THE DIAPASON AUGUST, 2009 New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary Leavell Chapel Cover feature on pages 26–27 Aug 09 Cover.indd 1 7/10/09 10:42:01 AM Aug 09 pp. 2-19.indd 2 7/10/09 10:43:37 AM THE DIAPASON Here & There A Scranton Gillette Publication One Hundredth Year: No. 8, Whole No. 1197 AUGUST, 2009 First Parish Church, UCC in a four-manual, 71-rank tracker instru- Established in 1909 ISSN 0012-2378 Brunswick, Maine, continues its 24th an- ment built by Charles Hendrickson. An International Monthly Devoted to the Organ, nual Summer Organ Concert Series on the Harpsichord, Carillon, and Church Music the church’s 1883 Hutchings, Plaisted & St. Paul R.C. Cathedral, Pittsburgh, Company pipe organ: August 4, Edward Pennsylvania, celebrates the restoration Alan Moore; 8/11 Katelyn Emerson; and of its 1962 von Beckerath organ: August 8/18, Clarissa Brown. For information: 27, Joan Lippincott; September 30, Gil- CONTENTS Editor & Publisher JEROME BUTERA
[email protected] 207/729-7331. lian Weir; October 20, William Porter. 847/391-1045 For information: <PittsburghBeckerath FEATURES Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ @verizon.net>. Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall’s Associate Editor JOYCE ROBINSON continue the 2009 summer concert se- Midmer-Losh Organ: An Update
[email protected] ries at Merrill Auditorium, Portland, The Iowa State University Carillon by Charles Swisher and Carl Loeser 20 847/391-1044 Maine, on Tuesdays at 7:30 pm: August Festival, sponsored by the Stanton Me- 4, Thomas Heywood; 8/18, Ray Cornils; morial Carillon Foundation, will be held André Isoir: Contributing Editors LARRY PALMER An Eclectic French Organist 8/25, Barbara Dennerlein.