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View PDF Editionarrow Forward T H E DIAPASON APRIL 2019 American Organ Institute University of Oklahoma Norman, Oklahoma Cover feature on pages 22–23 PHILLIP TRUCKENBROD CONCERT ARTISTS ANTHONY & BEARD ADAM J. BRAKEL THE CHENAULT DUO PETER RICHARD CONTE CONTE & ENNIS DUO LYNNE DAVIS ISABELLE DEMERS CLIVE DRISKILL-SMITH DUO MUSART BARCELONA JEREMY FILSELL MICHAEL HEY HEY & LIBERIS DUO CHRISTOPHER HOULIHAN DAVID HURD SIMON THOMAS JACOBS MARTIN JEAN HUW LEWIS RENÉE ANNE LOUPRETTE LOUPRETTE & GOFF DUO ROBERT MCCORMICK BRUCE NESWICK ORGANIZED RHYTHM RAéL PRIETO RAM°REZ JEAN-BAPTISTE ROBIN ROBIN & LELEU DUO BENJAMIN SHEEN HERNDON SPILLMAN CAROLE TERRY JOHANN VEXO BRADLEY HUNTER WELCH JOSHUA STAFFORD THOMAS GAYNOR 2016 2017 LONGWOOD GARDENS ST. ALBANS WINNER WINNER IT’S ALL ABOUT THE ART ǁǁǁ͘ĐŽŶĐĞƌƚĂƌƟƐƚƐ͘ĐŽŵ 860-560-7800 ŚĂƌůĞƐDŝůůĞƌ͕WƌĞƐŝĚĞŶƚͬWŚŝůůŝƉdƌƵĐŬĞŶďƌŽĚ͕&ŽƵŶĚĞƌ THE DIAPASON Editor’s Notebook Scranton Gillette Communications One Hundred Tenth Year: No. 4, 20 Under 30 Whole No. 1313 We thank all those who submitted nominations for our Class APRIL 2019 of 2019. We are impressed by the number of f ne nominations Established in 1909 for the brightest and most promising our young leaders in the Stephen Schnurr ISSN 0012-2378 f eld of the organ, church music, harpsichord, and carillon. 847/954-7989; [email protected] To see the 20 Under 30 Class of 2019, visit The Diapason www.TheDiapason.com An International Monthly Devoted to the Organ, website (www.thediapason.com, click on “20 Under 30”). Next the Harpsichord, Carillon, and Church Music month’s issue will include in-depth entries and photographs of In “Harpsichord Notes,” Larry Palmer reprises various front- each member of the class. cover features of the harpsichord in the history of The Diapa- CONTENTS son. All of the issues mentioned are presently available at our Summer events FEATURES website (www.thediapason.com), enabling you to learn more Twelfth International Organ and Early Don’t forget to send me information about summer organ about how informative The Diapason has been through the Music Festival, Oaxaca, Mexico, and carillon recitals and choral events at your church, univer- decades. John Bishop, in “In the Wind . .,” writes about early February 14–21, 2018 by Cicely Winter 16 sity, or other venue. We have a number of events to share with electro-pneumatic action organs and their elaborate switching you, beginning with our May issue. systems. In “On Teaching,” Gavin Black begins a discussion of William Albright, Whistler (1834–1903): Three Nocturnes listening to music. We present our annual list of summer con- by Sarah Mahler Kraaz 20 In this issue ventions, conferences, seminars, and workshops, as well. The f rst International Late Medieval and We are pleased to present a report on the Twelfth Inter- Our cover feature is a f rst for The Diapason—instead of Renaissance Music Course, San Marino, national Organ and Early Music Festival at Oaxaca, Mexico, showcasing an organ, we learn about the program of organ August 27–September 2, 2018 by Cecily Winter. This biennial festival is always a fascinating studies at the American Organ Institute of the University of by Eva Moreda 21 event with excellent music, historic organs, and colorful local Oklahoma at Norman. This not your usual organ department, NEWS & DEPARTMENTS experiences. Eva Moreda reports on the f rst International as the program of studies has unique aspects such as the study Editor’s Notebook 3 Late Medieval and Renaissance Music Course, held in San of theatre organ playing and of organbuilding and maintenance. Here & There 3 Marino. And Sarah Mahler Kraaz reviews a new score of Wil- In “Organ Projects,” we learn about a Wicks organ that has a Appointments 6 liam Albright’s Whistler (1834–1903): Three Nocturnes. new life in a church in Ohio. Nunc Dimittis 8 Carillon Prof le by Kimberly Shafer 8 On Teaching by Gavin Black 10 Here & There Harpsichord Notes by Larry Palmer 12 In the wind . by John Bishop 14 People churches and cathedrals around the The University of Michigan REVIEWS world and in academic institutions. Women of Color in the Academy New Recordings 13 Among her former students are the Project presented its eighth annual founding conductors of Grammy-nom- Shirley Verrett Award to Tiffany Ng ORGAN PROJECTS 24 inated choirs Conspirare, Roomful of on February 21. Ng is assistant professor SUMMER CONFERENCES 24 Teeth, and Seraphic Fire. of carillon and university carillonist at CALENDAR 26 Brooks has also been an active clinician, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. RECITAL PROGRAMS 29 guest conductor, master-teacher, and jurist She holds a doctorate in musicology and CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING 30 in North and South America, Europe, new media studies from the University and Asia. The Connecticut chapter of the of California, Berkeley, and earned a American Choral Directors Association master’s degree in organ performance Marguerite Brooks (photo credit: Robert A. has honored her with its 2016 Lifetime from Eastman School of Music and an T H E Lisak) DIAPASON Achievement Award. She was also hon- artist diploma from the Royal Belgian APRIL 2019 ored recently as a Woman in History by Carillon School, Mechelen, Belgium. The Yale Institute of Sacred Music, the Barnard School, and in 2015 Dean Her concert career has taken her to festi- New Haven, Connecticut, announces Robert Blocker awarded her the Cultural vals in f fteen countries in Europe, Asia, the retirement of Professor Marguerite Leadership Citation from the Yale School Australia, and North America, where she L. Brooks at the end of the 2019–2020 of Music for distinguished service to music. has premiered over forty acoustic and academic year. Brooks has led both the For information: https://ism.yale.edu. electro-acoustic works. She also serves program in choral conducting and the on the faculty of the North American Yale Camerata since 1985. Carillon School. As founding conductor of the Yale The award was created in 2011 by the Camerata, one of Yale’s f rst campus/city Off ce of the Senior Vice Provost in honor American Organ Institute arts collaborations, Brooks has led nearly of the late Shirley Verrett, who was a University of Oklahoma Norman, Oklahoma Cover feature on pages 22–23 200 musical performances featuring James Earl Jones Distinguished Univer- wide-ranging programming. The Cam- sity Professor of Voice at the University erata and its associated chamber choir of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & COVER American Organ Institute, have performed music from the Middle Dance. The award recognizes a faculty University of Oklahoma; Ages to the present day. member whose teaching, performance, Norman, Oklahoma 22 For over thirty years, the Yale Cam- scholarship, or service supports the suc- erata and Chamber Chorus have brought cess of female students or faculty in the together students, faculty, and staff from arts who come from diverse cultural and Editorial Director STEPHEN SCHNURR and Publisher [email protected] virtually every department and school at racial backgrounds. For information: 847/954-7989 Yale as well as hundreds of Connecticut www.umich.edu. residents to collaborate as part of the Gregory Zielke and Jeannine Jordan President RICK SCHWER [email protected] ensemble and with the Yale Glee Club, 847/391-1048 Yale Schola Cantorum, Yale Philharmo- Jeannine Jordan, organist and nar- Competitions nia, Yale Symphony Orchestra, Hartford rator, and David Jordan, media artist, Longwood Gardens, Kennett Editor-at-Large ANDREW SCHAEFFER [email protected] Symphony Orchestra, Yale Concert Band, presented their organ and multimedia Square, Pennsylvania, announces com- New Haven Chorale, and other groups. program, From Sea to Shining Sea, as petitors for its 2019 International Organ Sales Director JEROME BUTERA They have been featured on National part of the Performing Arts Series at Competition: Rashaan Allwood, [email protected] Public Radio’s Performance Today and Tabor College, Hillsboro, Kansas, on Bryan Anderson, Tyler Boehmer, 608/634-6253 Circulation/ on local Connecticut Public Radio. Veterans’ Day, November 11, 2018. Thomas Gaynor, A. Nathaniel Subscriptions ROSE GERITANO Brooks has long been a champion of Gregory Zielke, arts director and Gumbs, Sebastian Heindl, Chase [email protected] new music, often emphasizing women professor of music, was the host for the Loomer, Colin MacKnight, Justin 847/391-1030 composers. In 2020, a new major cho- college. Jordan was also invited by Jes- Maxey, and Grant Wareham. All Designer KIMBERLY PELLIKAN ral work by Pulitzer Prize winner Julia sica Klanderud, chair of the history competitors will participate in the pre- [email protected] Wolfe celebrating the centenary of department, to present a lecture on liminary rounds June 18–19, with the 847/391-1024 women’s suffrage in the United States the historical research methods used to top f ve competitors competing in the Contributing Editors LARRY PALMER will be premiered in New Haven. discover the anecdotes that make the f nal round on June 22, in the ballroom Harpsichord Many of Brooks’s students have occu- storyline of From Sea to Shining Sea. For of Longwood Gardens. Anderson and pied positions of musical leadership at information: www.promotionmusic.org. page 4 BRIAN SWAGER Carillon THE DIAPASON (ISSN 0012-2378) is published monthly by Scranton Gillette Routine items for publication must be received six weeks in advance of the month of JOHN BISHOP Communications, Inc., 3030 W. 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