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SEPTEMBER 2014 Memorial Presbyterian Church Midland, Michigan Cover Feature on Pages 34–35 THE DIAPASON SEPTEMBER 2014 Memorial Presbyterian Church Midland, Michigan Cover feature on pages 34–35 %HQMDPLQ 6KHHQ “A brilliant organist” (The New York Times) “A brilliantly registered and fascinating performance” (BBC Music Magazine) www.bensheen.com THE DIAPASON Editor’s Notebook Scranton Gillette Communications One Hundred Fifth Year: No. 9, In this issue Whole No. 1258 This month we present Anne Beetem Acker’s report on an SEPTEMBER 2014 important and still evolving issue, that of legislation related to Established in 1909 ivory, a material found in many musical instruments. David Joyce Robinson ISSN 0012-2378 McCleary recounts how Zion Lutheran Church adapted its 847/391-1044; [email protected] 1950s Schlicker organ to its new home in Zion’s new sanctuary, www.TheDiapason.com An International Monthly Devoted to the Organ, and Tan Summers offers a look at 17th-century Iberian battle the Harpsichord, Carillon, and Church Music music repertoire. The Directory is mailed with the January issue of The Diapa- Larry Palmer remembers harpsichordist Joseph Stephens, son. It includes complete information on providers of products CONTENTS and John Bishop offers thoughts on the downside of technol- and services related to the organ and all facets of church music. FEATURES ogy, and on the upside of homogeneity and standardization. The deadline for advertising in the 2015 Resource Directory Baroque Iberian Battle Music for the Organ Gavin Black continues his discussion of hand distribution is November 1. To reserve advertising space, please send an by Tan A Summers 24 and deals with how page turns affect the choice of a hand. Our e-mail to advertising sales director Jerome Butera at jbutera@ The 2014 Ivory Trade and Movement cover feature this month is Orgues Létourneau Limitée’s Opus sgcmail.com, or phone him at 847/391-1045. Restrictions: 122 at Memorial Presbyterian Church, Midland, Michigan. Company and association listings in the Directory are free, New regulations and their effects by Anne Beetem Acker 28 All this is in addition to our regular departments of news so there’s no reason to exclude your organization! If your (people, instruments, and events), reviews, new organs, an company is already listed in the 2014 Directory, please take Parsons Organ Builders Zion Lutheran Church, Mascoutah, Illinois: international calendar, organ recital programs, and more. a moment to check the information. Should your information Saving Schlickers be in need of updating (our apologies, but we do not always by David McCleary 31 2014 Resource Directory know when someone moves!), or if you need to add a listing, NEWS & DEPARTMENTS We have begun preparation of The Diapason 2015 please contact me by phone at 847/391-1044 or e-mail me at Editor’s Notebook 3 Resource Directory, the only publication of its kind in our fi eld. [email protected]. Q Letters to the Editor 3 Here & There 3 Appointments 6 Letters to the Editor Nunc Dimittis 12 Harpsichord News by Larry Palmer 15 Ann Labounsky Dr. Cuyler was deep in the study of Gre- the line between London Paddington In the wind . by John Bishop 20 On Teaching by Gavin Black 22 I enjoyed reading the interview with gorian chant at the time. and Oxford is being modernized, re- Ann Labounsky in the July 2014 Diapa- Dr. Labounsky’s book, Langlais: signalled, line speed upgraded from REVIEWS son. We were at the University of Michi- The Man And His Music, coupled with 100 or 125mph to 140mph, with electric Music for Voices and Organ 16 gan at the same time for a semester. She Marie-Louise Jaquet-Langlais’s biog- trains from 2018. There are good bus Book Reviews 16 mentions Robert Noehren’s class on raphy, Ombre et lumiere, are the main links from London and Heathrow. At New Recordings 17 organ building. I well remember that sources for reading about Jean Langlais. Easter 2015 there is a 10-day engineer- New Organ Music 19 class and the diffi culty of understanding, Norma Stevlingson, DMA ing possession at Reading and through NEW ORGANS 36 much less memorizing, the composition Professor Emerita most of August 2015 major chunks of the CALENDAR 37 of mixtures! University of Wisconsin-Superior line will be closed at weekends, all part ORGAN RECITALS 40 I, too, heard André Marchal at Ober- of the same work. An extra connection lin, fall semester, 1961. Hearing him play from London Marylebone via Aylesbury CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING 42 early French music is what convinced to North Oxford is being built, and even- me ultimately to leave Oberlin and seek tually there will be a link there, but not instruction elsewhere. I still have an LP for a while yet. of him playing the Couperin Convent It’s been a good month—I also took Mass. Never mind that the registrations part in an Organ Club visit to the and a few other details are not what we Royal Festival Hall on 2nd July—and now understand about early French was able to play the last movement of music. As Dr. Labounsky says, he “just Mendelssohn Sonata 6—many more knew” that music. While it is true that players there! we usually think of Marie-Claire Alain as Mark Jameson the leader in early organ music, after she Jonathan Holl & Jill York at the Dobson The Organ Club fi nished at the Paris Conservatory she Charvil, Reading, U.K. COVER herself went to Marchal to further her Dobson organ at Merton College Orgues Létourneau Limitée, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada; Memorial Presbyterian own studies. I had the great privilege of playing In the wind . Church, Midland, Michigan 34 Hearing Dr. Labounsky talk about this organ on 12th July. As a member of This is just a general commendation her plans to study in France was in part the Berkshire Organists’ Association we for The Diapason, which carries on its what made me wish to study there. Her were told that we were the fi rst organ- tradition wonderfully well. Editorial Director JOYCE ROBINSON [email protected] description of traveling by ship bought ists’ association visit to be able to use In particular, I appreciate John 847/391-1044 back my own memories. When my dear it—it’s super! I used and took my copy of Bishop’s “In the Wind . .”, and always Editor-at-Large STEPHEN SCHNURR friend, Bob Griffi th, and I were ready The Diapason to the college, and sev- look forward to it each month. He is not [email protected] to head to Europe, we traveled aboard eral others were very impressed by the only a good writer, but obviously a man 219/531-0922 the original “Queen Elizabeth.” What standard in the journal. The photograph of experience and thoughtfulness; each Sales Director JEROME BUTERA an experience. shows BOA [and Organ Club] member article may start from an organist’s view- [email protected] At Michigan, before the new School of Jonathan Holl playing with Jill York turn- point but ventures into thoughts about 608/634-6253 Music building was constructed on the ing pages. Jonathan is President Elect all sorts of interesting things. Please Circulation/Subscriptions VY DUONG North Campus, classes often met high [takes over in May 2015] and Jill was keep him happy and give him a raise if [email protected] up in Burton Tower. That is where were President for 2011 and 2012. he needs it! 847/391-1043 held the classes with Bach scholar, Hans If readers are planning visits to Oxford Philip Gehring, FAGO Designer DAN SOLTIS T. David (The Bach Reader), and Louise —please, if using trains, and particu- Professor Emeritus of Music Associate Editor LYNNE FORT Cuyler, which Dr. Labounsky mentions. larly at weekends—do look carefully, as Valparaiso University Contributing Editors LARRY PALMER Harpsichord Here & There JAMES MCCRAY Choral Music Events St. Chrysostom’s Church, Chicago Josefi en Stoppelenburg, soprano; May 3, BRIAN SWAGER St. John’s Cathedral, Denver, Colo- announces its 2014–15 concerts, Sundays David Jonies, with Thomas Aláan, coun- Carillon rado, announces its concerts: September at 2:30 p.m.: September 14, Richard tertenor. For information: https://sites. JOHN BISHOP 9, Simon Estes, bass baritone; 9/19, Hoskins, celebrating the Fisk organ’s google.com/site/musicatstchrysostoms/. In the wind . Anonymous 4; 9/21, Silver Ainomäe, tenth anniversary; 9/28, Nathan Laube; GAVIN BLACK cello; October 3, St. Martin’s Chamber October 5, András Gábor Virágh; 10/19, Campbellsville University announces On Teaching Choir; 10/14, Doug Roche Jazz Trio; Wayward Sisters; November 2, Mario its 7th annual noon organ recital series, to Reviewers Mark Konewko 10/17, Boulder Bach Festival; 10/19, Duella; January 25, Roger Stanley; Febru- be held 12:20 p.m. on the Pomplitz organ John L. Speller Danielle Guideri, cello; 10/24, Dorothy ary 8, Choir of St. Chrysostom’s Church; in Our Lady of Perpetual Help, and on the John Collins Papadakos, silent fi lm accompaniment. March 1, Richard Clemmit and Jay 1894 Farrand & Votey organ in Ransdell Jay Zoller For information: sjcathedral.org/music. Peterson; April 12, Stephen Alltop, with ³ page 4 Kenneth Udy THE DIAPASON (ISSN 0012-2378) is published monthly by Scranton Gillette Communications, Inc., 3030 W. 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