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THE DIAPASON JANUARY 2013 St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral Minneapolis, Minnesota Cover feature on pages 30–31 'DYLG%DVNH\¿HOG James David Christie Peter Richard Conte Lynne Davis Isabelle Demers Clive Driskill-Smith Jeremy Filsell S. Wayne Foster Christopher Houlihan David Hurd Paul Jacobs Martin Jean Huw Lewis Bruce Neswick Raúl Prieto Ramírez Jean-Baptiste Robin John Rose Herndon Spillman Carole Terry Konstantin Volostnov Bradley Welch CONCERTARTISTS.COM 72:(5+,//5(&25',1*6&20 William Whitehead The Chenaults Paulsson & Canning Organized Rhythm Chanson Due Solisti Duo MusArt Tin Pan Alley Alive Peter Fletcher Paul Bisaccia Steinbach & Helvey True North Brass THE DIAPASON Editor’s Notebook Scranton Gillette Communications One Hundred Fourth Year: No. 1, In this issue Whole No. 1238 Among the offerings in this issue of THE DIAPASON, JANUARY 2013 Jonathan Hall revisits the question of the authorship of BWV Established in 1909 565—the famous Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, long attrib- Jerome Butera ISSN 0012-2378 uted to J. S. Bach. His article summarizes and critiques key 847/391-1045; [email protected] points of that debate, taking the position that J. S. Bach is not www.TheDiapason.com An International Monthly Devoted to the Organ, the composer, and suggests a possible candidate composer: the Harpsichord, Carillon, and Church Music Cornelius Heinrich Dretzel of Nuremberg (1697–1775). departments of news, reviews, new organs, an international David Spicer reports on the 15th annual Albert Schweitzer calendar, organ recital programs, and more. Organ Festival, which took place in September 2012. Robert CONTENTS August offers a report on the 2012 national convention of the In preparation American Guild of Organists, which took place in July 2012 In the coming months, we will be publishing articles on organs FEATURES in Nashville, Tennessee. The cover feature is Foley-Baker’s in Poland, reports on the national convention of the Organ His- American Guild of Organists National Convention 2012 renovation of the organ at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral torical Society, the Second East Texas Pipe Organ Festival, and Confessions of a Puritan in Minneapolis. the University of Michigan Conference on Organ Music, Copen- by Robert August 20 John Bishop devotes his column “In the wind . .” to the hagen’s Orgelsamling, interviews, and much more. Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival repurposing of churches and the disposition of the organs that Fifteenth Anniversary are no longer needed or desired. Gavin Black offers part four of New look by David Spicer 23 his organ method, fi nishing off the Introduction with a descrip- We continue to receive many phone calls and e-mail messages BWV 565: tion of various organ stops and pitches and the means used to about the redesign of THE DIAPASON. I welcome responses Composer Found?* by Jonathan B. Hall 24 control them, including couplers, tremulants, expression and to the new look. To help us continue to evaluate and refi ne our crescendo pedals. He begins the method’s Chapter 1 with an new layout and design, we will be sending out a survey to all NEWS & DEPARTMENTS introduction to pedal playing. Brian Swager offers an install- our readers via e-mail. I hope you will take the time to fi ll in the Editor’s Notebook 3 ment of “Carillon News.” This is in addition to our regular survey and let us know how we are doing. Q Letters to the Editor 3 Here & There 3, 4, 6, 8, 10 Appointments 10 Letters to the Editor Nunc Dimittis 11 Carillon News by Brian Swager 10 Gustav Leonhardt memory in that it can store and retrieve data in the form of In the wind . by John Bishop 12 On Teaching by Gavin Black 14 Jan-Piet Knijff’s excellent interview with Gustav Leonhardt binary numbers (representing piston combinations), none of (The Diapason, November 2012) harks back to our years in these binary numbers represents (coded) computer instruc- REVIEWS Amsterdam, where, over 50 years ago, my brother Felix and I, tions (a program) to be retrieved and executed by a central Music for Voices and Organ 16 both in our early twenties, worked in Gerard de Graaf’s organ processing unit. In the absence of both a program and a CPU, New Recordings 16 shop. (The shop was situated in the middle of a small red-light the answer to John’s question, alas, is no. New Organ Music 17 district, facing a Catholic church and rented by the priests, who In contrast, Charles Babbage’s (1791–1871) difference Book Reviews 17 preferred the sight of organ models to other models in the win- engine does qualify as a user-programmable computer. NEW ORGANS 30 dow across the narrow street, called Korte Korsjespoortsteeg. .) Although mechanical in operation, it had separate memory CALENDAR 31 After a fi rst harpsichord had just been completed in our shop, for data and program and a processing unit that Babbage Mr. Leonhardt visited the new instrument, but, much to the evocatively called “the mill.” As to the world’s fi rst commer- ORGAN RECITALS 34 dismay of our boss and George Zahl, his newly appointed harp- cially produced computer, my vote goes to the Ferranti Mark CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING 36 sichord maker, Leonhardt’s comment was: “This instrument 1 delivered in February of 1951 and based on the Manchester 2012 in Review—An Index 38 has very little to do with real harpsichords!” Mark 1 developed by Tom Kilburn and F.C. Williams at the However, Mr. Leonhardt was very kind towards us, and University of Manchester in 1948. invited my brother, a cabinetmaker converting to instrument John Coenraads THE DIAPASON making, and me to visit his collection of harpsichords. Among Victoria, British Columbia, Canada JANUARY 2013 other plucked instruments was a virginal by Hubbard & Dowd (possibly a fi rst order coming from Europe!), a Skowroneck, Call from Haarlem for materials and a Kirkman harpsichord, of which we were even allowed to On the occasion of the 50th edition of the Haarlem Inter- take the measurements. We appreciated the honesty and the national Organ Festival in July 2014, an English-language friendliness of this great artist, who kept on seeing us and our book will be published by Musikverlag Dr. J. Butz (Bonn). instruments over the years. Prominent authors from a number of countries will write on Hellmuth Wolff many aspects of ‘Haarlem’—the town, its organs, the compe- St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral Minneapolis, Minnesota Cover feature on pages 30–31 Laval, Quebec, Canada tition, the summer academy—and on more general matters concerning the organ and its repertoire. The chief editor is COVER New design of THE DIAPASON Paul Peeters (Göteborg). Foley-Baker, Inc., Tolland, Connecticut; The redesign of The Diapason is very good, and the new Since the very fi rst improvisation competition in 1951 and St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, color format and stock most appealing. Congratulations for the fi rst summer academy in 1955, many thousands of young Minneapolis, Minnesota 28 making a welcome and thoughtful publication even more so. organists have visited the Haarlem festival. A considerable Craig Smith amount of memorabilia is probably spread around the world— Albuquerque, New Mexico documents, photographs and suchlike—that could be of Editor & Publisher JEROME BUTERA signifi cance for the anniversary publication. If you have such [email protected] Skinner combination action material in your possession you are kindly invited to contact the 847/391-1045 John Bishop raises a provocative issue when he asks whether festival secretary Stephen Taylor via [email protected] Associate Editor JOYCE ROBINSON Skinner’s combination actions qualify as “user-programmable without delay. [email protected] computers” (“In the wind,” November 2012). Although the Stephen Taylor 847/391-1044 combination action in question would qualify as a computer Utrecht, the Netherlands Designer DAN SOLTIS Contributing Editors LARRY PALMER Here & There Harpsichord JAMES MCCRAY Events 1/27, Sounding Light choral group; Gary; February 5, Marilyn Ossentjuk; Choral Music Shadyside Presbyterian Church, February 3, Haydn, Mass in G; 2/24, 2/19, Irene Beethe; March 5, Rhonda BRIAN SWAGER Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, continues the Christ Church Schola; March 29, Bach, Edgington; 3/19, Suzanne Tiemstra; Carillon 20th anniversary season of its music St. John Passion; April 21, Easter Les- April 2, Barbara Dulmage; 4/16, Chris series: January 6, Pittsburgh Camerata; sons & Carols; 4/28, afternoon at the Dekker; 4/30, Ian Sadler; May 14, James JOHN BISHOP February 1, Pittsburgh Gospel Choir; opera; May 19, choral and orchestral R. Metzler. For information: 616/459- In the wind . 2/24, Chanticleer; March 3, Evensong; music of Handel. For information: 3203 x24; www.parkchurchgr.org. GAVIN BLACK May 5, Four Choirs Festival. For infor- www.christchurchgp.org. On Teaching mation: www.shadysidepres.org. St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, Park Congregational Church, New York, continues its series of organ John L. Speller Reviewers Christ Church, Grosse Pointe Grand Rapids, Michigan, continues its recitals, Sundays at 5:15 pm: January 13, Jay Zoller Farms, Michigan, continues its music fall concert series on Tuesdays at 12:15 Tom Bell; 1/20, John Richardson; 1/27, Anton Warde series: January 6, Epiphany Procession; pm: January 8, Peter Kurdziel; 1/22, Joel ³ page 4 THE DIAPASON (ISSN 0012-2378) is published monthly by Scranton Gillette Communications, Inc., 3030 W. Salt Creek This journal is indexed in the The Music Index, and abstracted in RILM Abstracts. Lane, Suite 201, Arlington Heights, IL 60005-5025. Phone 847/391-1045. Fax 847/390-0408. E-mail: [email protected]. Copyright ©2013. Printed in the U.S.A. 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