November 2019 Cypher
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The CYPHER Newsletter of the Southern Arizona Chapter American Guild of Organists Volume 39, Number 3 Chapter Website: www.saago.org November 2019 Programs at a November: Non-winded Organ Crawl glance through Saturday, November 16, 10:30 a.m.—3 p.m. January 18 Admission or suggested donation for some events Join your fellow chapter members for an interesting organ crawl, Fauré Requiem visiting and playing some Saturday, Nov. 2, 7 p.m. excellent non-winded St. Philip’s in the Hills instruments, both analog and Episcopal Church electronic. Shin-Young Lee, Organ Everyone is invited! A short presentation by each of the host organists will be Friday, Nov. 15, 7 p.m. followed by an open console affording participants an opportunity to play the Catalina United Methodist instruments. Be sure to bring some music. Church The tour will begin at Resurrection Lutheran Church, 11575 N 1st Ave, Oro Non-Winded Organ Crawl Valley at 10:30 am. Since this is a local tour, we are not organizing a carpool Saturday, Nov. 16, 10:30 a.m. meeting spot. Members who wish to carpool are free to do so. The churches/ Resurrection Lutheran instruments will be visited in the following order: Church St. Andrews Presbyterian Resurrection Lutheran Church (10:30 a.m.), three-manual Rodgers digital st Church 11575 N 1 Ave, Oro Valley Tanque Verde Lutheran Church St. Andrews Presbyterian Church (12-1:15 p.m.), four-manual Allen digital 7650 N Paseo Del Norte Jean-Pierre Gabriels, Organ Tanque Verde Lutheran Church (1:45-3 p.m.), two-manual A.O.B. analog Sunday, Nov 17, 4 p.m. 8625 E. Tanque Verde Road Pre-Evensong Recital St. Philip’s in the Hills Larry Kuipers will have coffee and other beverages and light snacks available Episcopal Church at Resurrection Church. But bring along a sack lunch. Following the visit to Resurrection Lutheran Church, we will proceed to St. Andrews and then to Celebrate the Holidays Tanque Verde Lutheran. Sunday, Dec. 8, 6 p.m. Dean Larry Kuiper’s home Please email Larry Kuipers at [email protected] if you plan to attend so we know how many people to expect. Jeffrey Campbell, Organ Sunday, Dec. 15, 4 p.m. A few words about the instruments: Pre-Evensong Recital St. Philip’s in the Hills Resurrection Lutheran (10:30-11:45) Episcopal Church Larry Kuipers, organist. A Composer’s Perspective The Rodgers INIFINITY 361 Series Digital Organ was installed in Resurrection with Gerald Near. Lutheran Church in October of 2018. The organ has three manuals, 61 Saturday, Jan. 18, 10 a.m. engraved stops, 135 Voice Palette™ voices, 121 Library pipe organ voices, St. Michael and All Angels Continued on page 4. Episcopal Church -1- AMERICAN GUILD OF ORGANISTS SOUTHERN ARIZONA CHAPTER P.O. Box 31315 Tucson, AZ 85751-1315 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE DEAN Larry Kuipers 308-5651 [email protected] Stardust (Dusty) Johnson, Editor 520-323-7856 SUB DEAN/PROGRAM CHAIR Jared Aragón 505 720-9483 [email protected] [email protected] SECRETARY & TREASURER NOTE: Chapter members are invited to submit information about their David Horr 822-7808 special programs to be included in The CYPHER. If you have [email protected] programs you would like included, we would like to hear from you! PAST DEAN/PLACEMENT Please send program descriptions, along with pertinent information— Douglas Leightenheimer 910-515-2404 title, date, location, time, brief description, cost, and photos—to Dusty [email protected] Johnson, CYPHER editor. The information will appear in the print edition as well as in the online edition. Material may be edited as MEMBERSHIP Janet Tolman 888-3173 needed. [email protected] ADVERTISING Deadlines for the 2019-2020 season are HOSPITALITY November 15 Joyce Swinehart 207-0785 December 15 [email protected] January 15 EDITOR, THE CYPHER February 15 Dusty Johnson 323-7856 March 15 [email protected] April 15 PUBLICITY/PROMOTIONS Lars Andersen 909-9038 Please email information to [email protected] Dusty Johnson, editor, at [email protected] by the published deadlines. You may LIAISON, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA also send it via U.S. mail. Pamela Decker 327-2169 Advertising space available [email protected] Full page, $150; Half page (horizontal), $100 MEMBER-AT-LARGE Quarter page (vertical), $75; Business card size, $50 Grahame Davis 437-8906 Contact Larry Kuipers, Dean ([email protected]) [email protected] MEMBER-AT-LARGE Catharine Kennedy 744-9965 [email protected] CHAPLAIN o play only what is written is the domain of science. To The Rev. Bailey Pickens 325-1001 T realize what is not written is the domain of art. [email protected] —Jean Langlais. ARIZONA/SOUTHERN NEVADA DISTRICT CONVENER Kristin Prouty 480-964-8606 [email protected] AGO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR NATIONAL PRESIDENT WEST REGION COUNCILOR James Thomashower Michael Bedford Mathew Burt 212-870-2311 918-346-8104 650-283-7512 -2- Dear Southern Arizona Chapter Members, honestly, in a crazed society where you can be violently assaulted for simply voting the “wrong way”, Heartfelt thanks to Lynn Moser and Ray Ryder for all who can you really trust, are any of us ever safe their hard work in presenting a very successful Pedals, anymore?) Pipes and Pizza this year. We had a number of children and a few adults join Lynn and Ray at the However, back when I was a little kid, I recall going organ of Trinity Presbyterian Church to learn more trick-or-treating with adult supervision maybe only the about the King of Instruments. first few times on Halloween night—when I was 6 or 7. When I was a little older, I was part of the typical Also, thank you to everyone who helped make our marauding gang of witches, werewolves, vampires, annual Showcase Concert a great success, as and ghosts who went door to door through the well. As one member noted, "It was perhaps the finest neighborhood. The only possible danger we faced showcase concert given by the chapter in 55 years of was stumbling over something in the dark, falling down membership." We are blessed to have so many and spilling our cherished cargo of confections all over talented people willing to share their gifts with all of the ground. us. Special thanks to Lynn Moser and Trinity Presbyterian Church for hosting both events. For that matter, growing up in rural Massachusetts, we had no fear of anything. I don’t think my mom and dad And Now Happy Halloween! Like many of you, I ever supervised where I was or what I was doing for suspect, I have choir rehearsal on Thursday evenings, most of my childhood. They knew my friends and their so this year I was not able to answer the door for the families and that we were riding bikes or playing throngs of bizarrely-clad-candy-lovers. My folks were somewhere in the vast woods and ponds that home, so they manned the front door and evenly surrounded our neighborhood. My only requirements distributed the goods. Seems we had about the same were to stay out of trouble and be home by dark or amount of kids at the door as last year, which was shortly thereafter. Violation of these two simple rules really not all that many. I don’t think we went through was met with severe consequences. It was a lesson more than 2 or 3 bags of candy, not much when I quickly learned and faithfully adhered to. It was a compare that to friends of mine in Detroit who regularly much simpler and safer world in the 1970s. I miss go through almost 100 bags a year. I don’t know ‘bout that. you, but I would be locking the door and turning off the lights after the 10th bag was empty. No way would I be Well, there is one exception to the enchanting tales of investing several hundred bucks in free candy for kids the bygone Halloweens of my blissful, back-woods who probably didn’t even live in my neighborhood. childhood: when I was about 13 or so (which, admittedly, is a little old to be trick-or-treating) my best Now in days, it seems the “trunk-or-treat” events in friend, Jonathan Nydam and I, went out collecting local church and school parking lots are the big draw. mountains of candy all over the place—just the two of Having everything in one place with constant us. We accumulated an enormous stash of treats, so supervision is more appealing to parents. (I suppose much so it felt like we had robbed a candy store and this is somewhat understandable given the level of mass insanity now plaguing the general public; Continued on page 8 -3- installed in 1989 . There are 48 speaker cabinets, six of which are dedicated for the low pedal stops. It has a full range of couplers, separate expression, six memory Non-winded organ crawl continued from page 1 levels, 10 generals and six and 59 Library orchestral voices. All of the voices are divisionals per independently adjustable, so that one can increase or manual and decrease the brightness, warmth, prominence, and pedal. The total volume of each ensemble sound stop. One can of this organ is also transpose the absolutely pitch of each stop stunning as are from unison to +/- the individual two octaves. stops. Lars Within that 4- favorite stop is the 8' Krummhorn. The sanctuary has a octave range, the natural reverberation of 1.8 seconds! actual pitch can be adjusted up or Gabriel Fauré Requiem down by the half- Friday, Nov.