2018 ROCHESTER THE ORGAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY’S 63RD ANNUAL CONVENTION PHOTOGRAPHY LEN LEVASSEUR Christ Church (Episcopal) ~ Rochester ~ Hook & Hastings, No. 1573 (1893) OHS 63rd Annual Convention Guide WELCOME TO ROCHESTER!

NESTLED ON THE SOUTHERN SHORE val, Rochester International Film Festival, organs, a flourishing organ scene has of Lake Ontario, traversed by the Genesee Fringe Festival, Lilac Festival, the Eastman become a focal point of Rochester’s cul- River and its dramatic downtown water- Rochester Organ Initiative (EROI) Festival, tural life. More than thirty organ majors falls, and situated on the Erie Canalway and too many others to innumerate here. studying at Eastman play in liturgical and National Heritage Corridor, Rochester And with stunning natural beauty sur- concert contexts in sacred and secular offers something for the music lover, art rounding the city, those who opt to join spaces throughout the city each week, aficionado, wine connoisseur, and every- us for the post-convention day can enjoy earning a devoted following of pipe one in between. Visit the world-famous a wine tasting in the picturesque Finger organ enthusiasts. Few cities boast such International Museum of Photography, Lakes region of upstate New York. an extraordinary breadth and diversity of , Rochester Contem- At the core of Rochester’s music scene instrument types, ranging from original porary Art Center, or any number of more is the Eastman School of Music, the result and facsimile 18th-century organs to the than twenty museums and galleries in of ’s vision in 1921 to con- roaring Wurlitzers of the Gilded Age, and the area. Whose curiosity would not be struct a world-class music conservatory to almost everything in the middle. piqued by the Strong National Museum attract the nation’s finest faculty and stu- Our convention headquarters this of Play, home to the nation’s second-larg- dents. Eastman has remained a leader in year is no ordinary hotel — offering est collection of antique and collectible performance, composition, scholarship, breathtaking views, a resort atmosphere, toys? A thriving festival culture is part of and education for nearly a century. Since fine dining, a golf course, and a spa and the vital heartbeat of New York’s third the Eastman Rochester Organ Initiative health club, we are thrilled to call the lux- largest city, among which are counted the took flight in the early 2000s, punctuated uriously appointed Woodcliff Hotel & Spa Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festi- by the installation of many new landmark our home for this convention week. It will be an ideal place to spend time recon- necting and relaxing with your cherished friends and colleagues in an idyllic set- ting. In addition to the convention coach service, taxi and Uber services are avail- able for easy mobility around Rochester’s compact metropolitan area. You can find yourself in the heart of any one of Roch- ester’s neighborhoods and at many of our convention locations within five to fifteen minutes. We so look forward to welcoming you to Rochester and to sharing these extraor- dinary offerings with you during this 63rd Annual Convention of the OHS. Welcome!

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THERE ARE SOME PLACES that merit multiple and regular visits, and our con- vention will include one such place on its optional pre-convention day: Ithaca, New York. While the 2014 Syracuse Convention recently devoted a day to this constel- lation of wonderful instruments, a new French-Romantic organ has further diver- sified the already impressive collection, and the others remain as fresh and stim- SUNDAY, JULY 29 ulating as ever. Come discover the newly Christ Church (Episcopal) ~ Rochester GOArt/Yokota (2008) inaugurated 2016 Juget-Sinclair, Op. 45 (II/23), based on models by the great OUR CONVENTION officially begins on French organbuilder Aristide Cavaillé- Sunday with a morning free to enjoy a lei- Op. 325 (IV/88), designed in collaboration Coll at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church. Con- surely brunch at the Woodcliff, perhaps a with Harold Gleason, founder of the East- tinue from the symphonic fonds d’orgue quick ride to any number of Rochester’s man Organ Department. Entirely under of St. Luke’s to the vocal Principals, fun- beautiful churches for a morning liturgy, expression, and possessing every imag- damental Trompets and Posaunes, and li- or a long walk along the Erie Canal in inable orchestral color stop in Skinner’s quescent flutes of the 2011 GOArt/Yokota nearby Pittsford or in Frederick Law Olm- palette to date, it awaits a full restoration (II/43), based on the 1706 organ built by sted’s Highland Park. As you greet friends as the culmination of the EROI project. Arp Schnitger for Schloss Charlottenburg arriving from every corner of the world, We will be treated in this opulent space you will be able to pick up your conven- to a concert of chamber music featuring in Anabel Taylor Hall. This company of tion registration and explore the exhibits. organ-related keyboard instruments. organs is further enriched with an Italian The afternoon begins at the musi- The commanding Gothic-Revival tow- perspective from Augustinus Vicedomini cal epicenter of Rochester: the Eastman er of Christ Church may have caught your and his 1746 Neopolitan meantone organ School of Music and its three venerable attention en route to Eastman, and you (I/7), restored by Greg Harrold Organ- concert halls. As you enter the grand are welcome to participate in an organ builders in 2000. Rich in mosaics, Tiffany foyer, Lowry Hall, take a moment to peek demonstration of the two great organs glass, and polychroming, Sage Chapel into the largest of the concert halls, of Christ Church this afternoon. This is an features not only this Italian Baroque Hall at the Eastman Theatre, once a 3,250- opportunity to learn more about these organ, but also a quintessential G. Donald seat movie palace and concert hall, and particular 18th- and 19th-century instru- Harrison “American Classic,” the 1940 Ae- now home to the Rochester Philharmonic ments from those who live and work with olian-Skinner Organ Company, Op. 1009 Orchestra. Until the 1970s it housed Aus- them day-to-day, ask questions, and enjoy (III/68). None of these instruments are to tin Organ, Op. 1010, hailed as the largest a more informal, “up-close-and-personal” be missed, particularly in the gorgeous theatre organ in the world at the time of moment with them. Buses will bring you setting of Ithaca with its charming cafés its construction in 1922. Just a few steps to the nearby, trendy Park Avenue neigh- and bookstores coupled with the relaxed away, you will enter Kilbourn Hall, the borhood of Rochester for dinner at any summer pace of an otherwise bustling 444-seat chamber music recital hall and number of its dining establishments and university town. home of 1921 Skinner Organ Company, shuttle you back to Christ Church for the Reform strikingly juxtaposed with the earnest Pennsylvania sonorities of a cen- tury earlier: the 1964 Holtkamp Organ Co., Job 1771 (III/42) and 1869 Samuel Bohler (I/7) restored by Raymond J. Brunner in 2006, respectively. Groups will visit one of the most antic- ipated sights of the week, the famous George Eastman House and Museum, in alternation with a break for lunch. Synon- ymous with the Eastman Kodak Company and with photography itself, George East- man is to thank for a great deal of Roches- ter’s organ heritage. The unique history of his residence — the oldest museum in the world dedicated to photography — and its two Aeolian organs is astonishing. 1904 Aeolian Company, Op. 947 (III/66) and 1916 Aeolian Company, Op. 1345 (III/40) consti- tute together one of the largest residence organs in the world (IV/106). The collection of player rolls of the most famous organ- ists of yesteryear affords the opportunity to step back in time and imagine Harold Gleason playing for Mr. Eastman each morning during his breakfast ritual… We continue our tour at the imposing Gothic-Revival Asbury First Methodist Church and its suave “American Classic” from 1955: Austin Organ, Inc., Op. 2215 (IV/74). Among the largest instruments in town, its expansive tonal scheme char- acteristically has one foot in the sound world of the past and another in the forward-looking Organ Reform Move- ment. Those retrospective tendencies crystallize in our visit to one of Roches- St. Joseph’s Church (R.C.) ~ Penfield ter’s smaller Skinner organs residing in Ortloff Organ Company, LLC, Op. 1 (2016) one of its signature ecclesiastic spaces, the Episcopal Church of St. Luke and St. evening recital. The opening concert of struments along Rochester’s main avenue Simon Cyrene. Rochester’s second church the convention will explore the spectrum — we begin in the nearby suburb of Pen- founded in 1817, which counted among of sounds of the Age of Enlightenment field. The “Opus 1” of an organbuilder is a its founding members Nathaniel Roch- using the resources of the 2008 GOArt/ historic moment indeed, and the 2016 Or- ester himself, the present structure from Yakota “Craighead-Saunders” organ. A tloff Organ Company, LLC, Op. 1 (II/24) at 1824 is the oldest public building still in process-reconstruction of a 1776 organ St. Joseph’s Catholic Church is the newest use in the City of Rochester. Here we can in Vilnius, Lithuania by Adam Gottlob addition to Rochester’s rich organ scene. appreciate Skinner’s desire for maximum Casparini — a student of one of Bach’s Jonathan Ortloff, a former Rochesterian dynamic range and coloristic spectrum preferred organbuilders, Tobias Heinrich himself, will be among us and will speak on a relatively small scale in his Op. 517 Gottfried Trost — its tremendous range to this unique moment in his career. (III/32) from 1925. of expression may surprise you! East Avenue testifies to Rochester’s Dinner this evening is at the Woodcliff, booming industry and affluence in the where we once again have the opportu- late 19th and early 20th centuries. Admire nity to enjoy vistas of the rolling hills of MONDAY, JULY 30 the procession of mansions and houses western New York. We return to East Ave- that pepper this tree-lined street before nue for our evening recital in the hand- WHILE MOST OF Monday’s activities will arriving at the sleek, mid-century Incar- some St. Paul’s Episcopal Church with its take place on what is affectionately nate Word Lutheran Church. A natural famous 1927 Skinner Organ Company, known as the East Avenue Organ Walk — pairing of and acoustic, we’ll Op. 655 (IV/68), meticulously restored an unusually diverse concentration of in- enjoy the sounds of the American Organ by the A. Thompson-Allen Company in England Colonial style church punctu- WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1 ates the rolling countryside and houses a characteristic 1876 Steere & Turner, Op. OUR WEDNESDAY BEGINS, quite liter- 107 (II/17). ally, with considerable fanfare at Twelve A few winding roads away, we arrive in Corners Presbyterian Church in the Roch- Caledonia, New York — so-called thanks ester suburb of Brighton: its signature to its Scottish settlers — to visit the ele- polished brass 8-foot Trompette-en-Cha- gant First Presbyterian Church dating made resonators feature prominently in from 1855 and the second instrument of its modern, asymmetrical façade. There the day dating from 1876: the E. & G.G. we hear the brilliant, transparent sonori- Hook & Hastings Organ, Op. 829 (II/16), ties of the 1967 Casavant Frères Ltée, Op. originally built for the Andover Theolog- 2924 (III/49) — a little musical caffeine to ical Seminary in Andover, Massachusetts. get us started. Shifting from the Neo-Ba- The instrument occupied several homes roque paradigm to the Historically Inspired, before coming to western New York, but we continue our morning tour at the First was purchased from and rebuilt by the Presbyterian Church in the fashionable Andover Organ Company and installed suburb of Pittsford, nestled quaintly on behind a splendid neoclassical 1841 case the Erie Canal. The present meeting- by William Stevens in 1987. house-style sanctuary dating from 1863 From Caledonia we travel to Le Roy, houses a sweet-toned 2008 Taylor & New York, a town with an unusual claim Boody Organbuilders, Op. 57 (II/27) in its to fame. It was here that in 1897 Pearle rear gallery. Based on instruments built Bixby Wait trademarked a new dessert by the German émigré David Tannen- called Jell-O and sold it to Orator Francis berg, the characterful pipe speech, sil- very and well-textured pleno, Neidhardt Woodward in 1899. Le Roy is home to the temperament, and “living” wind system Colonial-Revival Woodward family estate, remind us just how closely related these Mercy Grove, which houses an untouched early American instruments are to their three-manual 1926 Aeolian Co., No. 1599. Central German forebears. While this organ awaits a complete resto- Downtown United ration, you will be able to hear shades of Presbyterian Church ~ Rochester its former glory and explore the beautiful C.B. Fisk, Inc., Op. 83 (1983) grounds of Mercy Grove while enjoying a leisurely lunch. From Le Roy, A and B groups will alter- 2012. It is in this instrument that we hear Skinner’s first Flauto Mirabilis and a rare nate visiting instruments in the charming Musette, not to mention its impressive, village of Avon, known historically for its stentorian Tutti. wealth of mineral springs and spas in the 19th century. At St. Agnes Catholic Church we hear the noble simplicity of the 1890 TUESDAY, JULY 31 Farrand & Votey Organ Co., Op. 79 (II/9) in a resonant, vaulted interior. At the other TUESDAY’S ORGAN OFFERINGS invite end of the quintessentially church-lined us to evaluate sounds conceived on a town square, we hear the forthright and smaller scale, with an excursion into the silvery ensemble of Avon United Method- countryside to visit several 19th-century ist Church’s 1895 A.B. Felgemaker Co., Op. instruments in bucolic settings. A for- 606 (II/16). ty-minute bus ride due south winds us Dinner this evening is on your own through vast swaths of land formerly in- in the Park Avenue neighborhood of habited by the Seneca tribe in the years Rochester before heading to Downtown leading up to the American Revolution. As United Presbyterian Church for a taste of allies to the defeated British, the Seneca something altogether different from the were forced to abandon their land after bite-sized portions of the morning and the war — in the same years that witness afternoon. 1983 C.B. Fisk, Op. 83 (III/56) the founding of most of the towns we commands as much attention sonically visit today. In Leicester, New York we visit as it does visually, infused with both the Leicester Evangelical Presbyterian French and German tonal influences. It is Church in the 201st year of its founding. among the last instruments designed by First Presbyterian Church ~ Pittsford The soaring, white spire of the 1832 New Charles Fisk. Taylor & Boody Organbuilders, Op. 57 (2008) most sympathetic performance spaces in laying of the cornerstone of Grace Epis- Rochester. copal Church, a striking Tudor Gothic Perhaps by now you will have discov- Revival structure built with the aid of a ered your favorite Park Avenue dining $2,000 donation from Trinity Wall Street spots — or at least have a list of those you in . Perhaps not too sur- still wish to try — and tonight is another prising, therefore, was the acquisition of moment to do just that. Buses will pick a Henry Erben organ built in 1839–1840 you up there to take you across town to (I/9), later enlarged in 1900 by C.E. Morey the Episcopal Church of the Ascension: a (II/14), and again by the Andover Organ Gothic-Revival structure from 1928, well Company in 1962 and 1978 (II/17). A local known now for its peal of ten bells from talent, Clarence E. Morey from Utica built the Whitechapel Bell Foundry. In 1967 his Op. 248 (II/13) in 1908 for St. John’s Lu- the church acquired the formidable 1928 theran Church. The church was the unfor- Skinner Organ Co., Op. 711 (IV/56), formerly tunate victim of arson in the mid-1990s, located in Rochester Masonic Temple but the organ survived and benefitted Auditorium (now the Auditorium The- from a full restoration by the Parsons Pipe atre). Heard now in a (considerably) more Organ Builders in 1996. Its penetrating intimate setting, it promises equal parts Diapasons are as impressive as its strings poetry and punch. stops are energetic in their sizzle. A and B groups will alternate between these two instruments, after which lunch bisects THURSDAY, AUGUST 2 our Lyons odyssey. The next case study of the day takes THURSDAY OFFERS our second out-of- the shape of an octopod three-manual Grace Episcopal Church ~ Lyons town excursion: this time not into the roll- 1928 Skinner Organ Company, Op. 691 Henry Erben (1840) ing fields of the Seneca, but to the land of (III/20) at the First Presbyterian Church. forgotten fortunes along the Erie Canal. After a nearly catastrophic fire in 1936, We depart Pittsford with a brief trip Founded in 1811, Lyons, New York had the organ was removed, repaired, and back to the Woodcliff for lunch and the been reached by the canal in 1820 and reinstalled with a few additions in 1937 Annual Meeting. The afternoon’s activ- consequently boomed. The H.G. Hotch- by David Marr. A somewhat idiosyncratic ities resume with a journey back to the kiss Essential Oil Company put Lyons on design, with a specification somewhere polychromed interior of Christ Church to the map in the 1840s, having become between a church and a residence instal- hear its second noteworthy instrument: the worldwide leader in the production lation, it impresses with its creamy reeds the 1893 E. & G.G. Hook & Hastings, Op. of peppermint. 1840 also witnessed the and atmospheric echo division. In stark 1573 (III/30), built for St. Dominic’s Roman Catholic Church in Portland, Maine. It incorporates pipework from the 1862 E. & G.G. Hook, Op. 308 from Boston’s Emman- ual Church and was relocated to Roches- ter by Woodberry & Harris in 1891. David E. Wallace & Company, LLC restored and brought together these two instruments to Rochester in 2012 as an American Romantic foil to the Craighead-Saunders organ in the rear balcony. Enjoy the quint- essential Doppelflutes, Clarinets, and lim- itless misterioso effects it offers. Back on the East Avenue Organ Walk, we arrive at the solid, Romanesque-Re- vival Third Presbyterian Church, con- structed in 1892. A 1952 Austin Organs Inc., Op. 2180 (IV/79) occupies the two large chambers in the chancel, while a massive set of 32-foot Bourdon pipes, saved from the 1922 Austin organ of the Eastman Theatre, frames the right transept wall. Following extensive acoustic renova- tions in recent years, Third Presbyterian Church of the Ascension (Episcopal) ~ Rochester Church has established itself as one of the Skinner Organ Company, Op. 711 (1928) contrast to these demure sounds enter as Op. 2215 (II/15). Replete with “pencil the forthright, bright ensembles and strings” and ultra-smooth Tubas and Clar- characteristic neo-classical sonorities inets, it is an instrument that never fails of the 1970 Schlicker Organ Co. (II/32) at to astonish with its many poetic sounds First Lutheran Church. The splendid 1885 and dynamic range. Across Washington Romanesque Revival building modeled Square Park from First Universalist stands after churches in Alsace-Lorraine initially the red-brick St. Mary’s Catholic Church served a German-speaking congregation, from 1853, home of the relocated 1896 E. & and continues to curate these colorful G.G. Hook & Hastings, Op. 1697 (II/9). Hav- sounds with its generous acoustics. ing heard another nine-rank instrument In bidding adieu to Lyons, we return of a strikingly different concept earlier in to Rochester for dinner on your own in the day, we adjust our ears once again to the Park Avenue neighborhood. We will lower wind pressures in this warm acous- cross the city to arrive at the Maplewood tical space. neighborhood and its 1925 Gothic-Re- We will yet further reduce wind pres- vival Sacred Heart Cathedral. Following sures for one of the most unusual stops an extensive interior renovation in 2005, on our convention itinerary: the Memo- Paul Fritts & Company Organ Builders rial Art Gallery and its anonymous Ital- installed the Halloran-All Saints Organ, ian Baroque Organ, c. 1670–1770 (I/14), Op. 26 (III/82) in 2008. The exquisite case restored in 2005 by Gerald Woehl as part is modeled after the façade at Hertogen- of the Eastman Rochester Organ Initia- bosch Cathedral, and the tonal design tive. As the only full-sized Italian Baroque takes inspiration principally from various organ in North America, it is among the Renaissance and Baroque traditions, with crown jewels of the Gallery’s Fountain a few references to the 19th century. Court, framed by the museum’s Baroque gallery which includes works by van Dyck, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3 El Greco, and Luca Giordano. With its flex- ible wind, meantone temperament, and St. Mary’s Church ~ Auburn OUR FINAL CONVENTION DAY tra- vocal intonation, you will find in sound Carl Barckhoff [Sr.] (1890) verses three centuries of organ design, an aural complement to the vivid chiar- PHOTO STEVE CHESLER but particularly highlights Rochester’s oscuro on canvas surrounding you. collection of “Unit Orchestras” in their Our convention banquet will be — indeed an embarrassment of riches. various guises — from important Hope- hosted right there at the Memorial Art Continue from Auburn to Canandaigua Jones and Wurlitzer church installations, Gallery in the elegant Bausch & Lomb Par- for lunch and a tour of the Parsons Pipe to the thrilling Wurlitzer in the Audito- lor and M&T Bank Ballroom before com- Organ Builders shop in the rolling New rium Theatre. We are reminded that in the ing full circle to the largest of our “Unit York countryside. After a short trip to the heyday of the silent film, theatre organ Orchestras” and our closing concert: the historic center of Canandaigua, lined with was also taught at the Eastman School 1928 Rudolf Wurlizter Manufacturing Co., many remarkable 18th- and 19th-century of Music — a tradition that has been re- Op. 1951 (IV/23), installed by the Rochester buildings, you will have the opportunity cently reinstated in the last decade! The Theatre Organ Society in 1967. Originally to hear one of the Parsons’ newest instru- Rudolf Wurlitzer Organ Company of North the Masonic Temple of Rochester and ments, their versatile, warm 2015 Op. 41 Tonawanda sits but an hour to the west home to some seven pipe organs, enjoy (III/40) in the historic 1871 United Church of Rochester, and two hours to the south one of the country’s great Wurlitzers in of Canandaigua. As the final organ offer- is found Elmira, home of the short-lived what promises to be a spectacular finale ing of this 63rd OHS Convention, travel to Hope-Jones Organ Company (1907–1910). to a memorable week! West Bloomfield to visit the 1875 William We begin the day at Blessed Sacrament J. Davis (II/16) at the West Bloomfield Con- Catholic Church with The Rudolf Wurlitzer gregational United Church of Christ, the Organ Company, Op. 2032 (III/9) from 1929. SATURDAY, AUGUST 4 only known extant organ by the Buffalo The instrument frames one of the many builder. Buses will be available either to distinctive stained-glass windows in the THOSE WHO ELECT to enjoy the op- return to the Woodcliff or continue to the sanctuary and features an elegant, signa- tional day in the Finger Lakes region have New York Wine and Culinary Center for ture “horseshoe” console. Continuing this many delights in store. Sleep in before those who wish to experience the some “Unit Orchestra” narrative, we visit one of boarding the buses for Auburn, New of the very best of New York agriculture the masterpieces by Rochester architect York for a visit to the magnificent 1890 and viticulture. Taste local and seasonal Claude Fayette Bragdon: his 1907 Roman- Carl Barckhoff Organ Company (II/29), re- foods, farm-to-table, while sipping on esque-Revival First Universalist Church stored by the Parsons Pipe Organ Build- Finger Lakes wines accompanied by stun- and its famous Hope-Jones Organ Com- ers in 2017 with the judicious addition of ning views of Lake Canandaigua. Is there pany, Op. 2, from the same year, rebuilt a Pedal Trombone. In the chancel stands any better way to wind down after an in- in 1937 by The Rudolf Wurlitzer Company additionally an 1872 Garrett House (I/8) tense week of convention activities? Downtown United Presbyterian Church ~ Rochester C.B. 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