Friends of the Organ Newsletter of the Utah Valley Chapter of the American Guild of Organists NOVEMBER 1998 No. 3 Workshop on Understanding Organ Registration Provo City and Adapting Piano Choir Music to the Organ Library th Presentation November 14 (Saturday) rd 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon December 3 (Thursday) at Heritage Music 557 N. 1200 W., Orem Have you come across any We are fortunate to have two talented ladies help us with our next organ-related materials you workshop. Thanks to Lella Pomeroy and Carol Dean for offering their would like to donate to the services to teach classes on registration and how to adapt piano choir Provo City Library? Such as: music to the organ. As was stated in last month's newsletter, Lella will be leading a question/answer session on understanding registration—for 1. CD's or LP's of organ music beginning and advanced organists. We thought that this would be 2. Books helpful, too, for pianists and choir directors—anyone who would like to 3. Printed music know more about how to get a good sound from the organ. 4. Old issues (in good condition) At 11:00, Carol will have a brief discussion on how to take a choir piece of organ magazines or that was written for piano and change it so it can be played on the organ. journals—e.g., The American In order for participants to gain hands-on experience, we will break up Organist, Diapason, etc. into smaller groups with Carol, Lella, and LuJean Moss showing practical 5. Photos ways to do this. It would beneficial if everyone brought a piece of music 6. Programs from recitals, etc. they would like help with. (These will be organized and Please come and invite friends, church members, relatives, etc. Since bound.) seating is limited, though, please reserve a spot by calling DeeAnn Stone 7. Videos—e.g., Pulling Out All (377-4728), LuJean Moss (374-2595), or LeeAnn Brockbank (375-7244). the Stops Enclosed is a flyer to copy and post or give to people. 8. CASH – to purchase A big thanks to David Bagley at Heritage Music for allowing us to materials. hold our workshop at his store, which is an ideal place to see all the You can drop off your items various models of Rodgers Organs. at LuJean's house, 578 N. 1080 W., Provo, or bring them to chapter activities. Utah Valley Chapter/Friends of the Organ suggested donation: $10 (newsletter costs) to $25. Send to: Mary Paz, 826 W. 1400 S., Provo, UT 84601 Basic Pipe Families AGO yearly dues are: $40 (for regular), $27 (for seniors), $21 (for partner), or $17 (for student). American Guild of Organists, National Headquarters, 475 Riverside Dr., Suite 1260, New York, NY 10115. CONCERTS/RECITALS SALT LAKE December 8 (Tuesday) – Handel's CHAPTER Messiah, performed in its entirety NEWS by the BYU Early Music Ensemble, deJong Concert Hall, BYU, 7:30 p.m. Get tickets as soon as possible November 6 (Friday) – Second and from the BYU ticket office (hours November 24 (Tuesday)– 7:30 Third Brandenburg Concertos and 10 – 5 p.m.). They are almost sold p.m. Ecumenical Hymn Sing. other Baroque pieces, performed by out now. Cost: $10, general; $8 Assembly Hall, Temple Square. the BYU Early Music Ensemble, with BYU card. Madsen Recital Hall, BYU, 7:30 December 14 (Monday) – 6:30 p.m. New BYU trumpet faculty December 9 (Wednesday)—Repeat p.m. Holiday dinner and Handbell member David Brown will play the performance of Messiah in Park Choir at Wasatch Presbyterian trumpet solo in Concerto No. 2 and th City, St. Mary of the Assumption Church, 17 East and 17 South, Ross Updegraff will be the featured (between Park City and Kimball SLC. Cost $6.00 per person. soloist in Handel's Organ Concerto Junction), 7:30 p.m. This will not Members and guests welcome. No. 4 on that same program. be a ticketed event; so, if you weren't able to get tickets for the January 15-16 (Friday and November 13 (Friday) – Saturday)—Various times TBA. Performance of Viva Voce, a local BYU performance, you will have another chance to hear it. John Weaver Workshop and community women's choir, under Concert. SL Tabernacle. No cost. the direction of Jean Applonie. December 29 (Tuesday)—Noon Members welcome. Guests by Temple Square Concert Series, permission. Assembly Hall, SLC, 7:30 p.m. recital on Temple Square. SL Tabernacle. Organist James Welch. November 14 (Saturday) - BYU MASTER CLASSES Evening song—a concert sponsored January 14-17, 1999—Second American Classic Organ November 12 – Assembly Hall, by Santus Records with classical th guitarist Lawrence Green, Trio Symposium. Celebrating the 50 SLC, 7:00 – 9:30 p.m. You can Terra Nova, Ron Staheli's anniversary of the Salt Lake either meet the class at the community choir, Canti Con Brio, Mormon Tabernacle Aeolian- Assembly Hall or car pool up with and organist Douglas Bush, at the Skinner Organ. Recitalists: them in front of the BYU Museum Provo Tabernacle, 7:30 pm. Tickets Kimberly Marshall and John of Art entrance at 5:45 p.m. are $5.00 and may be purchased in Weaver. Lecturers: Jack Bethards, advance from Keith Jorgensen's in Charles Callahan, Robert Noehren. November 19 - Madsen Recital Orem, the Springville Museum of Other events: Noon organ recitals, Hall, BYU, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Art, and at Swift Printing in Tabernacle Choir rehearsal and American Fork (88 N. West State broadcast, Organ crawls of area December 10 – Madsen Recital Road, 756-1412). instruments, Round-table Hall, BYU, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. discussion. All events are free of December 6 (Sunday)—The charge. For more information combined choirs of Lutheran contact The Tabernacle, Temple (ELCA) Churches in Utah will Square, Salt Lake City, UT 84150; present an Advent-Christmas 1-801-240-3221; fax: 1-801-240- vespers titled "Glory to God in the 4886; e-mail: Highest" at 5:00 and 7:30 p.m. at the [email protected]. Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 8600 South 700 East, Sandy. Be sure to contact DeeAnn Tickets, in the form of offering Stone with any items for envelopes, may be obtained from the newsletter. Good Shepherd (255-8181) or by contacting David Chamberlin (756- This ancient organ in St. Luke's Church, 8396 or dbchamberlin@utah- Smithfield Virginia, is the oldest intact English- inter.net) or at the door on a space build organ know to exist in the world. The organ, which has four stops made entirely of available basis. wooden pipes at pitches 8-8-4-2, was brought Last year's event was very well from England to Smithfield in 1957. It is known attended and received to have existed at Hunstanton Hall in England as early as 1630. Its builder is unknown. enthusiastically. Therefore, it would Deseret News Archives, be best to get your tickets early. Saturday,July 25, 1998 Organ recital is filled You get out of something what you put into it. with hidden charm But there were deeper messages to Pedals, Pipes, By Jerry Johnston be had as well, parallels between music and living that I didn't grasp and Pastry: A well-played organ solo is like a until I got much older. For instance, a well-lived life. pianist must learn to "read ahead"—to A Potpourri of Fun If you doubt it, drop by the LDS see what's coming up so he doesn't get Tabernacle on Temple Square during lost in a tangle of notes. The same lunch and listen to one of the organ vision is vital in life. We need to look Grave Humor recitals. ahead so we don't run head-on into (Left over from Halloween) The message is there. disaster. Clay Christiansen was giving a And it's important to develop range recital last Tuesday when I went by. A tourist in Vienna is going on the piano—to reach and stretch for through a graveyard and all of a It had been an anxious morning, the a variety of notes. In life, many of us afternoon was looking grim and hot, sudden he hears some music. No think we're being "steady" when we're one is around, so he starts searching so I dropped in to see if the music often just being lazy or fearful. By could soothe a beastly day. for the source. He finally locates the stretching, however, we enlarge our origin and finds it is coming from a It did a fine job. lives. And that gives us more life to grave with a headstone that reads: Clay played Bach's "Fugue in D share with those around us. Major." And as always, the organ Back in my "piano days" I also Ludwig van Beethoven music soon had me drifting away into learned that piano chords were 1770-1827. a world of personal thoughts and magical. Professionals – like memories. Then he realizes that the Christiansen – can make 10 notes music is the Ninth Paul Fleischman has a children's sound like 30 just by using the book about such things. In his Symphony and it is "overtones." The same thing happens being played backward! "Rondo in C," a young girl gives a when a community of people does piano recital, but the audience sails Puzzled, he leaves the graveyard things in harmony. By working and persuades a friend to return off on a sea of their memories. together they create "overtones" that with him.