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NEWS & DEPARTMENTS Editor’s Notebook 3 Letters to the Editor Letters to the Editor 3 Here & There 3 Appointments 3 I read with surprise and interest ago). My dad told me I was required to Among other things Edmund played Nunc Dimittis 4 about the passing of Edmund Shay in attend at least one. Well, the first three was the Toccata in F, and the D Major Carillon News by Carl Zimmerman 8 the June issue of The Diapason, page concerts came and went and my dad Prelude and Fugue. I was inspired to Carillon Profile by Kimberly Schafer 8 7. While I had not been in contact with said nothing. start studying the organ and have played On Teaching by Gavin Black 9 Edmund for many years, he inspired When the evening of the fourth it in various churches ever since my HS In the wind . . . by John Bishop 10 me to become an organist. Edmund was concert came my dad asked me if I days—all because of Edmund. REVIEWS the organist at our church in Oak Park, was ready? I knew what he meant, but I thought you might be interested in New Carillon Music 21 Illinois, when I was in high school and pretended that I did not. Well, my dad my story. One never knows how much New Recordings 21 played a series of four Bach organ con- picked me up by my left ear (literally) influence one has on younger persons. New Handbell Music 23 certs—part of his doctoral program at and told me to get ready. We were going. Karl Bruhn the University of Cincinnati—if I recall As much as I pretended to not like the Batavia, Illinois CALENDAR 24 this properly. (This was about 55 years music, I really did and was moved. Q RECITAL PROGRAMS 25 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING 26 Here & There

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Competitions The Historical Keyboard Society of North America announces its tenth Aliénor Competition for a commis- Holtkamp organ, Pleasant Hills Commu- sioned work for solo harpsichord. Three nity Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, composers will be selected to compose Brent L. Neuenschwander COVER Pennsylvania Kegg Pipe Organ Builders, Hartville, Ohio a work of 10 to 20 minutes in length. Thirtieth Anniversary 18 The work can be a single movement or Neuenschwander earned a Bachelor Pleasant Hills Community can have multiple movements and must of Music degree in organ performance Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, be playable on a two-manual, GG–e3 from Salem College, Winston-Salem, ′ ′ Editorial Director STEPHEN SCHNURR Pennsylvania, had planned a recital in instrument with two 8 s and a 4 . The North Carolina, in 2012 and a Master and Publisher [email protected] April to celebrate the 50th anniversary commissions will be premiered at the of Music degree in organ performance 847/954-7989 of the church’s 1970 Holtkamp organ. society’s spring 2022 conference. To in 2014 from the University of North President RICK SCHWER This event featuring Adam J. Brakel apply, submit a one-page biography, a Carolina School of the Arts, also in [email protected] has been rescheduled for September pdf score, and an MP3 recording of a Winston-Salem. He studied organ with 847/391-1048 13, 3:00 p.m. George Markey, then at piece or pieces ten minutes or less in Timothy Olsen and piano with Barbara Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, length to [email protected]. Deadline Lister-Sink, with whom he studied injury Editor-at-Large ANDREW SCHAEFFER [email protected] New York City, and Westminster Choir for submissions is October 1; winners preventive keyboard technique. He has College, played the organ’s dedicatory will be announced on January 15, 2021, had additional lessons with Marilyn Sales Director JEROME BUTERA recital on April 26, 1970. and commissions must be fulfilled by Keiser and has performed organ recitals [email protected] 608/634-6253 The September recital is sponsored September 15, 2021. in Indiana, North Carolina, and Ohio. Circulation/ by the Harmony Society Chapter of From 2013–2015, Neuenschwander Subscriptions THE DIAPASON the Organ Historical Society and Pleas- was assistant organist at St. Paul’s Epis- P.O. Box 300 Lincolnshire, IL. 60069-0300 ant Hills Church. The program will be Appointments copal Church, Winston-Salem, North [email protected] dedicated to the memory of Bob Frazier, Brent L. Neuenschwander is Carolina, moving to Findlay in 2015. For Toll-Free: 877/501-7540 organist and choirmaster at the church appointed director of music ministries and information: firstpresfortwayne.org. Local: 847/763-4933 when the organ was installed, and Bill organist for First Presbyterian Church, Designer KIMBERLY PELLIKAN Linderg, Pittsburgh organist, resident Fort Wayne, Indiana. He leaves a position Alejandro Reyna is appointed [email protected] of Pleasant Hills, and Brakel’s first organ as director of music for First Presbyterian conducting fellow for the Indianapolis 847/391-1024 teacher. For information: Church, Findlay, Ohio. Neuenschwander Symphonic Choir, Indianapolis, Indiana, Contributing Editors LARRY PALMER www.pleasanthillschurch.com grew up in Berne, Indiana, and began for the 2020–2022 academic years. A Harpsichord or www.adambrakel.com. studying piano at the age of six. 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³ page 3 Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1132, originally northern Germany. Under Boe’s leader- on choral conducting and vocal perfor- built for the recently-closed Church ship, in 1970, First Lutheran Church, mance. While at Wabash College, Reyna of the Redeemer (United Church of Lorain, awarded a contract to John served as the associate choir director at Christ) in New Haven. For information: Brombaugh for a new organ to be built First Christian Church, Crawfordsville, derrypres.org. according to historical principles. This and as an intern for the Wabash College landmark instrument and the church Glee Club. were destroyed by fire in 2014. Boe Focusing on large-scale choral- Nunc Dimittis served the church until his retirement orchestral masterworks, the conducting on Pentecost Sunday, 2002. fellowship is a collaborative initiative David Boe was appointed the ninth between the Indianapolis Symphonic dean of Oberlin Conservatory in 1976 Choir and Butler University. The fel- after having served as acting dean from lowship provides full-tuition and stipend 1974 to 1975. He later served as interim and provides experience in the guidance dean on several occasions. In the 1980s, of a symphonic chorus, including artist he served as vice president of the programming, development, communi- American Organ Academy; completed cations, governance, and outreach initia- a four-year term as national president tives. For information: indychoir.org. of the American honor society in music, Jane Parker-Smith (photo credit: Hanya Pi Kappa Lambda; and was secretary Chlala) of the National Association of Schools of Music, chairing music accreditation She made her London debut at West- teams or serving as a consultant to music minster Cathedral at age twenty and two programs at over thirty-five institutions. years later made her first solo appearance He later served as trustee for the West- at the BBC Promenade Concerts in the field Center for many years. Royal Albert Hall. She would proceed to As a performer, Boe was represented concertize in concert halls, cathedrals, by WindWerk Artists and concertized and churches throughout the world. David Stephen Boe in the United States and Europe. He She recorded a wide range of solo rep- recorded on the Gasparo and Veritas ertoire for RCA, Classics for Pleasure, David Stephen Boe died April 28, labels, and he appeared on the nation- L’Oiseau Lyre, EMI, ASV, Collins Clas- 2020, in Chicago, Illinois. Since 2012, he ally televised program The Wind at sics, Motette, and AVIE. In addition, she and his wife, Sigrid North Boe, had lived One’s Fingertips. During his 1991 sab- collaborated with Maurice André in a at a Chicago retirement community, batical, he served as visiting professor duo recording of music for trumpet and where they moved to be near family. of organ for the spring semester at organ. She performed numerous times Grant Wareham (photo credit: Natalie Gaynor David Boe was born in Duluth, Min- Florida State University, Tallahassee, on radio and television with special fea- Photography) nesota, and spent most of his early years and as visiting professor of organ at the ture programs on the BBC, German, and in Eau Claire and Menomonie, Wiscon- University of Notre Dame during the Swiss television. Grant Wareham is appointed direc- sin. His father was a Lutheran pastor, and fall semester. Highlights in her concert career tor of music ministries for Derry Pres- his mother was a singer and choral con- David Boe played an important part included performances in venues and byterian Church, Hershey, Pennsylvania. ductor. Boe received his Bachelor of Arts in establishing the organ collection at international festivals such as Westmin- Wareham earned a Bachelor of Music degree magna cum laude from St. Olaf Oberlin, including the installation of ster Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, St. degree in organ performance from Rice College, Northfield, Minnesota, in 1958, John Brombaugh Opus 25 (1981), a Paul’s Cathedral, Royal Festival Hall, University, Houston, Texas, and gradu- and his Master of Music degree in organ meantone organ in Fairchild Chapel, Royal Albert Hall, London (both solo ated from the Yale Institute of Sacred performance from Syracuse University and C. B. Fisk, Inc., Opus 116 (2001) and concerto performances); Three Music, New Haven, Connecticut, with a in 1960, studying under Arthur Poister. in Finney Chapel, built in the style of Choirs Festival, City of London Festival, Master of Music degree in organ perfor- He received a J. William Fulbright Cavaillé-Coll. Upon his retirement, Bath Festival, and Blenheim Palace mance in May. He is a member of The Foreign Scholarship for additional study he donated his residence organ, a one- (Winston Churchill Memorial Concert) Diapason’s 20 Under 30 Class of 2019. with Helmut Walcha at the Staatliche manual, six-stop Brombaugh organ, to in the UK; Jyväskylä Festival, Finland; Wareham’s most recent position was Hochschule für Musik, Frankfurt, Ger- Oberlin, where it was installed in the Stockholm Concert Hall, Sweden; Hong organist and choirmaster for the Epis- many. It was while Boe was studying with front of Fairchild Chapel. He served as Kong Arts Festival; Roy Thomson Hall, copal Church at Yale. He was a finalist Walcha at the Dreikönigskirche that he consultant for the 2004 organ built by Toronto; Festival Paris Quartier D’Été, in the Longwood Gardens International met one of the pastor’s daughters, Sigrid Halbert Gober for First Church (UCC) France; Festival Cicio El Organo en la Organ Competition in 2019. North, who became his wife. They were in Oberlin and performed on the dedica- Iglesia, Buenos Aires; Festival Interna- At Derry Presbyterian Church, he married by Sigrid’s father, Pastor Paulus tory recital. tionale di Musica Organistica Magadino, will oversee volunteer directors, handle North, on July 23, 1961; Walcha, a friend As a 70th birthday gift in 2006, four Switzerland; Cube Concert Hall, Shiroi- administrative tasks, direct handbell of the North family, served as organist. of Boe’s former students commis- shi, Japan; Athens Organ Festival; Sever- choirs and some youth and children’s When the Boes returned to the United sioned a new two-manual and pedal ance Hall, Cleveland, Davies Symphony choirs, and serve as primary organist and States, he taught organ for one year at clavichord built in Göteborg, Sweden, Hall, San Francisco, and Walt Disney pianist. Dan Stokes, who has served as the University of Georgia (1961–1962). by Joel Speerstra, a former Boe student Concert Hall, Los Angeles; Sejong Cul- interim director of music and organist, In 1962, David Boe joined the organ at Oberlin. For Boe’s 75th birthday in tural Centre, Seoul, Korea; Esplanade will continue to direct the Sanctuary and harpsichord faculty of Oberlin 2011, two alumni honored both David Concert Hall, Singapore; Symphony Choir and serve as a mentor for Ware- Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, Ohio. and Sigrid Boe with the purchase of the Hall, Birmingham, UK; Mariinsky Con- ham. For more information on Ware- He also became director of music at two-manual and pedal organ originally cert Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia; and ham, see the May 2019 issue of The First Lutheran Church, Lorain, Ohio. built for SUNY, Purchase, New York, by ZK Matthews Hall, University of South Diapason, page 25. He returned to Europe in 1968 while the Bozeman-Gibson Organ Company Africa, Pretoria. For the American Guild Derry Presbyterian Church has com- on sabbatical to study with Gustav Leon- in the style of Gottfried Silbermann. of Organists, she performed for the 1996 missioned the A. Thompson-Allen Com- hardt and to conduct research on histori- In 2011, Boe’s undergraduate alma centennial convention in New York City, pany of New Haven to restore and install cal instruments in the Netherlands and mater, St. Olaf College, awarded him as well as national conventions in 2002 in its Alumni Achievement Award. At that Philadelphia and 2012 in Nashville. She time, St. Olaf recorded a video at the was represented in the United States by Boe residence in Oberlin that is available Karen McFarlane Artists, Inc. online: https://www.stolaf.edu/multime- Jane Parker-Smith’s concerto reper- dia/play/?p=28 (the interview begins at toire brought her performances with 29:20). many leading orchestras, including the David S. Boe is survived by his wife BBC Symphony and BBC Concert Sigrid; their son Stephen and his wife Orchestras, London Symphony, London Joo; their son Eric and his wife Lisa; Philharmonic and Royal Philharmonic their four granddaughters Sydney, Haley, Orchestras, Philharmonia, City of Bir- Alexis, and Olivia; and his two sisters, mingham Symphony, Royal Stockholm Judith Boe and Carol Brann. Philharmonic, Athens State Orchestra, and Prague Chamber Orchestra. Jane Parker-Smith, 70, died June 24 Jane Parker-Smith was an Honorary in London, UK. Born May 20, 1950, she Fellow of the Guild of Musicians and studied at the Royal College of Music in Singers and a member of the Incor- London, soon earning a number of prizes porated Society of Musicians. She was and scholarships, including the Walford listed in World Who’s Who and Interna- Davies Prize for organ performance. tional Who’s Who in Music and in 2014 AUSTINORGANS.COM After a further period of work with was chosen as one of “The 1000 Most 
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He was born Editions Hortus announces a new in 1932 in Yonkers, New York, and The National History Museum of Bach’s Legacy: The Music as Heard by double-CD recording: Écrire le temps began his musical education at age 12, Frederiksborg, Denmark, announces Later Masters (Hortus 184–185, €22). The recording, studying with David McK. Williams and a new publication: The Compenius made at the abbey church of Saint-Rob- Norman Coke-Jephcott. He earned a Organ: Measurements and Descrip- and the St. John Passion, Wagner’s mus- ert de la Chaise-Dieu, France, features licentiate in organ and related subjects tions/Compenius-orglet: Opmålinger ings on The Well-Tempered Clavier, Ensemble Gilles Binchois, directed by from Trinity College of Music, London, og beskrivelser, edited by Sven-Ingvart and Elgar’s (resoundingly negative) Dominique Veilard, with organist at age 16 and achieved the fellowship Mikkelsen, assisted by Thomas Lyngby, thoughts on Bach as a vocal composer. Nicolas Bucher, performing motets of certification in the American Guild of English translation Gwyn Hodgson. The Stinson’s earlier book, J. S. Bach at His Nicolas Lebègue and the Livre d’orgue Organists at age 17, the youngest ever book and accompanying set of drawings Royal Instrument, published by Oxford of Nicolas de Grigny. For information: to receive this distinction. Sisler spent is a supplement to the museum’s 2012 in 2012, will be reissued in paperback. editions-hortus.com. more than 50 years as an ophthalmolo- publication, The Compenius Organ at Stinson is the Josephine Emily Brown gist and oculoplastic surgeon in New the Frederiksborg Castle. The new pub- Professor of Music and College Organist York City. He was a fellow of the Ameri- lication provides extensive information at Lyon College, Batesville, Arkansas, can College of Surgeons. on the 1895, 1940, and 1982 restorative and organist-choirmaster at St. Paul’s Sisler began playing organ in church projects. A review of the book is forth- Episcopal Church in Batesville. For when he was eleven. He was active as coming. For information: dnm.dk. information: global.oup.com. an organist and choir director serving various churches, most notably Lafay- OHS Press announces its latest ette Avenue Presbyterian Church in monograph in American organbuilding, Brooklyn and Central Presbyterian The Work List of the Farrand & Votey Church in Manhattan. As a composer, and Votey Organ Companies ($29.95), he had more than 100 works to his by Rollin Smith and James Lewis, an credit, including pieces for organ, cho- annotated list of 225 organs built by both rus, concert band, chamber and sym- companies. Appendixes include a list of phony orchestra. His works have been organs built by Granville Wood & Son, performed and recorded worldwide a section of important instruments with with orchestras in the United States as photographs and stoplists, and alphabeti- Karl Höller Organ Music well as in Argentina, Bulgaria, Czech cal and geographical indexes. For infor- Republic, Hawaii, Hong Kong, Israel, mation: www.ohscatalog.org. Raven announces a new 2-CD set: Philippines, Portugal, Russia, and Karl Höller Organ Music (OAR-161, Ukraine. As an organ recitalist, he per- Oxford University Press announces $15.98 postpaid), featuring Jeremy formed in and around New York City, publication of a new book, Bach’s Thompson performing works com- including the Cathedral of St. John the Legacy: The Music as Heard by Later posed by Höller (1907–1987), president Divine and St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Masters, by Russell Stinson. This of the Munich Conservatory between He was recently named “one of the study investigates how four compos- 1954 and 1972 and fourth-generation significant composers of contemporary ers of the nineteenth and twentieth organist in his Bavarian family. He plays America” by The Organ magazine, Lon- centuries—Felix Mendelssohn, Rob- the 2010 Quimby organ of four manuals, don. His first works were published at ert Schumann, Richard Wagner, and 78 ranks at St. John’s Episcopal Church, age nineteen starting with H. W. Gray Edward Elgar—engaged with Bach’s They fly forgotten, as a dream . . . : some Roanoke, Virginia, incorporating pipes Co. as well as Jos. Fischer & Co., Belwin legacy, not only as composers per se, lesser-known church musicians from from the church’s 1948 Aeolian-Skinner. Mills, E. P. 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³ page 6 of distinct types of organ chimes that build a new organ for Christ Church are still available today (albeit not from Carillon Profile Episcopal, Alexandria, Virginia. The the original manufacturers). Some may Grosse Pointe Memorial Church, Grosse Pointe, Michigan two-manual, 22-stop organ is currently know that John C. Deagan also produced Gillett & Johnston, Croydon, England under construction and is scheduled tower chimes, sets of 10 to 32 tubular Petit & Fritsen, Aarle-Rixtel, the Neherlands for delivery later this year. A series of bells weighing up to several hundred John Taylor & Co., Loughborough, England concerts and services will be held dur- pounds each, made from a material simi- ing 2021 to celebrate the instrument’s lar to that of conventional bronze bells. completion, the sixth pipe organ built All have electric actions, and many were for this historic church. For information: equipped to be played from an organ historicchristchurch.org console as well as by other means. Over and harrisonorgans.com. 400 such tower chimes were made by Deagan, and many of them are still in more or less regular use today. What has not been known, prior to a discovery in 2012, is that Rowland H. Mayland also produced tubular tower chimes playable from an organ console. One such chime survives in a church on Long Island. Though it is no longer play- able from the organ console, its original electric action still works, now under control of a modern clock mechanism. Mayland’s own descendants, while quite familiar with the organ chime business, were totally unaware of their ancestor’s work on tower chimes until this discov- Grosse Pointe Memorial Church tow- The performance clavier (photo credit: ery was reported to them. er (photo credit: Michelle Lam) Michelle Lam) A single Mayland tower tube also Rendering of Ruffatti organ for Notre survives in the great Wanamaker organ Dame Seminary, New Orleans, Louisiana in Philadelphia. Its acquisition is undocu- mented, but there is speculation that it Fratelli Ruffatti is building a new might have been submitted as a sample organ for Notre Dame Seminary, New when addition of a tower chime to that Orleans, Louisiana. The two-manual organ was being planned. In the end, a instrument comprises 42 stops and 34 37-note Deagan tower chime (the only ranks. In addition to an unenclosed one of that size ever built) became the Great division, it features enclosed present Major Chimes stop on that organ. Great and Swell divisions, both of which There is also a Minor Chimes stop, which use the new hyper-dynamic expression is a set of regular organ-style tubular bells. system developed by Ruffatti, which Mayland’s work with tower chimes enhances the efficiency of the expression preceded that of Deagan, whose first chambers. There are a separate set of such installation was in 1916. Very little intra- and inter-manual couplers for the is known of this period of transition from enclosed Great stops. the manually-operated tubular tower The primary use of the instrument will chimes of Walter H. Durfee and the U. S. be to support liturgy, and numerous foun- Tubular Bell Company to the electrically dation stops provide means for the accom- operated tubular tower chimes of May- paniment of choir and congregation. At land, Deagan, and possibly also McShane. Bells in the tower (photo credit: Michelle Another view of bells in the tower the same time, the stoplist supports a wide All tubular tower chimes that are cur- Lam) (photo credit: Michelle Lam) range of repertoire for solo use. For infor- rently known are listed and described mation: https://ruffatti.com/en/. at www.TowerBells.org. If your church Near the shores of Lake St. Clair, has such a chime, or if you know of one the current Grosse Pointe Memorial nearby, you may be able to contribute to Church was built between 1923 and Carillon News improving those listings and descriptions 1927, and the original chime of eight Organ and tower chimes and the related history. Friends of tubu- bells was installed in the final year of Many organists are familiar with the lar tower chimes will thank you! construction. These bells were cast by names Deagan and Mayland, inventors —Carl Zimmerman Q the English bell foundry of Gillett & Johnston. This was the second tower bell instrument installed in the Detroit area, and an early tower bell instru- ment west of the east coast. The first chime or carillon installed in Detroit The practice clavier (photo credit: Mi- was in Jefferson Avenue Presbyterian chelle Lam) Church in 1926. The chime took on carillon status when it was expanded to 47 bells by Petit & Fritsen of the Netherlands in 1952. Most recently, the caril- lon underwent a major renovation in 2015, which included repairing the steel frame, rewiring connections, retuning existing bells, updating the keyboards, and casting another bell, low E-flat (third largest), by the Taylor bell foundry of England. The new bell was dedicated to carillonist Phyllis Webb, who served the church from 1993 until her death in 2016. The instrument comprises four octaves, absent the low C-sharp. The carillon is played before and after Sunday services, twice per month, and for sacred holidays. Michelle Lam is the current carillonist. Guest recitalists also play the carillon during its summer concert series. Q —Kimberly Schafer, PhD Founder and Partner, Community Bell Advocates, LLC www.communitybelladvocates.com [email protected]

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The Art of the Fugue, part 8 than it might in another situation. That not and very likely cannot know what this profile. I have always had a nagging In the last few columns, I have started is not to say that it is not important: it is that intended order was. tendency to be uncomfortable with this: writing and thought of a suitable and manifestly a somewhat different piece I say “almost” regardless. I believe, is it counterpoint or not? Fundamen- effective name for each column some- with the movements in one order from based on this analysis and intuition, that tally there is no reason to consider this where along the way, even at the end of another. It is interesting that Bach did it is important for Contrapunctus I to anomalous or problematic, though some the process. However, today I was able indeed present the work in two different be first, since it sets the stage for all that of us do. Looking at counterpoint as an to start with the title, because it is time to orders: first, in a published version, with follows. I also think that not placing the analogy to the structure of the world get back to writing about Johann Sebas- the most complex and imposing of the triple/quadruple fugue at the end makes or of the universe in the manner that I tian Bach’s The Art of the Fugue! five variations as the closing movement; the biggest difference among all possible described in my previous column, and This is still an uncertain time, no less later, in an autograph manuscript, with ordering choices. I am reluctant to say noticing that under some circumstances so than a month ago. And it is still true that variation in the exact middle. (This that it is “wrong” or would not work, but entities other than complete, defined that there are things that are unknown could be a rationale for considering it pos- I know that it would be a big statement subjects can be fodder for contrapuntal as I write this that will be known when sible that the triple/quadruple fugue from to place it elsewhere. development, both tend to mediate you read it: will there be a Major League The Art of the Fugue could function not as between and reconcile contrapuntal and Baseball season? Who will be the Demo- a culmination but as an interior building Conventional ordering of non-contrapuntal textures and make cratic nominee for vice president? Will block, way station, or destination.) musical content sense of the sorts of pieces that flow from there be a post-Memorial Day spike When a theme has been altered, per- With certain sorts of pieces conven- one to the other. in COVID-19 cases? Will Broadway haps through augmentation, diminution, tion gives us an expectation as to how Another less esoteric part of my recent theaters really reopen on September 6? inversion, or something else well defined, the ordering of types of musical content Art of the Fugue experience has been And there are things that are unknown perhaps by just a small change or two, will create shape. This is true of suites, that circumstances have led me to prac- now that will probably remain unknown, recognizing it becomes more abstract sonatas, symphonies, and other similar tice quite a bit on the piano. Using the at least with any certainty by then: will and mediated by the subconscious. For types of works. These conventions are piano in our home as a practice machine there be a second wave of the virus? many contrapuntal works this creates a not ever absolutely fixed, and they vary has been interesting. Vestigial memories What will Advent and Christmas be kind of layered structure in which as ele- with time and place. But there is no con- of studying piano in my youth have come like—for church musicians, for retailers, ments recur in different ways, they evoke vention as to the ordering of twenty or so to the fore and have caused me to drift for families? Will the practice of going to different kinds of memory. The develop- contrapuncti. The content must create into doing things with volume that I am the movies survive? ment of the sense of “this is answering the possibility of shape and arc if there is not very good at and that are not really When I wrote my firstArt of the Fugue that” or “this edifice has that kind of going to be such a possibility. relevant to this music. column a year ago, I could not have shape or structure” is a multi-faceted, This thought leads to an idea that I have But that raises a good question: does imagined that over the succeeding year I interlocking, overlapping experience. held for a long time, have never been able the “volume temptation” reveal things to would be unable to practice or perform In my December 2019 column, I to implement, and will likely never be able me about the piece that are valid and that the work, so this column really was my wrote that “the subject or fundamental to implement. It would be a logistic tour I can make use of, or is it just a distrac- only study of the piece. I also could not building block of The Art of the Fugue de force and extraordinarily expensive as tion? Or is it actually misleading? These have predicted what the content of the is not ‘the AOTF fugue subject’ but is well. The analysis above helps to explain are not questions that I have never heard columns would actually be. I thought that ‘the very concept of the melodic inter- why I think that it could in theory work. people ask. But they feel more vivid to me I could, but it turned out to be very differ- val.’” That column develops some of the Consider a performance of The Art of the now as I have sat at the piano more in the ent from what I initially planned. But that reasons I believe that this is so, which I Fugue by twenty different performers or last couple of months than I had in the is all eerily appropriate. When Bach first will not repeat here. If this is true, it sets performing ensembles, each playing one previous many years. Many students do a set out to compose the work he certainly up a condition in which the layers and contrapunctus in a different room. Each fair amount of practicing on instruments did not know that he would be forced to facets of what we recognize as we listen, movement in its room would be played other than the one on which a lesson or leave it incomplete or that he would not what we rely on to create structure in over and over, and the listeners would be performance will take place: piano for see it published. Uncertainty has to be an our minds, is infinitely complex and var- free to wander from one room to another. harpsichord, piano for organ, electronic underlying theme of The Art of the Fugue. ied. The more the status of recognized Each audience member would create keyboard for either, or of course harp- I strive to organize some of my themes or ideas is different (some more their own path and could come and go sichords and organs that are just very thoughts about how the uncertainties obvious, some more subliminal), the from rooms at any time. Timing consider- different from others. I have had too surrounding the order of the movements more complex that structure will be. ations would make it close to impossible much tendency to see this as a necessary interact with my thinking about the work I believe this relates to the question of to hear all of the movements in any order evil, to believe that ideally practicing on in general. In my column from May 2020 the order of the movements. Since these without also hearing fragments, since the exact right instrument is always bet- I wrote of “the basic definition of coun- connections are so numerous—effec- each movement in each room would be ter. I still believe that practicing on the terpoint, namely two or more things that tively infinitely numerous, since there is a different length from the others. The performance instrument is better, more are different from one another happen- very nearly nothing within the universe experience for any listener would not be efficient, and that it should make up as ing at the same time.” The second con- of the piece that does not connect to that of “hearing the piece” exactly, but of significant a portion of practicing as pos- sistent characteristic of counterpoint as other things—and since the nature of getting absorbed in it. This is not a type sible. But since I am finding sitting at the we usually know it—for me, just below those connections is so varied and fluid, of deconstruction that I would suggest for, piano to be enriching and interesting, I the level of “definition”—is that things convincing, engaging patterns will form for example, the Goldberg Variations or find myself rethinking all of this a bit. that are the same happen at different themselves in the listener’s mind regard- most other multi-movement works. But I This is my twelfth consecutive column times. Paradoxically this is perhaps even less of the order in which the compo- think that it would work beautifully here. that is either about The Art of the Fugue more important in shaping our range of nents are encountered. The structure Some of the observations that I have or framed by my inability to write about reactions to counterpoint: esthetic, emo- is then not “x follows y, which follows z” been trying to pull together in the last The Art of the Fugue. It is my plan to tional, intellectual, etc. It is the source but “a, b, and c are all connected.” several months’ columns have led this put writing about the piece on the back of our need, when we analyze pieces of So the nature of the opening theme thought to occur to me. The Art of the burner, while getting back to actually this sort, to know about and recognize and the ways in which it is developed in Fugue is a fully, rigorously contrapun- working on the piece. themes, subjects, countersubjects, the firstcontrapunctus set up this focus tal work, and that is a large part of the Just as I used the titling of this column motifs: anything that happens more than on any and all melodic intervals, which lens through which we think about it. as a boost of morale, I will reuse my once. And this phenomenon is entirely in turn creates an infinitely fluid set of There is a body of music out there that mini-bio from 2019 below to express a dependent on memory. We know that a ways of hearing connections and perceiv- is clearly imbued with counterpoint, but bit of optimism about getting back to theme has recurred because we remem- ing or synthesizing shape. This explains that is not fully contrapuntal. For me one performance. It turned out not to be true ber it from before. This is true immedi- why the piece can be effective almost quintessence of this sort of music is the then. Perhaps it will be now. Q ately when a fugue subject appears for regardless of the order in which the keyboard music of William Byrd. There the second time. That part is relatively movements are heard. And it is not just are passages that are fugal, there are pas- Gavin Black, director of the Princeton easy. (And it is assisted by expectation, if that it is effective: it takes on a convinc- sages that are chordal, and there are fugal Early Keyboard Center, Princeton, New we have been told that what we are hear- ing overall shape, a strong sense of arc, bits in which the number of voices seems Jersey, is preparing performances on ing is a “fugue” and we have just heard a direction, and structure. This does not to fluctuate, or in which it is not always Bach’s The Art of the Fugue on both theme in one voice unaccompanied.) mean that Bach did not have an order clear which notes belong to which voice. harpsichord and organ for the next two When a theme comes from elsewhere, in mind. It just explains perhaps why the There is music by Mozart, Beethoven, concert seasons. He can be reached by as in a chorale prelude, for example, the piece works so well even though we do and many subsequent composers that fits email at [email protected]. process of recognizing that theme takes on another layer or two. I find it interesting that chorale-based pieces have a kind of 0LOQDU2UJDQ&RPSDQ\ double life. They come across differently The Sound of Pipe to listeners who already know the tune and those who do not. Presumably most Organs 1HZRUJDQVUHQRYDWLRQVWXQLQJV chorale-based pieces have been written in ([FHOOHQWXVHGSLSHV the first instance for listeners who knew M. McNeil 0RGHUDWHVFDOHVDQGZLQGSUHVVXUHV the tunes extremely well—almost instinc- 9HU\FOHDQOLNHQHZ 191 pages hardbound WRFRVWRIQHZSLSHV tively. 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Making things John D. Smith of this city, a ropemaker Before we moved to New York City, at the J. T. Donnell ropemaking factory, has Wendy and I lived in the Charlestown done a large amount of walking in his life. He is sixty-four years old and has worked at Navy Yard in Boston. Our building had ropemaking for forty-five years working as been an electrical warehouse for the a handspinner, in which time he has spun Navy Yard, which actively built ships 69,940,666 fathoms [six feet] of thread, from 1801 until 1975. It is a building that walking ten miles a day to do this, which once had forklifts racing around inside, in the forty-five years of spinning would ag- so the ceilings were nice and high. Our gregate the enormous distance of 140,400 miles [six day weeks for forty-five years]. Of living room windows looked across this, one-half the distance has been accom- Boston Harbor to the Coast Guard base, plished walking backwards . . ., the equiva- the Custom House, and into the heart lent of backing a distance nearly equal to of Boston, and we had “cocktail chairs” around the world three times. in front of the sixth-floor windows where for ten years of evenings we watched the Reminds me of the quip about Ginger Wednesday night sailboat races, fool- Rogers, who did everything Fred Astaire ish non-seamen in overpowered speed did, but backwards in high heels. (Mr. boats, and the constant flow of com- Smith probaby didn’t wear high heels.) mercial shipping including the mam- moth Liquid Natural Gas tankers whose Color my world with a captains looked us in the eye from their spring in my step. The Fisk Ropewalk (left to right Barbara Owen, Lou Doloive, Joe Grace, Nick towering bridges. Children have grown up watching Attwood, Jerry Lewis) (photo credit: Robert Cornell) The Navy Yard still functions for- Sesame Street since 1969. I was thirteen, mally as a military base as it is home to and I had just landed my first paying the USS Constitution, the Navy’s oldest job as a church organist, so I was above commissioned warship. One of the old- “strings and sealing wax,” but fifteen est buildings in the Charlestown Navy years later the show was a staple for Yard is the Ropewalk, built of heavy my sons. As a lifelong machine geek, I granite blocks and completed in 1838, loved the segments about how things are where most of the rope used by the made, all of which are easy to find online. United States Navy was made until it There is a humdinger about making closed in 1970. Imagine the floor plan crayons accompanied by a brilliant musi- of a building designed expressly for cal tone poem. My favorite is “Peanut making rope, over 1,300 feet long and Butter,” the jazzy flapper-style song writ- 45 feet wide. That is more than twice ten and performed by Joe Raposo that the length of the Cathedral of Saint accompanies a tour through a peanut John the Divine in New York City. butter factory featuring smiling work- One of my walking routes included the ers in what look like Krispy Kreme hats length of the building that is almost pushing the important looking buttons exactly a quarter mile, and I wondered to run the machines. I especially like the what sort of machinery was used for all shot of a broad stream of peanut butter that twisting and winding. Take a look oozing out of a press and into the pipes at this video to see an antique ropewalk that lead to the jars as Raposo sings, “he in operation: https://www.youtube.com/ keeps it pumpin’ through the pipeline watch?v=2M5mo2I2c0Q. like a peanut-butter-pumper should.” The Fisk Ropewalk, moving day to the new shop, Charles Fisk loading the van (photo The Maine Maritime Museum is on What great teaching. credit: Robert Cornell) the site of the Percy & Small Shipyard Among the many factories I have in Phippsburg, Maine, where dozens of toured are a potato chip factory (no free twenty employees, most of whom were building in 1996, where one can pass wooden sailing ships as long as 444 feet samples but a gift shop at the end), a tool-and-die makers, and the factory was from one department to another wit- were built through the nineteenth cen- major brewery (free samples), and an full of machines. Timms would receive nessing the deep skills of a venerable tury. The museum is adjacent to the Bath auto assembly plant (no free samples). an order from a car maker for a mil- firm at work. Immediately upon enter- Iron Works, famous for having launched When I was working for John Leek lion specialized springs, and a machine ing the building, one sees displayed in an a new destroyer every twenty-five days in Oberlin in the early 1980s, we were would be set up to make them that elegant frame a cast gold medallion and during World War II with Rosie the building an organ for Saint Alban’s Epis- would then run on its own for a week or a letter from Queen Elizabeth II dated Riveter riveting a river of rivets. Now, copal Church in Annandale, Virginia, two gobbling up coils of wire and filling November 20, 1997: the Bath Iron Works is known for pro- and we planned to make the sliders in bins with springs. ducing new Zumwalt Class destroyers.1 the style of Flentrop, double sliders of We brought a sample (probably Prince Philip and I are delighted and The museum includes a diorama of the Masonite, the holes connected with little borrowed from a Flentrop organ we deeply impressed with the marvelous work J. T. Donnell Ropewalk in Bath, Maine, leather tubes, with hundreds of springs serviced) and met Bill Timms, the third of restoration of the fire damaged area of Windsor Castle. Being anxious to show our which adjoined Percy & Small and pro- between them to press the two sliders generation of the spring-making family. appreciation of the skill and dedication, vided the shipyard with rope. When you against chest table and toeboard. Bill gave us a fascinating tour around the which you and others have devoted to it, are building six-masted schooners you No hardware store could have sup- factory explaining the purpose of each we have this special medallion struck to need lots of rope, and the ropewalk was plied the thousands of identical fine coil spring being made and gave us lots of mark the completion of the restoration and a wooden structure some 1,200 feet long compression springs we would need, free samples. We watched as a toolmaker it comes with our grateful thanks. [Signed] with a stationary steam engine at one and we found the Timms Spring Com- set up a simple jig to copy our spring by Elizabeth R end to power the equipment. A legend pany in Elyria, Ohio, perfectly situated hand and returned a week later to pick by the diorama shares a quote from The to supply the several large car makers up our order. The organ involved in the Windsor Bath Times in 1883: in the area. The company had around Castle restoration is a new instrument Organ shops of seven ranks in the “Private Chapel” Visiting a pipe organ workshop is a spe- built in 1997. Harrison & Harrison has cial treat, educational and eye-popping produced a vast list of important and for both the layperson and the organ- well-known organs including those at Quality Pipe Organ builder. I have visited dozens of shops King’s College, Cambridge, Durham, across the United States, in Great Britain, Ely, and Exeter cathedrals, Royal Fes- Building and Service and in Europe, and while I like to think I tival Hall, Westminster Abbey, Win- know a lot about the building and history chester Cathedral, and Saint George’s since 1969 of organs, I always learn something fresh. Chapel at Windsor Castle. We have all It is fun to compare how different work- seen several of those organs on televi- shops approach common tasks like build- sion. I especially like the thought that the ing windchests and reservoirs, racking marvelous organ in Westminster Abbey pipes, or making wind connections. Dif- was built for the coronation of George ferent firms have particular products or VI in 1936—imagine the feelings of ner- processes they have developed of which vousness, expectation, and pride those they are particularly proud, different organbuilders must have felt. When I firms have thoughtfully designed console visited that workshop in 2016, the organ layouts that distinguish them from others, from King’s College was in the shop for and different firms specialize in different renovation. I got a kick out of noticing types of windchest actions. the pipe crate labeled “Solo Tuba,” the The organbuilding firm of Harrison stentorian tenor melody under a certain bedientorgan.com | 402.420.7662 | Lincoln, Nebraska & Harrison in Durham in Great Brit- verse-six descant ringing in my ears. My ain moved into a new well-equipped visit to Durham included a tour of the

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music school in rural Russia. The next- door neighbor is a farm implement dealer, so a parade of tractors runs back and forth outside. Paul Fritts & Company occupies an attractive architect-designed (craftsman style?) building in Tacoma, Washington. I visited there in April 2019 with my colleague Amory Atkins (it was Amory’s birthday) while we were installing an organ at the University of Washington. Organs for the First Lutheran Church of Lorain, Ohio, and the Chapel of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, were standing in the shop when we visited. The Lorain organ was complete (photo credit: Félix Müller) and ready for shipment. I was especially impressed by their CNC (computer that the ropewalk was actually built for The Schoenstein workshop, Benicia, California (photo courtesy: Schoenstein & Company) numerical control) router. It is housed making nets for the city’s fleet of fishing in a separate building to separate the trawlers. (Remember George Clooney considerable noise from the rest of and Mark Wahlberg in The Perfect the workshop. It is as big as a bus and Storm.) There was a twenty-foot-high capable of drilling entire windchest room at one end where organs could be tables with dozens of different hole sizes, erected, and an attached structure over milling the many sizes of wood reed 120-feet long where the nets had been boots, and mitering wood windlines, all made and the various workspaces for by programmed computer control. The the organ company were placed. Bob machine chooses and inserts bits as nec- remembered poison ivy growing through essary and calmly progresses from one openings in the walls, and that the long task to another while the organbuilders floor slanted away from the tall build- work on other tasks in the workshop ing as the land sank into the nearby bog across the way. We had a birthday din- causing window frames to become trap- ner with Paul and college pals Bruce and ezoidal. About ten people worked in that Shari Shull in Tacoma, then drove back shop. The landmark organs for Kings to our hotel in Seattle in a wicked rain Chapel in Boston (1963) and Harvard squall, crowned by a complete double Memorial Church (1967) were built in rainbow. Happy Birthday! the ropewalk. Glatter-Götz workshop in Pfullendorf, Germany (photo credit: John Bishop) C. B. Fisk, Inc., moved into a new What groundbreaking work hap- purpose-built facility in 1979. That pened in that shop as the innovative H&H cathedral organ with operations for the sophisticated tonal structures building has been expanded significantly and Socratic Charlie Fisk, with a loyal manager Jeremy Maritz, setting the with versatile orchestral voices, double since, with tall erecting space added, and group of disciples, dug into the history standard that one Double Open Wood expressions, and powerful solo voices, a large wing containing several depart- of organbuilding and developed the sig- Diapason is not enough. There’s one on and their elegant consoles are superbly ment workshops. The first organ to be nature style that has been so influential. each side of the choir, one of which goes appointed with accessories unique to built and assembled in the new shop was The company has now built over 150 to 32′. them. One look at an expression shoe Opus 68, a three-manual, twenty-seven- organs in distinguished venues all over The workshop of Taylor & Boody in and you know it is a Schoenstein organ. stop instrument for the Southwick Music the world. Those fledgling organbuild- Staunton, Virginia, is housed in an old Schoenstein purchased their building Complex of the University of Vermont. ers may not have walked 140,000 miles, public school building with huge win- in 2004, leaving the 1928 workshop in Close to ninety new organs have been but they sure changed the content of dows and high ceilings, a spacious, airy, downtown San Francisco. They have built in that building, which, like others the industry. and well-lighted place to work. Since the since raised the ceiling of one room I have described, is superbly equipped Each of these companies has a well- firm was founded in 1979, they have built to forty-two feet, creating an erect- and spacious enough for nearly thirty developed website with photo galleries, nearly ninety mechanical-action organs, ing space, and added a wing for pipe people to be at work with all the tools opus lists, and workshop tours. Happy developing a great reputation for excel- shop, voicing room, and archives. The and supplies they need. visiting. And buy good organs. Q lent workmanship. Most of their instru- attention to detail is unparalleled—the Charles Fisk founded the eponymous ments show the influence of the North company logo is stenciled on the pro- company in 1961 in an old ropewalk Notes European Baroque, with tonal schemes pane tanks of the forklift. Jack Bethards building in Gloucester, Massachusetts. C. 1. Just to show that the Navy can have a sense of humor, the first launch of the futur- that allow lots of versatility. They ensure and his skilled staff are working with a B. Fisk “lifer” Bob Cornell, who has been istic evil-looking Zumwalt class ships was the their own supply of high-quality wood clear vision, strongly influenced by the with the firm for fifty years, remembers USS Enterprise commanded by James Kirk. by harvesting carefully chosen trees, fabled companies of the early twentieth cutting them into lumber in their saw- century. The firm has just completed a mill, and drying them in the adjacent grand organ with four manuals and sev- kiln. It is a kick to walk around the yard enty stops, including a 32′ metal façade, among stacks of lumber designated for for the new Basilica of Mary, Queen of particular opus numbers. When Wendy the Universe in Orlando, Florida. and I visited there in 2009, we stayed Glatter-Götz in Pfullendorf, Ger- in the apartment above the sawmill many, is housed in a new facility built for 2020-2022 Projects and saw the huge oak logs destined to them shortly after the famous Walt Dis- become the wonderful innovative organ ney Concert Hall organ was completed. 86$LU)RUFH$FDGHP\3URWHVWDQW&DGHW&KDSHOĆ&RORUDGR6SULQJV&R for Grace Church in New York City. When I was there in the fall of 2019, Rebuild III/83 Moller/Holtkamp We have a fond memory of John Boody vast fields of sunflowers were in bloom showing us his “free-ranging” moveable as I drove to the little village. There is 86$LU)RUFH$FDGHP\&DWKROLF&DGHW&KDSHOĆ&RORUDGR6SULQJV&R chicken coop and giving us fresh eggs for a one-story façade facing the street, Rebuild III/33 Moller/Holtkamp our breakfast. effectively concealing the two-and-a- 7KH)R[7KHDWUHĆ$WODQWD*D Taylor & Boody is one of a number of half story rear of the building. There is firms that casts pipe metal to their own a huge slanted roof covered with solar Rebuild “Mighty Mo” Moller theater organ console specifications. Watching the casting box panels allowing second floor offices at %URDG6WUHHW3UHVE\WHULDQ&KXUFKĆ&ROXPEXV2K being pushed down the long table leaving one end of the building and lofty open a shining pool of molten metal behind is areas with plenty of space for erecting Build V-manual console with new windchests and more something special to watch, especially organs and handling long lumber. 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Creating a pipe organ Artisans at work, part 1

By Steve Riskind

his photographic essay explores the it follows to this day, though they freely Twork of two pipe organbuilders. make use of technologies that have come One is a business with over a dozen along since their founder’s time. employees; the other is an owner/organ- More recently, and again with the help builder who works with associates when of the staff of The Diapason, I reached large projects dictate additional help. out to a second builder, A. David Moore One firm has embraced technology, of North Pomfret, Vermont. David electric action and stops, augmented Moore builds and maintains pipe organs with solid-state electronics; the other that are very different from those made builds tracker-action instruments by Peragallo. where, on smaller instruments, the A. David Moore’s career as an organ- blower motor is the only electrical part. builder began with the restoration of Both have extremely well-equipped a circa-1850 George Stevens tracker woodworking shops. instrument from the then-closed Wood- For the last eight years, I have been stock (Vermont) Christian Church.1 After photographing small artisan businesses a three-year apprenticeship with C. B. in northern New Jersey. After taking Fisk, he started his own firm in 1973. He pictures at a specialty textile mill and a continues today to work out of a shop on Emerging from the case of the Cathedral of Saints Simon and Jude instrument after jewelry maker housed in a former silk his family farm in North Pomfret. a session of switching circuit wiring (Peragallo) mill, I was looking for another artisan Over the years, I have learned much business. The Diapason’s annual from The Diapason’s monthly feature in These photographs show this crafts- Resource Directory provided the lead which an organbuilder discusses the pro- manship as exhibited by two organbuild- I needed to continue the project. Pera- cess of creating a new or restored instru- ers. In the case of the Peragallo company, gallo Pipe Organ Company is located ment. These articles deal with aesthetic, one sees their skill in designing and in Paterson, near the other firms in my ecclesiastical, architectural, and a wide executing casework and consoles and project. I contacted the Peragallos, they variety of human and financial issues. their deep experience in digital and ana- were interested, and thus began my third Peragallo Pipe Organ Company and A. log electronics. Peragallo’s heritage from photo essay of an artisan business. David Moore, as successful organbuild- Skinner is manifest in the wide range of Peragallo recently celebrated its one- ers, deal with all of these. Underlying tonal resources available in their instru- hundredth anniversary. The company these kinds of meta-concerns, however, ments. A number of their organs employ founder, John Peragallo, Sr., apprenticed is a foundation of craftsmanship—how a French tonal scheme and French- with the Skinner Organ Company. The does the organbuilder create a physical inspired curved terraced consoles. elder Peragallo’s experience with Skinner instrument that will, for decades, meet A. David Moore, Inc., builds only instruments gave the company a direction the needs of a congregation? tracker-action instruments. Moore and his associates cut lumber from trees, fabricate cases, consoles, and action, Rounding the end of a wooden reed and they make wood and metal pipes pipe using a draw shave (Moore) for their instruments. (His largest instruments do include electric stop action alongside mechanical stop action, making it possible to have electronic combination action.) While Moore uses modern power woodworking tools, he describes his pipe organ aesthetic as mid-nineteenth century. Different builders have different skill sets, but I would argue that, they all depend on skilled artisans. My pho- tographs show the connection between these artisans and the materials with which they work —the foundation for creating a pipe organ. Q Cutting an air trunk. The chop saw was Notes able to get through about 90% of the windtrunk. The job is finished with a 1. See “Organ in a Pomfret hay barn!,” handsaw. (Moore) Vermont Life, 1965, Summer, Volume XIX, No. 4, p. 31, for an account of A. David Moore and a fellow high school between these skilled creators and their student’s adventure restoring a nine- materials. As a long time lover of pipe teenth-century Stevens organ. organ music, photographing organbuild- ers has been a wonderful addition to this Steve Riskind is an independent pho- project. Riskind’s work combines the “superb musicianship, masterly technique and savvy programming … Archer’s tographer based in Ridgewood, New aesthetic of black and white film photog- sweeping assurance and stamina enable you to hear the music behind the virtuosity.” Jersey. He is best known for his portraits raphy with his love for the capabilities of — GRAMOPHONE (JAN 2018) — of classical musicians. In recent years he digital photography. has concentrated on artisans and fine art- MORE INFORMATION: gailarcher.com TO PURCHASE: meyer-media.com ists at work—capturing the relationship All photographs by Steve Riskind.

12 Q THE DIAPASON Q AUGUST 2020 WWW.THEDIAPASON.COM Setting the expression shoe bar in a Preparing wood surface with a scraping console under construction (Peragallo) Lining up the wind line for a façade chest (Peragallo) tool (Peragallo)

Adjusting the key action on the Hook & Hastings organ (Moore)

Checking a piece of lumber for straightness (Peragallo)

Tuning the Hook & Hastings in the erecting room. This is a stock model David Moore clamping up a 16′ Trom- two-manual instrument dating from bone, a wood reed stop. This is a replica around 1910. (Moore) of a stop in an E. & G. G. Hook organ.

Organ works of Quality control —ensuring that counter- sinking is correct: Anthony Peragallo Michael G. Cunningham notating the burn marks on the top of a A mitered air trunk. After applying glue windchest. Pipes sit in the depressions to the joints, finishing nails are used to on the top of the windchest. hold the pieces in place. (Moore) Solo Organ: Organ with other Miraculous Legends, musicians: op. 105a Churches of Utrillo, op. 27 Little Organ Book of (with five French Horns) Neglected Melodies, op. 105b Hymnal Fantasy and Tricinium, op. 187 Variations, op. 105c (optional SATB finale) Sainted Myths, op. 253 Vocalise, op. 82b (with high Missal Tableaux, op. 253 soprano, or Sop. Sax, or Allegorical Portraits, op. 154 Piccolo Trumpet)

Seesaw Music Corp. 60 Depot Street Verona, New Jersey 07044 Carrying one of the 16′ Trombone pipes from wood shop to erecting room (Moore)

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A historical survey of the organs of the Cathedral Church of Christ, Lagos, Nigeria

By Godwin Sadoh

he history of organbuilding in Nige- then Christ Parish Church by Reverend Tria follows closely the chronicle G. F. Beluah to enhance music dur- of Christian missions in the country. ing worship. Though Christianity was Christianity was fully established in firmly established in Nigeria, singing Nigeria by the late nineteenth century in churches was still largely unknown with the influx of Anglican, Methodist, at that time. The poor state of congre- and Catholic missionaries from Europe, gational singing could be attributed to as well as Southern Baptist missionar- the fact that music, especially hymns, ies from the United States. Most of the was mainly in English, British in style, missionary activities concentrated in the construct, and culture. There was a lack Yoruba southwest, Igbo southeast, and of continuity between the traditional the Niger-Delta South-South regions of musical styles that the people were Nigeria. Various churches were built in accustomed to and the new foreign these areas for new converts, and here music introduced by the missionaries. the early converts were first introduced Reverend Beluah, being one of the to the pipe organ. first missionaries sent to Nigeria by the Until the end of the twentieth century, Church Missionary Society in London, the majority of pipe organs in Nigerian was well known for his patronage of churches were built by British firms. The classical church music. It was during his colonial administration and Christian tenure that the first choir was organized The 1964 Pels organ missions inevitably encouraged transat- at Christ Parish Church by Reverend lantic business engagements between Robert Coker, when the church was England and Nigeria. Before long, located at Oko-Faji, and the harmonium, Nigeria was flooded with products and which was a gift from a parishioner, Pa goods made in Great Britain, including John Otunba Payne, served the church pipe organs. There are records of a few for several years.2 organs designed by German and Dutch In 1867, Christ Church moved from firms in some Nigerian churches.1 its first site at Oko-Faji to a bigger edifice at its present location on Marina Street. Early organs The idea of purchasing a new organ to The evolution of organs in the Cathe- enhance music and worship in the new dral Church of Christ, Lagos, can be church gained momentum in the congre- traced to 1853 when flutes and a har- gation, which by now had come to love monium were introduced to what was church music. The church did not have a

Thomas Ekundayo Phillips at the 1932 Thomas Ekundayo Phillips (center) with organ console Kenneth Jones and Derek Cantrell

well-organized choir then; therefore, the campaign initiated by Reverend Hamlyn. congregation on Sundays relied on the Built by Harrison & Harrison in Dur- harmonium to lead the singing of hymns. ham, England, the new organ on arrival The pioneer work of Reverend Beluah in Lagos was assembled within two weeks rendered by introducing musical instru- by the vicar himself. The instrument had ments was the genesis of several innova- one manual, five stops, and was noted tions that were to follow in the cathedral. for its very beautiful tone. It was widely pipe organ kit Proud builders of the After Reverend Beluah’s tenure, Rev- admired by other parishes in Lagos. erend N. T. Hamlyn, a Welshman, suc- However, the new organ was short lived ceeded him as the new vicar in charge of in Christ Church. The size of the congre- the church, and he reorganized the choir gation increased remarkably, and while follow of twenty-two singers. The women of the the instrument served four organists, us on 4 facebook! choir were replaced with boys, provided including Thomas Ekundayo Phillips, it with surplices, and new choir stalls were soon proved inadequate. Thus, the acqui- erected at the east end of the church. It sition of a bigger organ became inevitable Photo courtesy of Eric Harrison became necessary for the church to pur- for the fast-growing congregation.5 chase a new organ to complement these changes and to meet the choral needs of Harrison & Harrison reed organ 16355, av. Savoie, St-Hyacinthe, Québec J2T 3N1 CANADA a bigger congregation.3 The year 1918 was historic at the t 800 625-7473 [email protected] Cathedral Church for several reasons. Visit our website at www.letourneauorgans.com Harrison & Harrison pipe organ It witnessed the inauguration of the first An order was placed in 1900 for a new choir festival in Nigeria. Also a new reed pipe organ, the result of a successful organ with two manuals and twenty-one

14 Q THE DIAPASON Q AUGUST 2020 WWW.THEDIAPASON.COM brilliance and power of the organ, espe- who became organist and master of the organ. The Great organ diapason chorus cially for leading the large congregation music of the cathedral upon his father’s was now complete, and the richness and in worship. This rebuilt instrument fea- retirement in 1962.9 brilliance of this division was enhanced tured 1,661 pipes. The following stops The organ committee and builders by the IV–VI Mixture. In the Swell, the were added:8 agreed to incorporate almost all pipes of traditional full Swell effect was provided the old organ and the slider chests of the with reeds at 16′, 8′, and 4′ pitches, as GREAT 4′ Wald Flute Great, Swell, and Choir divisions, reduc- well as a mixture. The enclosed Choir II Quartane ing the cost of the new organ. In addi- organ featured a miniature chorus. The 8′ Trumpet tion, the case and façade of the old organ solo division flues could be used for The Cathedral Church of Christ, Lagos, 4′ Clarion were retained with one change—the accompaniment. With the II–III Ses- Nigeria SWELL congregation would now see the pipes of quialtera, interesting tone colors were 16′ Contra Fagotto the Pedal 16′ Open Diapason on the side available for solo use. The high-pressure stops, costing £247 was purchased and of the organ, in the south transept, where reeds of the Solo division were in effect a was dedicated on August 17 by Bishop CHOIR previously there were dummy pipes. Bombarde organ of considerable power. 8′ Diapason Cantabile ′ Isaac Oluwole. This organ had no equal 8′ Trumpet (from Great) A new console, action, blowers, res- The 8 Orchestral Trumpet alone could in West Africa, and, at that time, Christ ervoirs, and some chests with new pipes be used against the full Great stops. Church was already a pro-cathedral and PEDAL were provided. The system of action The Positif division was designed on moving towards becoming a full-fledged 16′ Trombone used was all electric, proving to be most classical lines and voiced accordingly. It cathedral. It was apparent that by the reliable in the tropical climate of Lagos, had an admirable clarity, and quite apart time the new cathedral building would By 1964, a thorough rebuilding of eliminating the myriad of small pieces from its accompaniment role and solo be completed, the reed organ would be the organ was long overdue, and it was of leather that were the major cause of possibilities was of value in playing works inadequate to meet the demands and decided that the instrument should be maintenance difficulties in the old organ. from the Baroque period. The Pedal requirements of a cathedral. completely modernized. A contract An eclectic specification was drawn, division was complete in itself. A full After due consideration, the parochial for the work was signed with Bernard recognizing the nature of the stops range of couplers was provided so that, committee decided that the cathedral Pels & Zn. N. V. of Alkmaar, the Neth- retained from the old organ and the with discretion, maximum use could be had to be provided with an organ that erlands. The specification was drawn overall limit on the size of the new one. made of all the stops of the organ. For would befit its magnificence and status in by Kenneth Jones in consultation with Each division was provided a complete the accompaniment of the choir, the new the diocese. It took a long time to raise Thomas Ekundayo Phillips and his son, chorus, with the exception of the flue organ contained all that was required for funds for the proposed organ, which was Charles Oluwole Obayomi Phillips, stops of the solo portion of the Choir-Solo the tradition of Anglican service music. estimated to cost £2,885.6

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The 1964 Pels organ console

Suitable registration was available for PEDAL performance of all organ music from the 32′ Harmonic Bass 16′ Open Diapason Baroque period to the twentieth century. 16′ Bourdon Perhaps most importantly, there was 8′ Octave Bass more adequate variety and power for the 8′ Bass Flute Charles Oluwole Obayomi Phillips at the 1964 organ console largest congregation in Lagos.10 4′ Choral Bass IV Mixture ′ 16′ Trombone New Oberlinger organ 4Clairon Harmonique Bernard Pels & Zn. N. V. organ 8′ Trumpet The installation of the new organ began Tremolo Tremulant Swell 16 on January 9, 2009. The old organ, which Swell 4 GREAT (Manual II) Great to Pedal had served the church for well over sev- 16′ Double Open Diapason Swell to Pedal 8′ Large Open Diapason Choir/Solo Pedal enty years, saw its last major services in CHOIR (Manual III) ′ 16′ Quintade 8Small Open Diapason Positif to Pedal 2008 at the choir’s ninetieth anniversary ′ 8′ Clarabel Flute celebration and the Advent and Christ- 8Violin Diapason ′ 8′ Lieblich Gedackt 4Principal mas carol services. Built by Oberlinger of ′ 4′ Wald Flute 8Quintade 2 4′ Principal 2⁄3′ Twelfth A new organ for the twenty-first Germany, the “New Oberlinger Organ” ′ 4′ Lieblich Flute 2Fifteenth century as named by worshippers in the cathedral 2 2⁄3′ Twelfth IV–VI Mixture The 1964 organ served the church for has sixty-four stops and 3,700 pipes. It is ′ 2′ Piccolo 8Trumpet 3 ′ ′ nearly forty-four years, by which time supported on a steel structure built into 1⁄5 Terz 4Clarion 1 the Cathedral Church had come to real- the wall behind the choir section of the 1⁄3′ Larigot Great Octave 1 ′ ize that the organ would not sustain the church to balance its heavy weight. The 1⁄3 Plein Jeu V Swell Suboctave to Great 16′ Contra Cromorne Swell to Great musical activities of the church in the organ was dedicated at a special service 8′ Schalmey Swell Octave to Great twenty-first century. The congregation on Sunday, May 9, 2010, and Thorsten 8′ Cromorne Choir/Solo Suboctave to Great began a campaign to procure the present Mader played the inaugural recital.12 4′ Schalmey Choir/Solo to Great Tremolo Choir/Solo Octave to Great four-manual organ. The idea of a new Choir 16 Positif to Great organ was conceived by the Women’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor—J. S. Choir 4 Guild Auxiliary of the Cathedral Church, Bach SWELL (Manual III, enclosed) ANTIPHONAL (Manual I) 8′ Violin Diapason and a committee was established to Fanfare, Cantabile, and Finale— ′ ′ 16 Claribel Flute 8Lieblich Gedackt achieve that purpose. Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens 8′ Flute 8′ Echo Gamba While the Women’s Guild Auxiliary “Litanies” from Trois Pièces—Jehan 4′ Soprano Flute 8′ Vox Celeste 16′ Trompeta Magna ′ was able to raise some money, the funds Ariste Alain 4Gemshorn could only cover the first installments for Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho—Fela 8′ Trompeta da Batalla II Quartane 4′ Banjoncillo 16′ Contra Fagotto the purchase of the organ. The Cathedral Sowande 2′ Clarin Brilliante 8′ Horn Standing Committee stepped forward, Symphony No. 5—Charles-Marie 4′ Schalmey and an organ fund sub-committee Widor PEDAL Tremulant was inaugurated in 2006 to raise the 32′ Bourdon Swell Suboctave 16′ Open Diapason Swell Octave proposed amount of 164 million Naira Oberlinger Orgelbau, GmbH 16′ Violone Positif to Swell (US$1,640,000) from far and near. Mem- 16′ Sub Bass GREAT (Manual II) ′ bers of the Cathedral Church, societies, ′ 16 Zart Bass CHOIR/SOLO (Manual I) 16 Double Diapason 8′ Octave enclosed: families, individuals, the choir, and 8′ Open Diapason ′ ′ 8Cello 8′ Rohrflute friends of the congregation were enjoined 8Flute Harmonique 8′ Bass Flute 8′ Viol D’Orchestre to participate in funding the new organ. 8′ Chimney Flute ′ ′ 4Choral Bass 4′ Principal Several campaigns and concerts to raise 8Gamba 4′ Flute 2′ Piccolo 4′ Octave ′ money ensued for the new instrument.11 ′ 32 Bombarde 8′ Clarinet 4Gemshorn 16′ Trombone 2 ′ unenclosed: Just as with the 1932 organ, the names 2⁄3 Quint 16′ Basson 8′ Diapason of every donor who gave over two million 2′ Super Octave ′ ′ 8Trombone 8′ Dolce Naira were to be engraved conspicu- 2 Mixture V ′ 1′ Cymbale IV 4Blockflute Couplers II–III Sesquialtera ously on the panels of the new organ. On 16′ Double Trumpet 16′ Contra Trumpet Sunday, January 20, 2008, the provost of 8′ Trumpet IV–P 8′ Orchestral Trumpet 4′ Clairon III–P the cathedral, the Very Reverend Yinka IV–III 4′ Orchestral Clarion Omololu, announced to the congrega- Great 16 Tremulant III–II 16 Choir/Solo Suboctave tion that they had realized the financial SWELL (Manual IV, enclosed) III–II Choir/Solo Octave goal. This was made possible through 16′ Bourdon III–II 4 Swell to Choir/Solo 8′ Open Diapason IV–II the generous donations of the cathedral II–I 16 Positif to Choir/Solo congregation and others from all over 8′ Double Flute 8′ Viole de Orchestre II–I POSITIF (Manual IV) the country and around the world. At 8′ Vox Coelestis II–I 4 8′ Spitzflute this stage, the 1964 organ was practically 4′ Principal III–I 16 8′ Chimney Flute 4′ Flute Octaviante III–I unplayable. Hence, during the period IV–I 4′ Prestant between the dismantling of the old organ 2′ Octavin 2 2′ Nachthorn 2⁄3′ Mixture IV–V 1 and the installation of the new organ, a 1⁄3′ Nazard 16′ Basson IV Scharf three-manual digital Rodgers organ was 8′ Trompette Harmonique The present organ is used in accompa- 8′ Cromorne purchased and installed. 8′ Hautbois nying traditional hymns, liturgical music, cantatas, oratorios, contemporary praise choruses, and playing recitals. The praise BACH AT NOON A. Thompson-Allen Co., LLC choruses are often sung during celebra- 11 Court Street tory moments in worship, such as baby Grace Church in New York New Haven, Connecticut 06511 naming ceremonies, as well as wedding 203.776.1616 and birthday anniversaries. The Cathe- www.gracechurchnyc.org www.thompson-allen.com dral Choir, of course, leads the congrega- tion in singing.13 Q

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Godwin Sadoh was a chorister at earn a doctoral degree in organ perfor- the Cathedral Church of Christ, Lagos, mance from any institution in the world. Nigeria, during the tenure of Charles His compositions have been performed Oluwole Obayomi Phillips in the 1980s. and recorded around the globe. Sadoh Sadoh received his early training in is a former professor of music/LEADS general musicianship, piano, organ, and Scholar at the National Universities composition from Phillips, who later Commission, Abuja, Nigeria. His biogra- appointed him as one of the cathedral phy is listed in Who’s Who in America, organists. Sadoh is a Nigerian ethnomu- Who’s Who in American Education, and sicologist, composer, church musician, Who’s Who in the World. pianist, organist, choral conductor, and scholar with over 100 publications Notes to his credit, including twelve books. 1. Godwin Sadoh, The Centenary of the His academic qualifications include a Cathedral Church of Christ Choir, Lagos (Columbus, Ohio: GSS Publications, 2018), Master of Arts in ethnomusicology from 35–36. The Oberlinger organ in 2017 the University of Pittsburgh, Master of 2. Sadoh, 36. Music in organ performance and church 3. Sadoh, 37. 7. Sadoh, 38–39. 11. Sadoh, 48–49. music from the University of Nebraska- 4. Thomas Ekundayo Phillips was organ- 8. Sadoh, 41. 12. Sadoh, 50. ist and master of the music at the Cathedral 9. Charles Oluwole Obayomi Phillips 13. This article is extracted from Godwin Lincoln, and in 2004 at Louisiana State Church of Christ, 1914–1962. served the cathedral church as organist and Sadoh’s book, The Centenary of the Cathe- University, Baton Rouge, Sadoh distin- 5. Sadoh, 37–38. master of the music, 1962–1992. dral Church of Christ Choir, Lagos (Colum- guished himself as the first African to 6. Sadoh, 38. 10. Sadoh, 42–44. bus, Ohio: GSS Publications, 2018), 35–63.

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Kegg Pipe Organ Builders, ease of repair from water damage, and Hartville, Ohio the ability to offer judicious borrowing of 30th anniversary stops at different pitches and/or manu- Kegg Pipe Organ Builders began als. Its primary disadvantage is the poor building new pipe organs in 1990, and pipe speech that is associated with it. I 2020 marks thirty years with project worked at developing chest construction opera 64, 65, and 66 presently under with the goal of making this action indis- construction. Opus 64 is a new 47-rank tinguishable from a pneumatic pouch four-manual instrument for Christ the windchest. My successful result has King Chapel at Christendom College in met that goal. While not inexpensive to Front Royal, Virginia. Opus 65 is a new build, it is reasonable at scale and offers console and restoration of the California our clients all the advantages with none Organ Company/Reuter organ in the St. of the disadvantages. Our instruments Francis Auditorium at the Museum of only employ pneumatic chests for large New Mexico in Santa Fe. Opus 66 is a basses and high-pressure stops. This new organ for Little Flower Church in reduces or eliminates the leather wear St. Louis, Missouri. found in pneumatic instruments. I discovered the pipe organ at age We employ schwimmer air regulator eleven and by age thirteen, I had a play- control. These air regulators that are ing pipe organ of nine ranks in my base- built into the chests regulate pressure ment. I had very tolerant parents. After more efficiently than standard reservoirs graduating high school, I began working and are easier and less expensive to at the Schantz Organ Company in the maintain. While you will find standard console department. After a year there, I reservoirs in our instruments for large went back to school to study architecture pipes and occasional other use, you will and mechanical engineering, after which find very few in our instruments com- I returned to the Schantz company to pared to other engineering traditions. All train as a reed voicer. I spent five years this is done with the goal of making the with Schantz as a production reed voicer Kegg instrument one that is musically and tonal finisher. I then joined Casavant responsive, colorful, interesting for the Frères, Limitée where I was a sales rep- musician and listener, cost effective to resentative. I also installed and voiced a purchase, and inexpensive to maintain. number of Casavant organs during my I spent a great deal of time working five years with them. I then went to A. R. with the American Organ Institute in Schopp’s Sons, a fourth-generation pipe Norman, Oklahoma, when it was oper- making company and a leader in the ating, encouraging young people who United States pipe organ supply indus- were interested in the pipe organ craft, try, where I was general manager. After understanding that new generations an enjoyable time there and with three must be brought into our craft. Two AOI different churches asking me to do work graduates presently work for the Kegg for them, which I took as a sign, I left company. We look for those interested Opus 28, Basilica of St. John the Baptist, Canton, Ohio my friends at Schopp to found Kegg Pipe in a career in the pipe organ craft and Organ Builders. have had several summer interns over PEDAL CHOIR Wanting to start small and build the years. 16′ Principal 32 pipes 8′ Open Diapason 61 pipes ′ ′ the business carefully, I began in a With thirty-plus years in business, our 16 Subbass 32 pipes 8 Stopped Flute 61 pipes 16′ Bourdon (Swell) 8′ Spitzflute 61 pipes 1,500-square-foot shop and built my first work can be found in homes, concert 8′ Principal (ext) 12 pipes 8′ Flute Celeste TC 49 pipes three instruments by myself, gradually halls, churches, and synagogues. With a 8′ Subbass (ext) 12 pipes 8′ Dolce 61 pipes 4′ Octave (ext) 12 pipes 8′ Dolce Celeste TC 49 pipes adding employees as business demand new generation in house, we look for- ′ grew. In 1994, the company moved into ward to the next thirty years of serving 32 Harmonics (Derived) 4′ Octave 61 pipes 16′ Trumpet (Swell) 4′ Flute 61 pipes a 5,000-square-foot building with three our clients. ′ 4 Oboe (Swell) 2′ Piccolo 61 pipes 1 employees where we built many instru- —Charles Kegg 1⁄3′ Larigot 61 pipes ments including the landmark 78-rank Full complement of couplers 1′ Sifflute 61 pipes 8′ Cornopean 61 pipes instrument for the Basilica of St. John The Kegg team Opus 28, Basilica of St. John the the Baptist in Canton, Ohio. After ten Philip Brown 8′ Clarinet 61 pipes Baptist, Canton, Ohio Tremulant years in that location, the company with Michael Carden 8′ Tuba Mirabilis (Solo) five employees received a commission to Cameron Couch GREAT 16′ Violone 61 pipes build another landmark 70-rank instru- Joyce Harper 8′ Principal 61 pipes SOLO ment for the new concert hall at Texas Philip Laakso 8′ Hohlflute 49 pipes 8′ Doppelflute 61 pipes A&M International University in Lar- Bruce Schutrum (bass from Pd 16′ Bourdon) 8′ Gross Gamba 61 pipes ′ edo, Texas. This instrument demanded a Paul Watkins 8′ Bourdon (Pd 16′ Bourdon) 17 pipes 8 Gross Gamba Celeste 61 pipes 8′ Violoncello (ext) 12 pipes 4′ Hohlpfeife 61 pipes larger space, and in 2004 the company 8′ Gemshorn 61 pipes 8′ Orchestral Oboe 61 pipes 1 moved into its present shop enjoying Website: http://www.keggorgan.com/ 5⁄3′ Rohrquinte 61 pipes 8′ English Horn 61 pipes 16,000 square feet of space. The com- Photos courtesy Kegg Pipe Organ 4′ Octave 61 pipes Tremulant pany employs eight at this writing, three Builders 4′ Koppelflute 61 pipes 16′ Contra Trumpet TC (Great) 2 ′ ′ of whom are under the age of 35. 2⁄3 Twelfth 61 pipes 8 Neumann Trumpet 61 pipes 2′ Fifteenth 61 pipes 8′ Tuba Mirabilis 61 pipes Early on in my career, I felt that Opus 3, First Baptist Church, Canton, Ohio IV Fourniture 244 pipes (high pressure) instruments designed and built in a 16′ Contra Trumpet 61 pipes 8′ Blair Trumpet II (Draws Tuba and GREAT 8′ Trumpet (ext) 12 pipes Trumpet Magna) more Romantic style than was popular ′ in the 1970s and ’80s would better suit 16′ Bourdon TC (Chimney Flute) 8 French Horn (Solo) 8′ Trumpet (Great) 8′ Principal 61 pipes 4′ Clarion 61 pipes 8′ Cornopean (Choir) traditional American church music. 8′ Chimney Flute 61 pipes Tremulant 8′ Oboe (Swell) It also appealed to me more with my 8′ Gemshorn 61 pipes Chimes (Deagan 25 notes) 8′ Clarinet (Choir) interest in warmer sounds. This was first 4′ Octave 61 pipes Zimbelstern 4′ Clarion (Great) demonstrated in my third organ built 4′ Flute (ext) 12 pipes Chimes (Great) 2′ Fifteenth (ext) 12 pipes SWELL String FF Ensemble (Collective) for the First Baptist Church in Canton, 1 ′ 1⁄3′ Mixture IV 244 pipes 16 Lieblich Gedeckt 61 pipes ′ String PP Ensemble (Collective) Ohio, which was the Kegg family church. Sesquialtera II TC 98 pipes 8 Open Diapason 61 pipes Unison Ensemble (Collective) 8′ Trumpet (Swell) 8′ Gedeckt 61 pipes This organ, completed in 1990, com- ′ Reed Ensemble (Collective) prises two manuals and 25 ranks, with Tremulant 8 Clarabella 61 pipes Chimes (Deagan 25 notes) 8′ Salicional 61 pipes the Great under expression, save for the 8′ Voix Celeste 61 pipes ANTIPHONAL (Floating) 8′ Principal. In 1990, an enclosed Great 8′ Aeoline 61 pipes 8′ Gedeckt 61 pipes SWELL ′ was most unusual and considered hereti- 16′ Bourdon 61 pipes 8′ Unda Maris TC 49 pipes 8 Salicional 61 pipes ′ ′ 8′ Voix Celeste TC 49 pipes cal by many. The organ caused quite a 8 Bourdon (ext) 12 pipes 4 Octave 61 pipes 8′ Viole 61 pipes 4′ Flute 61 pipes 8′ Flute Celeste II 110 pipes 2 ′ stir in 1990 with its large scales, warm 8′ Viole Celeste TC 49 pipes 2⁄3′ Nazard 61 pipes 8 Unda Maris II 98 pipes sound, and Swell Vox Humana. A new 4′ Principal 61 pipes 2′ Flautino 61 pipes (bass from Flute Celeste) 3 ′ ′ Vox Humana was, again, highly unusual 4′ Koppelflute 61 pipes 1⁄5 Tierce 61 pipes 4 Fugara 61 pipes 2 ′ ′ at that time. 2⁄3 Nazard 61 pipes IV Plein Jeu 244 pipes 4 Flute (ext) 12 pipes 2′ Flute (ext) 12 pipes IV Scharf (PJ 8va) 4′ Unda Maris II (ext) 24 pipes 1 Another point of departure for me 1⁄3′ Larigot (Nazard) 16′ Double Trumpet 61 pipes 8′ Vox Humana 61 pipes was my interest in all-electric chest 1′ Mixture IV 244 pipes 16′ Oboe TC (Oboe) 8′ Trumpet Magna 61 pipes action. This style of action had long been 16′ Contra Trumpet 61 pipes 8′ Trumpet (ext) 12 pipes Tremulant 8′ Trumpet (ext) 12 pipes 8′ Oboe 61 pipes vilified due to its usual poor construc- 8′ Oboe 61 pipes 8′ Vox Humana 61 pipes tion. All-electric action offers many 8′ Vox Humana 61 pipes 4′ Clarion 61 pipes advantages including ultra simplicity, Tremulant Tremulant

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PEDAL Opus 64, Christendom College, Front 4′ Spitzflute 61 pipes 8′ English Horn 61 pipes 2 32′ Resultant (Derived) Royal, Virginia 2⁄3′ Nazard 61 pipes Tremulant 32′ Bourdon (1–12 electronic) 2′ Flute 61 pipes 8′ Tuba Magna (high pressure) 61 pipes 3 32′ Lieblich Gedeckt (1–12 electronic) GREAT 1⁄5′ Tierce 61 pipes 8′ Tuba (Choir) 16′ Open Diapason (wood) 32 pipes 16′ Violone 61 pipes 2′ Mixture IV 244 pipes 8′ French Horn 61 pipes 16′ Bourdon 32 pipes 8′ Solo Diapason IV (From Gt Prin, Gt 16′ Bassoon 61 pipes 16′ Violone (Great) Octave, Pd Prin, Pd C. Bass) 8′ French Trumpet 61 pipes PEDAL 16′ Lieblich Gedeckt (Swell) 8′ Principal 61 pipes 8′ Oboe (ext) 12 pipes 32′ Bourdon 32 pipes ′ 8′ Violone (ext) 12 pipes 8′ Vox Humana 61 pipes 16′ Open Diapason (wood) 32 pipes 16 Dulciana 32 pipes ′ 8′ Octave (ext) 12 pipes 8′ Rohrflute 61 pipes 4 Clarion (ext) 12 pipes 16′ Subbass (ext) 12 pipes 8′ Diapason (Swell) 8′ Harmonic Flute 49 pipes Tremulant 16′ Violone (Great) 8′ Diapason (Choir) (1–12 from Rohrflute) 16′ Gedeckt (Swell) 8′ Violoncello (Great) 4′ Octave 61 pipes CHOIR 8′ Principal 32 pipes ′ ′ 8′ Geigen Diapason 61 pipes ′ 8 Bourdon (ext) 12 pipes 4 Flute (ext) 12 pipes ′ 8 Subbass (ext) 12 pipes ′ 2 ′ 8 Voce Humana 61 pipes ′ 8 Dulciana (ext) 12 pipes 2⁄3 Twelfth 61 pipes ′ 8 Violone (Great) 4′ Super Octave (ext) 12 pipes 2′ Fifteenth 61 pipes 8 Melodia 61 pipes 8′ Gedeckt (Swell) 1 8′ Flauto Dolce 61 pipes 4′ Still Flute (ext) 12 pipes 1⁄3′ Mixture IV 244 pipes 4′ Choral Bass 32 pipes 8′ Flute Celeste TC 49 pipes 32′ Contra Trombone 32 pipes 16′ Tromba 61 pipes 2′ Cantus Flute (Gt Harmonic Flute) 4′ Octave 61 pipes ′ 32′ Harmonics (Derived) 8′ Tuba (Choir) ′ 32 Trombone 32 pipes ′ ′ 4 Open Flute 61 pipes ′ 16 Trombone (ext) 12 pipes 8 Tromba (ext) 12 pipes 2′ Fifteenth (ext) 12 pipes 32 Harmonics (Derived) 16′ Trumpet (Swell) 4′ Tromba Clarion 61 pipes ′ 16′ Trombone (ext) 12 pipes ′ 8 Tuba (high pressure) 61 pipes ′ 8 Tromba (ext) 12 pipes Tremulant 8′ Clarinet 61 pipes 16 Tromba (Great) 4′ Clarion (ext) 12 pipes 16′ Bassoon (Swell) ′ Tremulant ′ 4 Clarinet (Choir) SWELL Chimes 8 Trumpet 32 pipes 4′ Oboe (Swell) 16′ Gedeckt 61 pipes 4′ Clarion (ext) 12 pipes ′ ′ 8 Diapason 61 pipes SOLO 4 Clarinet (Choir) Full complement of couplers 8′ Gedeckt (ext) 12 pipes 8′ Solo Diapason IV (From Gt Prin, Gt Pedal Divide 8′ Salicional 61 pipes Octave, Pd Prin, Pd C. Bass) 8′ Voix Celeste 61 pipes 8′ Flauto Dolce (Choir) Full complement of couplers 4′ Octave 61 pipes 8′ Flute Celeste (Choir) Virtuoso control system 4′ Salicet (ext) 12 pipes 8′ Doppelflute 61 pipes ³ page 20

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Kegg Pipe Organ Builders Opus List Opus Date City State Institution Ranks Manuals 1 1979 Hartville OH UCC 5 2 2 1986 Canton OH St. Anthony RC 8 2 3 1990 Canton OH First Baptist 25 2 4 1991 Akron OH Redeemer UMC 9 2 5 1992 Falls Church VA St. James RC 15 2 6 1993 Canton OH Palace Theatre 11 3 7 1993 Coshocton OH Park Ave. UMC 6 2 8 1994 Winfield KS Trinity Lutheran 16 2 9 1994 Sebring OH Sebring UMC 7 2 10 1995 Canton OH First UCC 29 2 11 1995 Canton OH Westbrook Park UMC 45 3 12 1996 Canton OH Church of the Lakes 32 3 13 1996 Cheektowaga NY St. Philip RC 12 2 14 1997 Buffalo NY Holy Trinity Lutheran 152 5 15 1997 Hampton VA Gloria Dei Lutheran Console 3 16 1997 Canton OH Church of the Savior UMC 80 4 17 1998 Canton OH St. Paul’s Episcopal 49 4 18 1998 La Porte IN La Porte Hospital Chapel 7 2 19 1999 Cleveland OH 1st United Methodist Console 4 20 1999 Boardman OH St. James Episcopal 7 2 Cleveland 21 2000 OH Grace Lutheran Console 4 Heights 22 2000 Canton OH Trinity Lutheran Console 4 23 2001 Wellsville NY First Methodist 33 2 24 2001 Holidaysburg PA First Presbyterian Console 4 25 2001 Buffalo NY University Presbyterian 24 3 26 2006 Tuxedo Park NY Shore residence 12 2 Opus 59, St. John Vianney Seminary, Denver, Colorado 27 2002 Winnsboro SC First Methodist 16 2 28 2004 Canton OH Basilica St. John the Baptist 78 4 29 2002 Williamsville NY St. John’s Lutheran Console 4 30 2002 Wadsworth OH Grace Lutheran 30 3 31 2004 Wiliamston MI St. Katherine Episcopal 8 2 32 2005 Winnsboro SC Sion Presbyterian 14 2 33 2003 Holidaysburg PA Zion Lutheran Console 2 34 2005 Buffalo NY Holy Trinity Lutheran Chapel 20 3 35 2006 Laredo TX Texas A&M 69 4 36 2006 Elyria OH Washington Ave. Christian 17 2 37 2007 Worthington OH All Saints Lutheran 26 3 38 2008 Eureka CA Christ Church Episcopal 31 3 39 2007 San Antonio TX St. Mark’s Episcopal 47 3 40 2007 San Antonio TX Trinity University Console 4 41 2008 Hamilton Bermuda Trinity Cathedral Console 4 42 2009 Saddle River NJ St. Gabriel 31 3 Opus 64, Christendom College, Front Opus 44, Eckels residence, Palm 43 2010 Wausau WI Zion Lutheran 49 3 Royal, Virginia Springs, California 44 2010 Palm Springs CA Eckels residence 7 2 45 2010 Phoenixville PA First Presbyterian 21 2 Opus 66, Little Flower Catholic Church, 8′ Trumpet (ext) 12 pipes St. Louis, Missouri 8′ Oboe 61 pipes 46 2011 Canton OH St. Stephen Martyr 12 2 4′ Clarion (ext) 12 pipes GREAT Tremulant 47 2011 Granogue PA DuPont residence 19 2 16′ Gemshorn (ext, Choir) 12 pipes New 48 2012 OH Sacred Heart Catholic 15 2 8′ Solo Diapason III (From Gt Prin, Gt CHOIR Philadelphia Octave, Pd Prin) 8′ Gemshorn 61 pipes 49 2013 Pleasantville NY Emanuel Lutheran Church 9 2 8′ Principal 61 pipes 8′ Harmonic Flute 61 pipes 8′ Harmonic Flute (Choir) 8′ Dulciana 61 pipes 50 2014 Bryn Athyn PA Bryn Athyn Cathedral 42 4 8′ Gemshorn (Choir) 8′ Unda Maris TC 49 pipes ′ 51 2013 Lawton OK American Organ Institute 11 2 4′ Octave 61 pipes 4 Principal 61 pipes ′ 4′ Flute (ext) 12 pipes 4 Harmonic Flute (Choir) ′ 52 2015 Lafayette LA Our Lady of Fatima Church 65 4 2′ Fifteenth (ext) 12 pipes 2 Octave (ext) 12 pipes 2′ Mixture IV (cancels 15th) 244 pipes V Cornet (Swell) 53 2015 Santa Fe NM Haas residence 6 2 ′ 8′ Oboe (Swell) 8 Tuba 61 pipes ′ 54 2015 Uniontown OH Advent Lutheran 13 3 (high pressure, separate enclosure) 8 Tuba (Great) 8′ Clarinet 61 pipes 8′ Trumpet (Swell) 55 2015 Canton OH St. Peter RC 21 2 Tremulant 8′ Clarinet (Choir) 56 2016 Grove City OH St. John Lutheran 28 3 Chimes (Deagan, 25 notes) PEDAL 57 2016 Alliance OH Christ United Methodist Console 3 32′ Resultant (Derived) SWELL ′ 58 2017 Bronx NY Our Lady of Mount Carmel 9 3 ′ 16 Open Diapason (wood) 32 pipes 16 Gedeckt 61 pipes 16′ Bourdon 32 pipes 8′ Geigen Diapason 61 pipes ′ 59 2018 Denver CO St. John Vianney Seminary 24 3 ′ 16 Gemshorn (Choir) 8 Gedeckt (ext) 12 pipes ′ 60 2019 Abbeville SC Main St. UMC 10 2 ′ 16 Gedeckt (Swell) 8 Salicional 61 pipes 8′ Principal 32 pipes ′ 61 2019 Coventry RI Our Lady of Czenstochowa 21 3 8 Voix Celeste 61 pipes 8′ Bass Flute (ext) 12 pipes ′ 4 Principal 61 pipes 8′ Gemshorn (Choir) 62 2019 Kent OH United Methodist Console 4 4′ Salicet (ext) 12 pipes 4′ Octave (ext) 12 pipes 4′ Open Flute 61 pipes 4′ Flute (Choir) 63 2020 Pittsburgh PA Beverly Presbyterian Console 3 2 ′ 2⁄3 Nazard 61 pipes 32′ Harmonics (Derived) 64 2021 Front Royal VA Christendom College 48 4 2′ Octave (ext) 12 pipes 16′ Trumpet (Swell) 2′ Piccolo (ext) 12 pipes 8′ Trumpet (Swell) 65 2020 Santa Fe NM New Mexico Museum of Art 35 3 3 1⁄5′ Tierce TC 37 pipes 4′ Clarinet (Choir) 1 66 2020 St. Louis MO Little Flower RC 26 3 1⁄3′ Larigot (Nazard) 16′ Trumpet 61 pipes Full complement of couplers

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Dean W. Billmeyer A Year at Lincoln University of Minnesota A Year at Lincoln. The choir of Minneapolis 55455 • [email protected] Lincoln Cathedral; Jeffrey Makin- son, organist; Sgt. Tom Ringrose, The Music of “March:” A Civil Rights Car- trumpeter*; Aric Prentice, direc- illon Collection tor. Regent Records compact disc, GAVIN BLACK REGCD 532, £8.33 (excluding VAT). Byron L. Blackmore The Music of “March:” a Civil Rights Available from: www.regent-records. Princeton Early Keyboard Center Crown of Life Lutheran Church Carillon Collection, Tiffany Ng, edi- co.uk. 732/599-0392 Sun City West, Arizona tor. American Carillon Music Edi- Advent: Vigilate, William Byrd; www.pekc.org tions, $20. Available from: Christmas: Ding! Dong! Merrily on 623/214-4903 americancarillonmusiceditions.com. High, 16th-century French, arr. Mack Civil rights leader and U. S. Congress- Wilberg and Peter Stevens; Epiphany: man John Lewis told his autobiographi- “There Shall a Star from Jacob Come cal story in a three-part series entitled Forth” (from Christus), Felix Men- THOMAS BROWN Carson Cooman March. The focus is Lewis’s lifelong delssohn; Ash Wednesday: Wash me CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA Composer and Concert Organist journey and struggle for civil and human throughly, Samuel Sebastian Wesley; Harvard University rights including his leadership of major Bishop Edward King: My Dearest ThomasBrownMusic.com www.carsoncooman.com nonviolent resistance actions during the Wish, Patrick Hawes; Annunciation: Civil Rights Movement. Presented in Ave Maria, Robert Parsons; Passiontide: comic book style graphics, the trilogy Were You There?, spiritual, arr. Richard was written by Lewis along with Andrew Lloyd; Good Friday: Salvator mundi, Your professional card Aydin, and it was illustrated and lettered Thomas Tallis; Easter: Thy Arising, Bob DELBERT DISSELHORST by New York Times best-selling artist Chilcott; Ascension: God Is Gone Up, could appear here! Nate Powell. In 2016, March: Book Gerald Finzi; Corpus Christi: Corpus Professor Emeritus Contact: [email protected] Three was the first graphic novel to win Christi Carol, Judith Bingham; St. John University of Iowa–Iowa City or 608/634-6253 the National Book Award. the Baptist: Benedictus in F, op. 34, no. Edited by University of Michigan car- 2, Edward Elgar; Blessed Virgin Mary: illon professor Tiffany Ng, The Music of O Thou the Central Orb, Charles Wood; “March:” a Civil Rights Carillon Collec- Remembrance Day: For the Fallen*, STEVEN EGLER JOHN FENSTERMAKER tion presents thirteen carillon arrange- Mark Blatchly; St. Hugh: “Wie lieblich Central Michigan University ments of songs that are featured in the sind deine Wohnungen” from Ein TRINITY-BY-THE-COVE March trilogy. All royalties from the sale deutsches Requiem, Johannes Brahms; School of Music Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 of the collection will support Our House Christ the King: Christe, Jesu, pastor NAPLES, FLORIDA Georgia, an organization that provides bone, John Taverner; George Herbert: [email protected] support, shelter, and education for fami- “Antiphon” from Five Mystical Songs, lies experiencing homelessness. Ralph Vaughan Williams. Norberto The Music of March includes new At the top of the medieval street, arrangements by Jen Wang (“Buses Are Steep Hill, and it is indeed very steep, A-Comin’,” “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody there is found in full splendor the great Susan Goodson Guinaldo Turn Me ’Round,” “Good News, Char- cathedral of Lincoln. Since 1072, when Emanuel United Church of Christ His Music iot’s A-Comin’”), Tiffany Ng (“O, for a the Benedictine monk Remigius arrived, Manchester, Michigan See—Listen—Buy Thousand Tongues to Sing,” “Woke up there has been a cathedral on that site. www.GuinaldoPublications.com This Morning with My Mind on Free- The cathedral is dedicated to the Blessed dom,” “This Little Light of Mine”), Joey Virgin Mary but also holds the shrine of Brink (“Which Side Are You On?”), and St. Hugh, the Carthusian monk who in A Professional Card in Yvette Janine Jackson (“Freedom Is a the twelfth century rebuilt the cathedral STEPHEN HAMILTON Constant Struggle”). Several arrange- in Early Gothic style. Some chroniclers The Diapason ments appear in reprint, including believed it to have been the most out- For rates and digital specifications, recitalist–clinician–educator “We Shall Overcome” and “The Star- standing piece of architecture in the contact Jerome Butera www.stephenjonhamilton.com Spangled Banner” arranged by Milford British Isles. 608/634-6253; [email protected] Myhre, and “Go Tell It on the Mountain” There has been a choir of men and boys arranged by David Hunsberger. for over six hundred years at the cathe- The arrangements are all rather dral. Now the choir is made up of treble simplistic and easily accessible, both to boys and girls, twenty of each on this David Herman carillonneurs or other musicians as well recording, drawn from various schools as to audiences. Most are not particularly in the Lincoln area; the alto, tenor, and Trustees Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Music and University Organist carillonistic, so they also could be used bass parts are sung by six lay vicars plus as a resource for improvisation on piano five annually appointed choral scholars. The University of Delaware Q [email protected] and/or other instruments, as the edi- On occasion there have been female alto tor suggests, for community gatherings singers. The choir has an enormous musi- around civil rights events and issues. cal responsibility in singing over 270 daily The cover illustration was generously cathedral services a year, performing con- Gail Archer drawn and donated by Nate Powell. certs, BBC broadcasts, making recordings organist It depicts marchers defiantly singing for various record labels, as well making the spiritual “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody occasional international tours. www.gailarcher.com Lorraine Brugh, Ph.D. Turn Me Around” outside the 16th Lincoln Cathedral’s organ, built in Professor of Music Vassar College Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, 1898, was the last cathedral instru- University Organist Alabama, site of the 1963 Ku Klux ment finished by Father Willis. On this Barnard College, Columbia University [email protected] Valparaiso, Ind. Klan bombing that killed four girls and recording its versatility and suitability (212) 854-5096 became a turning point in the passage of for accompanying the cathedral choral valpo.edu the Civil Rights Act of 1964. repertoire are magnificently displayed Promotion 219.464.5084 —Brian Swager by Jeffrey Makinson. SOZO Media [email protected] San Francisco, California ³ page 22 [email protected]

WWW.THEDIAPASON.COM THE DIAPASON Q AUGUST 2020 Q 21 WILL HEADLEE ANDREW HENDERSON, DMA Reviews 1650 James Street Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church New York, NY ³ page 21 compiled by the composer’s brother, Syracuse, NY 13203-2816 As with other discs in this series from Canon Andrew Hawes of the Diocese (315) 471-8451 www.andrewhenderson.net Regent Records, the framework around of Lincoln. Both of the Hawes broth- which the repertoire is built is the ers are from Lincoln and so fittingly liturgical year beginning with Advent. provide the creativity for this charming However, there are some inclusions in work, which itself was commissioned by Richard Barrick Hoskins Brian Jones the Lincoln “Year” that are unique to another bishop of Lincoln, John Saxbee. Director of Music & Organist Lincoln itself, namely, Bishop Edward Aric Prentice directed the first perfor- Director of Music Emeritus mance of this piece on March 8, 2010, St. Chrysostom's Church King and St. Hugh, while the Feasts RINITY CHURCH Chicago T of All Saints and All Souls are omitted. in Lincoln Cathedral; so, this is truly a [email protected] BOSTON Much of the repertoire on this outstand- Lincoln born and bred musical work. ing disc comes from the standard Angli- The composer has a gift for fluid melody can cathedral repertoire and is sung with combined with the ability to contrast the a freshness and transparency that makes vocal resources with the sensitive use of KIM R. KASLING JAMES KIBBIE the performances outstanding. the kaleidoscopic colors from the Father D.M.A. The University of Michigan Vigilate, by William Byrd, organist Willis organ. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2085 and master of the choristers at Lincoln The Annunciation comes on March St. John’s University Cathedral from 1563 to 1572, after which 25, part way through Lent and nine 734-764-1591 FAX: 734-763-5097 Collegeville, MN 56321 he became a Gentleman of the Chapel months before Christmas. Suitably, the email: [email protected] Royal, is the first piece on this disc and text Ave Maria is sung, in this case to has a vibrant sense of expectancy associ- a setting by Robert Parsons, who pre- David K. Lamb, D.Mus. ated with the season of Advent. The choir ceded William Byrd as a Gentleman of Karen Schneider Kirner performs it with absolute preciseness and the Chapel Royal and died tragically in Director of Music energy even amidst the dance-like con- 1572 from drowning in the River Trent. Director, Notre Dame Handbell Choir Trinity United Methodist Church trapuntal textures. Next follows Christ- The Offertory chant text on this feast day Assistant Director, Notre Dame Folk Choir New Albany, Indiana mas. This joyous season is represented is taken from the Gospel of Saint Luke University of Notre Dame 812/944-2229 by Mack Wilberg’s exuberant setting and is set by Parsons for five voices. The of Ding! Dong! Merrily on High, based choir demonstrates great sensitivity with on a sixteenth-century French melody. entrances and imitations having pure The words by George Ratcliffe Wood- clarity of expression. Passiontide follows ward and music by Charles Wood first with a setting by Richard Lloyd of the

A.S.C.A.P. appeared in the 1924 Cambridge Carol spiritual, Were You There?. This mostly FELLOW, AMERICAN GUILD OF ORGANISTS Book. The arrangement sung on this disc homophonic setting is sung with great

345 SADDLE LAKE DRIVE was made for the Mormon Tabernacle sensitivity to both text and mood. Rich ROSWELL-ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30076 Choir, which is directed by Wilberg. harmonies with colorful dissonances on (770) 594-0949 The Mormon Tabernacle Choir first the word “tremble” are hallmarks of this performed it in its original setting with carefully rendered piece. Good Friday orchestral accompaniment; however, on follows with Tallis’s setting of Salvator ANDREW PAUL MOORE this recording, Lincoln Cathedral Choir mundi, which may be from the time of LEON NELSON performs it with great aplomb with Queen Mary when Roman Catholicism CHRIST CHURCH Director of Traditional Music organ accompaniment arranged by Peter was temporarily restored in England. Southminster Presbyterian Church Stevens. Syncopation in the lower voice The text is from the Good Friday liturgy SHORT HILLS Arlington Heights, IL 60005 parts adds sparkle to this piece, and the focusing on the Cross of Christ. Musi- choir rises to the occasion in great festive cally, the polyphony is tightly structured, style. Epiphany follows twelve days after yet the imitative texture is securely Christmas on January 6. For this feast the bound. The choir performs with great choir sings “There Shall a Star from Jacob sensitivity to both words and polyphonic PHILIP CROZIER LARRY PALMER Come Forth,” excerpted from Mendels- writing, displaying restraint as is appro- sohn’s oratorio, Christus. The recitative priate for this most solemn day. CONCERT ORGANIST Harpsichord – Organ and trio are delivered with sensitivity, Easter is represented by Bob Chilcott’s ACCOMPANIST and the full choir enters in the key of Thy Arising, which is a setting of words Professor of Music, Emeritus E-flat to set the scene of the star’s pro- by the Anglican Divine, George Herbert. 3355 Queen Mary Road, Apt 424 phetic appearance. The piece ends with The work was dedicated to Aric Prentice Montreal, H3V 1A5, P. Quebec SMU, Dallas, Texas the singing of the Lutheran chorale, Wie and the choir of Lincoln Cathedral. No Canada schön leuchtet der Morgenstern. stranger to choral music, Bob Chilcott, (514) 739-8696 Recitals — Lectures — Consultancies From the cheerful Christmastide and formerly of the King’s Singers, has Epiphany season, the music moves to the become a major force in both composing [email protected] penitential season of Lent and its forty and arranging for choirs. In this work, a [email protected] + 214.350-3628 days beginning with Ash Wednesday. gentle undulating organ accompaniment For Ash Wednesday, Aric Prentice has complements the choir. Both organ and chosen Samuel Sebastian Wesley’s Wash choir deliver a convincing performance me throughly composed around 1840 of this delightful new work for Easter The staff ofT HE DIAPASON congratulates when Wesley was at Exeter Cathedral. while displaying triumph and restraint. 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