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THE DIAPASON MARCH 2021 Saint John’s Episcopal Cathedral Knoxville, Tennessee Cover feature on pages 18–20 PHILLIP TRUCKENBROD CONCERT ARTISTS ADAM J. BRAKEL THE CHENAULT DUO PETER RICHARD CONTE LYNNE DAVIS ISABELLE DEMERS CLIVE DRISKILL-SMITH DUO MUSART BARCELONA JEREMY FILSELL MICHAEL HEY HEY & LIBERIS DUO CHRISTOPHER HOULIHAN DAVID HURD MARTIN JEAN BÁLINT KAROSI JEAN-WILLY KUNZ HUW LEWIS RENÉE ANNE LOUPRETTE ROBERT MCCORMICK JACK MITCHENER BRUCE NESWICK ORGANIZED RHYTHM RAÚL PRIETO RAM°REZ JEAN-BAPTISTE ROBIN BENJAMIN SHEEN HERNDON SPILLMAN JOSHUA STAFFORD CAROLE TERRY JOHANN VEXO W͘K͘ŽdžϰϯϮ ĞĂƌďŽƌŶ,ĞŝŐŚƚƐ͕D/ϰဒϭϮϳ ǁǁǁ͘ĐŽŶĐĞƌƚĂƌƟƐƚƐ͘ĐŽŵ ĞŵĂŝůΛĐŽŶĐĞƌƚĂƌƟƐƚƐ͘ĐŽŵ ဒϲϬͲϱϲϬͲϳဒϬϬ ŚĂƌůĞƐDŝůůĞƌ͕WƌĞƐŝĚĞŶƚ WŚŝůůŝƉdƌƵĐŬĞŶďƌŽĚ͕&ŽƵŶĚĞƌ BRADLEY HUNTER WELCH SEBASTIAN HEINDL INSPIRATIONS ENSEMBLE ϮϬϭဓ>ÊĦóÊÊ'ÙÄÝ /ÄãÙÄã®ÊĽKÙ¦Ä ÊÃÖã®ã®ÊÄt®ÄÄÙ THE DIAPASON Editor’s Notebook Scranton Gillette Communications One Hundred Twelfth Year: No. 3, THE DIAPASON has a new YouTube channel! Whole No. 1336 Visit our new YouTube channel and become a subscriber MARCH 2021 today. Several of the quality videos from our website are Established in 1909 already available here for your enjoyment, and more will be Stephen Schnurr ISSN 0012-2378 added continually in the future. Become a “subscriber” of 847/954-7989; [email protected] the page to receive notifications of new videos: youtube.com/ www.TheDiapason.com An International Monthly Devoted to the Organ, channel/UCRK6pwzM1WnFbE_xTNGU-aw. the Harpsichord, Carillon, and Church Music 52 in St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, Knoxville, Tennessee, In this issue detailed here. CONTENTS Jonathan Bezdegian analyzes modality in Louis Vierne’s FEATURES much-beloved composition, “Carillon de Westminster,” from Mail delivery An Exercise in Modal Interplay: Louis 24 Pièces de Fantaisie. The sixth installment of my series on Recently, I have received any number of messages from Vierne’s Carillon de Westminster the organs of La Grange, Illinois, details the organs of St. utilities, credit card companies, and periodicals indicating to by Jonathan Bezdegian 12 Francis Xavier Catholic Church. Gavin Black, in “On Teach- expect mail delivery of items to be delayed considerably. All Pipe Organs of La Grange, Illinois, and the ing,” muses on the life and influence of Alfred Brendel, who classes of the mail system are affected, especially periodicals Architectural Edifices That House Them, Part 6: Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church recently turned ninety years of age. Brendel was influential on such as The Diapason. My January issue arrived weeks late. by Stephen Schnurr 16 the formation of Black as a musician, as he was for many others, The Diapason continues to meet its deadlines for publica- as well. In “In the Wind . .,” John Bishop reflects on the legacy tion of the magazine, and the printing company has kept its NEWS & DEPARTMENTS of organbuilders John Boody and George Taylor of Taylor & deadlines for production and shipping. We ask our print sub- Editor’s Notebook 3 Boody of Staunton, Virginia. scribers to be especially patient while the postal service delivers Letters to the Editor 3 Our cover feature celebrates the fortieth anniversary print copies. We remind you that PDF and digital editions of Here & There 3 Appointments 4 of Goulding & Wood Pipe Organ Builders of Indianapolis, each month’s issues are posted in a timely fashion at our website Nunc Dimittis 6 Indiana. Recently, they completed installation of their Opus (www.thediapason.com), while you await your print copy. Q On Teaching by Gavin Black 9 In the wind . by John Bishop 10 Letters to the Editor REVIEWS Book Reviews 21 about to leave to take on a full-time relaxing a while before getting into the New Organ Music 21 American pipe organ postcards New Recordings 22 I was delighted to see in the Decem- position as minister of music at Reid water, the owner approached us, stop- New Handbell Music 23 ber 2020 issue (“Deltiology: an Early Memorial United Presbyterian Church ping to look at our beverages to see if Twentieth-Century Postcard Tour of in Richmond, Indiana, I got the job and there was any alcohol (none), and then CALENDAR 24 American Pipe Organs,” by Stephen was able to practice at the Petersburg commanded us, “You all leave and get RECITAL PROGRAMS 25 Pinel, pages 13–17), the interior of the church on my lunch hour. It had a out of here. NOW!” When the troops historic Washington Street Methodist long outside stairway up to the second objected and asked, “Why?” he said, CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING 26 Episcopal Church in Petersburg, Vir- floor sanctuary, which being wooden “You just get out of here!” We left, the ginia, pictured on a historic postcard. Its and with no air conditioning, was an guys, very angry at their treatment and interior had been reconfigured from that extremely stifling hot space to spend an shaking dollar bills in front of his face, view when I substituted as organist there hour. There wasn’t even a fan. went down the highway to another water in August 1952. Since we had hosted John’s Army park. The next morning I told my boss My husband, Corporal John A. Pick- buddies, two at a time, for dinner what had happened. He was upset and ett, U.S. Army, was stationed at nearby throughout the summer in our small said, “I know the owner. I’m going to Fort Lee at the time. In May I had fin- rented apartment, they all decided to speak to him about it. No one is going ished two years at the School of Sacred take me on a picnic after church, which to treat my employee like that.” Off he Music at Union Theological Seminary they all attended that day, choosing a went into his office to make the call, in New York City and had a summer nearby water park where we could go emerging a few minutes later, laughing. job as bookkeeper (!) for a local West- swimming afterwards. They brought all “He just didn’t like the way it looked— inghouse store, a foretaste of John’s the food as my send-off meal: Kentucky one woman with so many men!” My, later employment with Westinghouse Fried Chicken, I don’t remember what how times have changed. Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, Pennsylva- else, except a case of soft drinks. After Wilberta Naden Pickett COVER nia. Somehow in August, just as I was we had enjoyed our feast and were Verona, Pennsylvania Goulding & Wood Pipe Organ Builders, Indianapolis, Indiana; Fortieth Anniversary; Saint John’s Episcopal Cathedral, Knoxville, Tennessee, Opus 52 18 Here & There Editorial Director STEPHEN SCHNURR Events Competitions and Publisher [email protected] Toulouse les Orgues announces 847/954-7989 its 2021 Toulouse International Organ President RICK SCHWER Competition. For this competition, [email protected] each candidate designs a concert pro- 847/391-1048 gram for the organ of their choice and plays extracts from it during the various Editor-at-Large ANDREW SCHAEFFER [email protected] Organ Historical Society’s Kaleido- rounds. 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