 46m Dolce (TC) 8' 46m David Lebeduik Jonathan Whitmore Wihna D. Vander Raan Mrs. Homer Blanchard Melodia (TC) 8' 46w St. Dia. 1Ieble (TC) 8' 46w&m Judith Ouikkala Sheryl Whitmore Richard Vander Baan Robin Hambly Ronald StaUord Donald C. GHley Bertram G. Kinzey, Jr. Robert BarntJy Unison Bass 8' 12w St Dia. Bass 8' 12w Ralph E. Carver, R.N. Dana J. Hull Virginia S. Kin~.ey Andrea M. Goodrich Octave 4' 58m Fugara 4' 58m Joseph N. Deptula, Jr. Allen G. Dreyfus,; E. A. Roadway LeRoy Hanson Allen B. Kinzey Eli~abeth Sollenberger Carolyn E. Fix Randolph Bloom Flute d'Arnour (TC) 4' 46w&m Oboe (TC) 8' 46m Janeen T Baker Patricia Clough Charlotte E. Ricker Robert Dickinson Twelfth 2 2/3' 58m Tremolo Lucia M. Falco Ron Shaw David F.. Wallace Eugeuie Dickinson Esther L. "llllcott Cos. R. Twichell Laurence E. Wallace Agnes Armstrong Fifteenth 2' 58m Couplers: George S. llllcott MarjoritJ B. Twichell Da-vid H. Fox Jimrae K. Len.1orrh·on Dr. Marilyn Kay Stulken Alan Walker Raymond E. Wieber Loi~ R.,g.,tein Leonard Raver ~'rank L. Eldridge, Jr. William T. Van Pelt Quentin Regestein Michael D. Friesen MaryS. Eldridge Marjori" W. Jolidon Kath.,rine D. :\-letivier Su.

14 123 Trinitarian Con9regationaL Cliurcli, GiflJertvil:Cv ThursdalJ 30 ]unv 1983, 2:30p.m. TODAY'S Rosa[iruL Molinsen, o19an MOST WIDELY READ Fe.ffivCL[ Preftufv, Op. 66, No. 1 Homtio P11rker (1863-1919) ORGAN AND Fuguv in G Major ( Gi!Ju£), B1NV 577 J.S. Badi. CHORAL MAGAZINE (1685-1750) Symphonic Chomli, Op. 87, No. 1 Si!J_fi-UL Karg- Elirt' Ach 61ii6 mit: ddner GnadV (1877-1933) C11non in D-_f{CLt: M11jor, Op. 58, No. 4 Ro6ert SchumCLnn (1810-1856) Concert' Sooota No. 5 inC Minor, Op. 45 Eugenv Thilyer A~ro energico (1838-1889) C11non DupCex A~ro con 6rio

Rosalind Mohnsen is Organist and Choir-Director at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Belmont, Massachusetts. She received the Bache­ lor of Music in Education degree from the University of :"Jebraska and the Master of Music degree and Performer's Certificate from Official Journal of the American Guild of Organists Indiana University, and studied in Paris with Jean Langlais. She and the Royal Canadian College of Organists serves on the Boston Archdiocesan Music Committee and the Execu­ tive Committee of the Boston Chapter, American Guild of Organists. Official magazine of the American Pipe Organ Builders Association She can be heard on the recording, "A Pfeffer Odyssey", an Organ Historical Society recording on AFKA records. Authoritative In Content and Dynamic In Design

Rosalind Mohnsen MONTHLY FEATURES St. Joseph's Church • Contemporary and Historical Organs • Practical Organ and Choral Articles Belmont, Mass. • Musicological Articles • Harpsichord Features • Reviews of New Music, Books • Resource Material Listings and Records • Positions Available • Nationwide Calendar T. R. RENCH & COMPANY 1405 Sixteenth Street The American Guild of Organists invites you to become a NaTional Subscribing Member and receive The American Racine, Wisconsin 53402 Organist Magazine. (414) 633-9566 To enroll for one year as a National Subscribing Member of Organ Builders & Engineers the AGO. send a check for $20 to: New instruments, rebuilding, tonal updating American Guild of Organists Tracker or electric actions, American classic style 815 Second Avenue Suite 318 Work in process: Restoration of 2-13 Kilgen tracker (c. 1903) New York, NY 10017

122 Well-known in the avant-garde of the European Early Music scene, Mr. Geraerts has sung the Bach Passions (as the Evangelist), early Baroque opera, secular 18th-century French and Italian cantatas, Renaissance motets, and songs of the early Classical period .. He has made concert tours and radio recordings in Austria, Belgium, Eng­ land, Germany, Holland, France, Denmark, Sweden, and Italy. Mr. Geraert's extensive work \vith the antique organs of Northern Europe has taught him a great deal concerning the vocal aesthetic of the Renaissance and Baroque and he has become a much sought-after lecturer on Early vocal techniques. For the second year in a row, Mr. Geraerts will teach at the summer workshops offered by the Ann Arbor Academy for the Study and Performance of Early Music.

Lynn Edwards and Edward Pepe are the Directors at the Westfield Center for Early Keyboard Studies. Lynn Edwards, a native of Canada, is a graduate of Westminster Choir College, where she studied organ with Joan Lippincott. Edward Pepe is a graduate of Yale University and the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied organ with William Porter and Yuko Hayashi. In 1976 Ms. Edwards received a Canada Council Arts Award for advanced study in Germany. Both she and :\1r. Pepe spent two years in residence at the :r\orth Germany Organ Academy in Bunderhee, West Germany. As students of Harald Vogel, they studied organ, harpsichord, and clavichord and the related perfor­ mance practices, and garnered extensive experience with the antique organs of Northern Germany, Holland, France, and Italy. Ms. Edwards has performed and given lectures in Kew England and the Midwest, as well as in Europe. ~1r. Pepe has performed and lectured in New England and on the West coast. In 1979, Ms. Edwards and Mr. Pepe co-founded 1be Westfield Center for Early Keyboard Studies to encourage early keyboard performance studies and research of Renaissance and Baroque organ, harpsichord, and clavichord literature. The Center has sponsored six workshops: .. The Dutch/North German Organ-Building Tradition" (John Brumbaugh); "The Keyboard Works of J. S. Bach" (II. Vogel); "Congregational Singing" (Klaas Bolt); "A Buxtehude Festival"; "Meantone lCrnperament: A New Horizon" at Wellesley College; and "Sweelinck and His :-.Jorth-German Students", also at Wellesley College. Yls. Edwards and :\1r. Pepe are co-Directors of Music at the First Congregational Church on the Green, \Vestfield, where they play a Fisk organ, built 1976.

Op. 11435, 1981 JAMES HEJDUK Milton Academy Christ Church, Episcopal The Congregational Church of Needham Winchester, Virginia MASSACHUSETTS Two manuals, 35 ranks Mechanical key action ~ Electric stop action with adjustable combination pistons RONALD E. DEAN t ~1 .. ~;p Hurley School of Music \"';. '>: '.A,p"": ~"~"'zlenl ~' Centenary College -

American Guild of English R~ndbell Ringers

NCORPORAT £ 0 St. Paul's Episcopal Church Write for information on : Workshops, Festivals, Membership P.O. Box 149 Telephone: Shreveport, Louisiana Diantha Dorman, Area I Chairman Hagerstown, Maryland 21740 301 -733-9000 76 Willow st., South Windsor, CT 11"61!"74

121 CFtape[ 6J tftv Hofi Spirit', Assumption CoCCe:Je, WorceSter Tliursdi:tlJ 30 )unv 1983, 2:00p.m. This handbook is dedicated to The We.ffjkUL Center for Ea.rfi Key6oa.nL Studies two young gentlemen of the old school in A Concert' 6J Seventeentft-Centurz:: Music Albert F. Robinson and William Self Ha.nr Geraerts, teJWr Lynn EdwardS, FtarpsicFwnL Etiwa.nL Pepu, FtarpsicFwnL NOTES AND MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION I ta.Cmn SolO Motets The Convention Committee welcomes members and friends of the American Guild of La.wfutv Dominum (1620) Giovanni Battilia. Riccio Organists and the Organ Historical Society, to the Region I AGO Convention and the Twenty~eighth Annual National OHS Convention, and to Worcester and vicinity. We have Ca.nta.tv Domino (1622) Vincenz) eCicli arranged a schedule as free of pressure as practical for the visits we are making; your help in maintaining the schedule through efficient boarding of and disembarking from the buses will Tocca.ta. prima. (1657) Micli.eia.n9elO Rossi be much appreciated, and will make the Convention more enjoyable for all of us. We will not be able to hold the buses for stragglers. Ca.nzona. in C Dietrich BuxteliudV As a courtesy to both performers and audience, we must require that no recordings be made (1637-1707) of demonstrations and recitals, other than by the official Convention recording crews, and that no photographs be taken during music that is being recorded. The members of the Convention Ita.[ian SolO Canta.ta. Committee are prepared to issue individual reminders of this, but trust that it will not be necessary. DeCiciav Terrena.v (1692) Giovanni Ba.ttilia. Brevi This Convention program book, the Annual Organ Handbook of the Organ Historical Society, is, this year, a joint effort with the Worcester Chapter of the American Guild of CaprU:cio croma.tico Tarquinio Merula. Organists. The Organ Historical Society normally does not accept advertisements which concern electronic instruments in its own publications. However, an exception has been made (1590-1665) to that policy for this unique publication. Acceptance of any ad, of any kind, in no way implies OHS endorsement of the company or its work. Fantasia sopra. Ut' Rv Mi Fa So[ La ]oliann Jakob Fro6er9er Wm. T. Van Pelt III took the photographs of all the instruments being visited. Alan Laufman (1616-1667) wrote the text of this handbook, based on historical data which he assembled with assistance framE. A. Boadway, Stephen Long, William Self, Julie Stephens, and the Worcester Historical From Kteinv GeiliCicliv Konzertv HeinrU:Ii Scliiitz Museum. Technical information* was gathered by Alan Laufman and Barry U. Watson. Nannette K. Schneidewind typeset the text; Peter John Bailey did much of the proofreading; 0 ) esu, nomm cfutev (1585-1672) Alan Laufman is responsible for the layout. The cover, "Drawn and Pub. by Messrs. 0. H. 0 Sii.sser, o freurniCiclier Bailey & J. C. Hazen, Boston," was made available through the courtesy of the Worcester Historical Museum. Pra.eCw:Cium in G DietrU:Ii BuxteliudV Our thanks go to the clergy, parishioners, and staff, of the churches we are visiting; to our artists and speakers and workshop leaders; to our advertisers; to our exhibitors; to those who have serviced the organs; to Matthew Beach and the staff of Assumption College; to the Suitv in D DietrU:Ii BuxteliudV American Antiquarian Society for making available its resources during this Convention; to our meal providers throughout the week; to our bus drivers; to Lou Bozzone and the staff of Two Pieces Hen12: Puree[[ Commercial Offset Printers, New Windsor, New York; and to all the others whose help in Hy swift, yv liours (1659-1695) many ways, both great and small, has made this Convention a reality. We extend special thanks to the staff of theW orcester Historical Museum, for all their help over several years; to the staff I'IT sai upon tfiu Do9-Sta.r of Trinity Lutheran Church, which has welcomed the Convention Committee, month after Harpsicfwnf: Keith Hi[[ refedt, Gra.ntL Rapids, Mich~a.n, Op. 83, 1979 month, with unfailing hospitality; to Pat Abadjieff, Executive Director of the Worcester Memorial Auditorium, and her staff; to Julie Chase Fuller, Executive Director of Mechanics Hall, her staff, and Richard Jones, Curator of the Hook organ; to Gilbert Lay, Dean of the St. Paul's School Worcester Chapter of the A.G.O., 1980-1982; and, finally, to the George F. and Sybil H. JAMES A WOOD Concord, New Hampshire Fuller Foundation, for a most generous grant enabling us to fund the Festival Concert on Thursday evening. *Ranks of wood are designated by 'w'; those of metal by 'm'. Unusual ranks generally are described; cathedral organist normal ranks ordinarily are not. Short-compass ranks are indicated by 'TC' (tenor C) or 'TG', etc. If 'grooving' (the sharing of bass pipes with another rank) allows a stop to.wund all the way down even though it g. St. )ames Cathedral (R.C.) ~~~~~ 5chumacher runs out of pipes of its own, the indication of short compass will be manifest in the column showing the number of pipes in each stop. The relationship of extension or unit stops will be evident from symbols to the MAKERS OF MECHANICAL ACTION INSTRUMEONTS HOWARD W. HOYT left of stop-names: like symbols mean a single nmk of pipes with sub and super extensions clavierist teacher coach Member AIO and ISO 133 north 78th street 3604 Wa1erf1eld Parkway . Lakeland . Flor1da 33801 Phone [813] 665-4802 seattle, washington 98103

120 17 THE BUILDERS the new St. Mary's Church, the original case For several years prior to installation of the By Alan Laufman augmented with Gothic ornamentation. In Steer & TUrner, St. ~ary's Church had the use 1910, Hook & Hastings rebuilt the organ once of a 1-8 E. & G. G. Hook, Op. 434, 1867. Built again, Op. 2253, replacing the mechanical originally for the Unitarian Church in Ells­ HenryErben action but retaining the slider chests and most worth, Maine, it was purchased through the Henry Erben (10 March 1800-9 May 1884) of the original pipework. It survived in that Organ Clearing House by Louis Curran of apprenticed to Thomas Hall of New York, form untill959, at which time it was removed Worcester, and loaned to St. Mary's Church. It becoming his partner for three years before in favor of an electronic substitute; parts of has since been sold again through the Clearing striking out on his own in 1827. He was one of the casework still exist in the tower, and the House, to St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Meg­ the leading organ builders of the nineteenth chests and pipes (including many from the gett, So. Carolina, and is soon to be installed century, "the standard by which New York 1822 Elliott), are mvned by Robert Allen of there by Mann & 'finpiano of New York City. organ builders measured themselves and each Barre, Mass. other;' in the words of John Ogasapian. His instruments were sought after by the largest and most influential churches in the nation (outside of Massachusetts and northern New England) including Grace, St. Thomas, and 'Iiinity, among 42 Episcopal churches for which he built organs in New York City alone. His firm had built nearly 1,000 organs large and small, all with tracker action, at the time of his death, after which the business was continued STUART ORGAN COMPANY by L. C. Harrison, finally closing down in 1908. Henry Erben 59-71 KAVENEY STREET CHICOPEE, MASSACHUSETTS 01020 413 533-5176 ALEXANDER S. MITCHELL, JR. CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH NEW BERN, N.C. 28560

VERNON DE TAR, SMD FAGO St. Paul's Episcopal Church Organist-Choirmaster Woodville, Mississippi Church of the Ascension, 1939-1981 Faculty, Juilliard, 1947-1982 Built: 1837 Henry Erben Additions: 1887 Pilcher 1982-1983 ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,111111111111111111111111111111 Restored: 1981 Roy Redman Opus 31 Recitals: AMERICAN GUILD OF ORGANISTS West Chester, Pennsylvania Natinn:.li Cunwntion 1~)84 San Fran..::isl·u Lancaster, Pennsylvania Wilmington, Delaware Port-au-Prince, Haiti Ascension, New York City GREETINGS! St. Bartholomew's, New York City Rye Presbyterian, Rye, New York United Meth., Red Bank, New Jersey Open Up That Master Class: Central Ohio AGO Golden Gate . . Seminars: S.E. Pennsylvania AGO California, Peabody Conservatory Here we Come! Guest Organist-Director Bethesda, Maryland 2742 Avenue H ] une 25 - 29, 1984 Member: International Society of Organ Builders Fort Worth, Texas 76105 Kendal at Longwood, #115 Associated Pipe Organ Builders of America Kennett Square, Pennsylvania 19348 Roy Redman, Master Organ Builder, Am. ]n.stitute of Organ Builders Tele. (817) 536-0090 215/388-6358

18 119 St. Mary of the Assumption Church, Milford

Steer & Turner, Westfield, Mass., Op. 71, 1873 Relocated through the Organ Clearing House, Harrisville, N.H. Rebuilt by the Andover Organ Co., Methuen, Mass., 1982 present stoplist Great: 58 notes Swell: 58 notes, enclosed Bourdon 16' 58w Salicional 8' 58m Open Diapason 8' 58m Celeste (TC) 8' 46m Flauto Traverso 8' 58w Stopd Diap. 8' 58w&m Octave 4' 58m Principal (prep) 4' Chimney Flute 4' 58m Flute Ilarmonique 4' 58w&m THE SCHOENSTEIN ORGAN Twelfth 2 2/3' 58m Flautino 2' 58m Fifteenth 2' 58m Sesquialtera II 116m Mixture lll-IV 220m Cymbal ll-Ill 156m Trumpet 8' 58m *Oboe 8' 58m Pedale: 30 notes 1Tumpet (prep) 8' Open Diap. 16' 30w Tiemulo (hitch-down) Built up to an ideal, not Bourdon 16' 30w Couplers: (knohs above Sw. keys) Principal 8' 30m Swell to Great Choralbass 4' 30m Great to Pedale down to a price. Trombone 16' 30m Swell to Pedale Pedal movements: mechanical key and stop action Gr. to Ped. reversible *to become a Bassoon 16' when the Trumpet 8' is imtalled balanced Swell pedal ACCOMPANIMENT AND SUPPORT This elegant organ was built for the South Congregational Church, Pittsfield, Mass., at a of the service are prime requirements. of a cost of $3,500. In 1919, it was moved by Hook good church pipe organ. Our firm, under & Hastings (second-hand #333), to the Bogle Street Christian Church, Fall River, Mass. the artistic direction of fourth and fifth After that church closed, the organ was dis­ mantled in August 1973 by a crew headed by generation organ builders, makes reli­ Alan Laufman, and stored in the Kingston, able, conservative organs which support New York, residence of Robert Guenther, who had purchased the instrument with the inten­ singing with pure and noble tone. tion of presenting it to the Overlook United Methodist Church in Woodstock, New York 1b that end, Mr. Guenther had some prelimi­ nary rebuilding work on the organ performed by the Stuart Organ Co. Inexplicably, the church declined the gift, so the organ was once again offered for sale through the Organ Clearing House, eventually purchased by St. EST. ~877 Mary's Church, and rebuilt by the Andover Organ Company. The original stoplist of the organ may be found in the Boston Organ Club 0BOAN BUILDliiBS Newsletter, No. 89, August-September 1973. 3101 TWENTIETH STREET· TEL. (415) Mission 7-5132 The Pittsfield church replaced the Steer & Turner with a Hook & Hastings in 1919; that, in SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94110 turn, was replaced by a three-manual Estey, Op. 3249, 1957, which retained some of the Hook & Hastings pipes. DEVELOPERS OF THE SCHOENSTEIN ELECTRIC-PNEUMATIC SYSTEM'" The first organ iri St. Mary's Church was a INCORPORATING THE EXPANSION CELL"' WIND CHEST JOHN OGASAPIAN three-manual instrument built in 1822 by Thomas Elliott of London, England, for the University of Lowell Old South Church, Washington Street, Boston, Lowell, Mass. 01854 .Yfass. When that meetinghouse wa8 closed in 1875, the organ (which had been rebuilt by E. & G. G. Hook, Op. 246, 1859) was moved to 118 St:. Mary's Cfiurcfi, MU:fon:L Tfiu.rsdit1: 30 ]u.nv 1983, 11:15 a.m. ]olin Ogasapia.n, o19an

PrefudV arnL fWJUV in G minor, S. 535 ]oliann Selia.ffian Badi (1685-1750) PaM in F -sliarp, Op. 92/3 S~_frUL Kar9-Elert (1877-1933) Sonam II W. EWJenv Tliayer fWJCL - ~io con tenerezza - Variations (1838-1889)

Elias Hook George Hook John Ogasapian holds B.M., and Ph.D. degrees from Boston Uni­ E. & G. G. Hook, and Hook & Hastings versity. He is Professor of Music at the University of Lowell and In 1824, Elias Hook (1805-1881) and George organist/choirmaster of St. Anne's Church in Lowell. He has written Greenleaf Hook (1807-1880), sons of a Salem, numerous articles as well as three books. In addition to his research Massachusetts, cabinetmaker, apprenticed to and teaching, he appears regularly in recital throughout the eastern the famous Boston organbuilder William M. United States. Goodrich. They returned to their home town in 1827 and set up shop there; the young firm of E. & G. G. Hook, rapidly growing, moved to Boston in 1831. During the next 40 years, the factory produced more than 600 instruments, large and small, establishing for the finn a reputation as one of the best in the country, and Antique Organ seriously rivalled in New England during that period only by William B. D. Simmons. Concert Francis H. Hastings (13 July 1836-23 Feb. 1916) started working for the Hook brothers on 1 August 1855, at the age of nineteen. First a Series draughtsman, later a representative, he entered into partnership in 1872 (at which time the Featuring the Oldest, company became E. & G. G. Hook & Hast­ Largest, Three Manual ings; after 1881 it was styled Hook & Hast­ Tracker Organ in lht' ings). His artistic skills and good business [Jnited States judgement assured the firm a period of pros­ perity which extended well into our own cen­ htry. \Vhen the company ceased operations in DETROIT 1936, it had built more than 2,500 instruments. Francis Hastings July 24-August 28 ---- Sundays g,oo P.M. Wm. A Johnson, and Johnson & Son prise of William A.]ohnson, who was horn at Donation $3.00 In 1879, J. D. Van Slyck published a large Nassau, N.Y., Oct. 27, 1816.ln 1825, when he and elegantly-printed two volume work was nine yea-rs old, his pareflts moved to West­ entitled New England Manufacturers and field. He attended school and worked on the Round Lake Auditorium Manufactories, (Boston: Van Slyke & Com­ farm in his boyhood, and, at eighteen, was pany). In April1972, the Boston Organ Club apprenticed to a mason. This tmde he fol­ Round lake, New York Newslette-r, No. 76, E. A. Boadway, Editor, lowed until his twenty-sixth year, when he was reprinted the Van Slyke article on Johnson & att-racted by the structure of a church organ. Exit 11 Route 87 Northway Son: The next winter, having p-rocured some tools and a work-bench, he const-ructed his first Chu-rch Organs have only within a compara­ NIITIONIIL ·CONVENTION For a List of Guest Soloists organ, making eve-ry pa-rt with his own hands. tively brief period become an arlicle of Ameri­ Call51H/8992130 can manufacture. They fi-rst became an impor­ From this beginning gradually grew up his I 9 8 G tant industry at Westfield, Mass., by the enter- present la-rge enterprise. He employed anum- 20 117 ~uwLaufman Mann & Trupiano Organist Organbuilders Parisli Cliurcfi of St. 'Denis 233 Butler Street J1arrisvi£1e, 'J{_ew 'Jfampshire Brooklyn, New York 11217 "E. & Cj. Cj. J1oo(v Op. 153, 1853 'EtCfCutive 1Jirector Organ Cr£aring '}{ouse

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Dana Hull 313/663-2785 ORGAN IHSTORATIONS The Church of Our Saviour 1407 EAST STADIUM BOULEVARD Montpelier, Virginia ANN ARBOR. MICHIGAN 48104 This one-manual and pedal mechanical-action organ of 9 ranks Recently completed: was dedicated with a recital by John Ogasapian on 17 June 1982. Restoration of E. & G. G. Hook Op. 226, 1857, relocated through the Organ Clearing House, for Covenant Presbyterian Church, Rochester, New York.

21 Unitarian-Universalist Parish, Grafton

Built by Henry Erben, New York, 1850 Pedal pipes added by E. & G. G. Hook, Boston, c.l865 Enlarged to two manuals by the Noack Organ Co., Andover, Mass., Op. 43, 1969 present stuplist Manual 1:56 notes, unenclosed Manual II: 56 note~·, unenclosed *Open Diapason (TC) 8' 44m Cedackt 8' 56m *Open Diapason Bass 8' 12m *Flute (chimney) 4' 56m *Dulciana (TC) 8' 44m *Fifteenth 2' 56m *Stop'd Diap. (TC) (chimney) 8' 44w&m *Hautboy (TF) 8' 39m *Stop'd Diap. Bass 8' l2w Pedal: 32 notes *Principal 4' 56m **Dble St'd Pedals 16' 32w&m Flautina (tapered) 2' 56m Sesquialtera (TC) II 88m Couplers: (by hitch-down pedals) Mixture II-III 144m II/I; II/P; I/P

*denotes Erben stopknob and pipe;· Mechanical key and stop action **denotes Hook otopknob and pipes (1-20·, 21-32 arc new)

When the organ was visited by the OHS during the 1968 Convention, it was still a one­ manual and pedal instrument; all manual pipe­ work was enclosed except the Open Diapason Bass. There was a hitch-down Swell pedal, and the pedal keyboard was the original Erben clavier, with 20 Hook pipes (Erben had pro­ vided only a coupler). In the reconstruction by the ~oack Organ Co., all the old pipes were retained. The wind system is modern. The opening recital after the rebuilding was played by Carolyn Curtis. The organ's original home is not known. It came to the Grafton church in 1865, purchased second-hand from E. & C. C. Hook There is some thought that it may have come from St. John's Episcopal Church in Jamaica Plain (Boston); Henry Erben did build an organ for that church, which E. & C. C. Hook replaced with theirOp. 303, 186l,"but theErbenlist (not always accurate) indicates 1837 as the date of the St. John's organ.

JOHN BROCK The University of Tennessee Knoxville

GORDON S. AUCHINCLOSS P.O. Box 5262 Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 12602 Pipe Organ Service (914) 236-7154

115 Unitarian- UniversaLi§£ Parisli Cliurcli, Grafton TliurSM2J 30 Junv 1983, 10:15 rr.m. Lois ~dfein; or.9an

PreLwiv in D minor felix Menddssolin-Brrrtfiofdr (from Op. 37, No.3) (1809-1847) "Twelve" (actuarrr 13) Sliort Pieces SamueL Wesl£r Nos. 4 a.mL 5 (1766-1837) Hutv RondD Jo lirrnn C. H. Rinck ( tliircL movement from rr concerto) (1770-1846) Two cliomlV preLudes Em.!E Pepping GeLo6t sei Gott in fWcli.ffen Tftron (1901-1981) Sollt' icli meinem Gott niclit singen William A. Johnson William H. Johnson Differencills so6rv [CL Prrvrrnrr I mlmoo Antonio dV Ca6'¥n her of operatives, increasing his force as hi.s has himself invented many devices adding to Differencills so6rv [CL Gaiiardi:L MiG:tnesa (1510-1566) business expanded; hut long continued to do the value and excellence of the instrument. his own voicing and tuning, and to retain the Mr. Johnson has taken into partnership his PreLwiv rrmL f U9UV in E minor Nik.oiCLus Brulins personal supervision of his factory. His first son, William H. Johnson, and the firm-style is organ was built in 1844; by 1860 he had com- Johnson & Son. The business has grown to be a. (c1665-1697J pleted ninety-three; five years later the num- large and prosperous one, with every promise Lois Regestein holds degrees from Oberlin College and the Yale her of his organs had reached one hundred and of increased importance in the future. School of Music. She has studied organ with Fenner Douglass, Finn seventy-one; in 1870 his production had in- A few years after this article appeared, Viden'1, Frank Bozyan, Reed Jerome, and Russell Manor, and harpsi­ creased to three hundred and nine; and by Johnson & Son built a new factory in West- chord with Louis Bagger and Helen Keaney. She holds the Associate 1878 this number had grown to over five field, in 1885. By 1890, the younger Johnson degree (A.A.C.O.) of the American Guild of Organists and is pres­ hundred. Mr. Johnson has supplied thirty-one became head of the firm, as his father's health ently Dean-elect of the Boston chapter, A.G.O., and a Councillor of organs to Chicago alone; and his organs are had begun to fail; in 1898, with Op. 860, the the Organ Historical Society. She serves as organist for the First distributed in every part of the country. He has company ceased operations. William A. John- Congregational Church, Winchester, Massachusetts. been quick to adopt late improvements, and son died in 1901; his son died in 1921. Mrs. Regestein has given recitals in the eastern United States and ----- mid-west, and has performed for A.G.O. chapters and for several W. W. Kimball Co. national conventions of the O.H.S. Earlier this month she appeared in Wallace \V. Kimball (1828-1904), a native of recital on the newly-installed Appleton organ at the Metropolitan Rumford, .\1aine, settled in Chicago Illinois, in Museum, New York City. She holds a particular interest in the 19th-century American organ and 1857, as a buyer and seller of pianos. In 1880, has been involved in a number of organ restoration and relocation projects. he started building reed organs (by 1922, when his firm phased out that part of its operation, it had produced 403,390 of them) and branched Lois Regestein Boston, Massachusetts out into piano manufacturing in 1887. In 1890, Recitals 617/739-1340 in association with a young Englishman, Fred­ erick W. Hedgeland, W. W. Kimball Co. intro­ duced a line of portable pipe organs; these cleverly designed instruments were compact, simple to prepare for moving, and fairly easily Carl Fischer of Boston moved. In 1894, the firm commenced building 156 Boylston, Boston 02116 "stationary" organs. By 1942, when the organ Featuring Organ Music of all Publishers factory was closed, W. W. Kimball Co. had Wide Selection of choral music • Sacred and secular for church and school built 7,326 pipe organs, among them some of the largest and most important of their time. Toll Free 800/322·8024 Mass. Notable among these were four-manual instru­ 800/343-7741 Outside Mass. ments for the Cathedral of St. John-in-the­ W. W. Kimball !II Wilderness, Denver, Colorado; the Municipal Distinguished Service in Music Since 1872 Auditorium in Minneapolis; the Municipal cago factory, "Kimball Hall;' was located on Visit our Booth at AGO-OHS Convention 1983 Auditorium in Memphis; First Baptist Church Wabash Avenue, near Jackson Street; the firm in Los Angeles; and a five-manual organ for maintained a New York City office at 665 Fifth the Roxy Theater in New York City. The Chi- Avenue for many years.

114 23 Wm. B. D. Simmons & Co. over to the Hooks (in 1869, he formed his own Grace Episcopal Church, Oxford William Benjamin Dearborn Simmons was company with George S. Hutchings). From hom 27 Aprill823, the son of a wealthy Cam­ 1861 to 1876, VVilliam B. D. Simmons built \Villiam A. Johnson, Westfield, Mass., Op. 223, 1866 bridge grain-merchant. He received a common­ nnder his o·wn name, but his influence declined, Great: 56 notes Swell: 56 notes, enclosed school education and instruction from a pri­ and the size and quantity of the instruments he Open Diapason 8' 56m Bourdon (TF) 16' 39w vate tutor. He apprenticed to E. & G. G. Hook produced diminished accordingly, though their Dulciana (TC) 8' 44m Open Diapason (TF) 8' 39m and then worked for Thomas Appleton before quality was as high as ever. We do not know Clarabella (TC) 8' 44w Salicional (TF) 8' 39m going into business for himself at the age of 22, what caused the breakup with J. II. Willcox, or Stop'd Diap. Bass 8' 12w Stop'd Diapason (TF) 8' 39w in partnership with Thomas Mcintire, a former with his other partners. Wm. B. D. Simmons Principal 4' 56m Stop' d Diap. Bass (lmencl) 8' 17w Appleton workman. In 1851, the partnership was clearly brilliant, imaginative, and force­ Flute (chimney) 4' 56m Principal 4' 39m ended, and Mr. Simmons built independently ful; it is hard to escape the conclusion that he Twelfth 2 2/3' 56m Cambette Bass (unencl) 4' 17m from that date until 1856, when he formed a was also irascible, and perhaps made enemies Fifteenth 2' 56m Cornett Dolce (TF) II-I 7lm rather too easily. Little is known of his personal partnership \Vith George Fisher. That lasted Clarionet 8' 56m Hautboy (TF) 8' 39 Ill little more than a year. In 1858, the famous life; at the time of his death at the age of 53, on Tremolo Boston organist John Henry Willcox (1828- 31 October 1876, he was married, and resided Pedal: 25 notes 16' 1875) became a partner; Simmons & Willcox at 14 Union Park, Boston. Funeral services Double Open Diapason 25w Couplers: built a number of outstanding instruments of were held Friday, 3 November 1876, at the hitch-down Swell pedal Great & Swell Great to Pedals large size. At that time the firm was innovative, Church of the Messiah, Florence Street, Bos­ Bellows Signal even radical, and a formidable rival to E. & G. G. ton; his death went unremarked by any of the Swell to Pedals Hook. In 1861, however, Mr. Willcox went music journals of the time. mechanical key and stop action

form; however, they all rang changes on Mr. Skinner's name: "E. M. Skinner & Co.," "Ernest M. Skinner & Co.," "Skinner Organ Co., Inc.;' VICTORIA SIROTA, D.M.A. and the like. The factory was located in Dor­ Recitals Lectures chester and later in South Boston; for many Concord Academy years, both shops were in operation at the same time. For several years after Skinner bought the burned-out Steere Organ Com­ pany plant in Springfield in 1920, Skinner organs were also built by Steere men in the former Johnson factory in Westfield. Mr. Skinner obtained several important contracts early in his career, and quickly developed a prestigious reputation. In 1931, The Skinner Organ Co., Inc., pur­ chased the pipe organ department of the fa­ i mous AEolian firm, then suffering from a decline in the popularity of "player" organs and the effects of the b>Teat depression. The name was thus changed to the Aeolian-Skinner Organ Company. In 1927, Mr. Skinner had MUSIC AT brought C. Donald Harrison from England to join the firm; the two men eventually came to a CHRIST CHURCH parting of the ways, each having very definite ideas about what constitutes a proper organ. >I< E. M. Skinner As tonal design had been Mr. Skinner's depart­ Samuel Carabetta,lY1 S :\I E. M. Skinner b Co. ment in the first generation, it became Mr. Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. Harrison's domain in the next. In 1933, Mr. Organist and Choirmaster Ernest M. Skinner, (15 January 1866-27 Harrison was appointed Technical Director of The Upjohn-style building, built at a cost of :K ovember 1960) trained by George H. Ryder the company, and by 1935, Mr. Skinner had $20,000, was designed by Alexander R. Estey, The St. Alban's and Canterbury Choirs and George S. Hutchings, was one of Ameri­ severed associations with the Boston firm, to a native of Framingham, and completed in ca's greatest organ mechanics and voicers. In build "authentic" Skinner organs, under the 1864. The organ cost $1,800 and was not 1901, in partnership v.ith James Cole, he estab­ name of The Ernest :\1. Skinner & Son Com­ installed until two years later. The Andover CHRIST CHURCH lished the Skinner & Cole Organ Co., a Boston pany, in the former Methuen Organ Company Organ Co. restored the organ in 1971, with two OF HAMILTON AND WENHAM firm that built and rebuilt organs for two years faCtory which was attached to the present slight alterations: the Flute 4', formerly a TC South Hamilton, before Yir. Cole left to build organs on his own. Methuen Memorial Music Hall. Among the stop of 44 pipes, and the Clarionet, formerly :\.·lassachus~tts From 1903 to 1931, the Skinner firm went organs built there was the huge organ in the Tl<~ 39 pipes, were extended to full compass. through assorted reorganizations and incorpo­ Washington Cathedral, later rebuilt by Aeolian­ Note the double mouths on the (non-speak­ (617)468-4461 ration, so that the nameplates were not uni- Skinner. The Methuen factory burned in 1943. ing!) case pipes.

24 113 Gmcv EpiscopaL Cfiu.rcl1, OAjorcL Tliursdit21 30 Junv 1983, 9:00a.m. Caro~n Da_r Sfre[ton, organ

Tliree Pieces for Or9an William Wafton Marcli - £~1: - Scfucrzetto (6. 1902) Fantasm Wiffin.m ByrcL (1543-1623) A Suitv 6J I tafin.n Dances £[ marcfie;w dV Safuzzo Anonymous (£ar!l16tli century) Tedesca dita fa ProJicin. Marco Faco[i (16tli century) Saftarelio de£ Rv Ananytnous (16Lft century) Cliomfv PrefudV on Vater unser im HimmefreU:Ii Gear9 Bii lim (1661-1733) Capriccio Gear9 Biilim LiecL Louis Viemv (1870-1937) Concerto de£ Sigr: Toma.so Af6inoni Joliann Gottjiie

Carolyn Day Skelton, originally from Omaha, Nebraska, is a grad­ uate of Hastings College, Hastings, Nebraska and T\'ew England Conservatory of -rvhL~ic in Boston. She also completed one year of study at the Academy of Music in Vienna, Austria under a Fulbright Scholarship. Her organ teachers include Warren Scharf, James Tallis, Anton Heiller, Alec Wyton, and Donald Willing. She is presently on the faculty of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts where she is School Organist and Instructor of Organ and Harpsichord.

ROBERT J. LOCKRIDGE RECORDING SERVICES 'R(storers of E[ectro- Pneumatic C(?Jcms

Specialists in ORGAN and CHORAL Recording A.THOMPSON-ALLEN CO. 'New Haven, Connecticut 22 Terry Street 603/889-7128 CURATORS OF ORGANS, YALE UNJYE.RSITY Nashua, N.H. 03060 (after 5PM) 3 2 Years of serv{ce to the X~ of Jnstruments

112 Tfte Catli.ed:m[ CFutrcli of St. PauL, Worcester Tfiursday, 30 June 1983, 9:00a.m. and 10:45 a.m. Tfteotfore Marier: Boycliair Tminit19 Worlisfiop

Musimi examples for this workshop incfuk GlOria in Excefsi.s Deo Am6rosian CFuwt A[[e[niah - Coro Mea Jean Langlais (6. 1907) Jesus Sliepliem, Be Thou Nmr Me J S. Bach (t 1750) Easter Sequence Kenneth Lei9fuon (6. 1929) Boys of tlie Arcfid:iacesan Choir Schoo[ at St. Pon[ Church, Cam6riilije, John Dunn, organ. For biosmpfiirof information, pfease see Pa:Jl'.'i 82 and 83.

Descriptions of the or9ans are on pa:Je.s 76 and 79.

Trinity Lu.tFtemn Cliu.rcli, Worcester Thursday, 30 ]nne 1983, 9:00a.m. and 10:45 a.m. Peter Hart: Voea.[ Procfu.etion Worlisfiop, Part II

Special Pro6lems ofYonng Voices Voice Pro6lems Related to Cham£ Si"9huj Peter Hart's 6iogra.pfiica[ in_fimnatian is on page 70.

PROUDLY ANNOUNCE Triniiy Lu.tFtemn Cliu.rc/1_, Worcester THE FOUNDING OF THE Tliursday1 30 June 1983, 9:00a.m. and 10:45 a.m. Tfte Westfielii Center for Ear~ Key6oarcf Stu.cfies: Worlisfiop

NICHOLAS-BRADFORD Buxtefuute's Organ Worli.s. ORGAN COMPANY, INC. Historim[ perspective for tlie life and works of Buxtehude; a short cle.scriptian of tlie state of organ6niliiing in Buxtehude's time; a study of individual picees- 6oth free. works and chora[ pre[wfe.s-with empfiasis on structure, tempo, Te:Jistra.tion, a.rni app(ica.tion of Baroque perfor­ NEW INSTRUMENTS mance practices (especiaC§lstyCus fantasticus); ll description ofthe sources a.ndeditions. Editions: REBUILDING AND MAINTENANCE Breit/Wl'f or Ka[mus. For 6iogra.phicaJ materiaC pfea.se see P"9e121. SPECIALIZING IN PRESERVING, RESTORING, AND REBUILDING First Unitarian CFlu.rc.Ft, Worcester E.M. SKINNER AND AEOLIAN-SKINNER Thursday, 30 ]nne 1983, 9:00a.m. and 10:45 a.m. ORGANS Janos HoJVath: Kocfa~ Worlisfiop, Part II

Cham[ Reliearsa[ Techniques UtiLizi"9 Specific Picees and Tlieir TechnicaL Musical, and Stylistic BOX 485 Diffkultie.s. WRENTHAM, MA 02093 Usin9 music of different U9es, tfiis session vvi£( 6e a. pmctica[ demonstration of everychy refi.ea.rsa.[ work. and tlie means to achieve tlie 6est performance results. 617/384-7319 Bio9ra.phicaJ infonnation on]anos Ho~<~atft is on page 71.

111 he was named its president. After Mr. Harri­ son's death, JosephS. Whiteford became presi­ dent; when he retired in 1969, Donald Gillett CHARLES M. RUGGLES assumed the office and the firm moved to a PIPE ORGANS large new plant in Randolph, Massachusetts.

24493 BAGLEY ROAD Under the direction of Robert Sipe, the firm OLMSTED FALLS, OHIO 44138 began building tracker-action organ~; unfor­ (21 6) 826-0097 tunately, the move to Randolph had greatly over-strained the company's resources, and the business closed dO\vn in 1974. GREAT Ernest M. Skinner perhaps lived too long, Principal 8' for he saw much of his fine work rebuilt beyond recognition, often by Aeolian-Skinner Rohrflote 8' (which must have been especially bitter for Octave 4' him). G. Donald Harrison delighted in improv­ G. Donald Harrison Octave 2' ing his own work as his ideas ripened. Other George Donald Harrison (21 April1889-14 organbuilders have not been shy about making Mixture II-IV June 1956) was trained as a Patent Agent, and changes of their own. The net result is that Trumpet 8' did some work as a Patent Attorney for Henry there are very few intact E. M. Skinner or Willis & Sons in London, in 1914. After the C. Donald Harrison organs still in existence. First World War, he studied voicing with The remaining work of these two giants of BRUSTWERK Henry Willis, in due course becoming a direc­ American organbuilding should be carefully Gedackt 8' tor of the Willis firm. His tenure with the treasured, and changes not made lightly, lest Flute 4' Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. did nothing to we "find too late;· in the words of James diminish the reputation of the company as Boeringer, ''that we have been snobs and Nazard 2 2/3' "The Cadillac of Organ Builders;' and in1940 fools;' when we have nothing left to treasure. Gems horn 2' Tierce 1 3/5' Larigot 1 1 /3' Cymbal II Regal 8'

PEDAL Subbass 16' Octave 8' (1-10 Gr.) Trumpet 8' (Gr.)

Tremulant {entire organ)

COUPLERS J. W. Steere Geo. Wm. Turner Great to Pedal Steere & Turner Brustwerk to Pedal John Wesley Steer (10 April1824-ll Decem­ 1880 to 1891 the nameplates read Steere & ber 1900), a native of Southwick, Massachu­ Turner. In1890, George W. Turner dropped out Brustwerk to G real setts, and employed by William A. Johnson of of the company; from 1891 to 1894, the com­ Westfield, Massachusetts, began building pany name was]. W. Steere & Sons, the sons Mechanical Key and organs on his own in 1866. The next year he being JohnS. and FrankJ.; the latter leaving in was joined by George William Turner (24 Feb­ 1894, the name became f. W. Steere & Son, Stop Action ruary 1829-10 August 1908), a native of Ded­ and, from 1901 to 1919, the f. W. Steere & Son ham, Massachusetts, and also a Johnson em­ Organ Company. The large Springfield fac~ Op. 8, 1982 ployee. The firm of Steer & Turner produced tory of The Steere Organ Company (as the St. Andrew's United Presbyterian Church many excellent instruments in their Westfield firm was styled in 1919and 1920) burned on 17 plant until moving to Springfield, Massachu­ February 1920; the firm was bought out by Olmsted Falls, Ohio setts, in 1879. The Springfield city directory Ernest M. Skinner and the works removed to Under construction: 12 stops for Birmingham United Methodist Church, Birmingham, Ohio; for 1879-80 indicates a large plant on Lyman Westfield, where operations ceased four years and a Medieval Portative Organ for Ganassi Early Music Ensemble of Cleveland, Ohio. Street and gives the firm name as "Steer & later. Between 1866 and 1900 the firm built Turner." The 1880~81 directory shows that more than 475 pipe organs, among them some Steer had altered his name to Steere, and from of the finest instruments of the period.

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Specification: Lower Manual 8' Stopped Diapason 4' Principal 2' Octave Ill Mixture Upper Manual 8' Open Flute 8' Regal Pedal f>ho/0 by W. ·r Vaul'elt 16' Stopped Bass 8' 0 pen Bass (from 1875 Geo. Jardine & Son 2-26 Upper Manual) Saint Paul's Episcopal Church Couplers New Haven, Connecticut Upper/Lower This organ wJ.S reportedly built for the 1876 Centennial Exposition, Phila­ Upper/Pedal delphia, Pennsylvania and subsequently installed in the First Congrega · tiona! Church, Ironton, Ohio. It was purchased in 1978 by St. Paul's Church, Lower/Pedal through the Organ Clearing House, and the first stage of restoration and installation was completed by Brunner & Heller in 1982. it was moved to its present location, and in Bjbliography 1954 the Processional Organ was placed in the Books former console chamber. Most of the other changes and refinements made over the years Barnes, WHHam H., and Gammons, Edward B. Tu;o Gruenstein, S. E., Editor. "G. Donald Harrison Dies Centuries of American Organ Building "From of Heart Attack" The Diapason 47:8 (July 1956): l. are spelled out in detail in an article about the Tracker to Tracker." Glen Rock, N.J.: J. Fischer & Snyder, David. "An Early Kimball Organ in Buffalo." organ, by Edward B. Gammons, in The Organ Bro., 1970. THE TRACKER 24:2 (\Vinter 1980): 12. Institute Quarterly, Vol. 7 No. 1, Spring 1957, Ochse, Orpha. The History of the Organ in the For information on contemporary builders, please from which much of the material presented United States. Bloomington & London: Indiana Uni­ consult the Barnes/Gammons and Ochse books ref­ here is quoted or adapted. versity Press, 1975. erenced above, or: The Bombarde 8' was the gift of Dr. and Ogasapian, John. Organ Building in New York City: Laufman, Alan. "The Builders." OHS 1982 (27th Mrs. William H. Barnes; Dan Angerstein sub­ 1700-1900. Brajntree, Mass.: The Organ Literature Annual Convention Hundhook). Richmond, Vir­ sequently revoiced it and mounted it horizon­ Foundation, 1977. ginia: The Organ Historical Society, Inc. 1982. tally over the Great. The Positif stops "are Owen, Barbara. The Organ in Neu; England. Raleigh: Pape, Uwe, Editor. The Tracker Organ Revival in based on those represented in Praetorius, 1609 The Sunbury Pres~, 1979. America. Berlin, Pape Verlag, n.d. Syntagma Musicum." In 1981, the finn of Articles Kinzey-Angerstein, Wrentham, Mass., rebuilt Boadway, E. A., "Steer & Turner-The Westfield the console and installed all solid-state combi­ Years, 1867-1880." The Boston Organ Club News­ nation and switching action. The Great and letter 5:8 (August 1969): 3. Positif were revoiced by that firm, but "pre­ Boadway, E. A., Editor. "Opus List of Steere & In Fond Memory serving the style of Harrison;· according to Turner & J. W. Steere." Privately printed, 1966. Dan Angerstein. The Processional Organ, Boadway, E. A. Editor. "The Skinner and Aeolian­ E. Power Biggs which seems to have been added to the Hutch­ Sldnner Opus List." The Boston Organ Club News­ ings organ in 1915 by Fred Flaherty (a Hutch­ letter 8:6 (July and August 1972): 2. ings man who by 1915 was associated with It~.~~!:" James Cole), has apparently been relocated 414 781-8844 more than once, and in 19.57 had a Salicional8', The E. Power Biggs Fellowship of the Organ Historical Society T racker and Electric Holzflote 8', Prestant 4', and Doublette 2'. The E. Power Biggs Fellowship was established by the Organ Historical Society in l978.lt Present plans call for the three blank Proces­ Slider Chest Organs assists deserving applicants who do not have the means to afford the cost of attending an OHS sional knobs to control a PrincipalS', Fifteenth inquiries welcome Convention. It is intended to increase awareness of the purposes of the Society, and to 2', and Regal8'. encourage recipients in their pursuit of a career involving historic American organs, whether it be as a musician or as an organbuilder. The Fellowship is funded by contributions. For further information, please contact: Julie Stephens, Chairman, Biggs Fellowship Committee, 520 West 47th St., Western Springs, Illinois 60558.

Dr. Marilyn Stulken Biggs Fellows, 1983 Cynthia Rose Day, a native of I\'ew Baltimore, Michigan, first became interested in Trinity Lutheran Church nineteenth century American organbuilding through her exposure to the fine 3-41, 1861 Kenosha, Wisconsin E. & G. G. Hook organ in Holy Cross Church, Marine City. She has substituted there many times as organist and recently participated in a group organ recital on that instrument. Miss Hymn Festivals Day is currently a junior organ major at the University of Michigan in the studio of James Recitals Workshops Kibbie. Other teachers have included D. Frederic DeHaven, William Porter, and Thomas Kuras. Besides her organ performance studies, Miss Day has been involved in organ main­ tenance and repair, working for Dave Wigton of Detroit. Kathy Edge, a native of Victoria, B.C., holds degrees from the University of Victoria and Toronto Conservatory. She is on the executive hoard of the Victoria Centre of the Royal Canadian College of Organists. She has produced a paper and slide presentation based on he~ THE McNEELY ORGAN COMPANY MAAS-ROWE research of historic churches and organs in Birtish Columbia, and has demonstrated some of the historic organs on Victoria Island . ORGAN BUILDERS Baxter Jennings is the music director of Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church in Danville, Carillons.. Virginia, where he plays an 1878 Wm. B. D. Simmons. He is graduating from James Madison University this year. His organ studies have been with Dr. LouMize and Earl Miller. He served 24 JORDAN COVE ROAD- WATERFORD, CT. 06385 for four years as associate and summer organist at Epiphany Church in Danville, Virginia, and Recent projects include: has played several recitals there. St. Mary Church, Spencer, Mass. John Panning lives in Mequon, Wisconsin, and is apprenticing with the Hammes-Foxe Organ Company. He is organist at Redeemer Lutheran Church, Cedarburg, Wisconsin. An St. Mark Church, Norwich, Conn. active member of the Chicago-Midwest Chapter of the Organ Historical Society, he has done Congregational Church, Centre Harbour, N.H. extensive research into organs in Wisconsin, and ha~ had articles published in both the Grace Church, Newington, Conn. Chicago-Midwest and St. Louis Chapter newsletters.

108 29 First Unitarian Cliurcfi, Worcester Couplers: (by tablets) Great to Pedal Saturday, 25 June 1983, 10:30 a.m. · 3:30p.m. Swell to Pedal 8', 4' Choir to Pedal 8', 4' Rf9ion I Semijina.fs of tlie N ationa.[ Open Positif to Pedal Swell to Great 16', 8', 4' Competition in Or9an Pfayir19 Choir to Great 16', 8', 4' Caro[yn Ske[ton, Emest May, VVi[Ciam Self, Jtuf9es Swell to Choir 16', 8', 4' Positif to Great 16', 8' Swell 16', 4' Choir 16', 4' Couplers: (by drawknobs) First Unitarian Church, Worcester Process. to Pedal Positiv Unison Off Swell Unison Off Choir Unison Off AEolian-Skinner Organ Co., Boston, Mass., Op. 1433, 1964 Reversibles: (by thumb pistons dupl. by toe Great: 61 notes, manual II Swell: 61 notes, enclosed, manual Ill studs) Gemshorn 16' 6lm Rohr Bass (ext) 16' 12w Sw. to Ped. Sw. to Gr. Principal 8' 6lm Principal 8' 61 m Gr. to Ped. Pas. to Gr. Bourdon 8' 6lm RohrflOte 8' 61 m Ch. to Ped. Sw. to Ch. Gemshorn (ext) 8' 12m Spitzviol 8' 6lm Sforz (with indicator light) Octave 4' 61 m Viol Celeste 8' 6lm Con Basse 32 Flute Harmonique 4' 61 m Flauto Dolce 8' 6lm Reeds Silent (with indicator light) Fifteenth 2' 6lm Flute Celeste (TC) 8' 49m Mixtures Silent (with indicator light) Fourniture IV 244m Prestant 4' 61 m Positif to Ped. (toe stud only) Cymbel III 183m Flute Ouverte 4' 61 m Combinations: (by thumb pistons) *Major Trumpet (Pos) 8' Octavin '11 6lm *Major Clarion (Pos) 4' Plein Jeu IV 244m Generall-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 Setter III 1-2-3-4·5·6-7·8·0 Cancel Positiv: 56 notes, manual IV Fagott 16' 6lm Trompette II 1-2-3-45·6·7·8·0 Cancel Pommer Gedeckt 8' 56w 8' 6lm Fagott (ext) 8' 12m I 1-2-3-4-5·6-7 ·S.O Geigen Principal 4' 56m Pedall-2-3·4·5·6-7-S.O B. Gammons. Organist-Choirmaster at Groton KoppelflOte 4' 56m Voix Humaine 8' 6lm Clarion 4' 6lm Combinations: (by toe studs) School from 1941 to 1974, Mr. Gammons spent HellflOte '11 56m "many happy hours with M,r. Harrison plan­ Larigot 11/3' 56m Tremulant Great 6 Gen. 1·2·3·4-5-6-7-8 ning details of this organ, though at that time Zimbel III 168m Pedal: 32 notes Swell6 Choir 6 Fed. 1·2-3-4·5·6·7-8 he was not the organist," and the two men Trernulant Resultant (Prine & Bour) 3'11 worked together in subsequent years as "many *Major Trumpet 8' 6lm Bourdon (ext) Mechanicals: minor alterations" were made. *Major Clarion (ext) 4' 12m (low 2 resultant) 3'11 lOw balanced Choir expression pedal "As truly representative of the work of G. *Enclosed in Choir box-not affected by coupler.< Principal 16' 32m balanced Swell expression pedal Donald Harrison as any other organ built by Bourdon 16' 32w balanced Proc. expression pedal Choir: 61 notes, enclosed, manual I Aeolian-Skinner," this organ ". .shows his Gemshorn (Gr.) 16' Cres. (with indicator light) ideas and ideals in a very special manner." It Cor de Nuit 8' 6lm Rohr Bass (Sw.) 16' Proc.·Off Man II, On Man I (tablet) was '"the first in which Mr. Harrison's com­ Viola Pomposa 8' 6lm Octave 8' 32m pletely distinctive style came to the fore, and Viola Celeste 8' 61 m Electro-pneumatic key and stop action; solid- Gemshom (Gr.) 8' here, he built his first Positiv division:' It SpitzflOte 4' 6lm state combination and switching action. Bourdon (ext) 8' 12w "probably demonstrates Mr. Harrison's con­ Rohr Nasat 2 2/3' 61 m RohrflOte (Sw.) 8' The magnificent building, the gift of Wil­ ception of a true church organ in practice:' He BlockflOte '11 6lm Quint 51/3' 32m liam Amory Gardner, was designed by Henry "planned an organ based on the principles of Tierce 13/5' 61 m Choral Bass 4' 32m Vaughan of New York, and built in 1899. The the past, but with a mind fully open to the Mixtur III 183m Gemshorn (Gr.) 4' first organ was built by GeorgeS. Hutchings of contributions and needs contemporary and Cromome 8' 61 m Rohrflote (Sw.) 4' Boston, a three-manual electric-action instru­ individual, yet admirably adapted to the build­ Rohr Schalmei 4' 6lm Gemshorn (Gr.) 2 ment of 1900. Its feeders were operated by a ing and the uses of the school. It is a source of Tremulant Mixhrr III 96m water motor, and dry-cell batteries supplied pride to the school that this organ remained Kontra Fagott (Sw.) (ext) 3'11 12m electricity for the key action. When it was one of Mr. Harrison's favorites. In many letters Bombarde 16' 32m replaced with the present instrument in 1935, he stated that though he might build larger, Fagott (Sw.) 16' the splendidly carved case, the work of Irving more brilliant or spectacular instruments, that Best Wishes for a Great Convention 11-ompette (ext) 8' 12m and Casson Of Boston, was retained, as was in the Groton School chapel would always Cromorne (Ch.) 8' some of the Hutchings pipework. stand as one of the finest of his works and THE WATERBURY CHAPTER Fagott (Sw.) 8' The present instrument, a memorial to Sher­ perhaps as the one most characteristic of his CONNECTICUT Clairon (ext) 4' 12m rard Billings, senior master at the school for ideals:' Fagott (Sw.) 4' fifty years, is the result of years of collabora­ The console was originally installed in a Cromome (Ch.) '11 tion between. G. Donald Harrison and Edward small chamber at the base of the organ; in 1948,

30 107 St. John's Chapel, Groton School, Groton Couplers: Combinations: (by thumb pistons) Great 8' to Ped. Great 1-8 Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Boston, Mass., Op. 936, 1935 Swell 8', 4' to Ped. Swell1-8, cancel Designed by G. Donald Harrison; altered by G.D.H. and Edward B. Gammons Choir 8', 4' to Ped. Choir 1-6, cancel present stoplist Pos. 8' to Ped. Positiv 1-5, cancel Swell16', 8', 4' to Great Pedal 1-8, cancel ( dupl. by toe studs) Great: 61 notes, manual II Swell: 61 notes, enclosed, manual III Choir 16', 8', 4' to Great Couplers 1-5, cancel Sub Principal 16' 6lm Flute Conique (tapered) 16' 61m Positiv 8' to Great General1-10 (dupl. by toe studs) Principal 8' 6lm Geigen 8' 73m Swell16', 8' Off, 4' to Swell General Cancel Diapason 8' 6lm Viole de Gamba 8' 73m Positiv 8' to Swell Ped. Comb. to Great, On/Off Gemshorn (tapered) 8' 6lm Viole Celeste 8' 73m Swell16', 8', 4' to Choir Reversibles: (by thumb pistons) Rohr Bordun 8' 6lm Flute Conique (ext) 8' 12m Choir 16', 8' Off, 4' to Choir Grosse Quinte 51/3' 6lm Flute Celeste (TC) 8' 6lm Positiv 8' to Choir Great to Peda~ Principal 4' 6lm Gedeckt 8' 73w&m Swell to Pedal dupl by toe studs Octave 4' 6lm Octave Geigen 4' 73m Pedal Movements: Choir to Pedal · Flute Couverte 4' 6lm Fugara 4' 73m Swell Expression Pedal Positiv to Ped Quinte 22/3' 6lm Flute Octaviante (harm.) 4' 73m Choir Expression Pedal Swell to Great Super Octave 2' 61m Nasard (capped) 2 2/3' 61m Crescendo Pedal Choir to Great BlockflOte (tapered) 2' 61m Flageolet 2' 61m Electro-pneumatic action throughout Positiv to Great Fourniture IV 244m Tierce (tapered) 13/5' 61m Full Organ (dupl. by toe stud) Scharf III I83 m Mixture III 183m Sesquialtera IV 244m Plein Jeu IV 244m Bombarde (horizontal) 8' 73m Bombarde 16' 73m The First Unitarian Church in Worcester Trompette 8' 73m was founded in 1785; the present church build­ Processional: 61 notes, enclosed, manual II ing, the fourth meetinghouse, is a replica of the Holz Gedeckt 8' 61 w Hautbois 8' 73m Vox Humana 8' 61m third, and includes some parts of that building, Octave 4' 61 m which was dedicated 26 March 1851. blank Clairon 4' 73m Tremulant The first organ of which we have any record blank is a large two-manual E. & G. G. Hook, Op. blank Pedal: 32 notes 184, 1855. When it was replaced in 1901, J. W. Positif: 61 notes, manual I Contrebasse (open) 32' 32w Steere & Son allowed $800 for it, sold it for the Lieblich Gedeckt 8' 61w&m Principal 16' 32m same amount to Trinity Methodist Church, and Principal 4' 61m Contrebasse (ext) 16' 12w&m charged another $1,000 for setting it up. The KoppelflOte 4' 61m Bourdon 16' 32w 3-38 Steere which took its place cost $5,350, Nasard (tapered) 2 2/3' 61 m Quintaton (Choir) 16' but did not last long; Casavant Freres installed Principal 2' 6I m Flute Conique (Swell) 16' their Op. 934 in 1922, a four-manual instru­ Tierce (tapered) 13/5' 61 m Grosse quint (tapered) 10 2/3' 32m ment. The building was virtually destroyed in Larigot 11/3' 61 m Octave 8' 32m the New England Hurricane of 21 September Cymbel IV 244m Flute Ouverte (A) 8' 32w 1938, when the steeple cra<;hed through the Cello (ext) 8' 12m roof, smashing the cross beams and demolish­ Choir: 61 notes, enclosed, manual II Gedeckt (Swell) 8' Quintaton (capped) 16' 73 w&m ing the center structure. The organ escaped Quinte (tapered) 51/3' 32m serious damage, but was replaced with the Viola 8' 73 m Super Octave 4' 32m Dulciana 8' 73 m present organ in 1964. Designed by Joseph HolhflOte 4' 32m Whiteford and John J. Tyrell of Aeolian­ M.D., chairman of the organ committee, the Unda Maris (TC) 8' 61 m Klein Gedeckt (Swell) 4' Orchestral Flute 8' 73 w&m Skinner, in conjunction with Dr. John R. King, instrument was finished tonally by Donald Gil­ WaldflOte 2' 32m organist of the church, and Robert E. Bennett lett and Barry Watson. N achthorn 4' 73 m Mixture (17-19-22) III 96m ZauberflOte (capped) 2' 61 m Fourniture III 96m English Horn 8' 73 m Dream (just that) 32' Trompette Harmonique 8' 73 m Bombarde 16' 32m Bombarde (Great) 8' English Horn (Choir) 16' Clarinet 8' 73 m 'frompette 8' 32m Rohr Schalmei 4' 61 m Clair on 4' 32m Greetings from the Tremulant

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104 Groton Scfioo[, Groton First Baptist Cfiurcfi, Worcester WeanRSdity, 29 June 1983, 6:15p.m.

Sunda.y1 Z6 june 1983, 5:00p.m. Cfiange Ringing, Mvent Guilii of Be[ringer.;, EvellSong, Fitst Baptist Cfiance[ Clioir Ge1fn'y Davies, Ringing Master Barclay Wood, 019anist and Cfiainnaster Toctay's pro_gram incLudes the sourui of Pfa.in Bob1 GmndSire,. and CambJid9e. The tower -wi1I be open 6eforelimu[ for a preliminary dinw11.Stmtion of cfiange ringing. First Baptist Church, Worcester Cfiange ringing is a siXteenth-century art fonn tfiat jO[fowea tfte discovery of tne fu1I 6e[[ wfieef. Onl); twen9'towers in Nort.hAmerica. have tower be[(s fiu.n_gfor cfia119e ri119ing> but interest is mpid{Y Reuter Organ Co., Lawrence, Kansas, Op. 1378, 1962 increa.sing, largefy 6ecau.se of tfte efforts oftne400-memlier NortliAmerican GuiUof CfiangeRingers. Tonal Revisions, Theodore Gilbert, Wilbraham, Ylass., ongoing The Advent Guild:' s home toweri..~ the Cfiurcfi ofthe.Advent, Boston, whose e~Ft.t beff.s Mtefrom 1900 present stoplist an.£ were c.ompCeteLy restored in 1976. Great: 61 notes, manual II Positiv: 61 notes, manual I Groton's first ei91it 6e[~ were i11.Stcl!ed in 1900. Tfte wfwfe ring wa.s rwtSt into ten 6e[~ ami Quinta de 16' 61m :">Jason Gedeckt 8' 61 w instcl!ed in a new steef frame 6y Wliitecfiape[ Be[[ Fournfry, LondOn, in 1962. Tfte large.st of tfte ten Prinzipal 8' 61m Prinzipal 4' 61m 6ef~, in F, wei9 fLs 2036 ffis. Holzgedeckt 8' 6lw KoppelflOte 4' 61m Oktav 4' 61m Oktav 2' 61m SpillflOte 4' 61 rn Quinte 11/3' 61m Superoktav 2' 61m Weitprinzipal I' 61m Mhtm (1 1/3') IV 244m Sesquialtera (2 2/3) II 122m KENNETH GRINNELL Schmcff (1/2') III 183m Zimbel (2/3') IV 244m Helle 'llompete 8' 61m Krummhorn 8' 61 rn M.S.M., F.AG.O., Ch.M. Chimes Tremulant The First Congregational Church, U.C.C. Swell: 61 notes, enclosed, manual III Zimbelstern Manchester, N.H. FlUte a Cheminee 8' 61m Fanfare: 61 notes, manual IV Viole Principale 8' 61m Cornet (prepared) v Voix celeste (TC) 8' 49m Bombarde-en-Chamade 16' 6Im FlUte Douce 8' 6Im Trompette-en-Chamade 8' 61m FlUte celeste (TC) 8' 49m Clairon-en-Chamade 4' 6Im Prestant 4' 61m Pedal: 32 notes FlUte Ouverte 4' 61m Untersatz (ext) 32' 12w Nasard 2 2/3' 61m Prinzipal 16' 32m FlUte a Bee 2' 6Im Subbass 16' 32w Immanuel Lutheran Church Tierce I 3/5' 6Im Gemshorn (Z w.) 16' Valparaiso, Indiana Fourniture (2') III-V 269m Grossquinte (Subbass) 10 2/3' William Beerman Fagot 16' 61 m Oktavbass 8' 32m Director of Music/Organist Trompette 8' 61m Bourdon (Subbass) 8' 12w&m Fagot (ext) 8' 12m Gemshorn (Zw.) 8' Voix Humaine 8' 61 rn Quinte (Subbass) 5 1/3' Clairon 4' 6Im Choralbass 4' 32m Tremblant Gedeckt (Subbass) 4' 12m Zartwerk: 61 notes, enclosed, manual I HohlflOte 2' 32m Gemshorn (ext) 16' 12m Rauschfeife (2 2/3') IV 128m Geige 8' 61m Hohe Mixtur (1/2') Ill 96m Geige Celeste 8' 61 rn Contre Bombarde (ext) 32' 12m Singendgedeckt 8' 61 m Bombarde 16' 32m Gemshorn 8' 6Im Fagot (Sw.) 16' STEINER-RECK Gemshorn Celeste (TC) 8' 49m Rankett (Z w.) 16' Incorporated SpitzflOte 4' 61 m Trompete (Gr.) 16' Gemshorn Celeste II (ext) 4' 24m Trompette (ext) 8' 12m ORCANBUILDERS Schwiegel 2' 61m Trompete (Gr.) 8' 1138 Carvin Place, P.O. Box 89.5 Mhtur (11/3') III 183m Fagot (Sw.) 8' Rankett 16' 61 m Regal (Zw.) 8' Regal 8' 6Im Clairon (ext) 4' 12m Louisville, Kentucky 40201 Tremulant Regal (Zw.) 4' Regal (Zw.) 2' Phone (502) 583-5032 Chimes (Gr.)

34 103 Couplers: (by tablets or drawknobs) Great 8 to Pedal Swell 8, 4 to Pedal Zartwerk 8, 4 to Pedal Positiv 8 to Pedal Fanfare 8 to Pedal Great 16, 8 off, 4 to Great Swelll6, 8, 4 to Great Zartwerk 16, 8, 4 to Great Positiv 16, 8 to Great Fanfare 8, 4 to Great Swell 16, 8 off, 4 to Swell Zartwerk 8 to Swell Great 8 to Zartwerk Swell 8, .4 to Zartwerk Zartwerk 16, 8 off, 4 to Zartwerk Fanfare 8 to Zartwerk The First Baptist Church, formed in 1812, Great 16, 8, 4 to Fanfare met from 1813 to 1902 in two different build­ Swell 8 to Fanfare Zartwerk 8 to Fanfare ings at Salem Square. It fostered two daughter Positiv 8 to Fanfare churches: Second Baptist (later known as Plea­ Fanfare 16, 8 off, 4 to Fanfare sant Street Baptist), and Third Baptist (later known as Main Street Baptist), and several Combinations (by thumb pistons) mission churches. In 1902, the Salem Square Great 1-7 (#1, 3, 5, 7 dupl. by toe studs) Baptist Church and the Main Street Baptist Swelll-8 (#1, 3, 5, 7 dupl. by toe studs) Church reunited to build a new First Baptist Zartwerk l-7 Church on Main Street at Ionic Avenue, dedi­ Positiv 1-5 cated in 1907. That building burned on Satur­ Fanfare 1-4 day 31 July 1937 after being struck by light­ Pedall-8 (toe studs only) ning; the present Colonial style structure is Couplers 1-4 built on land purchased from Aldus Chapin Generall-10 (dupl. by toe studs) Higgins, who specified that the church should General Cancel not have a bell (his house was nearby; perhaps Piston Setter he liked to sleep late). Designed by Allen, Reversibles (by thumb pistons) Callens & Willis (later Callens, Willis & G,eat to Pedal } Beckonert) of Boston (the architects of River­ Swell to Pedal side Church in New York City), the building Zartwerk to Pedal ( dupl. by toe studs) was dedicatd 24 September 1939. The bricks Positiv to Pedal are from an old mill building in Lowell. Fanfare to Pedal The Salem Square Church had a two-manual Swell to Great Baumgarten organ, built in New Haven and Positiv to Great dedicated 5 May 1868 with a recital played by Swell to Zartwerk Eugene Thayer. The Worce:,der Home Journal Reeds Off ( dupl. by toe stud) of 15 November 1884 characterized it as being Zimbelstern "of limited power;' and continued, "It cannot Untersatz 32' be regarded in any sense whatever as a fine Full Ensembles ( dupl. by toe stud) organ. It lacks solidity of tone. In the M echanicals accompanying of the Congregational tunes it Pedal Combinations (1-7) to Great On/Off was wholly incap:ible of giving sufficient sup­ Pedal Combinations (1-8) to Swell On/Off port ..." 0, poor Mr. Baumgarten! The Jour­ Pedal Combinations (1-7) to Zartwerk On/Off nal's "Wandering Critic" went on, ''A cheap, Pedal Combinations (1-4) to Fanfare On/Off poorly built organ, is a costly affair, and more than one church can testify to this truth. The Zartwerk-Both-Positiv to Manual I only safe way for every church who contem­ Great and Zartwerk/Positiv 11-ansfer plates a new organ is, to have the specification (exchanges the two lower manuals, including made by some good organist, and then select MEYER pistons and couplers) some reliable builder of worthily earned Swell Expre~·sion Pedal repute, who will not degrade himself and his Zartwerk Expression Pedal art by cheap work. It is mistaken economy to HARPSICHORDS Crescendo Pedal invite different organ builders to give in their

101 North Union Street • Alexandria, Virginia 22314 • (703) 548-1198 35 Saint Mark's Church, Leominster

E. & C. G. Hook, Boston, Op. 445, 1868 J,CTAYLOJR present stoplist Great: 58 notes Swell: 58 notes, enclosed OJRGANJBUJILJDJEJR Bourdon 16' 58w Open Diapason 8' 58m Open Diapason 8' 58m Aeoline 8' 58m 602 NORTH STATE STREET Dulciana 8' 58m St. Diap. Treble (TC) 8' 46w&m APPLETON, WISCONSIN 54911 :Ylelodia (TC) 8' 46w St. Diap. Bass 8' 12w 414-731-8229 St. Diap. Bass 8' 12w Flute Harmonique 4' 58m Octave 4' 58m Flageolet 2' 58m Flute Traverso 4' 58w&m Oboe (TC) 8' 46m Fifteenth 2' 58m Bassoon 8' 12m 2 Rank Mixture II 116m Tremulant Trumpet 8' 58m Couplers: \ J Pedal: 27 notes Swell to Great ~ Bourdon 16' 27w Swell to Great 4' (h. d. pedal) v ~~~;;:; Flote 8' 27w Swell to Pedal ~~ ~9 Pedal Movements: Great to Pedal r~I . 2 unlabelled single-acting pedals Bellows Signal I I ' I piano and forte mechanical stop and key action I balanced Swell pedal ill The frame building, the gift of Minerva I ~ Cushing Crocker, a wealthy widow and a pari­ shioner of Christ Church in Fitchburg, was Q , Q I built to the designs of Miss Josephine Wright Chapman, of Boston, and first used 23 Decem­ I Ill\ II \ I ber 1900. The organ, built for Christ Church in Q~ ~ ~Q 1868, had been the gift of Mrs. Crocker's hus­ ljljll'1 II 1 / 1J I GQ G I 1[11 , :I I I II Jll band, Congressman Alvah Crocker. \Vhen 1 Geo. S. Hutchings of Boston built a larger \; II 11\1 II ! \I'll J11''11 I 1,/1 'II II I organ for Christ Church (Op. 450, 1899), Mrs. Crocker bought the Hook organ and donated it to Saint Mark's Church. In addition to the 0 ~ ~ organ and church building, Mrs. Crocker also 0 gave the rectory to the new parish. 0 !];\"] 0 The Hook organ was renovated in 1964 by 0 ~I O' the Andover Organ Co., Methuen, Mass. At 0 0 that time, along with a mechanical overhaul, the organ received two tonal alterations. (The Great Bourdon 16' was softened somewhat, I and its cut-ups lowered; the Swell Flageolet 2' replaced the original Violina 4'.) At about the replaced with sound-transparent cloth. The same time, a flat of dummy pipes in the original reservoir is still in use, but is now chamber arch facing into the church, was single-fold instead of double-fold.

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101 lowest prices, the way contractors of buildings St:'. Ma&'s Episcopa[ Churd1, LeominSter are in the habit of doing, and which prevails so commonly among organ committees. Organs Wed"nesdi:tl) 29 Junv 1983, 4:45p.m. built at competitive prices are always worth­ PIPE ORGAN less, invariably out of order, and a constant Cynthia Rosu Da_r aruL Brian Franck, organ annoyance to the organist, and every one SERVICE concerned:' Eugenu Gigout: Second Baptist Church had a two-manual of Prefudv et' Fuguu en Mi E. & G. G. Hook, Op. 131, 1852, succeeded in Cynthia Rosu Dctl) or9ctn (1844-1925) their present building by a two-manual Ceo. CENTRAL MAINE H. Ryder, Op. 163, c1892, which stili exists, no E.T. Mickey, Ill, AIO Member Sonctta in A minor, Op. 98, No. 4 ] osef Rftein6erger longer a tracker organ, however. Third Baptist (1839-1901) Rt. !, Box 2670, Hartland, Maine 04943 Tempo modemto Church used a large two-manual 1855 E. L. 207/474-2473 I nteT111£ZZO: Andi:tntino Holbrook with a projecting keydesk, tmusual for the time, in their Main Street building, until Cftromcttic Fugue: Tempo modemto they installed a two-manual Austin, Op. 21, Mo[to modemto 1899; that was left behind when the reunited Brian Fmnck, or9ctn First Baptist Church moved to Ionic Avenue and the old Third Baptist building was pur~ IntrocCuctian un!L Fugue, cC-Mo[~ Op. 62 Fmnz Lctcliner chased by the First Presbyterian Church. (The (1803-1890) 1899 Austin was eventually replaced with for or9an jOur handS another Austin, Op. 2069, c.1940, which is now Cyntftia Rosu Dar amL Brian Fmnck, or9an for sale, the Presbyterians having moved to a new church elsewhere in town, with a small Biographical information on Cynthia Rose Day will be found on page two-manual tracker organ supplied by the Organ Clearing House.) The old Salem square Baptist building was purchased by Notre Dame Brian Franck, a native of Maine, served as chairman of the OHS Church after 1902; if they did not retain the 1981 convention in Downcast Maine. He is a graduate of both Sher­ Baumgarten organ they may have brought wood School of Music and Korth western University. He is presently with them the organ from their former build­ pursuing a DMA degree in organ performance at the University of ing, a two-manual Steer & 1hmer, Op. 65, Michigan as a student of Marilyn Mason. Next fall he will be studying 1873. (The present building houses a three­ with Robert Glasgow, while Prof. Mason is on sabbaticaL Former manual Moller, Op. 5577, 1929.) teachers have included Bernard Piche, Herbert L. White, Jr., and The Ionic Avenue Church had a 49-rank (Gr. Karel Paukert. Mr. Franck performed in recital last fall on the Hook 9, Sw. 17, Ch. 10, Echo 4, Ped. 8) electro­ organ in Marine City, and was recently heard in recital on the 4-77, pneumatic instrument built by the J. W. Steere 1927 Casavant Freres organ in the Detroit Institute of Arts Auditorium. & Son Organ Co.; it cost $8,000 plus $1,400 for the Echo organ, and was the first Steere organ to use a 32-note pedalboard.lt was dedicated 7 November 1907 with a recital by :.'vir. EverettJ. St. Pauls United Methodist Church Harrington. This organ had just received a STEPHEN MAY Ithaca, New York 14850 new console when it burned with the church in 1937. E.L. Holbrook, 1873, 1~7, built for the Recitals The first organ in the present building, a Baptist Church, Rockport, Maine, relocated (607) 257-1590 4-57 built by Joseph W. Smith of Boylston, through the Organ Clearing House, for All was dedicated 26 September 1939 with a reci­ Saints Episcopal Church, Skowhegan, Maine. tal played by Dr. Clarence Dickinson. The In the works: 1962 Reuter organ was designed by Franklin Another organ relocated Mitchell, tonal director of Reuter, and Barclay through the Organ Clearing House Wood, organist of the church, who has also supervised the subsequent tonal revisions. 1915 Barckhoff from Blacksburg, Virginia, being rebuilt for Redeemer Lutheran Church, RECITALS LESSONS Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Many parts of the project are being under~ ~dJnttq I taken by interested members, allowing the Schanrz Organ Company e OilVille, Ohio 44667 ~usnn J\rnmtrong-®u.ellttie builder to concentrate on the more sensitive 216/682-6065. • Member APODA CONCERT ORGANIST tasks while assuring the Church of a quality result; an approach to be considered by the I 30 Perkins Street Church with a limited budget. I' Amesbury, Ma 01913 (617) 388-%25 100 37 Pilgrim Congregational Church, Leominster

Steer & Turner, Westfield, Mass., Op. 70, 1873 original stoplist I. Manuale. (Great): 58 notes II. Manuale, (Swell): 58 notes, enclosed Open Diapason 16' 58m Bourdon Treble (TC) 16' 46 w Open Diapason 8' 58m Bourdon Bass 16' 12 w Viola Da Gamba 8' 58m Open Diapason 8' 58 m Dulciana 8' 58m Salicional (l-7 fr. Quint.) 8' 51 m Flauto Traverso 8' 58w Dolce 8' 58 m Doppel Flote 8' 58w Stopped Diapason 8' 58w&m Octave 4' 58m Quintadena 8' 58m Flute D'Amour 4' 58w&m Fugara 4' 58m Twelfth 2 2/3' 58m Flute Harmonique 4' 58w&m Fifteenth 2' 58m Flautino 2' 58m Mixture IV 232m Dolce Mixture III 174m Trumpet 8' 58m Oboe (TC) 8' 46m Pedale: 27 notes Bassoon 8' 12m OpenDiap. 16' 27w Clarionet (TC) 8' 46m Bourdon 16' 27w Tremulo (h.d. pedal) Violoncello 8' 27m Couplers: Trombone 16' 27w Manuale Coupler (Swell to Great) Pedal Movements: First Manuale to Pedale Coupler 4 combinations pedals: Second Manuale to Pedale Coupler Gr. Piano and Gr. Forte Bellows Signal Sw. Piano and Gr. Forte mechanical stop and key action First Manuale to Pedal Reversible sell-balanced Swell pedal The brick building, designed by A. P. Cut­ ting of Worcester, was dedicated on 19 August 1873, by the "Evangelical Society in Leomin­ ster", also known as the "Orthodox Congrega­ tional Church." The previous building, with an organ insured for $1,000, had burned 27 Feb­ ruary 1872. The Steer & Turner organ, which cost $5,000, was opened with a recital on 31 July 1873 by John M. LOretz, Jr., of Brooklyn, N.Y.; tickets "with reserved seat" were "35 and 50 cts:' The dedicatory "programme;' reprinted in full in the Boston Organ Club Newsletter, No.9, March 1966 (from which the above sto­ plist is adapted), included works of Schubert, Donizetti, Rossini, and Weber: no Bach, but plenty of operatic transcriptions! The attached projecting keydesk was cen­ trally located on the front of the massive black walnut case; the drawknobs were arranged in 61/32 compass of which the top notes are not terraced jambs. In 1904, the organ was brought connected. It has a typical collection of pis­ forward about 4 feet and lowered by about the tons, sub and super couplers, Sforz, and Cres­ College of the Holy Cross, Worcester-Four Manuals, Fifty Stops same amount; the original key action was cendo. The original slider chests are intact, probably retained in that relocation. In 1921, fitted with electro-pneumatic pull-downs; Under Construction Kimball, Smallman & Frazee of Everett, Mass., modern regulators replace the original reser­ electrified the organ as their Op. 69; Joseph W. voir. The pipework is mostly original, with the Smith of Boylston Centre, Mass., seems to probable exception of the reeds; the Gr. Trum­ have been involved, perhaps as their agent, for pet 8' and the Sw. Oboe 8', if original, have TAYLOR & BooDY* 0RGANBUILDERS much of that work has his name on it. Subse­ been reworked; the Sw. Clarionet 8', though Route z, Box 58 B) Staunton) Virginia 24401 quently, probably around 1950, Rostron Ker­ old, is apparently a replacement set, and has 58 shaw, of Lowell, Mass., provided a new supply­ pipes. The Gr. Octave 4' was rescaled at some house console with stop-key tablets and a point, so that what was low D# is now low E.

99 P~rim CongrC£ja.tiona[ Cfiurdi, LeominSter Trinit;r: Lutfie.ra.n Cfiurcfi, WorceSter Wffinesda_2! 29 Junv 1983, 4:00p.m. Sunday, 26 Junv 1983, 8:15p.m. Pa.trick Murpfi2J orga.n Ja.mes Da.vUL CfiTilliv, o19a.n

Prefw.fv & FugllV in B minor ("Tiie Great") BWV 544 Jofiann Selia.!Eian Bacfi. Bataf[a f ctmossct Anonymous, Spain (1685-1750) (16tfi. centwy) Two Cfi.ora.fv PreLudes, Op. Po§ffL 122 ]ofiannes Bmfi.ms Ricer car ]ctn Pieterszoon Swee[inck "Herz(icfi. tut micfi. verfangen" (two versions) (1833-1897) (1562-1621) Sona.ta II f cli;l: Mendclsso fi.n Cctnzonv Fmncesv Terza Giovanni Sct[vcttorv Fugct, ~[fegro Modemto (1809-1847) (16101-1675') Patrick Murphy, a resident of Camden, New Jersey, received a Cfi.omfv Fantas.r on Divtricfi. Buxtefi.w.fv Bachelor of Music in organ performance, under Professor Robert "Nun emli, gmein" (Bu;x:WV 210) (1637-1707) Griffith, from Ohio Wesleyan University, in 1983. His earlier studies freut [ielien Cfiri§Een in organ and piano were with Albert F. Robinson. Mr. Murphy was an Marcfi.v des MctrseiJioi.l et CAir ''c;:ct-im" (1792) Cfaudi-Benignu Bai1ia.!Erv OHS Biggs Fellow in 1978, the first year of the Fellowship. Since 1976 he has worked part-time as an apprentice organbuilder and jour­ (1727-1799) neyman in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; in the summer of 1982 he worked with the Noack Organ Co. on the restoration of the Hook Intennissinn organ at Mechanics Hall. His career plans include organ building and Six Variations sur un psaumv fi.uguenot, Op. 1 (1974) Aoorv Isoir tonal design. (6. 1935) James Mosby Paysage.s eusliariens ErmencL Bonna[ Albert F. Robinson La Va[lie

In August of 1979, James David Christie became the first American to win first prize at the Sixth International Organ Competition held in DAVID ROTHE, Organist Brugge, Belgium. He also was the firstperformerin the history of the Organ and Pedal Harpsichord Recitals competition to win both the first prize and the Prize of the Audience. "Have Pedal Harpsichord-Will Travel" He received his Bachelor of Music degree from the Oberlin Con­ servatory of Music where he studied organ with David Boe and Instruments available for Concerts by David Rothe include: harpsichord with Doris Ornstein. After his junior year at Oberlin, he a Pedal Harpsichord by Keith Hill and Philip Tyre (1980-81), a Regal by studied in Paris, France, with Marie-Claire Alain. He received both Marc Garnier of France (1977), and a Clavichord by Jack Peters (1983). Master of Music degree and the coveted Artist's Diploma from the New England Conservatory of Music, studying there with Yuko Two LP Recordings are available on Ashland Records: "Rothe Plays Bach and Buxtehude" Hayashi. He has studied extensively with Harald Vogel and Bernard (Bigelow Tracker Organ), and "Toccatas, Dances and Concertos for Organ and Trumpet:' For Lagace. He has given five tours of Europe, and has recorded for recordings ($8.95 each, postpaid) and/or Concert Bookings Write: P.O. Box 203, Forest Ranch, Philips, Delta, Margun, and Titanic. California 95942, 916/345-2985. He is Organist with the Boston Symphony and Chairman of the Organ and Harpsichord Department at the Boston Conservatory.

98 39 lHnity Lutheran Church, Worcester The first organ in Christ Church, the gift of took a major organ rebuilding project at Christ Congressman Alvah Crocker, was built hy Church, Op. R-669, 1961, in which virtually all :'>Joack Organ Co., Andover, Mass., Op. 40, 1969 E. & G. G. Hook, Op. 445, 1868. When it was the Skinner pipework was replaced or re­ Great: 56 notes Su:ell: 56 notes, enclosed replaced in 1899 by a 3-43 electric-action worked. The Echo organ was disconnected at instrument, the gift of Lucy Fay, built by Ceo. that time. The present organ utilizes some of Quintade (capped) 16' 56w&m Gem.~horn (tapered) 8' 56m Principal 8' 56m Celeste ('fC) 8' 44m S. Hutchings (Op. 450), the Hook organ was the Skinner chests and mechanism, thoroughly Spielfl (tapered) 8' 56m Chimney Fl 8' 56m moved to St. ~ark's Church, Leominster, renovated; the 1961 MOller console; some of Octave 4' 56m Principal 4' 56m where it still exists. In 1922, the firm of Kim­ the .\tiOller pipework, reworked; and some Blockfl (tapered) 4' 56m Koppelfl 4' 56m ball, Smallman & Frazee added a 9-stop Echo new pipework supplied by the 1975-6 rebuild­ Nachthorn (tapered) 2' 56m Flachfl (tapered) 2' 56m division, their Op. 87, to the Hutchings. Six ers, Kinzey-Angerstein. The specification was Mixture (tabl. reads VI) IV-VI 306m Larigot (tapered) 11/3' 56m years later, E. M. Skinner installed his Op. 743, drawn by the builders and James R. Taylor, Cornet (TC) (mounted) v 220ln Mixture III 168m 1928, a four-manual instrument that retained organist of the church, with the consultation of Trumpet 8' 56m Cymbal III 168m the old pipe fronts and the recently installed Dr. Max B. Miller, University Organist at Bos­ Echo organ. M. P ~Hlller subsequently under- ton University. Positiv: 56 notes Bassoon 16' 56m Gedackt 8' 56w Schalmey 8' 56m Praestant 4' 56m Clairon 4' 56m Spitzged (tapered) (capped) 4' 56m Tremolo Cltri.st Cltu.rc/1., Fitcfi6ur9 )Jazard (tapered) 2 2/3' 56m Couplers: (by tilting tablets) Wednesday, 29 June 1983, 5:00p.m. Octave 2' 56m Great to Pedal Octave I' 56m Swell to Pedal Evensong, Cltri.st Clturc/1. CFwir Terzian II 112m Positiv to Pedal Scharff v 280m Swell to Great Breru:fa Fmser, Director of Music Krummhorn (brass) 8' 56m Positiv to Great Chamade (copper) 8' 56m Combinations: (2 actions, controlled by Tremolo buttons A, B; setter switches concealed in Pedal: 32 notes drawers) Principal 16' 32m Sw. 1-2-3-4 } WIGTON PIPE ORGANS, INC. Bourdon 16' 32m Gr. 1-2-3-4 Pos. _ _ _ (by thumb pistons) Octave 8' 32m 1 2 3 4 New Organs Rebuilding Restorations Spielfl (tapered) 8' 32m Gen. 1-2-3 Choralbass 4' 32m Ped. 1-2-3-4 } 65 Oakman Boulevard, Highland Park, Michigan 48203, 313/867-7220 Rauschpf II 64m Gen. 45_6 (hy toe studs) Mixture IV 128m Cancel (thumb piston) Trombone 16' 32w Accessories: Trumpet 8' 32m 3 on/off switches: Blower, Light, Signal Trumpet 4' 32m Zimbelstern (in Sw. Box) ·Mechanical key action, electric stop action; MechanicaLy: detached keydesk balanced Swell pedal

Peggy Marie Haas 1310 Eutaw Place This otherwise new 37 Recitals Baltimore, Maryland 21217 stop, 46 rank mechanical action instrument will use the 1892 case and many of the original F & V pipes, Harpsichords and additional F & V pipe­ workrelocated through the by ERIC HERZ Organ Clearing I louse.

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40 97 Cfiri.st Cfiurcfi, Fitcfi6ur9 Op. 131, c.1906, ""Evangelical Lutheran" (proba­ bly Bethany); Hillgreen, Lane & Co., Op. 267, Wednesday, 29 June 1983, 4:15p.m. c.1910, "Swedish Gethsemane;" M. P. MOller, Op. 3552, 1923, First Lutheran; Hall Organ Or9an Recita[, Competition Winner Co., Calvary Lutheran. The present building, designed by Jens (progmm on sepamte slieet) Frederick Larson, was consecrated on \Nhit­ Christ Church, Fitchburg sunday 1952. Built of brick with limestone trim, the handsome structure has a copper­ Kinzey-Angerstein Organ Co., Wrentham, Mass., Op. R-10, 1975-6 sheathed tower 87 feet tall. The interior ceiling murals are the work of ArthurS. Covey, and Great: 61 notes Swell: 61 notes, enclosed are a memorial to Aldus Chapin Higgins. From Pommer 16' 61 Geigen 8' 61 1952 to 1968, the four-manual 1923 MOller Principal 8' 61 Voix Celeste 8' 61 organ from First Lutheran was in use in the Dulciana 8' 61 Rohrf!Ote 8' 61 chancel, with its original twin facades (some­ U nda Maris (TC) 8' 49 Flauto Dolce 8' 61 what altered); when the MOller was sold in Bourdon 8' 61 Flute Celeste (TC) 8' 49 1968, the facades were retained. Octave 4' 61 Octave 4' 61 The 1968 Memorial Organ, which cost RohrflOte 4' 61 SpitzflOte 4' 61 $89,000, was designed by Fritz :'\Iaack and Super Octave 2' 61 Nazard 2 2/3' 61 J. Franklin Clark, a fonner organist at 1hnity. Sesquialtera II 122 VValdflOte 2' 61 Designs for the enlarged gallery were drawn Mixture IV 244 Tierce 13/5' 61 by G. AdolphJ ohnson, Jens Frederick Larsen's Cymbel III 183 Plein Jeu III 183 assistant in 1952. The inaugural recital was 'llompete 8' 61 Cymbale IV 244 played by Heinz Wunderlich on Thursday, 20 Positiv: 61 notes Petite Bombarde 16' 61 1hnity Lutheran Church came into being in March 1969; the organ had been dedicated on Singendgedeckt 8' 61 1i-ompette 8' 61 1946, the merger of three Lutheran congrega­ Sunday, 16 March, in a service played by John Prestant 4' 61 Rohrschalmei 8' 61 tions in Worcester: First (formerly Gethse­ E. Floreen, Trinity Organist, assisted by KoppelflOte 4' 61 Clairon 4' 61 mane), Swedish; Bethany, Swedish and Fin­ Douglas S. Risner, organ, the choirs of Trinity Octave 2' 61 Tremolo nish; and Calvary, English. Organs owned by Church, and the Worcester Intercollegiate Larigot 11/3' 61 Couplers: those churches include: Hillgreen, Lane & Co., Brass Choir. Scharf IV 244 Gt/Ped Pos/Sw Krummhorn 8' 61 Pos/Ped 8', 4' Pro/Sw 'liemolo Sw /Ped 8', 4' Fan/Sw Processional: 61 notes Pro/Ped Gt/Pos Christ Chapel, Trinity Lutheran Church, Worcester RohrflOte 8' 61 Fan/Ped Sw/Pos 16', 8' Octave 4' 61 Pos/Gt 16', 8' Pro/Pos Noack Organ Co., Andover, Mass., Op. 41, 1967 Mixture III 183 Sw /Gt 16', 8' Fan/Pos Manual: 56 notes, unenclosed Pedal Rohrbordun (ext) 16' 12 Pro/Gt 16', 8' Sw/Sw 16', 4' Gedackt 8' 56m Fanfare: 61 notes Fan/Gt Pos/Pos 16' Open Flute 4' 56m Bombarde (TC) (ext) 16' Reversibles: Principal 2' 56m Trompette 8' 6I Sw/Ped Pos/Ped Clairon (ext) 4' Gt/Ped Sfz Pedal: 32 notes permanently coupled to manual Pedal: 32 notes Combinations: Resultant 32' Sw 1-7 Pro 1-4 mechanical key and stop action; unlabelled Contre Basse 16' 32 Gt 1-7 Ped 1-6 brass stop lmo bs Bourdon 16' 32 Fan 1-2 Gen 1-8 Pos 1-6 Cancel Pommer (Gt) 16' This organ was dedicated 19 November Octave 8' 32 Pedal Movements: 1967, as a memorial to Cheryl Ann Bergstrom. Flute Conique 8' 32 Swell pedal It is moveable, and is sometimes used as a Choral Bass 4' 32 Crescendo pedal chancel organ in the main church. Flute 4' 32 electro-pneumatic action throughout HolzflOte 2' 32 Mixture IV 128 Bombarde (mixture) 32' 60 Bornbarde 16' 32 Thanks To All Advertisers! Petite Bombarde (Sw) 16' Erik Johansson Trompette (ext) 8' 12 Earl & Karen Wielsma Lower Bartonsville, Vermont 05143 Clairon (ext) 4' 12 Advertising Committee 802/875-2168

96 41 Dining Ha[C Assumption CoCCe:Je The First Church of Christ (Unitarian), Lancaster Morufuy tfirougfi Tfiursd!cy, 27-30 June 1983, 7:30 o.m. Wm. B. D. Simmons & Co., Boston, Mass., 1869 Altered by Reuben G. Reed, West Boylston, Mass., 1884 Maureen Morgan: "Mo19an am Mo19en" Rebuilt by the Andover Organ Co., Methuen, Mass., 1963 present stoplist Conversations coverin~F Great: 58 notes Swell: 58 notes, enclosed Devefopift9 trenct:s in the Church am£ their impact on tfle churdi musician. Open Diapason 8' 58m Stop'd Diapason 8' 58w TFte evo[ving partnership 8etween Cfer_gy/musician ami tl1e [aity. Dulciana (TC) 8' 46m Principal 4' 58m The Gjt-8mind [imitations of Christian worshipi some aLternatives. Hohl Flute (TC) 8' 46w Flautino 2' 58m Sun'ivaf in the emp(Oy of refigious institutions. Stop'd Diap. Bass 8' l2w Quint 11/3' 58m Principal 4' 58m Oboe (TC) 8' 46m There vvi!I bf"- time for discussion at each session. Flute Harmonic 4' 58w&m Bassoon 8' 12m Fifteenth '2! 58m Tremblant Sesquialtera II 116m Couplers: Maureen Morgan has served urban, suburban a:nd multi-racial Mixture Ill 174m Swell and Great churches throughout the New York Area and is currently Music Trumpet 8' 58m Great and Pedal Director and Organist at St. Malachy's R.C. Church, The Actor's Chapel, in I\;ew York City. A regular contributor to music journals Pedal: 27 notes Swell and Pedal Stop' d Sub Bass 27w and Christian periodicals, she founded the American Guild of Organ­ 16' Pedal Movements: Bourdon Bass 27w ists' National Committee on Professional Concerns. She has lectured 16' 2 unlabelled single-acting pedals nationally on these topics as well as creative liturgies and the music of Pedal Check Gr. piano, forte the Eastern Church and holds a Sacred Music Master from Union Bellows Signal balanced Swell pedal Theological Seminary, :'\lew York City. mechanical key and stop action

The elegant brick church, internationally famous as one of the finest works of the Boston S. L. Huntington architect, Charles Bulfinch, was built in 1816, Organ Builder -...and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1971. It is still heated by wood stoves. The tower contains a bell inscribed "Revere Boston 1822." At the rear of the church interior is a bust of Rev. Dr. George Murillo Bartol, the minister from 1847 to 1907. In 1869, he stood almost alone in resisting considerable pressure to divide the room at gallery level and partition the first floor room that would have resulted. Though a gentle person, he threatened to resign if the plans were carried out; he pre­ vailed, and the Thayer Chapel was added Lewis & Hitchcock, Inc. instead, at the rear, in 1881. The first organ in the building was installed in 1841; research has thus far failed to reveal who built it, or what became of it when it was 8466-A 1}co Road replaced in 1869 by the present instrument, built by Wm. B. D. Simmons & Co. In 1884, H.euben G. Reed made minor mechanical Vienna, Virginia 22180 changes and added the Pedal Bourdon 16'. In 1963, the Andover Organ Co. added one rank to the Mixture II, and added the Sesquialtera donal 8' (TC), with the Flautino 2' and the II; at the same time they replaced two strings Quint 1 l/3'; however, the basic character of 703/734-8585 in the Swell, a Keraulophon 8' (TC) and Sali- the Simmons is unchanged.

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43 Wes[ez UniwL Metfwcfi§£ Cfiurcfi, Worce§fer The Salisbury Singers appearance for this convention is the final concert of a year-long Monda2J Junv 27 1983, 10:00 a.m. celebration of their founding 10 years ago by Malama Robbins. They began this special year by singing at the rededication ceremony of Fe§fiva[ SeJViceJ 6J Convocation the historic Hook organ at Mechanics Hall last September. In February they gave a Prefwfv commemorative concert at All Saints Epis­ copal Church and last April appeared with Adi., B(dli mit: Deiner Gnadv Sigfr;L Karg- ECert the Thayer Conservatory Orchestra, Mark Sa[vum Fae PopuCum Tuum Cftar~ Mariu WidOr Churchill, conductor, singing The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian by Debussy at Atlantic Union Proce.ssionaC Hymn: ''JoyfuL, JoyfuL, Wu AdOru Tlieu" HymnaC, No. 38 College and at Jordan Hall in Boston. Beginning in February, 1984, the Salisbury Singers will be Chorus-in-Residence at the Worcester Art Museum for two years. I nvoeation aruL Sentences from Scripturu Alitn Laufrnan Malama Robbins is a graduate of the Longy School of Music in Anthem: "Fe.ffiva[ Tv Deum" Ra[pli Vaugftan Wiliiams Cambridge, Massachusetts and has studied at the New England Conservatory of Music, Oxford Univeristy and for three seasons at Proclitmation Mayor Sara Ro&ertson Tanglewood. Her formal studies include piano, voice, oratorio, art Greetings Tliu RevereruL NecL C. Watts song, choral conducting, and opera, with Melville Smith, Gladys Miller, Olga AverinO, Frederick Kinsley, G. Wallace Woodworth, Anthem: ''Juliilittu Deo in C" Jolin Hu.ffon Paul Ulanowsky, and Boris Coldovsky. Associate Professor of Music at Anna Maria College in Paxton, Acfr[ress: "Yu Watdiers aruL Yu Hoi}:: Ones" Tliu RevereruL Arnfru Dargis Massachusetts and Affiliate Associate Professor of Music at Worces­ ter Polytechnic Institute, she is the founder and music director of the Antfiem: A Fe.ffiva[ Cantata on tliv Hymn Tunv "Worcdter"]. GerafrL PliiC[ips Lincoln Arts Festival at Boothbay Harbor, Maine since 1980. (A new work, eommissionecL for tliis Convention) Congregation joins in singing stanza 5 Brian Jones was educated at Oberlin Conservatory and Boston Re[igious PrincipCes OJ tliv AGO Josepli Po[iee[[i University, and studied organ with Haskell Thomson andJ ack Fisher. He is Director of Music at the Wellesley (Mass.) Congregational Hymn: "Sing Praisu to GaeL Wlio Reigns A&ovu" Hymna( No.4 Church, head of the music department at ~able and Greenough School in Dedham, Mass., and Director of the Dedham Choral FinaC Prayer Society, the latter a group of 150 singers which performs regularly the great choral masterworks with orchestra. Cliora[ Bendiction: "A Gae[ic BCessing" Jolin Rutter Organ Po§f[w{v: "Carilion dV We.ffminffer" Loui.s Viernv Participants in tliv Servicu Tliu WesliJ-: Clioir WesliJ-: UniterL Meiftodi§f Cliurcli LeRor K Hanson, MiniSter 6f Music §alisbury §inger§, Inc. Tliu MaSter Singers oJWorcdkr, Inc. F. Jolin Adams, cCirector ~ Lawrenw Kuipers, gue.ff organiSt; Lou R SteigCer, gue.ff eornfw:tor 1973 lOth '1\.nniversary Seasort 1983 Tliu Symplionic Brass Quartet: 6fWorcdter MaZama Robbins- Founder- Conductor Choral Masterpieces- Opera- Workshops Bruw Hopkins aruL Ra[pli Meteaf£ trumpets; Inquiries Nanez Hunter-BelYows, frencli liom; Leona£ Peterson, tromfionu 112 Newton Ave. N., Worcester, Massachusetts 01609 1-617!755-9871

Tliu A[tar F(owers aru in memo'! 6f DonafrL Gifl£r Donald R. M. Paterson OrganiSt at: WesliJ-: Cliurcli 1938 - 1942. University Organist and Sage Chapel Choirmaster Given £ir lii.s wife Dorotli_r Cornell University Ithaca, New York

44 93 Tfiv FirS£ Church ChriS£, Unitari!Ln, LancaSter Mr. Hanson is a graduate of St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minne­ 6J sota, where he majored in music and mathematics. He received the Master of Sacred Music degree from the School of Sacred Music, Wro=dl:Ly1 29 Junv 1983, 2:15p.m. Union Theological Seminary, ~ew York City. His organ study has been with Helen Luvaas Fjerstad, Robert Baker, and Catharine Sa[is6ul}', Singers Crozier. From 1953 untill961 he was the Minister of Music at Hope Con­ Mafama Ro66ins, conductor gregational Church in Springfield, Massachusetts, and also Organist­ in-Residence at Springfield College. Since 1961 he has been the Brian Jones, organ Minister of Music at Wesley United Methodist Church in Worcester. He is a past dean of the Worcester Chapter, American Guild of Fanfarv aruL fu:JUV (1983) DavuL WaCCis Organists. (6. 1954) The Master Singers of Worcester, Inc. was founded in 1976 with Alfred I'\ ash Patterson as Thre.c Ex:cerpts from "Chriffus" (1847) Fefix MendeLssohn director until his untimely death in October, 1979. Interim guest conductors, Richard Bowden and Robert Cronquist, served until the appointment of F. John Adams in August, 1980. "Tfierv Sli.ali a Star from Jaw6 Comv Forth" (1809-1847) recitativv Karen WiLson soprano F. John Adams, a Ph.D. from Harvard University where hew as director of choral music from trio Josef Kon/WC tenor 1970 to 1978, was appointed director of the Master Singers of Worcester in 1980. He is also the director of the Boston Classical Orchestra, the Boston Premiere Ensemble, the Concord Com­ R£Lr Bauwens 6aritonv mtmity Chorus, and is also Associate Professor of Music at Wellesley College. Scott WiLson 6ass Lawrence Kuipers is a student of John Ilamersma at Calvin Co1lege in Grand Rapids, Michi­ cli.orus gan. He began his organ study with LeRoy Hanson in Worcester.

Quartet aruL Cli.orus from "Hora Novissima" (1892) Horatie Parli£r LouR. Steigler is a graduate of the Hartt School of Music and earned the degree of Master of "Tu Sinv Littorv" (Tii.ou ocean witfwut: Sli.orv J (1863-1919) Sacred Music from Union Theological Seminary, School of Sacred Ylusic. He has just completed Margaret: Kon/WC soprano 25 years as Director of Music at the First Church of Christ, Congregational, in Pittsfield, Yfassachusetts. Joan Metivier aCto Josef Kon/WC tenor The Symphonic Brass Quartet was formed in 1978. All of the members of the Quartet are Scott WiLson 6ass faculty members of The Performing Arts School of Worcester and are professional musicians/ educators. With a repertoire spanning the periods from the Renaissance through the twentieth DaviL McKar century, the Quartet is also active in commissioning and performing new works for brass. (6. 1927) Capias (1970) John Tavener A native of Leominster, Massachusetts, Father Andre Dargis was a four cli.oirs sat6 (6. 1944) student of Assumption College before being sent to France and sow quartet: Belgium to complete philosophical and theological studies. Awarded tapv from Cnu:ifixus, B minor Mass, Bach a Doctorate in Theology by the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, in 1971, Father Dargis was immediately appointed to the 6J::: SaCis6urz Singers faculty of Assumption College, in the Department of Religious Karen WiLson soprano Studies. He has served as department chairman since 1976. ShirCeJ:: Lacroix aCto Crai9 Smith tenor DavuL Boaz 6ass Laudf.s Organi ZoCtan Kodl:Lll: (1882-1967)

(commissioneLL work for 1966 NcttionaiA.G.O. Convention, Atfanta.) B~ A93

92 45 Wesley United Methodist Church, Worcester Mechanics Ha£C WorceSter Skinner Organ Company, Boston, Mass., Op. 615, 1927 Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Boston, Mass., Op. 615-A, 615-B, 1955 (G. Donald Harrison) Wedne5Ml) 29 ]unv 1983, 10:30 a.m. Berkshire Organ Co., West Springfield, Mass., Op. 36, 1972 present stoplist DavicL CraigfteruL, organ Great: 61 notes, manual II Choir: 61 notes, enclosed, manual I 1Quintaton 16' 61m Gamba 16' 73m Sonata No. III in A Major Fefix Mendiisso li.n Second Diapason sc43 8' 61m Kleine Erz3.hler (2 rks) 8' 134m Con moto mae.ffoso (1809-1847) Erzlihler 8' 61m 1Singendgedeckt 8' 73w Andltntv tranquiffo String Celeste (2 rks) 8' 122m Flute (harmonic) 4' 73m 2 8' 61w&m Rohr Flute Nazard (tapered) 2 2/3' 61m Zwiilf Stiliie, Op. 59 3 0ctave 4' 61m Max Reger 2 61m Harmonic Flute 4' 61m Principal 2' Intermezzo (1873-1916) 3 4 Fifteenth 2' 61m Scharff III 183m BenffiU:tus 5Mixture IV 244m Orchestral Oboe (capped) 8' 73m 6 Sesquialtera (TC) II 98m Clarinet 8' 73m Prefw:fv an.L Fuguv inC Major (BWV 547) ] olia.nn SebaStian Bacli. *Ophicleide 16' 61 w&m Tremolo (1685-1750) *Tuba 8' 61m Harp (steel bars) 8' 61 *Clarion 4' 61m Celesta (ext) 4' 12 Granav Piew Symplionique, Op. 17 Cesar Franc£ Chimes (from Echo) 'Berk. 0. Co., old Concert Flute B' rebuilt Harp (from Choir) 8' 2 Berk. 0. Co., rep!. orig. Piccolo 2' Andltntino serioso; Af£egro; Andi.tntv; (1822-1890) Celesta (from Choir) 4' 'Berk. 0. Co., repl. orig. OD B' AIIegro; Andi.tntv; Finafv 'G. Donald Harrison, rep!. OD 16" Echo (&Antiphonal): 61 notes, encl., man'l IV 'Berkshire 0. Co., old Clarihel Flute B' rehuilt MufWBii/Mcfarfanu ArtiSts Mana:~ement' 'GDH, repL orip;. Octave 4' Diapason 8' 73m 4 David Craighead has been in charge of organ activities at the GDH, rep!. orig. Fifteenth 2' Chimney Flute 8' 73w&m 'GDH, reworking of original Mixture IV Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, since 1955. In 'Herk. 0. Co., rep!. E)..1S ht OD B' Fern Flute 4' 73w&m *on high pressure in Solo box addition, he is Organist of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Rochester. Tromba 8' 73m Before assuming the positions he now holds in Rochester, Craighead Swell: 61 notes, enclosed, manual III VoxHumana 8' 73m held positions at Occidental College in Los Angeles, Westminster Bourdon 16' 73w&m Tremolo Choir College in Princeton, Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church of Bryn Diapason 8' 73m Chimes 25 tubes Mawr, Pennsylvania, and Pasadena Presbyterian Church in California. Gamba 8' 73m Pedal: 32 notes David Craighead maintains a balanced career as performer and teacher. He has played recitals in most of this country's major cities, in Voix Celeste (2 rks) 8' 146m Resultant Diapason 32' 73w&m London, England, and at six national conventions of the American Gedeckt 8' Bourdon 32' 32w Flauto Dolce 8' 73m Guild of Organists. A champion of new music for organ, he has Principal 16' 32m performed many premieres of new works. In 1983 he was named the Flute Celeste (TC) 8' 61m Diapason 16' 32w International Performer of the Year by the New York City chapter of Octave 4' 73m Violone 16' 32m the American Guild of Organists. Violina 4' 73m Ch. Gamba 16' Tfie. cfescription of tfie. Hook. or9an vvi[[ 6e Jou.ncf on Pll9e 1:::.. Flute 4' 73w&m Bourdon (ext) 16' 12w Flautino 2' 6Im Sw. Echo Bourdon 16' 1 Mixture III 183m Octave (ext) 8' 12m BEST Jeannette B, Brown Mixture IV 244m Gedeckt (ext) 8' 12w WISHES State Chairman C . Waldhorn 16' 73m Sw. Still Gedeckt 8' onnectlcut 8' 73m Cornopean 1Choral Bass (ext) 4' 12m Fliigel Hom (capped) 8' 73 rn Flute (ext) 4' 12w&m VoxHnmana 8' 73m 2Mixture Ill 96m 4' 73m Clarion Trombone 16' 32w&m Quimby Pipe Organs, Inc. Tremolo Sw. Waldhorn 16' 'CDll, rew~rking of original Mixture ill Tromba (ext) 8' 12m Member American Institute of Organbullders. Solo: 61 notes, enclosed, manual IV Clarion (ext) 4' 12m Gamba 8' 73m 'GDH, orig. Super Octave 4' brightened 'CD II, new, uses orig. Chimes knob Gamba Celeste 8' 73m Building I Restoration I Rebuilding I Maintenance & Tuning Orchestral Flute 8' 73w&m Couplers: (by thumb pistons) French Horn 8' 73m Swell Unison On/Off Michael Quimby, 605 Broad Street 8' 73m Great Unison On/Off English Horn President Warrensburg, Mo Tuba Mirabilis (20" wp) 8' 73m Choir Uni~on On/Off 816-747-3066 64093 Tremolo Solo Unison On/Off

46 91 Couplers: (by tablets) Swell16', 4' Swell to Great 16', 8', 4' Choir 16', 4' Choir to Great 16', 8', 4' Solo 16', 4' Solo to Great 16', 8', 4' Great 4' Rubin S. Frels Swell to Choir 16', 8', 4' Swell to Pedal 8', 4' Solo to Choir 8' Great to Pedal 8' Solo to Swelll6', 8', 4' Choir to Pedal 8', 4' Pive Organs Swell to Solo 8' Solo to Pedal 8', 4' Great to Solo 8' Pedal4' GREAT (upper keyboard) 1-56 Reversibles: (by thumb pistons) Bourdon 16' Sw. toPed. Principal 8' Ch. toPed. Chimney Flute 8' Octave 4' Solo to Ped. } ( dupl. by h.d. pedal) Nason Flute 4' Gr. toPed. Twelfth* (1/2 draw) 2-2/3' Sforz (with indicator light) Sesquialtera* II Fifteenth 2' Combinations: (by thumb pistons) Mixture (1/2 draw) III Great 1-2-3-4-5-6 Mixhrre v Swell1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 Setter Trumpet-Pedal (1/2 draw) 8' Choir 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 Cancel Trumpet-Great 8' Solo 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 SWELL (lowe< keyboa

47 Menwria[ Aw£itorium, Worcester Monday, 27 June 1983, 12:00 noon E. & G. G. Hook, Boston, Op. 334, 1864 CuCver L. Mowm, president, 019an Historica[ SocieJy Danie[ N CoOium II, executive director, N ationa[ AGO

Openi119 Luncheon cmd Keynote Adiiresses

Culver L. "Cullie" Mowers is a native of Syracuse, New York who holds degrees from Syracuse University (AB 1964) and The Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (MDiv, 1968). Ordained in 1968, he is now Rector of St. Thomas' Church, Slaterville Springs, New York (near Ithaca). Since 1979 he has been a worker/priest, occupied primarily in organ maintenance and restoration. His non­ professional interests include theater and music. He is a Life Alumnus Member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and at this Convention will complete four years as President of O.H.S.

Daniel N. Colburn II has been Executive Director of the American Guild of Organists since January, 1980. A Minnesota native, he is a graduate of Macalester College, Saint Paul, where he majored in speech and theatre and began work in the area of arts administration as an intern at Minneapolis' Guthrie Theatre. Public relations work with the Saint Paul Opera Association and Arts Development Asso~ ciates preceeded his move to New· York in 1973 when he joined Affiliate Artists Inc., a national residency program for emerging performing artists. From 1978-80, Colburn served as an arts program analyst for the New York State Council on the Arts. In addition to his fulltime involvement with the Guild, Colburn is Chairman of Wor­ ship. and Music at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, New York City, where he is a member of the Bach Choir, known for its annual series of weekly performances of Bach Cantatas at Vespers.

In Memoriam In Memoriam Chester Collier Beth Riley

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48 Medi.anics HaLC Worcester Wedne.sday, 29 June 1983, 9:00a.m. Thomas Appleton, Boston, 1830 Fritz N oru:k: Lecture, "TFte Restoration of tFte Hook. Organ"

Fritz Noack was hom in Germany in 1935. During his high school years, he was an active musician and studied organ building and cabinet making. He began his apprenticeship with the noted organ builder Rudolph von Beckerath and later worked with Klaus Becker and Ahrend & Brunzema. After coming to the United States in 1959, he worked with Charles Fisk and in 1960 organized The !\'oack Organ Company. Mr. I'\oack teaches organ construction at the New England Conservatory of Music in addition to organ building. He is a Board :\iember of the International Society of Organ Builders and served two year.~ as President of the Associated Pipe Organ Builders of America.

Tfie_ description of t(te HooR orga-n wi[[ 6~:- fouM on page-133. Restoration of the Hook Organ by Fritz Noack For years it had been my wish to restore not stand the thought of losing this organ to sometime a significant historic organ. Not that another pseudo-restoration. It was the only I wanted to become an organ-restorer instead chance of this kind America had in store. The of organ-builder. No, I wanted to show how it \Vorcester County Mechanics Association and really should be done, how -one must totally the AGO committee advising them had a diffi­ immerse oneself into the ways of the original cult job choosing a restorer-especially when builder, find all answers that can be found there were well-meaning proposals like that and-by doing so-become able to find the suggesting a modern aluminum action or the "right" answers to the remaining questions by suggestion to "just make the organ play in any association. I had grown up among historic reliable way." Even at the absurdly low figure organs which had been maimed by "restorers" of $135,000 (plus inflation adjustments) our who went to work with preconceived notions offer was comparatively expensive, and there that made them blind to the available evidence really was no substantial money. I guess there and incapable of really understanding the are times when it's wise to take chances-to objects of their efforts. have faith that what is right will somehow When I saw the MeChanics Hall organ for work out. My firm and the Mechanics A~socia­ the first time it did not really play well enough tion took this chance together, embarking to tell much about its original sound. The hall upon a 5 year journey with insufficient funds was in a sad state, barely saved from the and mounting costs. VVe all were rewarded by wrecker's ball. The organ itself actually was a the excitement of a rebirth on Rededication wreck-filthy, with an action that was neither Weekend in September 1982. We may not like original nor ever any good,. with a wind system all of the qualities (e.g., the heavier than really that was only a third as old as the organ and so comfortable key action-the kind that led the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Margar<

88 Carpenter Earle, of the Worcester firm of appeared in The Diapason of I May 1943. The Trinity LutFtemn Churc/1, Worcester Earle & Fuller, and consecrated 4 January improvements were made possible by Albert Monday, 27 June 1983, 1:45 p.m. and 3:15p.m_ 1877. Under the direction of Isaac N. Metcalf, W. Rice, the son of William and Lucy Rice, and choirmaster of the church, the St. Cecilia Club were shown off in a well-attended series of Cliarfe.s Krig6a.um, Worksfiop: TFte Music cif Titefouze raised $920.57 towards an organ; insurance on four recitals given on Monday nights during the Johnson organ paid $2,377.70; the new Lent, 1943, by Ernest White, organist of the organ, built by Hutchings, Plaisted & Co., Op. Church of St. Mary the Virgin in New York T~i.s work.sliop wif( cover: Bio9mp~icaf materiaG aiiout tlie composer, Jean TiteiOuze (1563-1633); 67, 1876, a three-manual instrument of 46regis­ City, March 22nd; Clarence Watters, Professor the organ of fits My; a survey of fits organ music ami a summary of its main wmpositiona[ ters, cost $6,858.07 "for organ and motor." of Music at Trinity College, Hartford, March cfiamcteri.stic.s. Participants vvi[[ then refiru.rse appropria-te verses of two hymns: Pa.nge fingua ami (Hutchings, Plaisted & Co. supplied their Op. 29th; William E. Zeuch, April 5th, and William 'Ezy[tet coelum, and tlie Ma;Jnijkat in Modi IV. Tlie session wif( concCwie wit~ an a(tematim 66, 1876, a 1-11, for the Chapel of All Saints Self, April 12th. Additional alterations were petfonnance of these three worR.s. A descriptiOn ofth.e or9an 1Ni[[ 6e found on Pll9e40. Church.) In 1912, the church used a bequest of made by Mr. Harrison in subsequent years; at $2,000 "to install an electric motor for the one time more than 1,500 pipes were removed Charles Russell Krigbaum, Professor of Music and University (main) organ, together with essential wiring." to the Aeolian-Skinner factory in Boston for Organist, has been a member of the Yale University School of Music In 1923, Mrs. Lucy Draper Rice offered the revoicing or replacement. In 1951, the original faculty since 1958. church a new organ in memory of her hus­ enclosed Bombarde division was completely He was named University Organist following the retirement of the band, William Ellis Rice; the three-manual revised, and the shutters removed. late H. Frank Bozyan in 1965. Mr. Krigbaum is the fifth person to be instrument, built by E. M. Skinner, Op. 406, The Antiphonal Organ was added in 1963, Yale's organist in the 110 years since the position was established as 1923, was dedicated 18 May 1924. On 20 Jan­ built under the direction of Joseph Whiteford one of the first academic posts in this country. He is a fellow of uary, 1932, both building and organ were de­ of Aeolian-Skinner; tonal finishing was done Silliman College, one of the twelve undergraduate colleges at Yale. stroyed by fire. by Gilbert F. Adams. The opening recitals in In addition to regular concerts at Yale, he has concertized exten­ The present building, designed by Froh­ March were played by three Worcester organ­ sively throughout Europe and the United States, and has conducted man, Robb and Little of Boston, (architects of ists: Henry Hokans, organist at All Saints, master classes, given lectures, and often served as organ consultant. the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.,) March 11th; Barclay Wood, organist at First was opened for ptrblic worship on Easter Sun­ Baptist, March 18th; and LeRoy Hanson, organ­ Centm[ Church, Worcester day 1934. Aeolian-Skinner had supplied a ist at Wesley Methodist, March 25th. In 1967, three-manual organ (Op. 895, 1932) for tem­ Mrs. Mary Cage Rice gave a new console in Monday, 27 June 1983, 1:45 p.m. aud 3:15p.m. porary use in Huntington Hall, All Saints memory of her husband Albert, who had died Church, until a new building could be fin­ in 1965. In 1975, Mrs. Rice gave a new pair of TFte Salis6my CollSort ished, and Aeolian-Skinner's Op. 987, 1932, a horizontal Trumpets, provided by the Berk­ 2-rank practice organ for Mr. Sydney Webber, shire Organ Co., which also made some other from Asstsi to Compostefa: Troubadours, Trouveres, Latufe, ami Canti9as from the time of Francis was installed in the Choir Room at All Saints tonal modifications in1976 at the suggestion of Church. Op. 895 was incorporated in the new William Self, who had returned to his old post of Ass~i Rice Memorial Organ, Aeolian-Skinner Op. as organist of All Saints Church. The tonal from CastLes in Spain: Music ofEncina, Eswbar, Henestrosa1 Muda.rra. 909, 1933. improvements and new mixture scales and Opened with two reCitals in May, 1934, by composition were designed by David W. Cogs­ La Doufce Fmnce: Music of Sennisy, Le ]eune William E. Zeuch, organist of the First Church, well, Artistic Director and President of Berk­ Boston, on Monday the 21st, and William Self, shire, with voicing carried out by Judd Fitz­ An En9Ci.s~ Sprin;J: Music of MarCey, Dowlilrut Bynf organist at All Saints, on Monday the 28th, the Gerald, a former voicer for Aeolian-Skinner. The Salisbury Consort of early music was founded in 1965 as a organ was not completed until that summer. Thomas Murray, organist at St. Paul's Cathe­ performance ensemble dedicated to the repertoire of the Yliddle The stoplist appeared in The Diapason of 1 dral in Boston, played a dedicatory recital20 Ages and the Renaissance. Using a wide range of instruments, all of September 1934. Changes and additions to the November 1977. them reproductions of those in use at the time the music was written, organ, designed by William Self in coopera­ Much of the ~bovc material is quoted or adapted from Robert K. tion with G. Donald Harrison, were made in Shaw's AU Soint;· Church: A Cenlermial Hi.!/Onl. Worcc.

50 87 First Unitarian Cfiurch, Worcester Monday, 27 June 1983, 1:45 a.m. and 3:15p.m. A RELIABLE NAME ...• David McKay: Earl)' American Music, Worksliop

Earlj! American VocoL and Cliom[ Litemture: tfom Fugillij Tune to FoUi. Opem A soup-to-nuts su1Vey: Bi.b[io_grnpfiy, COca.tion of sources, editi-119 techniques; peifonnance "'99e.stwns. Selfft exmnple.s wiJI 6e peiformed 6y guest artists from tlie Isoiah Tliomas Cliomle BERKSHIRE (Caro[ Vella, Suzanne Bowen-Oparowsli~ Fred Fmbotta). Di.scu.sswn wi[[ jo[Cow.

Professor David McKay is Head of the Music Division at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. As composer his publications include a Mass, cantatas, requiem, an opera, and works for winds, brass, and chorus. As musicologist he has edited a wide range of early American music including music for Colonial band, Colonial choral music, and Colonial opera. He is co-author of William Billings of Boston (Prince­ ton University Press). He has lectured extensively on early American music.

1926 ~!ernest :!lilt. ~hinncr at 1933 ~colian=~hinncr at DR. INGRID GUTBERG WESLEY UNITED ALL SAINTS CHURCH Thomas Holland Covenant Congregational Church of Boston Church of Christ the King (induding tonal additions and tonal METHODIST CHURCH Recitals & Instruction Templ.e Emanuel r~'fini:;hiug) (including tonal additions and revoici,g 524-2577 Worcester Aeolian-Skiriner Opus 909 ofPrincipals) rebuilding (1941) Ernest M. Skinner Opus 615 additions (1961) Aeolian-Skinner rebuild (1955) Berkshire additions ( 1975) Berkshire rebuild and additions (1970) " rebuilding (1976) Joseph Bertolozzi 58 STOPS-73 RANKS-4602 PIPES 87 STOPS-120 RANKS-6797 PIPES Organist/Composer

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51 WorceSEer Hi.fforicaL Museum, WorceSEer Couplers Great 8' to Pedal Positiv 8' to Pedal Monoo}'J 27 )unv 1983, 1:45 p.m. an 6r Phifip SiJner studs) duct of William A. Johnson, Op. 163, installed Great to Pedal Choir to Pedal when the building was enlarged in 1864. It Sons arnL Daugfi.ters 6J tftv Pil9nms Temperanw Hymn Swell to Pedal Positiv to Pedal nearly suffered the same fate as the first All From ((Fatfter Kemp's O&:L Fo!fs Concert' Music" Positiv to Pedal (thumb piston only) Saints organ: it "had been ordered, unpacked Bombarde to Pedal Mixtures Off and placed in position, but only paidforin part Tnv Fairz We

52 85 All Saints Church, Worcester

Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Boston, Mass., Op. 909, 1933 Designed by G. Donald Harrison; since altered and enlarged as noted in the text present stoplist Great: 61 notes, manual II Swell: 61 notes, enclosed, manual Ill Montre 16' 61m Bourdon 16' 61 w Principal 8' 6lm Geigen 8' 6lm Flute Ilarmonique 8' 6lm RohrflOte 8' 6lm Bourdon 8' 61m Viole de Gambe 8' 6lm Gemshorn 8' 6lm Voix Celeste 8' 6lm Gross Quinte 51/3' 61 m Flauto Dolce 8' 73m Octave 4' 61 m Flute Celeste (TC) 8' 6lm RohrflOte 4' 6lm Geigen Octave 4' 6lm Gross Tierce 31/5' 61m Rohrf!Ote 4' 6lm Quinte 2 2/3' 61 m Fugara 4' 6lm Doublette 2' 6lm Octavin '21 61m Tierce 13/5' 6lm Plein Jeu VI 366m Septieme 11/7' 61 m Cymbale Ill 183m Fourniture IV 244m Bombarde 16' 61 m Cymbale Ill 183m llompette 8' 6lm Bombarde 16' 61m Hautbois 8' 61m Trompette 8' 61m Vox Humana 8' 61m Clairon 4' 61 m Clairon 4' 61m Ti·ompette a Capot (Ant.) 8' 61m Tremulant Chimes Choir: 61 notes, enclosed, manual I Zimbelstem Montre 8' 61 m Pnsitiv: 61 notes, manual! Lieblich Gedeckt 8' 61m Nason Gedeckt 8' 61 w Viola 8' 67m Spitz Prim:ipal 4' 61 m Viola Celeste 8' 61 m SpillflOte 4' 61m Dulciana 8' 67m Principal 2' 61 m Uncia Maris (TC) 8' .55m I\'asat 11/3' 61m Prestant 4' 6lm Zimbel III 183m Lieblich FIOte 4' 61m J eu de Clochette II 122m Nasard 2 2/3' 61m Tremulant Piccolo Ilarmorrique '21 61 m Pedal: 32 notes Tierce 13/5' 61m Soubasse (ext) 3'21 12w Larigot l 1/3' 61 m Contre Basse 16' 32w Blockfl6te I' 61 m Soubasse 16' 32w Plein Jeu v 305m Montre (Gr.) 16' Dub·;ian 16' 61 m Bourdon (S'\v.) 16' Cromorne 8' 61 m Gross Quinte 10 2/3' 32m Rohr Schalmei 4' 6lm Principal 8' 32m 'liemulant Gedeckt Pommer 8' 32w Trompette a Capot (Ant.) 8' Bourdon (Sw.) 8' Antiphonal: 61 notes, manual IV Gross Tierce 6 2/5' 32m Spitz Geigen 8' 6lm Septieme 4 4/7' 32m Bourdon 8' 6lm Octave 4' 32m Prestant 4' 61m Harmonic Flute 4' 32m Koppelfl6te 4' 61m l\'achthorn 2' 32m Fifteenth '21 61 m Fourniture v 160m Plein Jeu IV-V '!f57m Contre Bombarde (ext) 3'21 12m Trompette en-Chamade 16' 6lm Bombarde 16' 32m Trompette en-Chamade 8' 61m Clockwise, llompette 8' 32m Bombarde: 61 notes, manual IV starting at the top: Elizabeth Clairon 4' 32m Fonmiture IV-VIII 370m Sollenberger, Judith Cornell, Trompette a Capot (ant) 8' Scharf Ill 163m John Morningstar, Duane Smoot, Chimes (Gr.) Bombarde 16' 61 m Earl Miller, James Bishop. llompette Harmonique 8' 6lm by Steven Ryan, Clairon Harmorrique 4' 61m . Graphics by Alfred, Maine. 84 53 The Boston Archdiocesan Choir School in A Tribute to Our Town Musicians-A group of musicians especially assembled for this conven­ residence at St. Paul's Church, Cambridge, tion to present an apocryphal story about the town musicians of "Grants Mills, Maine" -sharing Massachusetts, was founded in 1963. The with you the inspiring songs used at various town events during the beginning of the 20th century pupils, ranging in age from ten to fourteen, and performed on either the historic Rushworth & Dreaper church organ located in the rear receive a full academic training in addition to gallery of the First Congregational Church or the unique Estey cabinet organ located in the an extensive musical education. They take part Wolfskill Homestead. regularly in the services of St. Paul Church. In Contributing their talents to these various live vignettes are the following persons: Elizabeth concert circles they are known as the "Boston Sollenberger (featured organist), a graduate of Connecticut College who received her Master of Boy Choir:' Arts degree from The American University in Washington, D.C., is a member of the applied The choir has toured extensively in recent music faculty at Bowdoin College and a past dean of the Portland, Maine A.G.O. Chapter; she is years; they have performed not only through­ the true owner of the Estey cabinet organ used in this presentation. out ~ew England, but also in.Kew York, New Judith Cornell (featured soprano) graduated with honors from the University of California at Jersey, Florida, Wisconsin, Maine, Rhode Santa Barbara, is a member of the applied music faculty of both Bowdoin Colege and Bates Island, and abroad in Italy, France, England, College, is visiting tutor of voice at Colby College, choir director of the United Baptist Church of and Ireland. They have taken part in Youth Lewiston, and the president of the Maine Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Concerts at Symphony Hall, and have sung Singing. with the Harvard-Radcliffe Choral Society and the M.I.T. Choral Society. They have also sung John Morningstar (narrator) and Duane Smoot (bass) are the owners of The Beehive Reed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall and Tanglewood, and at Carnegie Hall Organ Studio in Alfred, Maine, which will soon celebrate the lOth anniversary of full time in New York. Together with the Berkshire Fe·stival Chorus they performed the Berlioz Te Deum restoration and purveyance of reed organs, and are responsible for the restoration of the under the direction of Colin Davis, and the Berlioz Damnation of Faust under the direction of instruments used in this presentation.. Seiji Ozawa, and also the Mahler Third Symphony and the Mahler Eighth Symphony. They may ]ames Bishop (tenor) graduated from Colby College in Waterville and has participated in be heard on a number of recordings made with the B. S. 0. under Columbia, Philips, and various musical activities in Portland, Maine including assistant choir director of State Street Deutsche Gramaphon labels. Church and a member of Choral Art Society. Earl Miller (supporting organist) is organist and choirmaster at both Christ Church and Brooks JOHN DUNN, FAGO, ChM School in Andover, Massachusetts. He has recently made a recording using the various reed organs at The Beehive and is the true owner of the Rushworth & Dreaper used in this BOSTON ARCHDIOCESAN CHOIR SCHOOL presentation. AT SAINT PAUL'S CHURCH CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

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54 83 A[[ S!lints CfiurcFt, WorccSfer Historical Museum, \Vorcester Rushworth & Dreaper, Liverpool, England, built before 1920 Tue.sdi:tl' 28 ]unu 1983, 8:45p.m. restored by The Beehive, Alfred, Maine, 1983 Great: Swell: Pedal: Boston Arcfufiocesiln Choir Schoo[ Bourdon 16ft. Violone 16ft. Open Diapason 16ft. witfi. Open Diapason 8ft. Gamba 8ft. Bourdon 16ft. aarabella 8ft. Flute 4ft. Couplers: Sllint' P!lu[ (Cilm6ridge) Mens SchoCa. Dulciana 8ft. Oboe 8ft. Sweii to Great Principal 4ft. Mechanical: Swell to Pedal Tfieoctoru Mllrier, F.AG.O., Cfi.M., Director Tremolo Great to Pedal Jolin Dunn, F.AG.O., Cfi.M., or.9iln 4 Combination pedals Swell4 ft. Swell pedal This instrument, owned by EarlL. Miller of either side of the keyboards. Pump treadles, as Andover, Massachusetts, is 'tracker', -.,vith reeds well as the blower's handle/feeder mechanism Progra.m located inside, and not partially under the are intact, though the instrument has an elec­ ProcessionaL Hymn: "Te[[ His Pra.isu in Song ancL Sto'i' (Ps. 34) "Ru$Hngwn" manuals. The Swell only is expressive and is tric suction tmit. The Swell 4 ft. (octave winded from its own suction reservoir. The coupler) also operates as a Swell to Great 4ft. A[efuya, SaLvation, G[o'l: ancL Honour WiLfrecL]. Eme'l: Great and Pedal reeds share a second reservoir. when the manuals are coupled. (6. 1904) The stops are mounted in 45° stop jambs at Historical Museum, Worcester Missa c£v Beata Maria Virginu G. P. di:t Paie.ffrina Kyriu efeison (A[temating cfu.mt: c.mcL poJYpfiany) (t1594) J. Estey & Co., Brattleboro, Vermont, No. 37,981, 1872 restored by The Beehive, Alfred, Maine, 1983 Missa Quarti Toni Tom.cls Luis c£v Victoria Bass: Treble: Mechanical: Gwria in e,n:eCsis Deo - Sanctus - Agnus Dei (t1611) Sub-Bass 16' Melodia 8' Vox Humana Diapason 8' Celeste 8' Octave Coupler Givu Unto tfi.u LorcL (Ps. 29) EcfwarcL Efgar Viola 4' Flute 4' Knee Swell (t1934) This instrument, owned by Elizabeth Sol­ ing keyboard raises the pitch by semitones. Pouienc lenberger, Yarmouth, Maine, is a "Cottage The letter names of the various keys of the Francis Organ with Patent 1Tansposing Keyboard;" middle octave are printed on the nameboard. (t1963) the sixty-one note keyboard of F-compass The Celeste 1teble has a double set of reeds; divides between tenorE and F The transpos- the Sub-Bass speaks in the bottom octave only. Cfiara[ Vespers Sergei Rachmaninoff Veneration 6J tfi.u Cross (t1943) LaucL Yu tfi.u N amu oJ tfi.u LorcL FRANKL. KUHLMANN HOWARD£. PENNY Me.ssu SoienneflV Jean Langiais Cooley High School Sanctus- Benedictus (6. 1907) St. Martha's Episcopal Church Austin Organs, Inc. Detroit, Michigan Central and Western New York John Dunn, FAGO, ChM, has been associated with the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School since its founding in 1963, and has held the position of Principal since 1971. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Boston University where he is currently enrolled as a doctoral student. His teachers have been Theodore Marier, George Faxon, and Max Miller. He has performed for both the AGO and the OHS and is the regular accompanist for the choir as well as the organist of St. Paul Church. of!aurence Estey Residence Organ Research Theodore Marier, FAGO, ChM, is the Founder and director of the Estey Op. 319, 1906 Estey Op. 2832, 1929 Boston Archdiocesan Choir School, at St. Paul's Church, Cambridge, minuette grand Massachusetts. Active as a clinician, choral conductor, organist, and composer, Mr. Marier has taught at the Gregorian Institute of America and the Pius X School of Liturgical Music. 17 Winnicooash Street Laconia, N.H. 03246

82 55 WorceSfer Art' Museum, WorceSfer A[[ Sa.ints Cfiurch, WorceSfer Moncfrt.21 27 Jtmv 1983, 1:45 p.m. a.ncL 3:15p.m. Tu.esoo21 28 ]unv 1983, 8:00 p.m. Wi[lla.m Se~ speaker: "Thv Art' Museum a.rnL Its Orga.n" Ba.r6a.ra. Bruns, orga.n Brenda. J. Fra.ser, org a.n Pa§Eora.fv ]ea.n]u.fes Ro9er-Dtw!SSV Presentation of Historic Or9ttn pfru:Jue Da.n.a Huff, cFta.irma.n OHS Historic Or9a.ns Committee (1873-1954) Suitv cfu Premier Ton Louis-NiwCas Criram6a.uft: Va.ria.tiom Sur un Noef Ma.rcei Dupre GrancL pfein Jeu - Du.o sur res Tiercv (1676-1749) (1886-1971) Trio - Dia£o9u.v sur res Gra.ncL ]eux Va.ria.tiom sur un tflemv dV Climent: ]a.nnequin ] efia.n Afa.in Efeva.tion Fra.n"'is Couperin [v 9rancL (1668-1733) (1911-1940) Chora.Cv PrefudV on J o fia.nn Heinrieh Butt.ffett Lita.nies ] efia.n Afa.in "How Bri9ht!l Shines tfiv Mornin9Sfa.r" (1666-1727) Roma.ncv Sa.m Pa.ro(es Joseph Bonnet: Barbara Bruns is the daughter of Methodist missionaries and was born and raised in Japan where she received her early training in (1884-1944) music. She has studied organ with Yuko Hayashi, Harald Vogel, F119uv in E-j[a.t:, BWV 544 ("St Anne") ]. S. Ba.eh Arthur Poister, and Tom R. Harris. She holds a Bachelor of Music (1685-1750) degree, magna cum laude, from Augustana College, Hock Island, lllinois, and a Master of Music degree with honors from the New ]

William Self served as Organist of the Worcester Art Museum, 1944-1954, and as organist and choirmaster at All Saints Church, NEW Worcyster, 1933-1954. He collaborated with G. Donald Harrison in the design of the Museum's organ. He next went to St. Thomas Church in New York City and remained untill97l. He returned to All From Towerhill Records Saints from 1967 to 1969. At present he serves as Organist Emeritus of St. Thomas. A graduate of the :"Jew England Conservatory of Music, he later studied with Joseph Bonnet who dedicated a historic anthology of JOHN ROSE French music to his pupil. Mr. Self has presented recitals in this ORGAN country and in Europe-notably at King's College, Cambridge and at THE FRENCH ROMANTICS VOL. 4 Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. He was recently cited by the Worces­ ter Chapter of the American Guild of Organists during ceremonies at Mechanics Hall to mark the dedication of the newly re~tored organ. .JOHN Brenda Fraser received her Bachelor of :vtusic and Master of Music PIANO/ORGAN degrees from the Boston University School for the Arts where she ROSE DUETS held a teaching fellowship in the organ department. She has studied DUPRE· FRANCK· BACH organ with George Faxon, Bernard Lagace, Clarence VVatters and Max B. Miller; piano with Leo Abbott, and harpsichord with Mark Kroll. In 1981 B. U. Schoolfor the Arts presented Ms. Fraser with their Honors Award in Organ Performance and elected her a member of Pi Kappa Lambda, a national fraternity of professional muSicians. She is at present organist and choirmaster of Christ Church in (T-1014) Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Active in the Worcester Chapter of the (T-1016) American Guild of Organists, she has served as sub-dean, program Widor: SymphonyV Dupre/ Franck/ Bach chairman, member of the Executive Committee and local coordina­ Towerhill Records, 6000 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90028. tor for ~ational Examinations. She performs frequently in the Boston/Worcester area as organ and harpsichord recitalist and as accompanist. :Most recently she was featured as organ soloist for $8.98 each plus $1.50 per order postage/handling. Catalogue available. the Rededication of the newly restored E. & C. G. Hook Organ at Mechanics Hall in Worcester.

56 81 Worcester Art Museum, VVorcester MESSRS. CZELUSNIAK ET DUGAL, INC. Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Boston, Mass., Op. 1036, 1942 Great: 61 notes, manual J The Worcester Art Museum, designed by PIPE ORGAN TUNING AND MAINTENANCE Quintaton 16' 6lm Earle & Fisher of Worcester, opened in 1898. Bourdon (rohrflute) 8' 61 m Additions in 1921 and 1933, the latter including POST OFFICE BOX 360 SOUTHAMPTON, MA 01073 Principal 4' 6lm the main court, were designed by William AREA CODE 413 527-1295 OR 584-6164 Rohr FlOte 4' 6lm T. Aldrich of Boston. The current addition is Foumiture III-V 285m the design of Architects Collaborative of Cambridge. ----- Superior routine tuning and maintenance for Positif: 61 notes, manual II The gift of Paul B. Morgan, president of the Quintade pipe organs of all makes, ages, and actions 8' 61 m trustees of the \Vorcester Art Museum, the Koppel FlOte 4' 6lm organ was installed shortly before a ban on -----Emergency service any day, any time Nazard 2 2/3' 6lm organ building, occasioned by the Second Doublette 2' 61 m World War, took effect. Conceived as a French - Restoration or renovation of pipework and actions Tierce (tapered) 13/5' 6lm instrument, it was designed by G. Donald Har­ -- Installation of new or relocated pipe organs Larigot 11/3' 6lm rison, president of the Aeolian Skinner Organ Company, in consultation with Joseph Bonnet, - Selected rebuilding projects Recit: 61 notes, manual III Rohr FlOte 8' 61 w&m organist of the Church of St. Eustache, Pari~, ---- Consulting and appraisal services Prestant 4' 6lm and William Self, organist of All Saints Church, Cymbel IV 244m Worcester. Originally planned as a two-manual Cromorne 8' 61m instrument, it gained another manual when M. Bonnet, at a meeting with Mr. Harrison, Mr. Pedal: 32 notes Self, and Mr. Morgan, and not realizing that A Sampling of Instruments under Our Care Rohr Bourdon 16' 32m Mr. Morgan was the donor, suggested that it Quintaton (Gr.) 16' "really should have a third manual division." Principal E.J\..L Skinner Op. 322, 1920 W.B.D. Simmons. c. 1864 8' 32m Mr. Morgan asked if plans for another division 4m, 72r, Electro-Pneumatic 2m. t3r, Mechanicai/Aitererl Quintaton (Gr.) 8' could be ready by breakfast the next day; M. Second Cong. ctJ., Holyoke, !viA SL Matthe\v's KC Ch .. Indian Orchard, MA Nachthorn 4' 32m Bonnet thought they could, and it came to BlockflOte (tapered) 2' 32m pass. M. Bonnet, who was organist of the Gcbr. Oberlinger Orgelbau. 1976 Casavam Freres. Ltee. Op. 927. 1922 Fomniture IV 128m 3m, EJ6r. rvtechanicai/Eiectrical 2m, t2r, Tubular-Pneumatic Posaune 16' 32m L;niv. of Mass., Amherst, Mt\ Sacred I lean KC Ch .. Northampton. MA Trompette 8' 32m Rohr Schalmei 4' 32m Austin organs, Inc. Op. 279/GIS. 1910/15 E. & G.G. !look & Hastings Op. 93S. 1879 Couplers: (hy tablets) 4rn. oor. E-P/Universal 2m, 9r. Mechanical/Relocated Great to Pedal Smilh College, :--Jorthampton, MA Univ. of !\lass., Amherst. MA Positif to Pedal Recit to Pedal Aeolian-Skinner Op. 9ll, 1933 Steere & Turner Op. 305, 1890 Recit to Great 16', 8', 4' 3m. ssr, Electro-Pneurnalic 2m. 9r, Mechanical/Altered Positif to Great 16', 8' Amherst College, Amherst, t\.lA O.L. Annunciation RC Ch., J-lorence. MA Recit to Positif

Johnson & Son Op. 78L 1892 \Vil!iam A. Johnson Op. 95, 1860 Combinations: (hy thumb pistons) 3m. 36r, E-P/Slidcr Chests 1m. 9r, Mechanical General1-2-3-4 (dupl. by toe studs) First Cong. Ch., Monson. MA St. John's Episc. C11., Ashfield. MA Great 1-2-3-4 Recit 1-2-3-4 Setter Geo. Stevens & Co .. 1887 H!. & c.s. Odell. 1872 Positif 1-2-3-4 Cancel 2m. !Gr. Mechanical 1m, 7r, Mechanical/Altered Pedal1-2-3-4 (by toe studs only) First Ev. Cong. Ch., cxbridge, MA r:irsl Cong. Ch .. Sunderland. MA Reversibles: (by thumb pistons) Sforzando } (d l h t t d) Great to Pedal up · Y oe s 11 Positif to Pedal Representing Recit to Pedal Recit to Great Positif to Great

57 The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Worcester

Wicks Organ Co., Highland, Illinois, 1965 chancel organ Great: 61 notes Swell: 61 notes, enclosed Prinzipal 8' 61m Rohr FlOte 8' 6lw&m Holz Gedeckt 8' 61 w E;zahlec (1-12 hR. Fl.) 8' 49m Erzahler (Sw.) 8' Spill Pfeife 4' 61m Prestant (ext) 4' 12m ~azat 22/3' 61m Nachthorn 4' 61 m Block Flute 2' 6lm Flach Flute 2' 61 m SifflOte (ext) I' Yfixture II 122m Dulzian 8' 61 m Dulzian (Sw.) 8' Tremulant Pedal: 32 notes Combinations: (by thumb pistons) Sub Bass 16' 32w Both Greats l-3, cancel Leib. Ged. (Sub Bass & Sw.) 16' Both Swells l-3, cancel Principal (Gr.) 8' Gall. Choir l-3, cancel Rohr Fli:ite (Sw.) 8' Both Pedals 1-3, cancel Quint (Sw.) 51!3' Both Generals 1-6 ( dupl. by toe studs) Ilohl Flute (ext) 4' 24w General Cancel Choral Bass (Gr. 4' & 2') II Reversibles: (by toe studs) Dulzian (Sw.) 8' Great to Pedal (dupl. by thumb piston) Dulzian (Sw.) 4' Full Organ Pedal Movements: Mechanicals: Gallery Swell Expression Pedal Chancel Console Off Gallery Choir Expression Pedal Gallery Organ Off ( exc. Gall. Trompette en Chancel Swell Expression Pedal Chamade) Crescendo Pedal

Qlrrrfittgll J'rnm Hilborne L. Roosevelt, New York, Op. 113, 1883 First Congregational Church, Great Barrington, !vlassachusctts Kttttllttll!

lOOth Anniversary Celebration, 1983 *****

Friday, 24 June, 8 p.m., Ruth Nyden, Organ Recital Tbursday, 30 June and Friday, 1 July, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Open House JAMES 0. HARMS Friday, 1 July, 5-7 p.m., New England Buffet $5.00 Rt. 2, Box 798 Friday, 1 July, 8 p.m., Roberta Bitgood, Organ Recital (in memory of Hans Vigeland) Newton, Kansas 67114 Friday, 14 October, 8 p.m., Earl Miller, Organ Recital, using some selections played by AlbertA. 316-367-2411 Stanley for the inaugural recital, 21 September 1883. Sunday, 16 October, 8 p.m., Sam Walter and Ray Ackerman, Gospel Song Fest (supper beforehand) Friday, 9 December, 8 p.m., Peter Brown, Christmas Organ Concert Builder of church & house organs The three-manual stop-tablet chancel con­ using sole has, in addition to the stops listed above, a dependable complete set of stop and coupler controls for tracker action the gallery organ, identical to those on the Casavant console, except that the liompette en Chamade is not playable independently on the Great or Pedal. ~------~~t 79 museum dmingthe winter of 1942~43, gave the on 24 January 1943, was as follO\vs: Suite, opening recital on IS November 1942. Clerambault; Prelude and Fugue in G Major, At the first of a series of recitals introducing Mendelssohn; Canon in B minor, Schumann; the instrument, G. Donald Harrison delivered ''Ave Maria" (Arkadelt), Liszt; Three Chorale a lecture, with Mr. Self playing musical exam­ Preludes, Brahms; Cathedral Prelude and ples, and closing with Bach's "Credo." On 19 Fugue in E minor, Bach. January 1943, Mr. Self played this program: The entire instrument is in a specially con­ Toccata in A, Purcell; "Benedictus;' and Fugue structed glass room above the main court of on the Kyrie, Couperin; Chorale Prelude "From the museum, and the tone is directed into the God I Ne'er Will Turn Me;' Buxtehude; Cho­ court below. All divisions are unenclosed. The rale Preludes "Hark! A Voice Saith, All Are console, originally located on the balcony, is Mortal" and "When in the Hour of Utmost now on the main floor. Need;' and Prelude and Fugue in G, Bach; ''A Much of the information about this organ is Little Tune;· William Felton; Chorale Prelude quoted or adapted from articles in The "How Brightly Shines Yon Morning Star;' Pachel­ Diapason for I November 1942 and 1 March bel; "Noel" in G, d'Aquin. M. Bonnet's recital 1943.

Trinity Lu.tfie.mn Cfi.u.rcfi, Worcester MollMy, 27 June 1983, 5:00p.m. Eveni119 Prayer, Trinity CFwir arnf Scfwfa Cantoru.m Stepfie.n Lo119, Minister of Music

A description of the. organ wiLT be foum! on page 40.

STEPHEN LONG In gratitude Organist for Conductor "Rheinberger's Concerto in F Major, Op. 137 the dedicated service explored the aura of expressiveness. Long made articulation a high point and avoided a mud­ died interpretation ... keyboard technique is of admirable." -Worcester (Mass.) Sunday Telegram church musicians Mechanics Hall Organ Rededication Program

in "It became evident that determined and long preparation had preceded the performance (of Bach's B-Minor Mass). There was always the The Diocese of Worcester sense of meaningful communication among the podium, the singers and the orchestra." -Worcester (Mass.) Telegram Trinity Lutheran Church 73 Lancaster Street MOST REVEREND BERNARD J FLANAGAN, J CD. July 1983 Worcester, Massachusetts 01609 Tour of Israel and Sweden Noack Organs, Op. 40, 1969, 3-41 Bishop of Worcester with Alton Baggett, trumpet Op. 41, 1967, 1-3

59 War MemoriaL Auditorium, WorceSfer St. Paul's Church, designed by Elbridge Boyden, was started in 1869; the basement was Monday, 27 ]unv 1983, 8:15 p.m. used for services until the church itself was completed (except for the tower) and dedi­ Ear[ L. MilTer, organ cated on 4J uly 1874. The tower was finished in 1889. E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings supplied a I. Sort.iv in E-jf

TIUs concert is lt1.adC. possib[e 6y a gnmt from tfie Historic Organs Recitafs Committee of the Organ Historim[ Society.

MICHAEL D. FRIESEN Research 2450 MAIN STREET GLASTONBURY, CT 06033 GREGG M. TURNER Chicago-Midwest Chapter (203) 633-1643 PRESIDENT

60 77 Tfi.e Ca.tfi.eara[ CFwrch of St. PauL, Worcester EarlL. Miller is the Music Director of the Parish of Christ Church, Andover, Massachusetts; Chapel musician for the Brooks School, Tuesday, 28 June 1983, 5:00p.m. North Andover, Massachusetts; Arts columnist for the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune; and fmmder-directorof the Christ Church Collegium. Even50f19) Tfi.e Catfi.eara[ Choir A member of the Boston and Merrimack Chapters of the American Joseph Po[ice[i) Director of Music Guild of Organists, he is also active in the Organ Historical Society as a writer, recitalist, and chairman of the Society's Historical Organ Recital Series. The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Worcester A collector of organ music from the Victorian-Edwardian period, Mr. Miller has specialized in the performance of this literature and, Casavant Freres Limitee, St. Hyacinth, Quebec, Op. 2419, 1957 each year, presents recitals of this music throughout the United incorporating pipework (marked*) of Johnson & Son, Westfield, Mass., Op. 512, 1878 States. He has also played recitals in Canada, England, Germany, and gallery organ Switzerland, and has been heard in concert over National Public Radio in Washington, D.C., Great: 61 notes Swell: 61 notes, enclosed Maine, Maryland, Virginia, and Massachusetts. He records on the AFKA and RAVEN labels. Flute Conique 16' 61 w *Bourdon 16' 68w *Open Diapason 8' 6Im * Geigen Principal 8' 68m Spitz Principal 8' 61 m *Stopped Diapason 8' 68w *Doppel Flute 8' 61 w *Salicional 8' 68m Gemshorn 8' 61m *Voix Celeste (BG) 8' 6Im *Octave 4' 61m *Flauto Traverso 4' 68 w *IIarmonic Flute 4' 61 w *Violina 4' 68m *Twelfth 2 2/3' 61m Flautino 2' 6Im *Fifteenth 2' 61m Plein Jeu IV 244m *Mixture IV 244m *Contra Fagotto 16' 68m Cymbal III 183m *Cornopian 8' 68m Trompette en Chamade 8' 6lm *Oboe 8' 68m Chimes (prep) Clarion 4' 68m Tremulant Choir: 61 notes, enclosed Pedal: 32 notes *Viola 8' 68m *Open Diapason 16' 32w *Yielodia 8' 68w *Bourdon 16' 32w *Dulciana 8' 68m Flute Conique (Gr.) 16' *Unda Maris (BG) 8' 61 m Lieblich Gedeckt 16' Arnold C. Rathbun (401) 942-5410 *Fugara 4' 68m *Quint 10 2/3' 32w *Flute d'Amour 4' 68m&w *Principal 8' 32m Nazard 2 2/3' 61m *Bass Flute (ext) 8' 12w 463 OAKLAWN AVENUE *Harmonic Piccolo '1/ 61m *Still Gedeckt (Sw.) 8' Tierce 13/5' 61 m *Octave Quint (ext) 5 1/3' 12w CRANSTON, RHODE ISLAND 02920 *Clarinet 8' 68m *Super Octave (ext) 4' 12m 1Iompette en Chamade (Gr.) 8' Mixture III 96m Tremulant Bombarde 16' 32m Representing Fagotto (Sw.) 16' Couplers: Bombarde (ext) 8' 12m Great 8, 4 to Pedal Clarion (ext) 4' 12m Swell 8, 4 to Pedal Trompette en Chamade (Gr.) 8' Choir 8, 4 to Pedal Reversibles: (by thumiJ pistons) Great 4 to Great Great to Pedal ( dupl. by toe stud) Swell16, 8, 4 to Great Swell to Pedal o£9.2 Choir 16, 8, 4 to Great Choir to Pedal Great 8 to Swell Swell to Great SOME RECENT MOLLER PIPE ORGAN INSTALLATIONS IN NEW ENGLAND: Swell16, 8 off, 4 to Swell Choir to Great Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, Holy Angels Church, Barrington, Rl Swell to Choir Swell16, 8, 4 to Choir Providence, Rl St. Joseph's R. C. Church, Peabody, MA Choir 16, 8 off, 4 to Choir Full Organ (toe stud only) Calvin Presbyterian Church, Newman Congregational Church, General Cancel Combinations: (by thumb pistons) Cumberland, Rl Rumford, Rl Adjuster Great 1-5 St. Mary's R. C. Church, Bangor, ME Mercy of God Shrine, Stockbridge, MA Pedal Movements: Swelll-5 St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Natick, MA Slatersville Congregational Church, Rl Choir 1-5 Swell Expression Pedal Pedall-5 Choir Expression Pedal St. Augustine Cathedral, Bridgeport, CT Ceneral1-6 ( dupl. by toe studs) Crescendo Pedal

76 61 St. Peter's Church, Worcester

Casavant Freres Lirnihfe, St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, Op. 2938, 1967 Grand Orgue: 56 notes Recit: 56 notes, enclosed Bourdon 16' 56w FlUte Bouchee 8' 56m Montre 8' 56m Viole de Cambe 8' 56m FlUte a Cheminee 8' 56m Voix Celeste (TC) 8' 44m Prestant 4' 56m Prestant 4' 56m FIU.te Conique 4' 56m FlUte Ouvert 4' 56m Doublette 2: 56m Octavin 2' 56m Comet (TC; 8') v 185m Plein jeu (2') v 280m Fourniture (11/3') IV 224m Bombarde 16' 56m Trompette 8' 56m Trompette 8' 56m Positif: 56 notes Tremolo Bourdon 8' 56w Tirasses Prestant 4' 56m Grand Orgue a Ia Pedale FlUte a F useau 4' 56m Recit a Ia Pedale Positif a Ia Pedal FHhe a Bee 2: 56m Accouplements Larigot 11/3' 56 rn Recit au Grand Orgue Recit au Positif Comet (TC; 2 2/3') II 88m Positif au Grand Orgue Fourniture (2/3') III 168 rn Cymbale (1/4') II 112m Combinations (by thumb pistons) Cromorne 8' 56m Grand Orgue 1-4 Positif 1-4 Tremolo Recit 1-4 Pedale 1-4 Genereaux 1-6 ( dupl. by toe studs) Worcester Memorial Auditorium, Worcester Pedale: 32 notes Cappel (general cancel) Contrebasse 16' 32m W. W. Kimball Co., Chicago, Op. 1119, 1933 Soubasse 16' 32w Reversibles (by toe studs) Bourdon (G.O.) 16' G.O. a Ia Pedale (dupl. by thumb piston) Great: 61 notes, unenclosed Swell: 61 notes, enclosed Octave Basse 8' 32m Grand Jeu #Contra Gemshorn (TC) (ext) 32' Contra Geigen sc50 16' 13m FlUte Couverte 8' 32w Double Diapason 16' 61m >Rohrbourdon (ext) 16' 12w Recit Expression Pedal Basse de Choral 4' 32m #Contra Gemshorn (ext) 16' 12m I Diapason sc41x44 8' 13m Crescendo Pedal Fourniture (2') III 96m I Diapason 8' 61m II Diapason (Geigen)sc46 8' 13m electro-pneumatic action throughout Bombarde 16' 32m II Diapason 8' 61 m Viola da Gamba sc58 8' 13m Trompette 8' 32m III Diapason 8' 61 m Viole d'Orchestre 8' 73m sc43 sc66 Chalumeau 4' 32m #Gemshorn (tapered) sc45 8' 61m Salicional sc55 8' 13m Harmonic Flute 8' 61 m Voix Celeste sc55 8' 13m The cornerstone of the handsome brick Quint 51/3' 61m >RohrflOte sc62 8' 61 m building was placed in 1884, but the upper I Octave sc53 4' 61m Clara bella 8' 73w&m church was not opened for public worship Harmonic Flute 4' 61 m SpitzflOte (tapered) sc47 8' 61m until1893. Designed by P. W. Ford, the build­ Tenth 31/5' 61m Flute Celeste (TC) ing, which cost $60,000, has granite trim and a Twelfth 2 2/3' 61 m (tapered) sc47 8' 61m square tower ninety-eight feet tall. There is a Fifteenth 2' 61m Octave (Geigen) sc57 4' 13m Peal of Bells in the tower, cast by the Meneely Mixture [Plein J eo J v 305m Violina sc67 4' 13m Bell Co. and installed in 1912 by Edward L. Trumpet 8' 61m >Rohrflote (ext) 4' 12m Kehn. The first organ was built by Ceo. S. Great: 61 notes, enclosed Flute THangulaire 4' 73w&m Hutchings, Op. 310, 1893, a two-manual tracker §Contre Basse (open) (ext) 16' 12w Nazard (capped) 22/3' 61m organ with 25registers. Subsequently enlarged IV Diapason sc45 8' 61 m Fifteenth 2' 61m and electrified by George Reed, the organ was Viola (tapered) sc5l/55 8' 61 m >Flautina (ext) 2' 12m sold to a church in New York State to make Bourdon 8' 61 w Tierce (rohrflute) 13/5' 61m way for the new Casavant, the opening recital §Melodia 8' 61 w Mixture [Fourniture] v 305m on which was played by Marie-Claire Alain, 8 II Octave sc56 4' 61m Double 'liumpet 16' 13m October 1967. Flute Ouverte 4' 6lw&m French Trumpet 8' 13m A two-manual Hook & Hastings tracker, Op. Super Octave 2' 61m Cornopean 8' 13m 1654, 1895, built for the South Universalist Harmonics VI 366m Oboe (capped) 8' 13m Church, Worcester, was installed in the chan­ Contra Tromba 16' 61m Vox Humana (add't'l encl.) 8' 146m cel at St. Peter's Church in 1927, by Joseph W. Tromba 8' 61m Clarion 4' 13m Smith of Boylston Centre. In 1965, that organ Tromba Clarion 4' 61m (Ch.) Harp 8' was relocated to the lower church by the two-manual tracker built for the First Univer­ (So.) Chimes 8' (Ch.) Celeste 4' Organ Clearing House, and tonally revised by salist Church, Worcester, subsequently electri­ Tremolo Tremolo the Andover Organ Co., utilizing some pipe­ fied, and dismantled in 1965. The Hook & Vox Humana Vibrato work from Steer & Turner Op. 38, 1871, a large Hastings is still in use in the lower church.

62 75 Choir: 61 notes, enclosed Pedal: 32 notes, enclosed with Gr. or So. St'. Peter's Cliurcli, WorceSEer, Mass. -Double Dulciana (ext) 16" 12m +(Gr.) II Diapason (open) 16' 32 w English Diapason sc44 8' 13m (Sw.) Contra Geigen 16' Tuesdi:L21 28 Junv 1983, 3:30p.m. Violin Diapason 8' 73m (Ch.) Double Dulciana 16' -Dulciana 8' 61 m (Gr.) Contre Basse 16' Cfiri§Ea Rakidi., organ Viola (tapered) sc56x60 8' 73m (Sw.) Lieblich Gedeckt Unda Maris 8' 73m (Rohrbdn) 16" Concert Flute Work.s Bru:ii. 8' 73w&m +(Gr.) II Octave (ext) topen) 8' 12w 6J J.S. Cor de Nuit (capped) 8' 73m (Sw.) Geigen 8' (1685-1750) Principal 4" 73m (Ch.) Dulciana 8' -Dulcet (ext) 4' 12m ++(Gr.) Open Flute 8' 32w Prefudv & FU9UV in D minor, S. 565 Traverse Flute 4' 73w&m (Sw.) Still.Gedeckt (Rohrfl) 8' Nasard 2 2/3' 61m (Sw.) Octave Geigen 4' 3 Cii.orafv Prefude.s from tfu: Leipzig Co[fection: Piccolo (tapered) (harmonic) 2' 61m ++(Gr.) Open Flute (ext) 4' 12w An Wasserffiissen BabyCon, S. 653 -Dolcetin (ext) 2' 12m ~(So.) Trombone 16' 32m Aikin Gott in

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73 St. Couplers: (by stop-key tablets) M echanicals: Peter's Cf1.u.rcf1., WorceSter Great to Pedal 8, 4 Encl. Great to Choir 8 4 balanced expression pedals with selective TuesdltlJ 2S ]unv 1983, 2:00p.m. Swell to PedalS, 4 Swell to Choir 16, S, 4 and master control: Choir to PedalS, 4 Solo to Choir 16, S, 4 Master Expres'n (stop-key tablet, dupl. by Solo to Pedal 8, 4 Great to Solo S thumb piston and toe stud)* Josepf1. Payne, f1.arpsicf1.onL Swell to Great 16, S, 4 Swell to Solo 8, 4 Stage Shutters On/Off (thumb piston) Choir to Great 16, 8, 4 Harp Sust. } . . Bu[[ Solo to Great 16, 8, 4 Chimes Soft (httchdown pedals wlfh LorcL LumCey' s Pavan ancL Ga[iaxcL ]olin Chimes Sust. indicator lights) (c. 1563-1628) Solo to Swell 16, 8, 4 Ut ru mi fa. so[ Ca Unencl. Great to Choir 8 Mezzo} (by thumb pistons.and toe studs, Tfi.u King s Hunt Sforz with indicator lights) Couplers: (by drawknobs) Crescendo, selectively ad;ustable 1-6, with Suitu No. 3 in D minor Georgu Frederick Hank[ (Encl.) Great Unison Off indicator Prii£w:fium - A~Te:Jro - A[emandV (1685-1759) (Encl.) Great Sub 16, Super 4 All Off (thumb piston, cancels everything, Swell Unison Off including crescendo . .. !) Coura.ntu - Air & Va.riations - Pre.ffo Swell Sub 16, Super 4 Current (light) Choir Unison Off GiroCamo Fresco6aG£i 3 Signal Buttons, 2 with lights Tocca.ta. Otta.vCL di dure.zzu u Ciga.turu Choir Sub 16, Super 4 (Libra II, 1637} (1583-1643) Solo Unison Off electro-pneumatic action Solo Sub 16, Super 4 Sonata. in A Frei;mnct' Arrangement of Manuals: Reversibles: (by thumb pistons) I Ch.; II Gr.; III Sw.; IV So. (1730-?) Sw. to Gr. Mateo AC6eniz Ch. to Gr. Sonata. in D So. to Gr. 2 (17?-1831) So. toPed. } Sw. toPed. (dupl. by toe studs) Padru Antonio SoCer Gr. toPed. (1729-83) Ch. toPed. Combinations: Tfiv harpsicFwnL was 6uift' DavuL Jacques VVa_y fir c,eat l-10} Swell1-10 . Choir 1_10 (by thumb ptstons) Solo 1-8 Joseph Payne was born in Mongolia, the son of an Anglican mis­ Pedal1-8 (by toe studs) sionary, and began his musical career as a choirboy in England. He Gen. 1-12 (by thumb pistons; 1-8 dupl. by toe came to the United States in 1954 and, while a student at Hartt studs) College, came under the influence and studied with some of the pioneer figures in the field of early music performance-Fernando Int. Man. and } Ped. Coup's to Comb. b . bl Valenti, the late Wanda Landowska, Luigi Silva, and Josef Marx. y tt 1tmg . ta ets Pe.o d t M an ...Com. b (s w. ) k h k In 1960 he made his debut as a harpsichordist in a joint concert with Ped. to Man. Comb. (Gr.) on ey c ee s John Wummer, then the solo flutist of the New York Philharmonic. Ped. to Man. Comb. (Ch.) *"Master" pedal controls all expression pedals Ever since then he has toured throughout the United States, Canada, 'IIem. Cancel when on. When off, whatever key (Gr., Su:., and Europe. He has received grants and awards from the Martha Coup. Cancel Ch., So.) is in slot 4, will be controlled by the Baird Rockefeller Fund, the Lowell Institute at Harvard University, Gen. Cancel "Master" pedal. the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Peabody­ Mason Foundation. His iecordings have appeared on twelve labels, including RCA, Vox, Decca, and Musical Heritage Society. Mr. Payne has just returned from his eleventh European tour and is currently engaged in recording the sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti. He has lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the last eighteen years. This recital marks his first MOREL ORGAN COMPANY appearance at an AGO or OHS Convention. 3 Generations of Experience Expert Tuning and Maintenance Curators of: Steer & Turner, Op. 70, 1873, Pilgrim Congregational Church, leominster Johnson & Son, Op. 831, 1895, Union Congregational Church, South Grafton The Skinner Organ Co., Op. 781, 1929, St. Bernard's Church. Worcester W. W. Kimball Co., Op. 7119,1933, Memorial Auditorium, Worcester Casavant Freres, Op. 2542, 1959, St. Mark"s School, Southborough Robert G. Morel Jr., Prop. 5 Lennon Road Edinboro, Pennsylvania 16412 Phone { A.C. 814) 734- 37 44 617/643-4054 Arlington, Mass. 02174 New Pipe Organs Rebuilding - Tuning ,. Maintenance

72 65 first Unitarian Cfiurcfi, Worcester TU£Sdfty, 2S June 1983, 9:00 a..m. and 10:45 a.m. Janos Hotvatfi: KodUo/ Worksfiop, Part I

Tfi.e KodftiJ Approacf1 W BuMing Higf1Levrf Musida.nsftip in tfie Irutrumenta[ ancfVoca[ Musician. This demorutration wif[ invo[ve the [istener, Ceaaing him tltrough a process wltich reveaCs tfie para[Cds between vocaf and irutrumenta[ Ceaming.

Janus Horvath, a native of Hungary, is the Music Director of the Kodaly Musical Training Institute at the Hartt School of 11usic, Uni­ versity of Hartford. He is also the Music Director and Conductor of the New Haven Chorale.

Trinity Lutfi.eran Cfiurcfi, Worcester

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66 71 The elegant Art-Deco building, designed by ing was the singing of ·Land of Hope and First Baptist C liurcfi, Worcester Lucius Biggs of Worcester and Frederic C. Glory' to the music of Elgar's 'Pomp and Cir­ Tue.sd. Raleigh. The Sunbury Pre", 1979, p. 364

67 70 THE PROBLEM THE SOLUTION

On the eve of their 300th anniversary, the First Congregational GREAT Church of Bristol, Rhode Island faced a problem. Bourdon 16' Open Diapason 8' Behind an 1856 Hook case which was admirable, with alterations Chimney Flute 8' 4' which were lamentable, lay a 1930 Hook & Hastings organ Octave Fifteenth 2' whose condition was deplorable. The need for a new organ was Mixture IV undeniable. But the things that each party thought suitable Trumpet 8' seemed together to be incompatible. SWELL The minister, mindful that the new tercentennial organ would be Stopped Flote 8' Salicional 8' historical, wanted something TRADITIONAL. Celeste TC 8' Spire Flute 4' The trustees, with a budget of under $100,000., wanted some­ Principal 2' thing AFFORDABLE. Quinte 1-l/3' Oboe 8' The organ committee, looking to the future, wanted something Tremulant DURABLE. PEDAL Open Diapason 16' The congregation wanted to keep the warm sounds of the dying Sub Bass 16' organ. They found them INSPIRATIONAL. Principal Bass 8' Choral Bass 4' The organist wanted brighter sounds, a combination action and Trombone 16' light touch, so it would be MUSICAL, VERSATILE, and Great to Pedal Swell to Pedal PLAYABLE. Swell to Great The choir wanted a detached console so the organist could be FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, BRISTOL, RHODE ISLAND VISIBLE. Commissioned for the church's 300th anniversary in 1980, the new "Tercentennial Organ" incorporates nine ranks of pipes from the previous 1930 electro­ The organbuilders wanted a tracker that would be TASTEFUL, pneumatic Hook & Hastings organ as well as the restored case and facade pipes GRACEFUL, DEPENDABLE, and COMMENDABLE. of the originall856 E.&.G.G. Hook, opus 208. It has mechanical key action and electric stop and combination actions. The detached oak console, of modern design, is situated 10' from the case. Despite the long and complex tracker runs required (26' to 34' going through four sets of squares and a rollerboard for each division), the action is light and responsive. IMPOSSIBLE? INCREDIBLE! ROCHE ORGAN COMPANY, INC. 799 West Water Street Taunton, Massachusetts 02780