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Laura Schlappa of Cuxhaven, , won the 10th Northern Ireland Inter- Cecilia McDowell with her Ivor Novello national Organ Competition (NIIOC), which took place virtually at the end of Award for Outstanding Works Collection November 2020, with an online results ceremony taking place via Zoom on December 9. Second place went to Jonas Schauer, and third place to Josua Velten, both also Works Collection. Presented at from Germany. Joshua Simoes from the UK and Hannes von Bargen from Ger- the Ivors Composer Awards 2020 on Nathan Laube (photo credit: Joseph Routon) many were both highly commended. The Dame Gillian Weir Medal for an outstand- December 1, the awards were broad- ing performance of one piece not by Bach went to Ilaria Centorrino from Italy, and cast on BBC Radio 3. Since 1956, the Nathan Laube is appointed to the the Bach Prize went to another competitor from Germany, Johannes Güdelhüfer. Ivor Novello Award has been a peer- organ faculty at the Staatliche Hoch- Fifteen young performers from five countries reached the final round of NIIOC recognition award in songwriting and schule für Musik und Darstellende 2020. When it became clear that the challenges presented by Covid-19 restrictions composition, established to recognize Kunst, Stuttgart, Germany, succeeding meant the organists could not travel to Northern Ireland to perform in person, they exceptional UK composers across classi- his mentor, Ludger Lohmann, at his alma were asked to submit video recordings of themselves playing their planned programs cal, jazz, and sound arts. mater. There he takes part in leading on an organ in a church, concert hall, or other venue of their choice. Cecilia McDowall’s choral works an international center for organ study. Laura Schlappa, winner of the competition, studies church music at the University include St. Martin’s Canticles, Missa Prior to his move to , he served of Music in Detmold with Martin Sander. In 2018 she won first place in the interme- Brevis (Tongues of Fire), and I Know on the organ faculty of the Eastman diate competition of NIIOC and in 2019 she won the Organ Competition. that My Redeemer Liveth. Organ works School of Music, Rochester, New York, For NIIOC 2020, her program was recorded in the Cathedral of the Assumption of include Celebration, Sacred and Hal- from 2013 until 2020. Since 2018 Laube the Blessed Virgin Mary, Hildesheim, Germany. In addition to her prize of £1,500, lowed Fire, and Wo Gott der Herr nicht additionally holds the post of interna- she will present recitals at St. Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey, London, St. bei uns hält. For information: oup.com tional consultant in organ studies at the Thomas Fifth Avenue, , Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, Trinity College, and ivorsacademy.com/awards/the-ivors- Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, UK. Cambridge, and St. Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast. composer-awards and ceciliamcdowall. He will serve on the juries for the Albert Second Prize winner Jonas Schauer is a student of Martin Schmeding and Daniel co.uk. Schweitzer Organ Festival (United Beilschmidt at the -Bartholdy University of Music and Theatre, States) and the Silbermann Competition Leipzig. He performed on the Schulze organ of St. Bartholomew’s Church, Armley, (Freiberg, Germany), both in 2021, as in Leeds. He wins £500 and recitals at Stockholm Cathedral, Southwark Cathedral, Appointments well as the International Martini Organ London, and Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. Third Prize winner Josua Velten, Jennifer Kluge is appointed execu- Competition (Groningen, Netherlands) from Gießen, played in St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig. He wins £200 and recitals at tive director of the National Association in 2022. Glasgow Cathedral and the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, . of Pastoral Musicians, headquartered In addition to his new duties in Stutt- Ilaria Centorrino, from Messina, won the Dame Gillian Weir Medal for her per- in Silver Spring, Maryland. A resident gart, Laube will continue to perform formance of Liszt’s Fantasy and Fugue on the name of BACH, transcribed for organ of Silver Spring, she was most recently in the United States and elsewhere. by Jean Guillou, played in the Cathedral of Sts. Cosmas and Damian in Vairano, Italy. chief of staff for the office of the dean Recent inaugural recitals include the She receives prize recitals at St. Michael’s Cornhill, London, and for the Organ Soci- of research at Georgetown University, new William Drake organ at Chelsea ety of the Parish Church of St. Lawrence, Alton, Hampshire. Johannes Güdelhöfer, Washington, D.C., where she managed Old Church in London, the Mühleisen from Cologne, won the Bach Prize for his performance of “Vivace” from J. S. Bach’s administrative functions of the office, organ at ’s new Zaryadye Con- Sonata No. 2, recorded in St. Nicholas Church, Cologne-Sülz, Germany. worked with the dean to develop strate- cert Hall, the restored Lundén organ at The jury consisted of David Titterington, David Hill, and Simon Harden. For gies for increasing investigator resources the Vasa Church in Göteborg, Sweden, information: niioc.com. at Georgetown University Medical and in October 2020, the first solo recital Center, and coordinated communica- on Austria’s largest at St. tions, development activities, strategic Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna, built by the Rieger firm. Laube is represented In February 1981, Mr. Brunner by Karen McFarlane Artists, Inc. founded the organbuilding firm Brunner For information: concertorganists.com. & Heller in Marietta, Pennsylvania, with Alan E. Heller (1952–2008), becoming sole proprietor of R. J. Brunner & Co. of NYC Nunc Dimittis Silver Spring, Pennsylvania, in October A SLAVIC 2021 Raymond James Brunner, 71, 1984. Both had worked as organbuilders organbuilder and organ historian, died at James R. McFarland & Co., Millers- November 17, 2020, in East Petersburg, ville, Pennsylvania. The Brunner firm CELEBRATION Pennsylvania. Born June 19, 1949, in reorganized in 2016 as Brunner & Asso- Lancaster, Pennsylvania, he was the ciates, LLC, with partners Hans Herr author of a comprehensive study of 18th- and Thomas Becker. GAIL ARCHER, ORGANIST and 19th-century Pennsylvania German Organ restorations performed by organbuilders and their instruments, Brunner and his firm include the organ That Ingenious Business, published built in 1770 by David Tannenberg in 1990 by the Pennsylvania German at Zion Moselem Lutheran Church, Society. He was a member of the Organ Kutztown, Pennsylvania, and partial Historical Society and the American restoration of the 1804 Tannenberg Institute of Organbuilders. ³ page 6

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³ page 4 as world travel with his wife, Martha, were married in Sweden in 1964. That For Opus 2754, at First Presbyterian and boating, camping, and swimming same year he was approached by family Church, Lakeland, Florida, a new with his family on his family’s island in friend Rev. Lambert Engwall to build a four-manual console is being built. For the Susquehanna River. pipe organ for First Lutheran Church, information: austinorgans.com. Raymond Brunner is survived by his Winthrop, Minnesota. Having been his wife, Martha Sweigart Brunner, and by passion since helping with the instal- his children with his first wife, organ- lation of the organ at his home church builder Ruth E. Rissmiller Brunner during high school, this was the start (1958–2003): Owen J. Brunner (Jaimie) of the business he would lead until his of Bel Air, Maryland; Amy E. Moore retirement. Hendrickson Organ Co. (Jeffrey) of Columbia, Pennsylvania; and began in the Hendrickson garage in St. Amelia R. Brunner (fiancée of Nicholas), Peter and soon moved to a new building Rochester, New York. A public memorial on the north end of town. His sons, Eric service will be planned for a later date. and Andreas, eventually succeeded him in the business. Charles’s wife, Birgitta, died in 2018. Charles George Hendrickson is survived by his sons Eric and Andreas (Eva) Hen- Raymond James Brunner drickson, along with grandchildren Roy and Vivian. at the York County Historical Society, See the article, “Charles Hendrickson: York, Pennsylvania. Other restorations Profile of a Minnesota Organbuilder,” by and restorative repairs include 18th- and David Fienen, in the June 2017 issue of 19th-century organs built by Krauss, The Diapason (pages 20–22). Doll, Jardine, Felgemaker, E. W. Lane, Bohler, Pilcher, M. P. Möller, Hook & Michael Jarvis of Victoria, British First Presbyterian Church, Franklin, Ten- Hastings, Hall & Labagh, and others. As Columbia, Canada, 62, died December nessee (photo credit: Michael Snoddy) well, the firm has restored and rebuilt 25, 2020. A harpsichordist, chamber organs of later periods and actions and Charles Hendrickson organist, and fortepianist, he also served built new organs of mechanical and as a soloist, arranger, and choir director. electro-pneumatic actions. Charles George Hendrickson, 85, Born in Quebec, he worked in Nova Sco- A 1971 graduate of Lehigh Univer- died in St. Peter, Minnesota, December tia and Ontario, focusing on rarely heard sity, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, with a 17, 2020. Born June 10, 1935, in Willmar, early chamber music repertoire. degree in civil engineering, Brunner Minnesota, he graduated from Willmar Jarvis taught at University of British worked eight years with the Pennsyl- High School in 1953, Gustavus Adolphus Columbia, University of Toronto, and vania Department of Transportation College, St. Peter, Minnesota, in 1957, Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, in the Research and Development and University of Arkansas-Fayetteville Ontario, among other institutions, before Department, becoming licensed as a in 1963 with a master’s degree in phys- moving to Victoria five years ago with his professional engineer. He then switched ics after building his own furnace from wife, Carolyn Sinclair. He continued careers to pursue organbuilding and salvage parts based on his calculations to to perform in ensembles and choirs in First Congregational Church, Cha- his lifelong interests in precision wood- grow a single crystal of aluminum. He had recent years around British Columbia, tham, Massachusetts (photo credit: Joseph working and cabinetmaking, antiques, started his graduate studies at the Univer- Alberta, Washington State, and Oregon. Marchio) and Pennsylvania German history and sity of Minnesota, but then taught physics Jarvis was a regular performer at Vic- culture. He was largely influenced by at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. toria’s Pacific Baroque Festival and often Casavant Frères, Limitée, Saint- his grandmother, the late Hattie Klapp While there, his interest in astronomy led arranged concerts on his own with Paul Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada, has Brunner (1889–1982), who was a well- him to restore the telescope tracking in Luchkow, his most frequent collabora- recently completed several projects. A known researcher and dealer in Penn- their observatory to operating condition. tor, at Christ Church Cathedral. Jarvis two-manual, 23-stop, 25-rank instrument sylvania German antiques, becoming a He also built his own six-inch reflecting was also artistic director of Bach on the has been installed at First Presbyterian celebrated folk-art painter at age 67 with telescope, grinding and silvering the mir- Rock Music Society, the umbrella orga- Church, Franklin, Tennessee. The Swell her grandson’s encouragement. rors himself. After graduate school at the nization for Salt Spring Chamber Choir division is divided into two separate Brunner attended Holy Spirit University of Arkansas, he also taught at and Salt Spring Chamber , and expressive enclosures. Twelve stops were Lutheran Church for 35 years. He Union University, Jackson, Tennessee, music director for St. Barnabas Anglican used from a 1910 Casavant organ. enjoyed classic cars, trains, and was a and Northeast State University, Tahle- Church, Victoria. At First Congregational Church, member of the Studebaker Drivers Club quah, Oklahoma. Luchkow and Jarvis performed Chatham, Massachusetts, celebrating its of America and the Studebaker Drivers After meeting his future wife Birgitta together as a duo and with British viola 300th anniversary, a new three-manual, Club-Keystone Region. Other pastimes Gillberg, he taught physics at Mankato da gambist Sam Stadlen in LSJ Trio, 22-stop, 26-rank organ has been installed included reading, especially early State College, now Mankato State which released its debut CD last year. (with preparation for the addition of a American history and genealogy, as well University, Mankato, Minnesota. They Only three of the five albums Luchkow seven-stop Choir division). For informa- and Jarvis recorded together have been tion: casavant.ca. released thus far. Parsons Pipe Organ Builders, Canandaigua, New York, will build a new Organbuilders three-manual, 49-voice, 57-rank organ

Austin Organs, Inc., Hartford Con- for at St. Benedict Catholic Cathe- necticut, announces new projects. For dral, Evansville, Indiana. Delivery of the Connelly Chapel, DeSales University, organ is expected in 2023. Centerville, Pennsylvania, a new three- The new gallery organ incorporates manual, 35-rank organ with a drawknob electric slider and electro-pneumatic console is Opus 2800. For the Congre- actions and will be situated across gational Church, South Glastonbury, the back wall of the expanded musi- Connecticut, a new 11-rank organ will cians’ gallery. The organ will include be Opus 2801. unenclosed Great and Pedal divisions At St. Stephen’s Church, Sewickley, as well as expressive Swell and Choir Pennsylvania, the project will include a divisions. Some of the color stops of the new four-manual console, pipe cleaning, Great division will be located within the pipe organ kit Proud builders of the repairs, and voicing for Austin Opus 531. ³ page 8

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Carillon Profile North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina The new carillon in the hallowed Memorial Belltower of North Carolina State University, Raleigh, constitutes the second university carillon of the area’s Research Triangle and the first complete carillon cast by B. A. Sunderlin Bellfoundry of Ruther Glen, Virginia. B. A. Sunderlin Bellfoundry is a new, full-service bell foundry in the Rich- mond area, with other recent projects including the bell renovation of the Leaning Tower of Niles, Illinois; resto- ration and enlargement of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music carillon; and expansion of the B. M. C. Durfee High School carillon in Fall River, Massachusetts. The carillon clavier from the front The 55-bell NCSU carillon was cast North Carolina State University Memo- Some of the large bells of the carillon in 2019 and 2020 and installed August rial Belltower, Raleigh through November 2020. The bourdon bell is pitched at F and weighs 1,800 lbs. The traditional baton keyboard, built to World Carillon standard specifications, ranges from C3 to G7 (absent C-sharp3), transposing up five semitones. The baton keyboard is also outfitted with a pneumatic tube system to allow the bells to be played from a smaller - board located in the adjacent Holladay Hall. Inscriptions honor the Henry family as donors, fallen alumni from , and NCSU school spirit. At this time, the new carillonists for the instrument are unknown, as is the performance schedule. The NCSU carillon is the culmina- Kate Sunderlin works on a bell tion of efforts that began one hundred Installing bells in the tower years ago. In 1920, the project was The clavier from the back imagined as a tower complete with installation maintains this performance bells to memorialize the 34 university capability along with the new baton 2010 gave the largest 2,000 pound bell, alumni who had fallen in World War keyboard. The electronic carillon sys- meant to serve as the bourdon for an I. William Henry Deacy of New York tem was updated two more times, with eventual installation. The bells were City was hired as the architect, while the last update occurring in 1986 with cast by Meeks, Watson & Company and Carroll Mann, an engineering profes- the installation of a Maas-Rowe digital stored, awaiting tuning and its compan- sor, led the building committee. Work carillon. By 1989, however, the system ion bells. The bells could not be tuned on the tower began shortly thereafter, was inoperable, although the hourly to match the sonic profile of Sunderlin’s with the Works Project Administration chimes and occasional tape recordings bell design, however, so Sunderlin Bell- continuing construction through the have played since then. foundry melted them down and used 1930s. Since the tower was nearly fin- Over ten years ago, then-student the bronze to cast the full, matched Josh Gardner (left, background) and ished by the 1940s, but few donations Matthew Robbins and other students set of 55 bells. The linchpin gift for the Eli Carter (right, foreground) finishing came in from the mostly agricultural spearheaded the Finish the Belltower carillon arrived in 2017 from Bill (Class bells alumni, the project team settled on a campaign. To Robbins and other of 1981) and Frances Henry. In honor Founder and Partner, more economical electronic carillon advocates, the iconic tower was sim- of their generous donation to the Think Community Bell Advocates, LLC system that was installed in the late ply incomplete without the planned and Do the Extraordinary Campaign, www.communitybelladvocates.com 1940s. The speakers were positioned bronze bells gracing its belfry. The the tower location will be rededicated [email protected] at the top of Memorial Belltower, while campaign raised enough funds to pur- as the Memorial Belltower at Henry the finger-played keyboard was set up chase five large bells to play Westmin- Square in spring 2021. Q All photos provided by B. A. Sunderlin in nearby Holladay Hall; the current ster Chimes, while the NCSU Class of —Kimberly Schafer, PhD Bellfoundry

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“All the news that’s fit to print” important figures in the development of In 1897, Adolph Ochs, owner of The making. After her father’s death in New York Times, created the slogan 1792, when she was twenty-three years that still appears on the masthead of the old, she moved the company to Vienna newspaper. As I write, we are steaming where the musical was. Her new toward the mid-December deadline for husband Andreas assumed the role submissions for the February issue of of managing the correspondence and The Diapason, nearing the end of the finances of the business, and Nannette wildest of all news years. It has been a took her younger brother Matthäus as a year during which it was important to partner, changing the name of the firm to print a lot of news that was barely fit to Geschwister (siblings) Stein.2 Nannette print, and I have had my nose, by way and her brother had a falling out and of touchscreen, in the NYT pretty much formed separate firms. While Matthäus every morning. Along with the daily hor- claimed the family name for his nascent rors of the Covid epidemic and political business, Nannette cleverly named her turmoil, I have been grateful to the NYT company Streicher neé Stein. Compara- for keeping the true wonders of the tively little was heard of Matthäus Stein world in our minds. On November 6, after that. 2020, the NYT published an article by Nannette had met Beethoven in Augs- Patricia Morrisroe under the headline, burg, and after she arrived in Vienna, “The Woman Who Built Beethoven’s they began a collegial relationship when .” Nannette Streicher was a Beethoven used her pianos for his con- hands-on craftswoman, an engineer, and certs. After one concert, Beethoven com- a musician who helped transform the mented to Andreas that the piano “was piano from its original delicate form as too good for him, because he wanted virtuoso techniques were developed, and the freedom to ‘create his own tone.’ In her prominence in a male-dominated a follow-up letter, he complained that trade in a male-dominated society is a the piano was still the least developed of striking story. You can find the article all the instruments and that it sounded at nytimes.com/2020/11/06/arts/music/ too much like a harp. Taking an obvi- beethoven-piano.html. ous swipe at the composer, Andreas Streicher wrote an essay describing an Innovators: the chicken . . . unnamed pianist as a brutal murderer at Pipe organ builders have always been the keyboard, ‘bent on revenge.’”2 Ouch. innovators. Aristide Cavaillé-Coll and Beethoven’s comments must not have Replica of 1816 Streicher piano, started by Margaret Hood, completed by Anne Ack- Ernest Skinner are two examples of been lost on Nannette. She was not only er (2019) (photo credit Anne Acker) builders whose mechanical and tonal a brilliant craftswoman, but a creative innovations were so dramatic and wide- innovator as well. She added an octave reaching that they inspired generations and a half to the keyboard range of her of musicians. Without Cavaillé-Coll, we father’s pianos, which illustrates her would not have the music of Franck, prowess with the scaling and tension of Vierne, Widor, and Dupré, and countless strings and the other minutia of piano of their contemporaries. Without Skin- engineering. In the first decade of the ner, Lynnwood Farnam would have been nineteenth century, pianists were tak- limited to a few mechanical composition ing their performances out of salons pedals, and his ingenious development of and performing in concert halls that symphonic playing and orchestral tran- sat hundreds of people. Her father scriptions might never have happened. had invented what became known as the “Viennese Action,” in which the . . . or the egg? hammer head pointed towards, rather The piano was invented around 1720, than away from the player, allowing and in its early years it was a gentle the advance of an escapement action instrument, comparable in power to (a sort of slingshot device that allows the harpsichord from which it evolved. the hammer to fling toward the string). Part of Mozart’s genius was to define the Nannette refined the action, changed soul of the piano barely fifty years after the dimensions and thickness of the its invention, exploiting the instrument’s soundboards, and increased the heft of Ink drawing of Nannette Streicher by fluid and expressive qualities. And fifty the instruments’ frame and case, work- Ludwig Krones, 1836 years after the invention of the piano, ing assiduously to create instruments Beethoven was born. His progressive, that were up to the demands of advanc- of taking just about anything a human Anne Acker (photo credit: Elizabeth Raley) even aggressive approach to the piano ing keyboard technique and the size of body can exert, the sonic equal to mod- ushered in a new tradition of virtuos- concert venues. Now when Beethoven ern decibel-rich symphony . musical styles related to the develop- ity, and the piano would never be the wanted to summon up a roar, the piano Pianists of the early nineteenth century ment of the instruments. same. While organbuilders provided could deliver it. were demanding more of their instru- Wanda Landowska (1879–1959) was challenges and inspiration to musicians, Meanwhile, another performer, ments, often to the point of damaging one of the first twentieth-century musi- it was composers and pianists who made Friedrich Kalkbrenner (1785–1849), them as they played. This recalls the cians to advocate the performance of demands of the instrument, challenging introduced lightning-fast passages of legend about (1811–1886), early music. She recorded Bach’s Gold- the builders to keep up. octaves in both hands. Mere mortal key- the demon musician of the following berg Variations in 1933, playing a harp- Nannette Streicher (1769–1833) was board players marvel at the spectacle and generation, who beat his pianos so hard sichord built by the French piano maker the exact contemporary of Beethoven sonorities of modern artists playing on a that he kept a second piano backstage for Pleyel, an instrument similar to that dis- (1770–1827). Her father, Johann Andreas modern piano as they thunder in octaves the second half of the concert. In 1812, played by Pleyel at the Paris Exposition in Stein, was a piano maker in Augsburg, to the climax of a concerto by Saint-Saens Streicher built a 300-seat concert hall 1889. Pleyel were built with Germany, and she took to the piano as a or Rachmaninoff. As an instrument adjacent to her workshop, a long jump steel frames and sturdy cases more like young girl. “At the age of eight, Nannette builder, I can imagine the bewilderment from the intimate salons that Mozart a modern piano than a harpsichord, but played in front of Mozart, who criticized of an early eighteenth-century piano- knew, and as the capacity of concert Landowska’s energetic playing enthralled her posture and grimacing, but admitted maker witnessing someone doing that for halls expanded toward a thousand seats musicians and led to the modern active she had ‘genius.’ Two years later, she had the first time, the force of the entire body in the ensuing years, she tweaked and industry of harpsichord making. mastered many of her father’s piano- poured into the piano. “Whoa, whoa, strengthened the designs of her pianos, Alfred Deller was the first modern building techniques, earning a reputa- you’re going to bust it!” producing over fifty instruments a year countertenor and a champion of early tion as a mechanical wunderkind.”1 Nannette Streicher was the pioneer and earning the reputation among some vocal music, especially that of Purcell. In an age when it was unusual for a in transforming Mozart’s silvery and of the most admired musicians as the As a boy, he sang in a church choir in woman to succeed professionally, Nan- light-touched piano toward the versatile best piano maker of her time. his hometown of Margate, England, and nette Streicher was one of the most powerhouse we know today, capable musically defied puberty by simply con- Innovation by replication tinuing to sing in the treble range after During the twentieth century, com- his voice changed. He formed the Deller posers like Debussy, Stravinsky, Schoen- Consort in 1948, gathering singers and berg, and Stockhausen were inventing instrumentalists to perform music from new musical languages at a rapid rate. as early as the thirteenth century. His As the century progressed, many musi- distinctive vocal tone was a revelation, cians delved deeply into the study of and his interest in early music inspired early music and how the progression of generations of musicians.

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Margaret Hood a few months thereafter. Later she and Stephenson debuted one of Hood’s Streicher copies at a Schuber- Drawing showing “section at f” by John Watson of Nannette Streicher’s Grand Piano No. 1550 (1820), in the collection of the tiade at Edgewood College in Madison, Schubert Club, St. Paul, Minnesota (reprinted by permission of John R. Watson) Wisconsin, playing Schubert’s F-Minor Fantasie. Under Hood’s influence, Anne Nikolaus and Alice Harnoncourt Regier of Maine are among those fol- the instrument and had the sense that became fascinated by the work of Nan- founded Concentus Musicus Wien in lowing Philip Belt by building replicas of something was missing. While in high nette Streicher, and she continued her 1953. This was an ensemble of musicians early pianos today. school, she was learning Bach’s Italian career, building, restoring, and repair- playing on period instruments backed by Concerto and happened to pick up a ing harpsichords and antique pianos. extensive research into the methods of Generations of women recording of the piece played by Igor When Margaret Hood passed away, performing in earlier centuries. Nannette Streicher became a sort of Kipnis on a harpsichord. As she put it she had been working on a copy of an E. Power Biggs played a weekly radio personal caretaker for Beethoven, man- in our lengthy phone interview, “That 1816 Stein piano. Anne approached program from the Busch-Reisinger aging the details of his household and was my first ‘a-ha,’ someday I will have Hood’s husband and acquired the unfin- Museum (now Busch Hall) between enabling his later great compositions. a harpsichord.” ished instrument. As she wrote on her 1942 and 1948, performing on an The organization she brought to his When her children were little, she website, “After all, it is a design by a experimental “classic” organ built by personal life and the ever more powerful joined a group of amateur musicians that woman, Nannette Streicher, daughter Aeolian-Skinner. He brought the now pianos she built enabled the composi- gathered monthly to play for each other. of the famous piano Viennese maker iconic Flentrop organ to the same hall tion of his blockbuster Hammerklavier One of the guys had a Zuckermann Andreas Stein, the replica was begun in 1958 and by 1961 was flooding the Sonata in 1818 and the Diabelli Varia- harpsichord, and at one of the meetings, by a woman, so, as I told Margaret’s market with multiple volumes of Bach tions, written between 1819 and 1823, a Anne played the Italian Concerto on husband after her too early passing, a Organ Favorites recorded there, still bewildering hour-long set of thirty-three it. When she finished, he said, “Take it woman needs to finish it.” regarded as the best-selling series of solo variations. Nannette Streicher died in home, Anne.” “Oh Jack, don’t be silly.” Patricia Morrisroe is not a musician— classical albums in recording history. 1833, and the firm “continued to thrive She ran into Jack at a bookstore a month in fact, one of her recent books is a biog- His recording The Golden Age of the under her son, Johann Baptiste, and then later, and he asked when she would come raphy of Robert Maplethorpe—but she Organ celebrating the organs built by her grandson, Emil, who built pianos for to get the harpsichord. The second time was inspired by the work of Nannette Arp Schnitger (1648–1719) was released Brahms. When Emil retired in 1896, the she ran into him, she relented. It needed Streicher when doing research for her in 1963 and was followed by another company closed.”3 some work, so she made some phone recently published novel, The Woman multiple-volume series of historic organs § calls, got her hands on some materials, in the Moonlight (Little A, 2020), about of various European countries. and did the work. Anne spoke of her the dramatic passion behind Beethoven’s As musicians dug into the study of After reading Morrisroe’s article, I father with gratitude and admiration, composition of his iconic Moonlight early music, a parallel study of period wrote to my friend Laurence Libin, saying that he had instilled in her a love Sonata. I guess I’ll read that next. instruments was essential. Organbuild- retired curator of musical instruments and understanding of tools and things That’s all the news that’s fit to print, ers like Charles Fisk, Fritz Noack, for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in mechanical, and that she had been able today. Q and John Brombaugh started building New York City. I knew that the Met’s col- to draw on his lessons to make the little organs according to ancient ideals and lection included at least one piano built harpsichord sing better. Notes principles. They traveled Europe to by Nannette Streicher, and I thought I Trevor Stephenson, a student of 1. Patricia Morrisroe, “The Woman Who Built Beethoven’s Pianos,” The New York study and measure the important organs would get some goodies from him. And , came to town to play Times, November 6, 2020. and applied their new knowledge to the so I did, in the form of an introduction to a recital on his copy of a Stein piano 2. Patricia Morrisroe, The New York instruments they were building. Harp- Anne Acker, the harpsichord and piano built by Tom Ciul. Anne fell in love with Times. sichord makers like Eric Herz, William maker featured toward the end of the the instrument, and through him met 3. Ibid. 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Organs, Organbuilders, and Organists in the Holy Land

By Gunther Martin Göttsche, translation from German by Valerie E. Hess

n the shelves in our music room in OSinntal, Hessen State, Germany, there is a very special relic near the grand piano and the house organ: a heavy 30 cm (nearly 12 inches) long, squared timber cut from the trunk of an ancient olive tree that once stood in the lower part of the garden of Gethsemane. When the new, small Golgotha organ for the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was built in 2016, the keyboards were made from this wood. Not all of the wood was needed, and so Brother Peter, at that time still vice-bursar for the Franciscans, led me a few days after the dedication of the organ to a plastic sack with the sacred wood remnants, and I was allowed to choose the most beautiful piece of wood! Figure 3: The oldest playable organ of Israel, built by Agati, 1847 The Gethsemane wood traveled with us back to Germany in 2018, remind- the Museum of Biblical Studies at the Greek Orthodox strongly opposed the in- ing me time and again of my five years Church of the Flagellation in , stallation.1 In view of this difficult situation, in the Holy Land and, of course, of the these pipes will soon find a new place in it was decided to set up the organ in the extremely interesting organ world that I the museum section of Custodia Terrae church of St. Salvatore. But given the small was gradually able to get to know. Figure 1: Drawing of the organ in Saint Sanctae (The Custody in the Holy Land) size of this church, the instrument had to be downsized and only a part was installed. The fact that there are organs in Salvatore from Elzear Horn’s Ichno- on the site of the Monastery of Saint Sal- graphiae monumentarum terrae sanc- Israel and Palestine, in the center of the tae, 1724–1744 vatore. Proof for the presence of organs Middle East, astonishes many people. can only be firmly established from the In a document from 1793, the organ- If I then tell them that the number of seventeenth century as documents from building workshop of the Franciscans instruments is about sixty, their astonish- the archives of the Franciscans’ Custodia was called “Officina sacris exstruendis ment grows even larger. Where are these Terrae Sanctae list instruments from organis” (workshop for the construction many organs, and who uses them? about 1630 for Saint Salvatore in Jerusa- of sacred organs) (Figure 2). Some people think of Jewish worship lem and 1640 for Bethlehem. An impressive photograph, published first. In fact, since the nineteenth cen- In the first half of the eighteenth in 1882 in the Palestino-Seraphicum tury in Germany and the United States, century (1724–1744), the German Fran- Album by the Custodia Terrae Sanctae, the synagogues of Reform Judaism have ciscan P. Elzear Horn wrote his Ichno- shows the organbuilding workshop been home to the “synagogue organs.” In graphiae monumentarum terrae sanctae toward the end of the nineteenth cen- Germany, most of them were destroyed (Iconographic Monument to the Holy tury. We see a small organ with two in the Reichs-Kristallnacht (November Land), a kind of “atlas” in which he (in registers (or is it a voicing windchest 9–10, 1938); today only a few of them are Latin) minutely described the Francis- needed in the workshop?). In front of it left. There are around fifty such instru- can churches of the Holy Land and their stands a bearded religious, the director ments in the United States. In Israel, inventory. Among other things, he pre- of the Officina Constructorio Organo- however, where Orthodox Judaism served a wonderful drawing of the organ rum, who shows the viewer a large pipe prevails, there are no synagogue organs. of Saint Salvatore Church in Jerusalem grid. An Arab aide holds something on Rather, the vast majority of organs in the at that time, obviously an instrument in the right side of the image that could be Holy Land are in Christian churches, the Italian style. The meticulous drawing the bellows lever for pumping the wind. especially in the Jerusalem and Beth- (Figure 1) reveals many details, such as Two Arab apprentices sit in front of the lehem region, but also in the north the range of the two manuals (with the picture, one has a reed pipe in his hands. (Nazareth). However, not all Christian so-called “short octave” in the typi- Also on the windchest of the small churches have organs. For example, the cal of the time), the pedal that has only instrument are reed pipes. Eastern Orthodox churches do not have Figure 2: The organ workshop of the a one octave range, some register names Of all the organs mentioned so far, organs because they have unaccom- Franciscans, 1882 such as “Principals” or “Contrabasso apart from the archival documents, there panied musical traditions, such as the in Pedals” divided into bass and treble is nothing physically remaining. It was magnificent polyphonic male choirs of centuries. We find German, American, registers, and three leather straps on the only in the nineteenth century that an the Armenian Orthodox Church, which French, and Danish organs from more right side panel to raise the bellows. instrument was created that we can still can be heard in Saint James Cathedral recent times as well as historical organs At the beginning of the second half see, touch, and hear. It is a small Italian in Jerusalem. from France, Austria, and Italy. of the eighteenth century, a permanent organ from 1847 built by the brothers It is mainly the Lutheran, Roman When did organs first come to the Holy organbuilding workshop was established Agati (Nicomede and Giovanni) of Pis- Catholic, and Anglican churches that, as Land? The earliest known instrument is in the convent of Saint Salvatore. Delfín toia (Figure 3). It has nine stops and a in their homelands or countries of origin, only documented from the remaining Fernandez, OFM, reports in a 2002 small “appended” pedal and belonged use an organ in worship, and so the organ 221 organ pipes that were found in 1906 essay that two Franciscan organbuilders to the Franciscan monastery in Tyros, landscape in Israel and Palestine offers during excavations next to Saint Cath- from Spain came with the order in 1754 Lebanon. At some point, it was moved a very interesting variety. Because each erine’s Church in Bethlehem. The pipes to build a new organ for the Church of to the Christian Information Center at church does not want to miss the familiar date back to the fourteenth century, a the Holy Sepulchre. Jerusalem’s Jaffa Gate. (The instrument organ style of its homeland and the instru- time when the organ was established as was there in 2001, but may have moved ments are usually imported, the organ a church instrument in many European But when the work was completed and there even earlier.) In June 2014, the scene of the Holy Land is a reflection countries, but they may be even older. the organ was to be installed in the choir organ found a new home in Saint Peter’s of the world’s pipe organs from several After being exhibited for a long time in of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Church in the picturesque old town of

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Mechanical key and stop action Figure 4: Builder’s nameplate on the console of the organ of Ein Kerem Figure 5: Detail from the façade of the In 1893 the organ firm of Dinse from Tel Aviv-Jaffa, high above the beach of Zion) on the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem organ, Ecce Homo Church, Jerusalem Berlin, Germany, built an organ with two the Mediterranean. (Figure 5). Even after a modification manuals and eight stops in Christmas by Rieger in 1935, the organ retained its 4′ Prestant Lutheran Church in Bethlehem. This 2 ′ ′ 1847 Agati organ, Saint Peter’s extraordinary French-symphonic char- 2⁄3 Quinte (originally 8 Violoncello) was the first organ by a German organ- ′ Church, Tel Aviv-Jaffa acter, but today, despite a 1998 overhaul 2 Doublette builder in Palestine. In 2000, the organ 8′ Principale Bassi by the Canadian builder, Dubay, Ltd., it Plein jeu was still intact and more or less playable. 8′ Principale Soprani 8′ Voce Angelica is in poor condition and barely playable. RÉCIT (Manual II, enclosed, It was then completely rebuilt by the 4′ Ottava C–g3) American organbuilder Roland Rutz 4′ Flauto a Fuso 1893 Mader organ, Ecce Homo 8′ Bourdon of Morristown, Minnesota. Although 2 ′ 2⁄3 Nazardo Church, Jerusalem 8′ Salicional the beautiful design was kept and some 2′ Decimaquinta 4′ Flûte à cheminée 1 ′ pipes were used again, the character and 1⁄3 Decimanona GRAND-ORGUE (Manual I, (originally 8′ Voix humaine) ′ 1 ′ the entire sound and technical system 1Flagioletto (or ⁄2 ?) C–g3) ′ ′ 2Quarte de nasard 1Vigesimaseconda 16′ Bourdon (originally 8′ Voix céleste) were rebuilt. Now, the organ has elec- Timpani (pedal at far right) 8′ Montre 8′ Trompette tric action, multiplex windchests, and a ′ 8′ Basson-Hautbois Manual compass (C, D, E, F, G, A–f3) 50 8 Flûte harmonique MIDI device. notes, short octave Pull-down pedal (8 notes from the first oc- tave) Ripieno lever, adds 4′ Ottave, 2′ Decimaquin- 1 ′ ′ ta, 1 ⁄3 Decimanona, and 1 Vigesimaseconda. 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Figure 7: Ruin of the console in the former Templar Church, Jerusalem

Figure 6: The old Dinse organ of the Church of the Redeemer

Of the few pipe organs in Tel Aviv, the built in 1900 by the same organbuilder oldest is the organ built in 1896 by Rieger. (F. Mader) for the Church of Saint Peter Figure 8: Sauer organ of the Church of Figure 9: Gideon Shamir Located in the Franciscan Church of of Zion, part of the Ratisbonne Abbey in the Ascension, Jerusalem Saint Anthony, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, it is still West Jerusalem. It has ten stops and was 8′ Fernflöte standing, but after various modifications, completely overhauled in 2007. “big sister” instrument at Church of the 8′ Aeoline 8′ Voix Céleste it is no longer in original condition. Also in 1900, the organ of the Domini- Ascension (Figure 8), the latter being 4′ Fugara In 1898, the Weigle organbuilding firm can Church of Saint Stephen, which is an important organ in the Holy Land. 4′ Flauto dolce from Stuttgart, Germany, constructed a outside the city wall in the immediate Also in 1910, an organ by Wilhelm 2′ Flautino two-manual organ with twelve stops for vicinity of the Damascus Gate, was Sauer was erected in the newly built PEDAL (C–d1) the German-operated Syrian orphanage installed. With fourteen stops on two Church of the Ascension of the Augusta- 16′ Prinzipal in Jerusalem. It was damaged in a fire manuals, it was built by Matthäus Mau- Victoria Foundation, a German hospital 16′ Violon in 1910 and subsequently rebuilt by the racher of Austria. Since 2005, the organ complex on the Mount of Olives. With 16′ Subbaß builders. After World War II, the orphan- has been thoroughly rebuilt and has an twenty-four stops on two manuals and 8′ Oktave ′ 8′ Cello age became part of the State of Israel. electric console from which the mod- pedal, including five 16 registers, it 8′ Gedacktflöte The organ was removed at some point, its ernized pipework is operated on a new is a perfectly harmonized synthesis of Koppel II–Ped. whereabouts unknown since the 1960s. windchest. The old Mauracher console is space and sound. It may certainly be Koppel I–Ped. In 1898, the newly built Church of still held in honor and is in the entrance considered the most beautiful among the Redeemer of Jerusalem received an hall of the church. the historical organs of Israel, because Mezzoforte–Forte–Tutti organ from the Berlin company Dinse. It In 1904, Bevington & Sons of London, it is completely preserved to the last stood at ground level north of the main England, built a new organ for the Angli- pipe. It has never undergone any change The third instrument built in 1910 is aisle, where the baptismal font stands can Saint George’s Cathedral in Jeru- apart from the installation of an electric the organ of Saint Salvatore’s Church, today (Figure 6). In 1938 it was rebuilt salem. It was replaced by a new Rieger blower and repair work, but remains in Jerusalem. The organbuilder Vegessi- by Weigle, of Stuttgart, in the style of installation in 1984, but its wonderful the same tonal state and appearance as it Bossi of Turin, Italy, built a large instru- the Organ Reform Movement (Orgel- façade (including pipes) was moved else- did in its year of construction. ment with forty-four stops in the Italian bewegung). In 1970, when the Schuke where in the church.3 This organ, as well as the organ of style. This organ was rebuilt in 1977 by organ firm from Berlin installed a new Another English late-Romantic organ the Church of the Redeemer, has been Delfino Taboada. It remained intact instrument, the organ case and façade from 1904, built by the British organ- looked after and maintained for decades until 2008 before being rebuilt by the were not reused.2 builder Thomas Casson, stood until 2001 by the organbuilder Rainer Nass (for- Rieger organ company. Only the case of In 1899, a Walcker organ with seven in Willington, England, and was moved merly with Schuke, Berlin) and is in very 1910 remains. stops was built for the church hall of the the following year at the instigation of good condition. This is one reason it is This is a summary of how more German Templars in the Refaim plain the Israeli organbuilder Gideon Shamir regularly used for concerts. than a dozen new organs were built in just outside the walls of the Old City of to the church of the Trappist monastery just seventeen years! After this prolific Jerusalem. Today this is the street corner Latrun (near Highway 1, about halfway 1910 Wilhelm Sauer organ, Church period of organbuilding came the years that marks the beginning of the “German between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv). It of the Ascension, Jerusalem of the two world wars, the time between

Colony” in the Jerusalem suburbs. The seems unplayable for now, as during my 3 them, and the time after that until the pretty garden around the church is now last visit to the church (2017) an elec- MANUAL I (C–f ) founding of the State of Israel in 1948. 16′ Bordun wedged between huge hotel buildings. tronic organ had been put in front of the 8′ Prinzipal In all these years with one exception In the small church, which after World Casson console. 8′ Gemshorn (the YMCA organ, discussed below), no War II first fell to the State of Israel and Around 1910, the Austrian Hospice 8′ Flûte significant new organs were installed in was then passed on to the Armenian Chapel in Jerusalem received an organ 8′ Gedeckt the Holy Land. 4′ Oktave community, the sad ruins of the Walcker from Rieger of Jägerndorf (formerly in 4′ Rorhflöte In addition, there were some major 2 organ still stand in the gallery (Figure Austrian Silesia, now the Czech Repub- 2⁄3′ Cornet III–IV alterations to Jerusalem organs in the 7). In the aftermath of the war, all usable lic), with seven stops on one manual and 8′ Schalmei 1930s: wood and metal parts were appropriated. pedal. It is untouched—only the front Koppel II–I • the reconstruction of the organ The Armenians do not need the organ in pipes had to be renewed in 1999 as some MANUAL II (C–f3) in the church of the Latin Patriarch- 4 worship, but they honor its remains. were damaged by missiles. With its late- 16′ Gedeckt ate in 1933 by Gebrüder Späth from A parallel instrument to the organ Romantic, warm sound, based almost 8′ Principal Mengen-Ennetach; in the Ecce Homo Church is the organ entirely on 8′ registers, it is similar to its 8′ Lieblich Gedeckt • the reconstruction of the organ of

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book by Levi by listing the current status 8′ Voix céleste with photos of all the organs in the coun- 4′ Flûte conique 2′ Quarte de nasard try. The website is trilingual: English, Sesquialtera II Russian, and Hebrew. Yuval Rabin (b. Cymbale III Figure 10: Shamir organ in the concert hall of the University of Haifa 1973 in Haifa) is now musical director of 8′ Trompette the Israel International Organ Festival. Tremulant the Church of the Redeemer in 1938 by organ of the Church of Saint Catherine The construction of the sixteen-stop PÉDALE (C–d1) Weigle of Stuttgart; in Bethlehem, but he had to disassemble organ for Bethlehem University by the 16′ Soubasse • the reconstruction of the organ in it in 2000 to make room for a new organ Alsatian organbuilder Max Roethinger 8′ Principal the Ecce Homo Church in 1935 (see that he was not selected to build. in 1961 (Figure 11) marked the begin- Coupler I–Ped. Coupler II–Ped. above) by Rieger of Jägerndorf; Gideon Shamir (Figure 9), born in ning of a new construction period in the Coupler II–Ped. 4′ • the reconstruction of the Maura- 1939, is to date the only Israeli organ- Holy Land after years of organbuilding cher organ of Saint Stephan (by Rieger?) builder. Trained as a pianist and organist, stagnation due to the political situation. Pistons: pp, p, mf, Tutti in 1933. he came to Israel in 1963 and, during This organ shows the style of the Organ Electric key and stop action The only major organ to be built in a stay with the German organbuilder Reform Movement, whose return to this politically troubled time was a con- Walcker, had his first contact with organ- Baroque ideals at that time shaped This was followed by a series of other cert hall organ. For the YMCA build- building. He first worked as a director almost every new organ, especially in new instruments, mostly constructed by ing, one of the most striking buildings of a music school, but then in 1977 Germany. The Roethinger organ has organbuilders from the respective home in West Jerusalem, in the immediate founded a workshop in which he initially electric action and includes bright mix- countries of the commissioning churches. vicinity of the King David Hotel, the built positiv organs. After a masterclass tures and mutation stops. The instru- In 1971, the Berlin organ workshop Karl American Austin Organ Company built at the vocational school in Ludwigsburg, ment has been preserved unchanged and Schuke GmbH built the new organ for in 1932 a large instrument with forty- Germany, he has devoted himself exclu- was cleaned and overhauled in 2014 by the Church of the Redeemer in Jerusa- eight stops, the only organ with four sively since 1990 to organbuilding in his the organbuilder Rainer Nass of Berlin. lem. It was expanded by three stops in manuals ever in Israel! workshop in Asseret (northern Israel). The organist is the music teacher at the 1984, bringing it to twenty-one stops Because of the limited space avail- He has built a number of home and university, Sister Patricia Crockford. on two manuals and pedal. Not without able on the stage of the concert hall, the practice organs (including for the con- reason it is considered one of the best- pipework was distributed to several small servatories in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv) 1961 Max Roethinger organ, preserved organs of Israel and is often chambers adjacent to the hall, creating and carried out numerous repairs, Bethlehem University heard in concerts. numerous acoustic problems and tonal maintenance, rebuilding, and expansions The history of the Church of the issues. Nevertheless, the organ has been of existing organs. Like the Franciscan GRAND-ORGUE (Manual I, Redeemer organ is inextricably linked C–g3) heard in many concerts and recordings organbuilder Br. Delfino, Gideon Shamir to the person of its longtime organ- 8′ Montre for Israeli radio over the years. Most of repeatedly used parts of older organs for 8′ Bourdon ist Elisabeth Roloff (1937–2008), these were played by the Israeli organist new instruments. His greatest work is 4′ Prestant who played there from 1982 until her Max Lampel (1900–1987), who was also the organ with thirty-three stops in the 2′ Doublette death. The organbuilder Rainer Nass an organ teacher at the Jerusalem Music hall of the University of Haifa (Figure Fourniture VI of Berlin has been associated with this Academy. The instrument was disassem- 10). He worked on the project for a total 8′ Cromorne organ and the German Lutheran com- bled in 2000, originally with the aim of of seven years, completing it in 1998, Coupler II–I munity since 1984. He comes to Israel ′ rebuilding it elsewhere, but this did not using parts of three different historical Coupler II–I 4 every year to look after the organs of happen for financial reasons. The loca- organs, namely the Bevington organ of RÉCIT (Manual II, enclosed, the Church of the Redeemer and the tion of the organ is currently unknown. Saint George’s Cathedral, Jerusalem, C–g3) Church of the Ascension. In addition, In the twentieth and early twenty-first from 1904, an Italian organ from 1868, 8′ Principal he has worked on many other organs in centuries, the activity of two organbuild- and the old organ of the Church of the 8′ Cor de nuit the country, such as Immanuel Church ers based in the Holy Land made a com- Redeemer, Jerusalem, from 1898/1934. mendable contribution to the preserva- The dedication concert was played by tion and care of many organs in Israel the Russian-Israeli organist, Roman Pictures at an Exhibition and the Palestinian Territories. Given Krasnovsky. Today, recitals on this organ Martin Baker, organist the limited technical capabilities of their are an integral part of the concert series workshops and the tight budgets pro- of the Israel Organ Association and are A handsomely-packaged vided by their clients, the indefatigable enthusiastically received by audiences. compact disc of the music activity of these two pioneers of organ- The Israel Organ Association, founded building cannot be overestimated. in 2003 by Gerard Levi in collaboration from the April 2018 dedication Brother Delfino Fernandez Taboada, with Gideon Shamir, strives to make the of the 100-rank twin-console OFM, 1924–2002, of Spanish descent, organ popular as a concert instrument in Ruffatti organ at Buckfast had been the director of the organ- Israel. This is primarily done by organiz- Abbey in Devon, recorded in building workshop of the Franciscans ing concerts with international artists, April of 2019. in Jerusalem since the 1950s. In his many of whom are not Israeli. Concert approximately fifty years of activity for attendees come from all over Israel to Martin Baker’s excellent the Custodia Terrae Sanctae, he built, Jerusalem or Haifa for these events. playing of music by Wolff, J. S. repaired, and restored numerous organs. Gerard Levi (1936–2020), an Israeli Bach, de Grigny, Jongen, and His organ workshop also served as a with French roots, was a retired busi- Widor, in addition to his tran- supply house for organ pipes and other nessman and organ lover. In addition to parts that were left over when disman- his work with the Israel Organ Associa- scription of the Mussorgsky, tling other organs, some of which were tion, he wrote a book in English in 2005 will be a welcome addition to then reused in other projects. For about all the organs of Israel (Organ To order, visit www.adfontes.org.uk. your audio library. example, when the organ of the Church Culture in Israel and Palestine; see of the Redeemer was rebuilt in 1971, bibliography at the end of this article) the Franciscans purchased from the that contains information on and photos German community all usable parts of of the organs. It is an important source the old organ for 15,000 shekels.5 Br. for the organ scene throughout the Holy Delfino Fernandez mostly built electric Land. In addition, the Israel Organ Asso- key and stop actions. Most of the instru- ciation operates the website www.organ. ments that he built or converted were org.il, which publishes not only the cur- Builders of Fine Pipe Organs to the World replaced by new instruments by the rent concert dates of the association and end of the century. For example, he had other organizers, but also provides con- www.ruffatti.com ruffattiorgans dedicated many years of his life to the tinual updates to the above-mentioned

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Figure 13: The small organ of the Church of the Redeemer moves to the main sanctuary Figure 12: Paul Ott organ of the Imman- uel Church in Jaffa In 2002, a large concert hall organ with three manuals by Eule of Bautzen, in Jaffa (Figure 12), the University of Germany, was built for the campus of the Bethlehem, the Arab-Lutheran Church Music Academy in Tel Aviv. Alexander in Jaffa, and others. On the website of Gorin supervises organ students there. the Israel Organ Association, he has The aforementioned Austrian com- been honored as the “Santa Claus of the pany Rieger, which had already built a Israeli organs.” new main organ (two manuals, thirty- As early as 1960, the Church of the nine registers) in 1982 in the gallery of Redeemer received an additional small the rotunda in the Jerusalem Church of organ built by the Führer company of the Holy Sepulchre, became the exclu- Figure 14: The Oberlinger organ of Dormition Abbey Wilhelmshaven, Germany. It has five sive organ supplier for the churches of stops and pedal and was originally in the Franciscan Custodia Terrae Sanctae the gallery of Saint John’s Chapel. In and built a number of organs of out- 2015, it was moved to the sanctuary of standing quality in the ensuing decades. the Church of the Redeemer and made In 2002 in the Church of Saint Catherine portable, serving now as a choir organ in Bethlehem, a new organ was built by (Figure 13). Rieger that gained notoriety, because In 1977, Paul Ott built a two-manual during the final phase of the construc- organ with seventeen stops for Imman- tion fighting took place between Israelis uel Church (formerly German, now and Palestinians. As a result of fire dam- managed by the Norwegian Church) age, many of the pipes became unusable, in Tel Aviv. Under the direction of the so the organ could not be finished until organist Arin Maisky, there is a well- 2003. The organist is Fr. Jago Soce. established concert series in which organ In 2008 in Saint Salvatore’s Church concerts are an integral part. Arin is the in Jerusalem, an instrument with forty- successor of her father, Valery Maisky four stops on three manuals and pedal (1942–1981), a well-known organist in was installed by Rieger. It can be played Israel and Europe. by a mechanical-action main console Continuing in the series of new as well as an additional electric-action instruments, a three-manual organ by console behind the altar. The design of Oberlinger of Windesheim, Germany, this organ, as well as most of the other was built in 1980 for the German Bene- organs of the Custodia Terrae Sanctae, dictine Dormition Abbey on Mount was the responsibility of P. Armando Zion next to the Old City of Jerusalem Pierucci. Born in 1935, he was the long- (Figure 14). This instrument was time organist of the Church of the Holy Figure 15: Inna Dudakova at the Rieger organ of the Saint George’s Cathedral, very often played in concerts, but will Sepulchre and of the Church of Saint Jerusalem now be replaced by a new instrument Salvatore. He is now retired. at some future time. The Oberlinger 8′ Viola da Gamba organ was bought by a Russian investor 2008 Rieger Orgelbau organ, 8′ Viola Celeste 4′ Ottavina in 2020 and is to be used as a concert Franciscan Church of Saint 4′ Flauto traverso 2 organ in a former Orthodox church Salvatore, Old City, Jerusalem 2⁄3′ Nazardo near Jekaterinburg, Russia. P. Ralph 2′ Flauto ottava Grand Organo (Manual I, C–a3) 3 ′ Greis, who had been active as organist 1⁄5 Terza 16′ Bordone 2′ Pienino III–IV of the Dormition Abbey for a long time, 8′ Principale 16′ Bassone left Jerusalem in 2017; his successor is 8′ Flauto armonico 8′ Tromba Brother Simeon Gloger. The Dormi- 8′ Voce humana 8′ Oboe ′ tion Abbey as well as the Church of 8 Bordone camino 4′ Clarino 4′ Ottava Tremolo the Redeemer and the Church of the 4′ Flauto Figure 16: The Marcussen organ in the 2 Mormon concert hall on the Mount of Ascension play an important role in the 2⁄3′ Duodecima 1 Pedale (C–f ) Olives, Jerusalem international organ concerts organized 2′ Decimaquinta 16′ Principale regularly by the Israel Organ Association. 2′ Ripieno grave IV 16′ Subbasso 1′ Ripieno acuto 8′ Ottava In 1984, the Austrian company Rieger 16′ Tromba 8′ Violoncello forty-nine stops was installed, and in the built a new organ with thirty-one reg- 8′ Tromba 8′ Bordone crypt of the lower church an instrument isters for the Anglican Saint George’s Coupler II–I 4′ Flauto concerto with sixteen stops. The nearby Church of Cathedral in Jerusalem (Figure 15). Coupler III–I 16′ Bombarda Saint Joseph received a small organ with 8′ Trombone The organist is Inna Dudakova. Positivo (Manual II, C–a3) Coupler I–P ten stops. The organist in Nazareth is Fr. In 1987, the Concert Hall of the 8′ Principalino Coupler II–P George Lewett, an American. Mormon-built Brigham Young University 8′ Bordone Coupler III–P In 2014 in the Church of All Nations, on the Mount of Olives received a three- 4′ Ottava at the foot of the Mount of Olives, an ′ manual organ with thirty-nine stops, built 4 Flauto camino Consoles: main console, mechanical; remote instrument with two manuals, twelve 2′ Flauto console, electric by the Danish company Marcussen & Søn 1 ′ stops was installed. 1⁄3 Decimanona Roller crescendo shoe (Figure 16). The organ is maintained 1′ Piccolo Rieger Tuning System/Rieger Replay System In 2015 in the Church of the Holy 2 ′ and heard on weekly tours and in regular 2⁄3 Sesquialtera Select accessories: Rieger Combination Sys- Sepulchre, there is the new Magdalene ′ concerts. Various American organists 1 Cimbalo III–IV tem (10 users with 1,000 combinations with 3 organ (two manuals, fifteen stops) near 8′ Cromorne inserts each); archive for 250 tracks with 250 carry out yearly residencies here. Tremolo combinations each; Sequencer; Copy func- Christ’s grave (the Edicule), which is In 1994, in the Franciscan church Coupler III–II tions; Repeat functions connected to the main organ and its “Emmaus” in Qbeibeh, between Jeru- electric console from the gallery above. salem and Ramallah, a new organ from Recitativo (Manual III, enclosed, In 2012 in Nazareth, three instruments The following year, again in the Church C–a3) Inzoli, Crema (North Italy), was built in 16′ Quintatön were installed. Two were in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre near the Golgotha the Italian-historical style with six stops 8′ Flauto of the Annunciation. In the upper Rock (Figure 18), there was installed a and a short pedal (Figure 17). 8′ Bordone church, a three-manual instrument with very small organ with two manuals and

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there are (in my estimation) at most Leach, Brenda Lynn. “Organs of Israel,” The thirty organists, of which only about half American Organist, April 1991, 62–64. Levi, Gerard. Organ Culture in Israel and have a qualified education. Many of the Palestine, 2005, published by BookSurge, organs mentioned in this article are not LLC, ISBN I-4196-1034-1, available at played regularly, some only occasionally www.amazon.de. in concerts, some not at all anymore. Orgel International, issue 1/2001 with em- phasis “Israel.” In it are interviews with Moreover, it would be desirable for Elisabeth Roloff and the Israeli organist a young organbuilder to settle perma- Yuval Rabin as well as articles by Oskar nently in Israel in order to continue the Gottlieb Blarr, Achim Seip, and others, be- commendable work of Gideon Shamir. sides a detailed description of some organs and an overview of the entire organ inven- Enough work would be available! Dur- tory of Israel (Gerard Levi). ing my five years in Israel, despite my “Pipework,” The American Organist, Febru- rudimentary organbuilding skills, I was ary 2015, 26, 28. Report on the new organs called repeatedly to fix minor problems in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Church of All Nations. or to adjust individual registers, and my Schüler Petrus, “Orgeln in der Grabeskirche,” successor in office, Hartmut Rohmeyer, Im Lande des Herrn, Jg. 2017, No. 1. has as well. Schulten, Klaus. Die Sauerorgel in der Him- I hope that the network of organs in melfahrtkirche und andere deutsche Figure 17: The author performs on the Inzoli organ, Emmaus Church, Qbeibeh Orgeln in Jerusalem, Series Edition Au- the Holy Land, across all denominations, guste Victoria, Volume 2, Jerusalem, 2010. in the next few years and decades remains five stops. It is completely enclosed in should not go unmentioned. Not all of a fascination for all who are involved, a cabinet. their churches have pipe organs, but whether they listen to the organs, sing For detailed, up-to-date information Arab Lutherans also have a tradition of with them, play them, or even build or on all organs in Israel, visit the website 2016 Rieger organ near the organ-accompanied congregational sing- repair them. And in the spirit of Psalm of the Israel Organ Association, www. Golgotha Rock, Church of the Holy ing. The organ in the Christmas Church 122 (“Wish Jerusalem happiness”), I join organ.org.il. Sepulchre, Jerusalem in Bethlehem has already been men- in the Psalmist’s prayer, but expand it tioned. Next to the organ of the Church to include the entire Holy Land: “May All photos were taken by the author, Manual I (C–d3) 8′ Principale of the Redeemer, Jerusalem, which is there be peace in your walls!” Q Gunther Martin Göttsche, except Figure 4′ Ottava also used by the Arab Lutheran congre- 20 (© Petrus Schüler, OFM). 2′ Quintadecima gation that meets there, it is the largest Notes instrument the ELCJHL has. There 1. Translator’s note: the Church of the Gunther Martin Göttsche is a German Manual II (C–d3) Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is administered 8′ Bordone are also small pipe organs in the Arab- by six Christian traditions under rules known composer and organist. After completing 4′ Flauto Lutheran churches in Ramallah and Beit as “The Status Quo.” Some carry more weight master’s degrees in Mannheim and Berlin Koppel Sahour. The ELCJHL also includes the than others in the decision making process. he worked as organist and choir conductor pilgrimage center Bethany-beyond-the- 2. Parts of the Weigle organ were incorpo- in Aalen/Württemberg and Braunschweig. No pedal rated into the newly built organ of the con- Jordan in Jordan, whose church in 2013 cert hall of the University of Haifa by Gideon From 1992 until 2013 he was direc- received a large electronic organ by the Shamir (see Figure 13). tor of the Church Music Academy in As a tireless promoter, sponsor, and Content company with three manuals, 3. In the same manner, parts of the old Schlüchtern, Germany (near Frankfurt). organizer of the Franciscan organ con- numerous stops, and a pipe façade. Bevington organ were reused in Haifa. From 2008 until 2013 he also worked 4. When that was is unclear, possibly dur- structions, Br. Peter Schüler, OFM (now Finally, in Israel there are many small ing the Six Days War of 1967. as a teacher of organ improvisation at editor-in-chief of the Franciscan maga- organs, including a number of private 5. Translator’s note: approximately $4,200. the Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Hei- zine In the Land of the Bible located in house organs. The largest, with sev- 6. A similar instrument, also built by Gide- delberg. From 2013 until 2018 he lived Munich, Germany) also helped out as an enteen stops, belongs to Gerard Levi, on Shamir, standing in the Jerusalem Music in Israel, serving as organist and choir Academy, was dismantled there a few years organist at the Church of the Holy Sep- former chairman of the Israel Organ ago. The parts are in Gideon Shamir’s work- director of the German Lutheran Church ulchre when he worked in Jerusalem. Association, and is located in his home shop in Asseret; whether it is to be rebuilt in in the Old City of Jerusalem. The organs of the Custodia Terrae in Youvalim in northern Israel (Figure the academy is uncertain. Currently there are Göttsche is known as a composer, espe- Sanctae have also been featured in a 19). The instrument was built in 1992 by no organ students. cially in sacred music, and has published new series of concerts for several years, Gideon Shamir and contains a number numerous works. Visit: www.gunther- namely the “Terra Sancta Organ Festi- of pipes from historic organs. In addi- Bibliography goettsche.com. val,” which also takes place in Lebanon, tion, some orchestras, private families, Fernandez, Delfín, OFM. “Eine kleine Ge- Jordan, Cyprus, and Greece (www. churches, and other associations have schichte der Orgeln im Heiligen Land,” Im This article was first published inJeru- tsorganfestival.org). The festival is a very house organs, positiv organs, and/or Lande des Herrn, Jg. 2002, No. 1. salem–Gemeindebrief–Stiftungsjournal Jauch, Robert, OFM. “Lauda Sion Salvatorem” well organized and widely promoted portable chest organs. On the campus (Bericht über die Orgeleinweihung der 2/2019 (quarterly magazine of the Ger- concert series in which organists from of the Tel Aviv Music Academy, there is Rieger-Orgel der Kirche St. Salvator Jerusa- man Lutheran Church in Jerusalem) and all over the world perform. The artistic the above-mentioned concert hall organ lem), Im Lande des Herrn, Jg. 2008, No. 2. is reprinted here with permission. director is Fr. Riccardo Ceriani. as well as a smaller practice instrument Another current organ installation in with seventeen stops, built by Gideon Israel is in the north, not in a church, but Shamir in 1996.6 In the Jerusalem music in a concert hall. The Elma Arts Center school of the Franciscans, called Magni- is a spacious, architecturally interesting ficat, stands a small, older practice organ hotel and conference center in Zichron by the German company Walcker. Ya’akov. It offers a rich cultural program Thus, all in all, the Holy Land offers a of events in a concert hall seating 450 very multifaceted, colorful picture with people. In 2014, the organbuilder Klais organs of various stylistic characteristics, of , Germany, built an organ with different ages, different qualities, and in twenty-four stops on two manuals and different states of preservation. It would pedal for this center. be worthwhile, though not the subject The status of organs in the churches of this article, to report on the current of the Arab Lutheran Churches of the status of organ playing in Israel. The “ELCJHL” (Evangelical Lutheran number of organists is easy to tally. For Church in Jordan and the Holy Land) the approximately sixty instruments,

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Quimby Pipe Organs, Inc. resulting in a fluty timbre especially in Warrensburg, Missouri principal chorus ranks. See his book, Fifty Years and Counting Wanted: One Crate of Lions—The Life Fate, luck, and surprising interactions and Legacy of Charles W. McManis, with others fascinated with the pipe Organbuilder, OHS Press, 2008. In organ were the impetus for the founding the course of completing my degrees I of Quimby Pipe Organs, Incorporated, became intimately acquainted with his in August 1970. The same scenarios Opus 60, 1959, a two-manual electro- have continued over the years until the pneumatic instrument located in Hart company reached its fiftieth birthday this Recital Hall, University of Central Mis- past August 2020. souri, Warrensburg, Missouri. Two other I was exposed to pipe organs when I instruments of his design left a lasting was a fourth grader, while my father was impression on me as well—his two- accomplishing his residence work on his manual organ installed in South Street doctorate in agriculture economics at Christian Church, Springfield, Missouri, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, and his three-manual organ installed in Oklahoma. I was encouraged by my Saint John’s United Methodist Church, mother to join the boys’ choir at First Kansas City, Missouri. United Methodist Church, Stillwater, where Mrs. Ben W. Martin was minister 1970s of music. One trip looking into the pipe This decade was a time of steady organ chambers of the 1929 Hillgreen, growth for QPO with one employee and Lane & Company Opus 959 was all that the active participation of my wife Nancy was necessary to start a dream. This Elizabeth, since deceased. In 1972, First experience paved the way or caused the Christian Church, Warrensburg—upon orange shellac to start to flow as is often the recommendation of the UCM organ quoted. It is said that everyone who is an faculty and Dr. Conan Castle, director of organbuilder and who passionately loves choral activities at UCM and director of the pipe organ has orange shellac flowing music at First Christian—selected QPO in their veins. to build its Opus 1, a two-manual, 21-rank To me it seemed obvious that an organ- instrument, on which Charles McManis builder should know how to play the provided input. Opus 1 retained four instrument and have an understanding ranks from their 13-rank Kilgen (1919), of the repertoire. I studied organ under along with the case. The instrument was Professors Dr. Frederick W. Homan dedicated in September 1973. Coming and Dr. William E. McCandless at the up in 2023, Ken Cowan will perform the University of Central Missouri, Warrens- fiftieth anniversary recital. burg, where I completed bachelor’s and Additional work accomplished in master’s degrees in music. the 1970s included the restoration Today I play the instrument for my own of a splendid two-manual, 14-rank enjoyment and occasionally substitute. I mechanical-action (tracker) instrument did play for the First United Methodist by an unknown builder; the reloca- Church, Warrensburg, for forty years, tion of a two-manual, 15-rank Pfeffer Saint John’s Episcopal Church, Roanoke, Virginia thankfully with a readily available sub- tracker; the restoration of a one-manual, stitute when I was required to be out of 10-rank Kilgen tracker; and the reloca- In addition to these, fifteen new noticed, quite by accident, how founda- town working on pipe organ projects. tion of Möller Opus 5818. Two other instruments along with six rebuilds were tional timbre and balance in the overtone two-manual instruments were also built completed during this decade. series was affected just by holding the Early influences during this decade. body of the pipe. The English and French My formative years in pipe organ 1990s organs that we studied confirmed the building were significantly influenced 1980s The 1990s proved to be a pivotal need for heavier metal thicknesses. When by Colin A. Campbell, a service repre- The 1980s proved to be quite benefi- decade. In 1991, I convinced Eric I examined a spotted metal 8′ Diapason sentative for M. P. Möller, and Charles cial to the growth of QPO. In 1982 we Johnson, who apprenticed with L. W. pipe built by T. C. Lewis, which showed McManis, the legendary pipe organ were appointed curators of the Audito- Blackinton and Associates, to join QPO. no evidence of collapse, it prompted builder in Kansas City, Kansas. rium Organ, the four-manual, 110-rank Eric brought with him the Blackinton me to have the metal analyzed, which I started my adventures in organ- Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1309, located slider chest design, which incorporated a confirmed the addition of antimony and building as a key holder with Mr. Camp- in Independence, Missouri, where Dr. different pallet design, along with other other trace elements in the metal. bell and subsequently was taught to tune John Obetz was the principal organist. features that eliminated the need for During the 1990s we completed four before the age of fancy digital tuning This appointment was the launching pad slider seals. These windchests exceeded four-manual, five three-manual, and devices. Of interest to pipe organ histo- for future work because of the credibility my expectations and allowed our pipe- thirteen two-manual instruments, along rians, I still have Mr. Campbell’s Peter- that it gave to a young firm. work to be voiced to its full potential by with over thirty rebuilds. son tuner, with tubes and only two pitch From 1985 to 1987 the Auditorium eliminating the explosive attack experi- selections—he modified this function Organ went through an extensive enced when using individual pipe valves. 2000s himself for fine tuning the pitch adjust- rebuild where the leather throughout In 1997, Eric, Michael Brittenback, The first decade of the twenty-first ment. Additionally, I learned to leather the instrument had prematurely failed. organist of St. Margaret’s Church, century opened with the decision to pouches and primary actions, restore The console was also failing due to the Thomas Brown, and myself, embarked expand our pipe shop and make and reservoirs, loom cables for windchests extraordinary amount of use that it on a journey to Europe, led by Jonathan voice our own reeds whenever possible. and console connections, and to accom- endured. At this time, it was decided to Ambrosino, to study notable English This change made it possible to differen- plish basic voicing techniques to correct completely revoice the instrument. The organs of the nineteenth and early twen- tiate our reeds from that of other build- speech problems, basic reed cleaning revoicing work was accomplished by tieth centuries, along with the works of ers. Our head reed voicer, Eric Johnson, and regulation, and the basics of cutting John Hendriksen, former head voicer of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll. This fact-finding developed the chorus and solo reeds that up flue pipes, adjusting languids, and Aeolian-Skinner, and Thomas H. Ander- mission was in advance of building our we have become noted for their timbre the proper use of toe cones. Consider- son, former head of the Aeolian-Skinner Opus 50 (IV/71) at Saint Margaret’s and excellent tuning stability. The first able time was spent in learning how pipe shop, who built four new ranks. Episcopal Church, Palm Desert, Califor- instrument built with our new tonal phi- to quickly ascertain technical issues This project resulted in a long-standing nia, which was designed by Mr. Ambro- losophy was the three-manual, 55-rank with tuning or on an emergency visit. relationship with both John and Tommy. sino. Also, on that same trip we were organ located in Gano Chapel of William Mr. Campbell was extremely fastidious John was not only an excellent flue voicer fortunate to have Stephen Bicknell and Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri. This regarding the quality of the work accom- but was also an artist at knowing the Jean-Louis Coignet offer their expertise. organ was especially important to me as plished. Since cleanliness and precise potential of vintage pipework. He was Todd Wilson recorded his CD Frank I was allowed complete freedom in the order were virtuous in his eyes, he had able to change their character by scale Bridge and Friends on the instrument at design of the instrument to express my no patience for instruments that were changes, changing cut ups, or adding Saint Margaret’s (available on the web). own thoughts and creativity. This instru- designed in such a way as to make tun- nicking. Through Tommy’s guidance, Ever since that trip, whenever possi- ment still holds a special place in my ing and maintenance difficult. old pipework could take on a completely ble, our instruments have an 8′ Diapason mind, even with the passage of time. In the way that Mr. Campbell influ- new purpose and look. in each manual division with developed In 2005, QPO was entrusted with the enced my mind as a service technician, One of our most pivotal occurrences diapason and reed choruses. This was rebuild of the four-manual, 143-rank Charles McManis also influenced my was being selected as the builder at First a radical shift in tonal design from the Aeolian Skinner Opus 150A located in mind regarding tonal design and flue United Methodist Church, Fort Smith, terraced diapason choruses of McManis. the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, voicing. He never abandoned voicing Arkansas. Ms. Nancy Vernon, chair of Our thoughts about solo and chorus reeds New York City, following the fire of techniques such as nicking that were the organ committee, after extensively also evolved significantly. During this trip, 2001. The instrument was removed in considered an abomination by builders researching our work, believed in QPO Eric and I confirmed the significance 2005 and then returned in the early sum- of the Organ Reform Movement. He was and felt that our young firm would pro- of appropriate metal thicknesses for mer of 2008. Its first public use following never an advocate of voicing flue pipes vide them with the best instrument. flues and reeds also. Years before I had the fire was on November 30 of the same

18 Q THE DIAPASON Q FEBRUARY 2021 WWW.THEDIAPASON.COM The Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew, Wilmington, Delaware year. The work was primarily a restora- tion except for a new replica four-manual console built to AGO standards, solid- state conversion, and the addition of two ranks. All Ernest Skinner windchests from his 1910 Opus 150 remain, with the exception of two unit chests. This job remains the single most demanding and rewarding job to date. Other notable new instruments include: First Baptist Church, Jackson, Mississippi (V/155); Dauphin Way United Methodist Church, Mobile, Alabama (IV/71); Canyon Creek Pres- byterian Church, Richardson, Texas (III/58); Kirkwood Baptist Church, Kirkwood, Missouri (III/43); and First Christian Church, Jefferson City, Mis- souri (III/46).

2010s All of the instruments built in the 2010s have proven to be emotionally satisfying to their owners and consultants, when involved. The most challenging projects in this decade were Fourth Presbyterian Church, , Illinois (V/143), and Dunwoody United Methodist Church, Dunwoody, Georgia (IV/100). When Eric Johnson and I first visited William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri Fourth Presbyterian, we were aston- ished that the 1970 Aeolian-Skinner the same time, perform the vast majority opposite the main organ. By doing this, Opus 195 and 1938 Casavant Opus 1600. Opus 1516 was not able to effectively of pipe organ repertoire. The existing we achieved the satisfactory results The results exceeded my fondest expec- accompany congregational singing, even tone openings included one that spoke we had hoped for. Dr. Sherer used the tations: that no one would be able to with a substantial Antiphonal division. directly into the chancel and another, organ of Woolsey Hall, Yale University, determine where repurposed original Not much was heard past the fourth added by Goulding & Wood Pipe Organ as the demarcation point. Dr. Jan Kray- ranks were assigned in the new tonal pew other than mixtures and the 32′ Builders in their 1994 rebuild of the bill’s recording, Live in Concert—The specification. The hard surface chancel reed. The same issues accompanied its instrument, that spoke directly into the Quimby Pipe Organ of Fourth Presbyte- was a superb sounding board along with predecessor, the 1913 Ernest M. Skinner nave. The nave opening proved to be rian Church, Chicago (found at https:// the high vaulted ceiling, making the Opus 210. Leo Sowerby described the inadequate for optimal tonal egress, so quimbypipeorgans.com/quimby-sound/) acoustics of the room the best stop on E. M. Skinner as a fantastic instrument we were able to create a larger opening provides an excellent presentation. the organ. for accompanying and softer effects, but by removing the solid decorative panels Dunwoody United Methodist Church Other new instruments from this devoid of a satisfactory ensemble. at the top of the case and replacing them did not want a new instrument, but the timeframe include the following: The We were fortunate to develop a speci- with acoustically porous panels on which merger of two instruments from the Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew, fication, with the assistance of Dr. John the original artwork was duplicated. We past. Their desire was to create a new Wilmington, Delaware (III/45); Central Sherer, that could lead congregational also designed and built a Positive divi- Romantic pipe organ. The instruments United Methodist Church, Concord, singing without being offensive, and, at sion in a matching case in the balcony, selected were 1912 Ernest M. Skinner North Carolina (III/38); All Saints

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Episcopal Church, Southern Shores, Trinity Episcopal Church, Indianapolis, North Carolina (II/18); Saint John’s Indiana; relocation and rebuilding of the Dauphin Way United Methodist Church, Mobile, Alabama Episcopal Church, Lafayette, Indiana IV/50 Skinner Opus 265, with Pedal 32′ (III/29); and First United Methodist Open Wood and Bombarde for Saint succession plan, prepared for us by The photos on the cover page, left to Church, Athens, Georgia (IV/68). Bernard’s Catholic Parish, Madison, Stinson Attorneys of Kansas City, Mis- right, top to bottom: Wisconsin; a new IV/55 organ for First souri. Present associates of QPO are as The Cathedral of Saint Paul, Saint Paul, Looking ahead Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, North follows: Melody Burns, Nancy Dyer, Minnesota Despite Covid-19, the sixth decade for Carolina; and rebuild and enlargement Chris Emerson, Charles Ford, Eric Saint John’s Episcopal Church, Lafay- QPO looks to be very exciting. Work in of Austin Opus 1162 located in Hen- Johnson, Kevin Kissinger, Bryce Mun- ette, Indiana progress includes the rebuild of Skinner dricks Hall, University of Central Mis- son, Michael Quimby, Brian Seever, Dan Saint Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral, San Organ Company Opus 323 for Church of souri, Warrensburg, Missouri. Sliger, Anthony Soun, Mahoney Soun, Diego, California the Messiah, Rhinebeck, New York; tonal To ensure our work continuing well Chirt Touch, and Bailey Tucker. rebuild of the Schantz organ located in into the future, we have instituted a —Michael Quimby

³ page 9: Here & There Tom Trenney, a collection of 11 works; Humanities in Medicine Symposium. Sing Praise: Sacred Vocal Solos (40-550, Following the performance, PDF cop- $2.50), by Genevieve Rose Kwas- $25), a collection of works by seven com- ies of the winning scores will be made niewski, for SSA; Deus in Adjutorium posers; Bread of the World: Songs for available via the Mayo Clinic Humani- (5128, $1.50), by Colin Brumby, for Worship (40-751, $16), by Wayne Wold, ties Connect webpage. Composers of SATB unaccompanied. works for use throughout the liturgi- prize-winning works will receive a hard In addition: A Trumpet Celebration cal year; and Great Is Thy Faithfulness copy of the scores, printed and bound in (6047, $3.25), by Grimoaldo Macchia, (40-700, $8), by Duane Funderburk. For a collection by Mayo Clinic. Deadline for for organ; and Four Advent Chorales for information: morningstarmusic.com. submissions is April 16. For information: Flute and Harpsichord or Organ (6023, https://mayocl.in/2SPkbmc. $5.95), by Stephen McManus. For infor- mation: canticanova.com. Carillon News Mayo Clinic carillon keydesk (photo credit: The National Association for Austin Ferguson) Olmsted Parks announces a carillon Daniel E. Gawthrop announces new composition competition, “Inspired by organ publications: 24 Microludes for Olmsted,” for its “Olmsted 200” celebra- Organ, Volume 2 (Advent and Christmas) tion of the bicentennial of the birthday and Volume 3 (Advent, Christmas, and of Frederick Law Olmsted, the ground- Epiphany). The books contain hymn- breaking American landscape architect, based and freely composed pieces ranging in 2022. Carillonneurs around the from 30 seconds to two minutes in length. United States will be encouraged to play Information: danielegawthrop.com. the winning compositions throughout 2022, especially in cities with parks and Editions Walhall announces a new other areas of Olmsted’s design. publication for Lent: Stabat Mater, by Original compositions (not arrange- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (PG3205, Mayo Clinic carillon tower (photo credit: Mayo Clinic carillon bells (photo credit: ments or transcriptions) of 5–10 minutes €19.80), for soprano, alto, and organ, Austin Ferguson) Austin Ferguson) in length are sought. Compositions arranged by Jan Devlieger. For informa- should be inspired by and/or address tion: edition-walhall.de. The Mayo Clinic Dolores Jean Mayo Clinic’s mission in the creation of the life and legacy of Olmsted. Deadline Lavins Center for Humanities in new art beneficial to the patient experi- for submissions is July 1, 2021. Prize- MorningStar Music Publishers Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, ence, and illustrate the carillon’s role as winning compositions will be announced announces new publications for vocal announces its first carillon composition the “People’s Instrument” in the Roch- January 1, 2022, and will be premiered at solo and accompaniment, particularly competition, “The People’s Instrument: ester community. Bok Tower Gardens, Florida, Washing- geared for use during the current pan- The Rochester Carillon.” The competi- Compositions selected will be pre- ton National Cathedral, and the Univer- demic: . . . still all my song shall be: a tion aims to expand the repertoire avail- miered on the Mayo Clinic Rochester sity of Chicago. For information, contact collection of heartsongs (40-525, $25), by able to the Rochester Carillon, support Carillon in a recital during the 2021 Dede Petri: [email protected]. Q

20 Q THE DIAPASON Q FEBRUARY 2021 WWW.THEDIAPASON.COM Reviews Bert Adams, FAGO PATRICK ALLEN Park Ridge Presbyterian Church Book Reviews studies like these are sorely needed, Park Ridge, IL GRACE CHURCH Work List of the Farrand & Votey for builders such as Kimball, Votteler- Pickle Piano & Church Organ Systems NEW YORK and Votey Organ Companies, by Holtkamp-Sparling, and Kilgen, to name Bloomingdale, IL Rollin Smith and James Lewis. OHS only a few. Press, The Organ Historical Society, —Stephen Schnurr Villanova, Pennsylvania, 2020, 69 + Gary, Indiana xiv pages, 33 black and white and 1 Christopher Babcock Your artist spotlight can appear color illustrations, paperback, 978- on The Diapason website for 0-913499-82-5, $29.95. Available New Organ Music as little as $16 per month St. Andrew’s by the Sea, from ohscatalog.org. St. Francis Organbook, by Carson Contact Jerome Butera, Most readers of The Diapason have Cooman. Zimbel Press, #80101411, Hyannis Port [email protected] driven by any number of churches and $17.95. Available from Subito Music other buildings wondering what organs Corporation: www.subitomusic.com. may have graced the interiors of these Carson Cooman is a friend of Andreas edifi ces. Occasionally one might fi nd the Willscher, who is the organist of Saint front doors open, walk in, and discover Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Dean W. Billmeyer an instrument that has not been known Barmbek, Germany. It may be this con- to many. nection that inspired Cooman to write University of Minnesota Two weeks before writing this review, this organbook on the life and legends Minneapolis 55455 • [email protected] I visited a friend (and subscriber to of Saint Francis. I found it inspiring to this journal) who drove me about his receive a publication of Willscher’s at small town. (We were wearing masks, about the same time that is also based on of course.) As we passed an impressive Saint Francis, but that was written after GAVIN BLACK Richardsonian Romanesque Baptist Cooman’s collection. Byron L. Blackmore church, I inquired as to what the build- I utilized the two volumes to play three Princeton Early Keyboard Center Crown of Life Lutheran Church ing may have had for an organ. I was Sundays of music about Saint Francis, 732/599-0392 Sun City West, Arizona informed that no present member of letting the music explain his importance www.pekc.org the church was aware that there had for our country today. I wrote extensive 623/214-4903 ever been a pipe organ in the building. program notes that were printed in the Books like these are important for vari- weekly church newsletter and were ous reasons, and one of the reasons this printed on an insert in the bulletin as book became important to me is that it well. In general, the music is not too dif- THOMAS BROWN Carson Cooman identifi ed a pipe organ that was installed fi cult, but I was amazed with the musical CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA Composer and Concert Organist in this very Baptist church in 1895, an symbolism when I read, listened, and Harvard University instrument completely forgotten at some thought about the titles. ThomasBrownMusic.com www.carsoncooman.com point in the last 125 years. The pieces are 1. “Brother Sun This slim volume is the fi fteenth in the who brings the Day;” 2. “Toccata” series, “OHS Monographs in American (He is beautiful and radiant in all his Organ History.” It is an annotated list splendor!); 3. “Saint Francis, poor and Your professional card of 225 organs by the Farrand & Votey humble, enters heaven rich;” 4. “The DELBERT DISSELHORST and the Votey organ companies between Cloak with the Stars;” 5. “Saint Francis could appear here! October 1889 and December 1899, com- Divests Himself of All Worldly Wealth;” Professor Emeritus Contact: [email protected] piled from materials in the OHS archives 6. “Saint Francis and the Sermon to the University of Iowa–Iowa City or 608/634-6253 and contemporary accounts in online Birds;” 7. “Saint Francis and the Wolf digitized newspapers. It also contains a of Gubbio.” list of organs built by Granville Wood The “Sermon to the Birds” was one of & Sons, the fi rm having been bought my favorite pieces; it is a passacaglia with STEVEN EGLER JOHN FENSTERMAKER by Farrand & Votey in 1889. In 1893, calm chordal-like passages representing Central Michigan University the Detroit builder would purchase Saint Francis sermonizing, featuring TRINITY-BY-THE-COVE the Frank Roosevelt organ fi rm of New sounds of the chattering birds respond- School of Music Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 York City, , and Baltimore, a ing to his sermon, asking for his blessing. NAPLES, FLORIDA transaction including the fi rm’s patents. Finally, after receiving the blessing, the [email protected] In 1897, William Farrand would return birds fl y off into the sky. to building reed organs, and Edmond The “Wolf of Gubbio” is also very Norberto Votey formed the Votey Organ Company dramatic. The snarling wolf terrorizing to continue building pipe organs. In 1901, the little town is represented on an 8′ the Votey Organ Company joined the Trumpet and 4′ Principal, and again Susan Goodson Guinaldo George S. Hutchings fi rm in Boston, Mas- Saint Francis speaks calmly (and bravely, Emanuel United Church of Christ His Music sachusetts, to continue as the Hutchings- I would say) to the wolf until a compro- Manchester, Michigan See—Listen—Buy Votey Organ Company, while Votey went mise is reached. www.GuinaldoPublications.com to the Aeolian Company. (Farrand & Since I wrote about the pieces each Votey and the Votey Organ Company had week in the church newsletter, folks been building pipe organs for Aeolian.) A knew they would hear birds fl utter- A Professional Card in timeline is found at the front of the book, ing around the sanctuary and that they STEPHEN HAMILTON which is most helpful in keeping track of should try not to be scared when they The Diapason the lineage of these companies. hear the wolf growling. I had very posi- For rates and digital specifi cations, recitalist–clinician–educator Thus this book traces the output of tive comments after each service! contact Jerome Butera www.stephenjonhamilton.com an important pipe organ building tradi- Willscher wrote music about some 608/634-6253; [email protected] tion in Detroit, Michigan. Instruments of the same legends as Cooman, and I are identifi ed chronologically (as best found it fun to compare how each com- possible), often without opus numbers poser interpreted the legend. The music assigned, with location of installation is of medium diffi culty and, to me, very David Herman and, when known, size by number of inspiring. In addition, the pieces could ranks or stops and manuals. Stoplists and be used in a service without the titles, Trustees Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Music and University Organist illustrations of seventeen instruments if desired. I recommend this collection are found near the back of the book, most highly. The University of Delaware Q [email protected] along with alphabetical and geographical —Jay Zoller indices of instruments. Newcastle, Maine This book is an appropriate compan- ion to Smith’s recent publications—The Gail Archer Aeolian Pipe Organ and Its Music, sec- New Recordings organist ond edition, and Pipe Organs of the Rich Nights Bright Days. Chicago Gar- and Famous, both available from the goyle Brass and Organ Ensemble; www.gailarcher.com LorraineSunghee Brugh, Kim, DMPh.D. OHS catalog. These books discuss the Heike Burghart Rice, Jared Stellm- Professor of Music Detroit builders’ involvement in supply- acher, and Mark Sudeith, organists; Vassar College Barnard College, Columbia University University Organist ing the early pipe organs for Aeolian, and Oriana Singers and City Voices of [email protected] Valparaiso, Ind. this Work List book provides another Chicago, William Chin, conductor; (212) 854-5096 dimension to this friendly arrangement Kevin Gudahl, narration; Mark valpo.edu in the business world. 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Rodney Holmes (its artistic grazioso, Henry Alexander John Camp- Chicago T [email protected] BOSTON director), here presents a novel program bell; Andante con moto, op. 101, no. 6, of Peter Meechan’s Love Songs along Charles Villiers Stanford; Communion, with arrangements by Craig Garner. William Wolstenholme; Melody in D Certainly these works give the brass Major, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; Burial, KIM R. KASLING JAMES KIBBIE quintet pride of place, but the organ is a op. 27, no. 3, Alexander Mackenzie; worthy compatriot here, and this record- Sonata in G Minor: (i) Introduction, (ii) D.M.A. The University of Michigan ing, free of the trite and garden variety, Allegretto pastorale, (iii) Finale, Charles St. John’s University Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2085 can be savored by fans of the brass-and- John Grey; Elegy in A-fl at, Hubert Parry; 734-764-1591 FAX: 734-763-5097 Collegeville, MN 56321 organ combination. Adagio non troppo in F Minor, Charles email: [email protected] The recording begins with the famil- Edward Stephens; Meditation in a iar Come Ye Sons of Arts (“Arts” being Village Churchyard, Charles William the spelling in Purcell’s autograph), Pearce; Allegro con spirato, Alfred Rawl- David K. Lamb, D.Mus. arranged by Craig Garner, and featuring ings; Chorale Prelude on “Du, O schönes Karen Schneider Kirner Director of Music organist Jared Stellmacher. Next is the Weltgebäude,” Ethel Smyth; Christmas Director, Notre Dame Handbell Choir recording’s central work, Love Songs Prelude (“Sit laus plena, sit sonora”), Trinity United Methodist Church Assistant Director, Notre Dame Folk Choir New Albany, Indiana (2016), by Peter Meechan, a Canada- William Thomas Best. University of Notre Dame 812/944-2229 based British composer who has written Born in 1961 in , , dozens of works for brass and concert Robert James Stove is something of a band. Love Songs, a setting of four musical entrepreneur as an organist, Shakespearean sonnets, provides the musicologist, and composer. Holding a recording’s title, from Sonnet 43: “All Bachelor of Music degree from Monash days are nights to see till I see thee/And University, he is currently pursuing a A.S.C.A.P. FELLOW, AMERICAN GUILD OF ORGANISTS nights bright days when dreams do show doctoral degree with a focus on the organ thee me.” Set for brass quintet, organ music of Charles Villiers Stanford at the 345 SADDLE LAKE DRIVE ROSWELL-, GEORGIA 30076 (Mark Sudeith, organist), narrator, and Sydney Conservatorium of Music. He is (770) 594-0949 choir, Love Songs features narrator the author of books on Giovanni Pierlu- Kevin Gudahl (a noted actor with a igi da Palestrina and César Franck and long tenure at the Chicago Shakespeare has published a number of compositions Theater) plus the Oriana Singers and for organ. A convert to Catholicism, he ANDREW PAUL MOORE LEON NELSON City Voices of Chicago, conducted by has played the organ regularly in church CHRIST CHURCH Director of Traditional Music William Chin. for many years. He is also the founder of Southminster Presbyterian Church The work deals with life and love the recording company, Ars Organi. On SHORT HILLS Arlington Heights, IL 60005 through Sonnets 71 (Lost Love: “No this compact disc he plays the 1997 Ken- longer mourn for me when I am dead”), neth Jones & Associates three-manual, which features the choral groups; 147 39-rank, mechanical-action organ in the (Love’s Betrayal: “My love is as a fever, Chapel of Trinity College at the Univer- longing still”), whose organ part is on sity of . LARRY PALMER more equal footing with the brass, and in The compact disc begins with Stove’s PHILIP CROZIER which the narrator delivers the text over own transcription of the Welsh national CONCERT ORGANIST Harpsichord – Organ a choral background; 43 (Love’s Dream: anthem, God Bless the Prince of Wales. ACCOMPANIST “When most I wink, then do mine eyes Caernarfon organist Brinley Richards Professor of Music, Emeritus best see”); and 116 (Love’s Ideal: “Let wrote this for the Caernarfon Eisteddfod 3355 Queen Mary Road, Apt 424 me not to the marriage of true minds”). of 1862, and a reprise took place at the , H3V 1A5, P. Quebec SMU, , Texas The different moods of the sonnets are wedding of the Prince of Wales and Prin- Canada expressed through varied approaches cess Alexandra the following year. Apart to rhythm (as in the incessant pattern from God Bless the Prince of Wales, I Recitals — Lectures — Consultancies (514) 739-8696 in “Love’s Betrayal”), resources and have not come across much of the rep- [email protected] textures (the choir in “Lost Love,” and ertoire on this compact disc, and indeed [email protected] + 214.350-3628 choir and narrator in “Love’s Dream”), eleven of the eighteen tracks comprise and repetition (as in “Love’s Ideal”). This music that has never been recorded is a thoughtful and sensitive work that before. 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Also familiar is highlighting the lovely principal stops, number three of Elgar’s Vesper Volun- accompanied by a trumpet descant. taries, from a long-obscure anthology Mark Sudeith is organist on this and of organ music published by Orsborn & pianist on the concluding pieces, expert Tuckworth, rediscovered by the Elgar A gift subscription to arrangements of the “Four Sea Inter- Society and made popular in recent ludes” and “Passacaglia,” from Benjamin years by the Organ Historical Society. Britten’s opera Peter Grimes (for which Also enjoying a revival at present is the The Diapason Heike Burghart Rice is organist). The once-popular music of blind English The perfect gift for arrangements are faithful to the original organists William Wolstenholme and scoring design and offer a way for brass, Alfred Rawlings, represented here + organist colleagues + choir directors organ, piano, and percussion to perform by Wolstenholme’s Communion and + students + organ builders these pieces. 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NICHOLAS QUARDOKUS, St. cello, Trinity-by-the-Cove Episcopal BWV 542, Bach; Prelude and Fugue in Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New Church, Naples, FL, October 4: Allegro B (Trois Préludes et Fugues, op. 7, no. ROBERT McCORMICK, St. Bridg- York, NY, October 17: Partite diverse so- maestoso (Water Music), Larghetto, Al- 1), Dupré; Passacaglia and Fugue in c, et Catholic Church, Richmond, VA, pra Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig, BWV 768, legro (Sonata in D), Handel; Ein feste BWV 582, Bach; Allegretto (Symphony October 2: A Trumpet Minuet, Hollins; Bach; Partita: Nun komm, der Heiden Burg, Pachelbel; Méditation (Thaïs), VII), Beethoven, transcr. 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Harbach; Volun- ANDREW PAUL FREDEL, Cathe- MICHAEL HEY, St. Patrick’s Cathe- tary on Engelberg, Hampton; Evening CHRISTA RAKICH, Holy Trinity dral of St. John the Evangelist, Milwau- dral, New York, NY, October 19: Toccata Song, Hurd; Ave Maris Stella (Vêpres Lutheran Church, Akron, OH, October kee, WI, October 7: Paean, Hurford; and Fugue in d, BWV 565, Bach; Cor- du commun des fêtes de la Sainte Vi- 4: Variations on Besançon, Arcus; Ca- Tranquillo ma con moto, Aria (Six Short tège et Litanie (Quatre Pièces, op. 19, erge, op. 18), Dupré; Improvisation on nonic Variations on Vom Himmel hoch, Pieces, nos. 1, 3), Howells; Rockingham, no. 2), Dupré; Pageant, Sowerby; Soli- submitted themes. BWV 769a, Bach; Vom Himmel hoch, In Christe Redemptor omnium (Chorale tude, Empty Rituals, Sol; Pavane pour dulci jubilo, Puer natus in Bethlehem, Preludes, set 1, nos. 2, 6), Parry; Inter- une infante défunte, Toccata (Le Tom- JOHN J. 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