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We look forward to bringing you many fascinating Stephen Schnurr ISSN 0012-2378 articles for your reading pleasure and edifi cation. This issue 847/954-7989; [email protected] commences our 111th year of bringing you news, features, www.TheDiapason.com An International Monthly Devoted to the Organ, events, and so much more. the Harpsichord, Carillon, and Church Music globe to enrich your continuing education. If your institution is The Gruenstein Award sponsoring an event that should be featured in this list, please CONTENTS Nominations for our fi rst Gruen- be certain to send me the appropriate information this month. FEATURES stein Award are accepted through Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Organ January 31. The award honors the In this issue by David Herman 14 work of a young scholar through a This month, David Herman presents a glimpse into the life The British and French Organ Music feature-length article in the May of Ralph Vaughan Williams as it pertains to the composer’s Seminar, July 4–18, 2019 2020 issue. Submissions of articles work as an organist and his compositions for the instrument. by Masako Gaskin and David Erwin 19 are sought from those who have not Masako Gaskin and David Erwin report on the July 2019 Brit- NEWS & DEPARTMENTS yet reached their 35th birthday by ish and French Organ Music Seminar. Editor’s Notebook 3 January 31, 2020. For further details, John Bishop, in “In the Wind . ,” reports on the new Here & There 3 see the September 2019 issue, page Noack organ at St. Peter’s Catholic Church, Washington, D.C. Appointments 6 3, or visit www.thediapason.com. In “Harpsichord Notes,” Larry Palmer introduces the work of Nunc Dimittis 6 John Walthausen at the harpsichord and organ. Palmer also Harpsichord Notes by Larry Palmer 11 1909 110 2019 2020 Resource Directory lists the many topics of his columns found in the 2019 issues. In the wind . by John Bishop 12 The 2020 Resource Directory is Gavin Black will return to writing for us in a month or so, as he REVIEWS presented with this mailing. You will has had orthopedic surgery. We wish him well in his recovery New Organ Music 10, 22 want to keep this booklet handy throughout the year as your and look forward to his further discussion of Bach’s The Art of New Recordings 22 source of information for businesses in the world of the organ, the Fugue. An index for the year 2019 is found at the end of New Handbell Music 22 church music, harpsichord, and carillon. this issue. Our cover feature spotlights the new Dobson organ at Bru- NEW ORGANS 22 Summer conferences, workshops, conventions, etc. ton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Virginia. The instrument is CALENDAR 23 In the April issue, we will print our list of summer conven- a worthy addition to the lengthy history of music in one of the RECITAL PROGRAMS 27 tions, conferences, workshops, and other gatherings around the nation’s oldest churches. Q CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING 28 2019 In Review —An Index 30 Here & There Events Modern; March 8, Apple Hill String THE Quartet; May 7, Juilliard organ students. DIAPASON JANUARY 2020 For information: www.mmpaf.org. Bruton Parish Church Williamsburg, Virginia Cover feature on pages 20–21 COVER Dobson Pipe Organ Builders, Ltd., Lake City, Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, Iowa; Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, San Francisco, California, Ruffatti organ Virginia 20 The Cathedral of St. Mary of the Editorial Director STEPHEN SCHNURR Assumption, San Francisco, California, and Publisher [email protected] announces recitals, Sundays at 4:00 p.m.: 847/954-7989 January 5, Epiphany Lessons & Carols, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Evanston, Illinois, Skinner organ President RICK SCHWER with St. Brigid School Honor Choir and [email protected] Golden Gate Boyschoir and Bellring- Aspen Community United Methodist 847/391-1048 ers; 1/12, Thomas Fielding, organ; 1/19, Opus 327 NFP has established its Church, Aspen, Colorado, Wicks organ Cavatina Chamber Ensemble. St. Mary’s Centennial Fund for continued mainte- Editor-at-Large ANDREW SCHAEFFER [email protected] Cathedral houses a 1971 Fratelli Ruffatti nance and restoration of the organ, which Aspen Community United Meth- organ of four manuals, 89 ranks. For reaches its 100th year in 2022. For infor- odist Church, Aspen, Colorado, Sales Director JEROME BUTERA information: www.stmarycathedralsf.org. mation or to make a donation: announces its 2020 series of organ recit- [email protected] 608/634-6253 www.opus327.org. als: January 29, Simon Jacobs; February Circulation/ Opus 327 NFP, the not-for-profi t 25, James Welch; June 30, Stephen Subscriptions THE DIAPASON foundation established by St. Luke’s Second Presbyterian Church, St. Hamilton; July 19, Christopher Hou- P.O. Box 300 Lincolnshire, IL. 60069-0300 Episcopal Church, Evanston, Illinois, for Louis, Missouri announces events for lihan; August 9, Gregory Zelek. The [email protected] the benefi t of the church’s 1922 Skinner its Couts Music Series, Sundays at 4:00 two-manual, 34-rank Wicks organ was Toll-Free: 877/501-7540 Organ Company instrument, announces p.m.: January 19, singer Anita Jackson built in 1999, with additions in 2019. Local: 847/763-4933 events for 2020: January 19, Happy Birth- and her trio; February 2, Trombones of For information: Designer KIMBERLY PELLIKAN day, Ernest Skinner!, featuring Christine the St. Louis Symphony; March 1, silent www.aspencommunitychurch.org. [email protected] Kraemer, organ, and Jill Shellabarger, movie accompanied by Andrew Peters; 847/391-1024 actor; March 6, Wolfgang Rübsam, works April 26, Easter hymn festival with Quire Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, Contributing Editors LARRY PALMER of Franck and Vierne; 3/7, masterclass, Andrew Peters. 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